Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities
[ad_1] The first Trump administration, and the tech industry that stood up to it, are both looking quainter by the day.Here’s one example: In 2017, when President Trump issued a...
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
[ad_1] If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at the orthodox view that...
Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley
[ad_1] Dan Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, lets a precocious, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life.Peguine, a self-professed early adopter and...
Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE
[ad_1] Employees at Google DeepMind have asked the company’s leadership for plans and policies to keep them “physically safe” from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while on the company’s premises,...
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
[ad_1] The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and...
How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
[ad_1] Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch.Earlier this...
Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination
[ad_1] Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer, WIRED has learned.That relationship...
Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
[ad_1] Thinking Machines cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz are leaving the fledgling AI lab and rejoining OpenAI, the ChatGPT-maker announced on Wednesday. OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, shared...
Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet
[ad_1] Since Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, the biggest names in tech have mostly fallen in line with the new regime, attending dinners with officials, heaping...
Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax
[ad_1] Did California lose Larry Page? The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019, has seen his net worth soar in the years since—from around $50 billion...
