Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

“Yes, you should. You can go there for a bit and then come back, but you should at least go.” Graham's message landed at a moment when Stockholm's startup ecosystem is attracting increasing attention from investors and founders. According to global data intelligence platform Dealroom, the Swedish capital was home to more than 1,800 startups as of 2025, with a combined enterprise value of $236 billion.

Donald Trump landed in Beijing this morning for a two-day, high-stakes China summit - and he brought a clown car's worth of delegates from the worlds of finance and tech in a clear attempt to flex the power of the United States during his talks with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Also joining: the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, and State - the latter of whom appeared to do an extremely weird sartorial bit aboard Air Force One - and the vaunted director of the Melania documentary and the Rush Hour movie franchise. Because when topics like tariffs, AI, the war in Iran, and Taiwan are on the table, you gotta be surrounded by the A-team.

Santa Clara County leaders are suing Meta, alleging the company has engaged in a worldwide, systematic campaign to litter vulnerable Facebook and Instagram users' feeds with billions of scam ads by fraudulent companies.

Seven years is a strange unit of time. Long enough to finish a PhD, short enough to remember an event vividly, and apparently, exactly long enough for Sony to build, test, manufacture, and ship a new generation of PlayStation hardware. PS3 to PS4, PS4 to PS5: seven years, twice, with the precision of a Swiss movement. The console industry built its entire release calendar ecosystem around that cadence. Publishers scheduled their biggest titles around it. Retailers planned inventory cycles for it. Analysts forecast revenue curves based on it.

Santa Clara County, California, sued Meta Platforms Inc. over allegations that the company “knowingly facilitates and profits from billions of scam advertisements” on its social networks, including Facebook and Instagram. The complaint accuses the social networking giant of defrauding seniors and families with scam ads, which the company allegedly tracks. Meta makes approximately $7 billion in revenue each year from these kinds of ads, according to a statement from Tony LoPresti, the Santa Clara County counsel, who is bringing the lawsuit.

“this is not solely a demand and an AI buildout and a chip demand from Wall Street or from the US. This is all around the world.” The host added that “the scramble for those hot stocks is more around in Asia certainly than it is on Wall Street itself.”

Ford's new electric truck project, led by Tesla and Apple veterans, aims to revolutionize manufacturing practices to achieve a competitive $30,000 price point.

Known replaces traditional dating app features with voice-based AI matchmaking, using onboarding interviews to assess users' backgrounds, personalities, and preferences for compatibility.

"We jokingly say that the final boss for AI in games would obviously be Eve Online. Eve is giving insights about our own society and the human condition."

Tagore was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize of any sort and also the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 'India has two aspects,' Tagore wrote. 'In one she is the householder, in the other a wandering ascetic.'

Marc Porat, in his PhD dissertation, predicted a shift from an economy based on transforming matter and energy to one focused on transforming information, coining the term 'information economy.'