15 h. ago The ‘invisible kingpin of data centres’ riding the Gulf’s AI boom

Dubai-based Zachary Cefaratti has become a go-to dealmaker who connects Middle Eastern money to Silicon Valley

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26 h. ago Silicon Valley wanted to build floating libertarian paradises on the ocean. The plan failed — but now seasteading is back

They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

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29 h. ago He moved to Silicon Valley to make his fortune. Instead he murdered a woman claiming cannibalism would bring him wealth and eternal youth

The first episode of The Tech Bro Murders, a new Investigation Discovery docuseries premiering Tuesday, September 9 on HBO Max, focuses on a horrifying case of cannibalism

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69 h. ago Big Tech bosses line up to back Melania Trump’s AI initiative

Heads of Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple appear at White House events as Silicon Valley seeks favour with White House

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3 d. ago Microsoft engineer's family issues dire warning to Silicon Valley after he DIED 'face down' at work aged 35

Pratik Pandey was found dead in the early hours of August 20 inside the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, California.

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6 d. ago Will AI wipe us out or drastically improve society? Elon Musk and Bill Gates' favourite philosopher explains

Nick Bostrom, Silicon valley’s favourite philosopher, explains why AI taking jobs should be the least of our worries

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6 d. ago Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needsI became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust.And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Nick Bostrom: 'People will look back on 2025 and shudder in horror'

Silicon valley’s favourite philosopher has dire warnings about the race artificial general intelligence. Is there still time for the tech bros to listen?

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8 d. ago Musk cries conspiracy in latest Silicon Valley scrap. Your tech and science digest

These are the most groundbreaking stories from the new frontier of science and technology right now

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1 week ago How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMAMonths before Antonio Gracias took a leading role in the “department of government efficiency’s” dismantling of the federal government, he was at Burning Man.In the dusty Nevada desert, Gracias, a billionaire private equity investor and one of Elon Musk’s closest friends, attended Nova Heaven, a sunrise rave tribute to victims of the Hamas-led 7 October terrorist attack, and found himself dancing next to Rick Doblin – the US’s most prominent advocate for psychedelic drugs. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg

Former Lib Dem leader and Meta strategist writes in new book that power in tech capital is interlaced with ‘self pity’Silicon Valley is full of hubris and hugely wealthy and macho men who think they are victims, the former politician and Facebook executive Nick Clegg has said.The former leader of the Liberal Democrats makes the claim in a new book chronicling his three careers as an MEP in Brussels, an MP and deputy prime minister in Westminster and as a communications and public policy strategist in San Francisco. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘At Meta I found myself wrestling my deputy in an MMA gym’: Nick Clegg on the culture shock of Silicon Valley

In an exclusive extract from his new book, the former Meta number two recalls the mindset, the mantras and the man at the top• Read an interview with Nick Clegg hereI’m not a creature of Silicon Valley. I didn’t study computer science. I’ve never written a line of code. I haven’t spent my career immersed in the processes, debates and science of technological progress. I came to Meta, Facebook as it then was, in 2018 as an emigre from the world of British and European politics. I wasn’t really sure what to expect.As an Englishman, I never cease to be amazed by the sheer scale of America. It’s striking, when you first set foot in this part of Northern California, how remote it feels from the power centres of the east coast. It’s not just the nearly 3,000 miles that separate you from Washington DC and New York; the three-hour time difference means you feel out of sync. The day’s news agenda is in full flight on the east coast before the west is awake. The biggest European stories broke...

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2 w. ago ‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?• Read an exclusive extract from Nick Clegg’s new book hereThe rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, duckingthrough the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. C lean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British political figure who could convincingly be played by the equally posh but self-effacing Colin Firth, whose old London home Clegg recently bought – but t...

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3 w. ago Tech execs are paying top dollar to breed smarter babies, report claims

Silicon Valley tech execs are reportedly paying up to $50,000 for a new genetic-testing service that promises to screen embryos for IQ

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3 w. ago 22 of Scotland’s smartest tech founders head to Silicon Valley and Singapore

“These international opportunities are not just about scaling businesses, but about building lasting relationships that showcase Scotland’s entrepreneurial talent on the world stage” – Kate Forbes

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