Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Alef Aeronautics received approval to begin flying car tests at Half Moon Bay and Hollister airports this week, a step closer toward commercial production for what the San Mateo-based startup calls the world's first flying car. The company will start testing with its Model Zero Ultralight and later expand to other Model Zero prototypes and its $300,000 commercial Model A. Planned testing will include driving, vertical takeoff, forward flight, vertical landing and ground and air maneuvering.

"The changes we're making really are balancing a lot of competing interests for limited curb space, so where we've been able to help we've tried to do so," Baird said.

There are, as Meek Mill so aptly put it back in 2013, " levels to this" - seniority levels, that is. Microsoft's lowest-tier engineering positions are coded, as BI reported another recent story about the tech giant's salary ranges, at level 57. Those jobs start with an $83,000 base salary rate - life-changing money to the average American, but low on the spectrum tech workers grew to expect from hugely profitable corporations competing to hire the best talent.

After two years at SpaceX, I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment.

"The last couple of years, more women are saying they're attracted to a nerd. They literally use the word nerd. So I think that's kind of a buzzword to describe these guys in a sexy way."

Archer Aviation has leased a 105,000-square-foot building at 10 West Tasman Dr., previously troubled with a loan failure, for its expansion efforts.

Lambda Inc., a cloud infrastructure firm, is negotiating a funding round that could value it at $4 billion to $5 billion ahead of a potential IPO.

The A-60, a smaller airship by LTA Research, is designed to train pilots as the main project, Pathfinder 1, undergoes testing.

Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years acquiring 11 properties in Palo Alto for over $110 million, forming a personal compound in Crescent Park with luxurious amenities.

"I don't think it was received super well... this isn't what we wanted."

Elad Gil has made early investments in companies like Perplexity and Character.AI, and his portfolio includes seed or Series A stakes in over 30 unicorns.

Ambience Healthcare has developed an AI operating system for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows, aiming to enhance administrative processes in healthcare organizations. With a total of $319.3M in funding, it is supported by notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI Startup Fund.

The competition among the US's largest companies has led to a total of $155 billion being spent on artificial intelligence development in 2025, surpassing federal expenditures on education and social services.

My path led me deep into tech: earning a Ph.D. in AI and computer science and working at places like NASA, Google, YouTube, and Nextdoor.

As a new kind of dealmaking is sweeping Silicon Valley, forcing employees to be vigilant about how much trust they are willing to put in startup founders.

Arnav Singhal and Parham Pourahmad, both 15, lead the Silicon Valley Wildlife Group, which focuses on education and coexistence between humans and local wildlife.

The Silicon Valley Wildlife Group, led by students Arnav Singhal and Parham Pourahmad, aims to monitor and educate Bay Area residents on local wildlife.