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fromWIRED
4 days ago

It's Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself

Today, Komoroske and a loose group of concerned technologists are releasing The Resonant Computing Manifesto, an idealistic set of principles that attempts to recenter Silicon Valley around the values that have been lost in the scramble to hyperscale and maximize shareholder value. Komoroske and his coauthors are inviting anyone who, um, resonates with this jeremiad to sign it and proselytize those values in the products they create.
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#silicon-valley
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fromFuncheap
1 month ago

SF's Tech Bro 2.0: Inside the AI Revolution + Discussion (Manny's)

Young men in San Francisco shape Silicon Valley's AI culture through routines, lifestyles, and worldviews that influence technology perspectives, AGI views, and dating practices.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago

Silicon Valley tech firms' snug relationship with Trump deepens, bears fruit

Major Silicon Valley companies are strengthening ties with President Trump through donations, gifts, settlements, and CEO influence, shaping political and business outcomes.
East Bay real estate
fromArchitectural Digest
5 days ago

Architect Frank Gehry Conjures an Astonishing, Sculptural Home in Silicon Valley

Frank Gehry designed a new, ambitious Silicon Valley residence for Massy Mehdipour that balances sculptural creativity with livable function, with interiors by The Wiseman Group.
#commercial-real-estate
fromFlowingData
1 week ago

Growing political contributions from billionaires

What changed? Republicans long characterized Silicon Valley as a bastion of liberalism. But over the past half-decade, many of tech's wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration's criticism and policing of their industry. Last year, many tech barons threw their support behind the GOP, which they saw as more aligned with their often-libertarian ideals and their companies' economic interests.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

It's going much too fast': the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI

Silicon Valley workers and major tech firms are locked in an intense, well-funded global race to develop artificial general intelligence and outcompete geopolitical rivals.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

3 years old, 800 million users, 29,000 prompts a second: ChatGPT's meteoric rise, by the numbers

When he first introduced ChatGPT in November 2022, Sam Altman said, "Language interfaces are going to be a big deal." That has turned out to be a rare understatement from the CEO of OpenAI. In the three years since, the AI chatbot has become one of the most popular tech products in history. As of September 2025, ChatGPT had accumulated nearly 800 million weekly active users.
Artificial intelligence
Silicon Valley
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to win the narrative battle online'

Silicon Valley has built an alternative media ecosystem that gives tech elites cozy, unchallenged platforms through company-backed shows and friendly podcasts.
California
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Multiple earthquakes rock home of world's biggest tech companies

Several earthquakes, including a magnitude 4.0, struck California's Bay Area near Silicon Valley, causing light shaking but no reported injuries or major disruptions.
fromThe Mercury News
2 weeks ago

Silicon Valley commercial leasing surges and new development rises

Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, and Fremont commercial property leases totaled 20.4 million square feet during the July-through-September third quarter, according to a report from the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies that was released in partnership with JLL, a commercial real estate firm. The institute is the research arm of Joint Venture Silicon Valley.
Real estate
Silicon Valley
fromSan Jose Inside
3 weeks ago

Crypto Payrolls Become a Reality Across Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley increasingly adopts crypto payrolls as startups and employees embrace receiving salaries in digital tokens alongside traditional fiat.
#h-1b
Silicon Valley
fromFast Company
4 weeks ago

Big AI is moving to the suburbs

OpenAI plans a 500,000+ square-foot corporate campus in suburban Silicon Valley, reversing recent urban trends and signaling renewed consolidation of tech operations.
fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago

Google surrounds the Bay Area's hottest new hotel. I stayed there anyway.

The new hotel is all about nature and playfulness, and has been peddling a reduced rate for California residents (lower on weekends given weekday business travel) including a $50 dinner credit at its restaurant, Valley Goat, which is helmed by a "Top Chef" winner. So, we packed up the dog - he stayed free, another plus - and hightailed it to Silicon Valley on a Saturday morning.
Travel
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Kara Swisher Would Rather Work for Sam Altman Than Mark Zuckerberg

As the host of On With Kara Swisher, her twice weekly podcast for Vox Media, she grills leaders in tech and politics, coaxing them to share the things they may not reveal on any other gabfest. For Pivot, her Vox show with New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway, she keeps the banter between herself and her cohost-but still, she doesn't hold back.
Media industry
fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

Where the altruistic utopian designs of Buckminster Fuller provided an ideal for the first wave of Silicon Valley pioneers (a group including computer scientist and philosopher Jaron Lanier and Wired editor Kevin Kelly), later entrepreneurs have hewn closer to the principles of brilliant scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla, who believed, as he told Liberty magazine in 1935, that "we suffer the derangement of our civilization because we have not yet completely adjusted ourselves to the machine age."
Artificial intelligence
Philosophy
fromWIRED
1 month ago

AI Is Not God

Tech elites in Silicon Valley began replacing technocratic messianism with explicit Christian faith and organized religious outreach.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Venture capital is not an asset class, says Sequoia's Roelof Botha | TechCrunch

Venture capital is not a scalable asset class; adding more capital dilutes outcomes and does not produce more great companies.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Guillermo del Toro Hopes He's Dead Before AI Art Goes Mainstream

Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed "half-assed," and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in Frankenstein, his adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes-as well as some embellishing of Shelley's story-could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.
Film
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 month ago

Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

A satirical billboard campaign bluntly portrays AI replacing and devaluing humans, using shock humor to mimic Silicon Valley's irreverent marketing.
Television
fromsfist.com
1 month ago

New CBS Legal Drama From 'Good Wife' Creators Robert and Michelle King to Focus on Silicon Valley Tech World

CBS greenlit a Silicon Valley-set legal procedural starring Mike Colter that focuses on David-versus-Goliath tech-industry legal battles and fictional stand-in companies.
#startups
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago
Startup companies

Kong CEO describes his early startup grind days, from living on $1,000 a month to sleeping on Travis Kalanick's couch

fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago
Startup companies

An angel investor in 350 startups, including Airtable and Rippling, says founders shouldn't copy Silicon Valley playbooks

fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago
Startup companies

Kong CEO describes his early startup grind days, from living on $1,000 a month to sleeping on Travis Kalanick's couch

fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago
Startup companies

An angel investor in 350 startups, including Airtable and Rippling, says founders shouldn't copy Silicon Valley playbooks

#h-1b-visa
fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

One of Silicon Valley's most prominent Democrats just called Trump's $100k H1-B visa fee a 'great solution' | Fortune

fromFortune
2 months ago
US politics

One of Silicon Valley's most prominent Democrats just called Trump's $100k H1-B visa fee a 'great solution' | Fortune

fromThesanjoseblog
1 month ago

Silicon Valley Asian Art Center Opens in Downtown San Jose

Downtown San Jose welcomed a new cultural gem with the opening of the Silicon Valley Asian Art Center at 150 East Santa Clara Street on October 17. The midday ribbon-cutting ceremony featured remarks from Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, representatives from the San Jose Downtown Association, and owner Jianhua Shu. This event marked the expansion of the center from its original Santa Clara location, established in 2004, which has long showcased modern and ancient artworks.
Arts
#ai-safety
East Bay real estate
fromSan Jose Spotlight
1 month ago

San Jose metro area No. 1 in declining home building permits - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro saw a 68% decline in building permits from July 2020 to July 2025, the largest drop among major U.S. metros.
California
fromSan Jose Spotlight
2 months ago

Silicon Valley Latina wage gap worst in nation - San Jose Spotlight

Latinas in California face the nation’s largest wage gap, earning far less than white males amid safety-net cuts and rising anti-immigrant pressures.
Information security
fromTechzine Global
2 months ago

Fifty years of security by design: why isn't it working?

Persistent misguided incentives, siloed stakeholders, and a speed-first Silicon Valley culture prevented adoption of security-by-design, leaving modern systems as insecure as decades ago.
fromThesanjoseblog
2 months ago

San Jose State University Excels in Rankings and Welcomes Record Enrollment

Among the standout achievements, San Jose State ranks as the number three public university in the West and number three best college for veterans in the region. It also places at number four as a regional university and number nine for best value in the West. These positions come from evaluations based on data from sources like the U.S. Department of Education, highlighting areas such as teaching excellence and accessibility.
Higher education
#h-1b-visas
fromKqed
2 months ago
US politics

H-1B Workers Fear Uncertainty After Trump Imposes $100,000 Visa Petition Fee | KQED

fromKqed
2 months ago
US politics

H-1B Workers Fear Uncertainty After Trump Imposes $100,000 Visa Petition Fee | KQED

fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Marry Lisa' billboard campaign attracts scores of potential suitors to San Mateo woman seeking love

After years of always being the perpetual bridesmaid, Lisa Catalano of San Mateo laid down her soft-pink bouquet, hung up her strappy blue satin Maid of Honor dress and drafted a text to her friends: I'm officially announcing my retirement from being a bridesmaid, she wrote. The next wedding I'm going to be in will be with my own groom, TBD. Two years earlier, her fiance had died of a terminal illness.
Relationships
Silicon Valley
fromTechCrunch
2 months ago

Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Find out at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Founders' geographic advantage is shifting as remote work, regional hubs, and broader fundraising reshape access, prompting reevaluation of Silicon Valley's edge.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta. "I always enjoyed that the area I practice in has largely been apolitical," Lemley tells me. What's more, his democratic values neatly aligned with those of the companies that hired him. But in January, Lemley made a radical move. "I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness," he posted on LinkedIn. "I have fired Meta as a client."
US politics
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

A Silicon Valley engineer's go-to lunch spot closed. So he bought the place.

Every Wednesday he'd head to the nearest Armadillo Willy's barbecue restaurant for the Pit-Smoked Boneless Chicken Sandwich, a juicy thigh topped with jalapeno-spiked barbecue sauce and fresh jalapenos. When I worked for Apple I went to the Cupertino location. Then when I worked for Nest I went to Los Altos. Then Google bought Nest, so we by then it was a group, the VIM, Very Important Meeting lunch club had to come to this location, he said, sitting in what was formerly the Sunnyvale Willy's.
Food & drink
Venture
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

I dove deep into the SportsCenter of Silicon Valley

TBPN, a three-hour daily show hosted by former tech founders, has become a powerful new-media hub drawing Silicon Valley insiders and entertaining tech industry audiences.
#surrogacy
Real estate
fromFortune
2 months ago

Photos: Trailer Park Living in Techtopia, U.S.A. | Fortune

Low-income immigrant families live in a Palo Alto mobile-home park, paying modest rent while surrounded by Silicon Valley's extreme housing costs.
fromStreetsblog
3 months ago

Talking Headways Podcast: Wonders of the South Bay - Streetsblog New York City

Yeah, it's a great point because, you know, going from, you know, Caltrain where most of the areas around those stations, and certainly in the city, but also in some of the peninsula cities where for those who have not visited the peninsula south of San Francisco and north of San Jose, it's dense in a way, like you might find on the mainline outside of Philadelphia or like a Boston commuter line.
Silicon Valley
#burning-man
fromFuturism
3 months ago

Meta Defector Issues Devastating Psychological Takedown of Tech CEOs

"You'd think, wouldn't you, that if you were immensely powerful and rich like Elon Musk and all these other tech bros and members of that podcast community," the former politico told The Guardian, "that you'd reflect on your good fortune compared with most other people?"
UK politics
Silicon Valley
fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

Immigrants with 'zero' privilege are among Silicon Valley's top talent, says billionaire tech investor David Friedberg

Many Silicon Valley immigrants succeed despite zero baseline privilege through hard work, ingenuity, risk, sacrifice, and some luck, challenging simplistic privilege narratives.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

Do AI Companies Actually Care About America?

Silicon Valley frames AI competition with China as a civilizational struggle for democratic values while primarily pursuing U.S. support rather than proactively defending freedom.
fromWIRED
3 months ago

Join Us for WIRED's "Uncanny Valley" Live

On September 9, WIRED is partnering with KQED for Uncanny Valley's first live show of the podcast. Join us in San Francisco to see hosts Katie Drummond, Michael Calore, and Lauren Goode shed light on the people, power, and influence of Silicon Valley. Get your tickets here.
Tech industry
fromFortune
3 months ago

Sam Altman's AI paradox: Warning of a bubble while raising trillions

Sam Altman remarked that he believes AI could be in a "bubble," suggesting that investors are overexcited about AI, yet expects OpenAI to invest trillions in data centers.
Tech industry
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

How the face of Bay Area tech became a $100 billion straggler

By the time Intel was celebrating its 10th anniversary in 1978 - a huge party at Daly City's Cow Palace, complete with disco music and a stock gift to every employee - the company had already racked up a list of industry-defining accomplishments.
Silicon Valley
California
fromThe Mercury News
3 months ago

Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton visits San Jose homeless camp, bashes Democrats

Homelessness in California has increased 24% under Governor Newsom despite $27 billion spent on combating the issue.
California
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton visits San Jose homeless camp, bashes Democrats

Steve Hilton criticized California's homelessness crisis while campaigning and attributing it to Democratic leadership.
fromSlate Magazine
3 months ago

Everyone Had Their Own Theories About This Murder. They Were All Wrong.

Bob Lee was stabbed multiple times in San Francisco during a late-night dispute with fellow techie Nima Momeni, leading to his tragic death.
San Francisco
San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
3 months ago

VTA sticking with single tunnel BART plan after report reveals high cost of twin bore design

VTA considers switching from single tunnel to twin tunnels for the Silicon Valley BART Expansion project.
#autonomous-vehicles
fromBusiness Insider
4 months ago

Sam Altman says the talent pool for AI superstars is probably bigger than people think

Altman called the current talent market the 'most intense talent market I have seen in my career,' emphasizing the fierce competition for AI professionals.
Artificial intelligence
Silicon Valley
fromGeekWire
4 months ago

Startup's plan to ditch Seattle for Bay Area sparks reaction about tech culture, work pace, AI and more

Seattle's tech culture operates at a slower pace compared to Silicon Valley's high-intensity work environment.
US politics
fromTheregister
4 months ago

US State Dept lobbies against EU content rules

The Trump administration is intensifying opposition to the EU's Digital Services Act, viewing it as a threat to US tech firms.
fromTechCrunch
4 months ago

Hear investor Elad Gil break down how he spots breakout startups early and what he's betting on next-live at TC Disrupt 2025 in SF

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.
Silicon Valley
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months ago

Rep. Ro Khanna seeks new generation of leaders' in the Democratic Party. Is he the answer?

Khanna's House district encompasses the headquarters of valuable companies, showcasing his role in technology and politics, which he leverages as he positions for a presidential run.
US politics
Travel
fromwww.7x7.com
1 year ago

Escape the fog with a day pass to these sunny Bay Area pools.

Pool privileges at select hotels in Wine Country and Silicon Valley offer luxurious amenities and relaxing environments.
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