21 h. ago Michael Moritz: Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

The meeting of company builder and monarch was never going to end well

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28 h. ago Trump’s Golden Dome pits Silicon Valley against defence giants

Lucrative contracts offer tech start-ups chance to shake up the industry — if they can deliver

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5 d. ago Secrets of a biohacker: How to peel five years off your body clock FAST

Think biohacking is just for Silicon Valley tech bros and cashed-up celebs sipping mushroom lattes in cryo chambers? Think again.

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7 d. ago ‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter

After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

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1 week ago Elon Musk came to Washington wielding a chain saw. He leaves behind upheaval and unmet expectations

Elon Musk arrived in the nation’s capital with the chain saw-wielding swagger of a tech titan who had never met a problem he couldn’t solve with lots of money, long hours or a well-calibrated algorithm

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2 w. ago Britain can be a NEW Silicon Valley: Former Chancellor JEREMY HUNT made a fortune as a digital entrepreneur. Now, in the final extract from his thought

I had been Chancellor of the Exchequer for barely a month when it fell to me to deliver the 2022 Autumn Statement, in which I had to tackle a nightmare £72billion black hole.

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2 w. ago Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right

Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwardsA vacation lodge known as the Wagon Box Inn in the tiny town of Story, Wyoming, has emerged as an unlikely hub of rightwing ambitions to reorient US politics and culture.Events held there since it opened, and others planned for this spring, have brought together figures from the so-called “dissident right”, political figures backed by reactionary currents in Silicon Valley, and proponents of the “network state” movement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Why you don’t need to be a tech business to benefit from Glasgow’s ecosystem

When people hear the word “tech,” they often assume it’s only relevant to businesses with Silicon Valley ambitions. But Glasgow is showing the world that technology - and the ecosystem that supports it - is far more inclusive and collaborative than that.

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2 w. ago iPhone genius joins rival in stunning $6B deal that will petrify Apple and upend whole smartphone market

An Apple veteran is joining one of Silicon Valley's most important startups. The partnership hopes to bring revenue to a company set to lose billions this year.

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2 w. ago In lawsuit over teen's death, judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights

A federal judge in Florida has rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now

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3 w. ago Mike Lynch: Autonomy founder who fought to clear his name for 13 years

The tech tycoon scaled the heights of the business world by founding software giant Autonomy, before a massive lawsuit threatened his reputation.

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4 w. ago For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care?I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them.Replacing all human labour with AI sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But it is the explicit aim of a growing number of the tech elite – and these are people who lack neither drive nor resources, who have deep pockets and even deeper determination. If they say they want to automate all labour, we should take them at their word.Ed Newton-Re...

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