New California city backed by big names in Silicon Valley: report
An aerial view of the city of San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge in California, October 28, 2021. Carlos Barria | Reuters Jan Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs …
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Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Building a City In Northern California
For years, the identities of investors in large land purchases in Solano County, California have been shrouded in secrecy. Some government officials and residents believed the investment company, known as …
GM’s Cruise to slash robotaxi fleet in San Francisco by 50%
General Motors’ robotaxi operator Cruise is planning to reduce the size of its fleet of self-driving cars by half in San Francisco after several collision incidents — this just days …
Justin Trudeau blasts Facebook for blocking news in fire-ravaged Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau excoriated Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta as “bad for democracy” on Monday after it began blocking access to news stories on Facebook while wildfires destroy wide swaths …
25 Years Ago Steve Jobs Launched the First iMac—and the Strategy That Saved Apple
Steve Jobs didn’t want the photographer. It was May 1998, and he was about to launch the iMac, the computer that would strap Apple in for a wild ride to …
Adobe employees fear its AI products could prompt clients to lay off workers
Adobe employees raised red flags about their company’s new generative AI features, fearing the enhanced design tools could spur clients to fire workers, according to a report. The Silicon Valley-based …
How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
It’s no exaggeration to say that small features in a chat app encode different visions of how society should be organized. If the first reacji in the palette was a …
‘It Could Evolve Into Jarvis’: Race Towards ‘Autonomous’ AI Agents and Copilots Grips Silicon Valley
Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the …
‘We’re all going to die’
A prominent Silicon Valley researcher is sounding the alarm over the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, saying that the consequences for humans could be dire. “I think we’re not ready, …
Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time
I’d be surprised if Andreessen’s highly educated audience actually believes the lump of labor fallacy, but he goes ahead and dismantles it anyway, introducing—as if it were new to his …