#silicon-valley

#silicon-valley

Altman called the current talent market the 'most intense talent market I have seen in my career,' emphasizing the fierce competition for AI professionals.

Kayci Lacob’s debut feature, 'Everything to Me,' is a self-distributed film reflecting on the complexity of growing up in Silicon Valley during the tech boom.

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.

Immad Akhund, an angel investor in over 350 startups, asserts that simply emulating Silicon Valley playbooks often leads to failure, as they are context-specific and not universally applicable.

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.

The Marin Community Foundation sold more than 13.4 million shares in Figma's IPO, making it the largest selling shareholder, netting over $440 million.

America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it.

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.

Feld offers a quieter kind of wisdom. He's a systems thinker, a long-term optimist, and one of the rare people in the industry who treats business as a philosophical practice. His philosophy emphasizes the importance of mentorship and relationships that transcend financial metrics.

The 'Nerd Reich' is a web of powerful, ultra-wealthy tech billionaires whose politics push the country away from democracy towards unrestrained capitalism and monarchy.

This breaks the Silicon Valley social contract. This is bad for startup employees. They're going to be less likely to join startups. What's the point of joining a startup and working your ass off if you might get screwed?

The U.S. is preparing for potential near-peer conflicts amid great power competition, complicated by disruptive technologies, leading to the rise of defense contractors from Silicon Valley.

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, humorously referred to the recruitment gatherings in San Francisco and New York City as a 'party' while seeking finance professionals to develop artificial general intelligence.

Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, suggested that New York legislator Zohran Mamdani's culture is based on deceit and promotes lying to advance an Islamist agenda.

Bay Area transit agencies face annual deficits nearing $800 million, leading to calls for increased revenue through a proposed sales tax, which may disproportionately impact lower-income residents.

The provision to the reconciliation bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Many prominent Silicon Valley executives were in favor of the so-called "AI moratorium," which they said would prevent states from forming an unworkable patchwork of regulation that could stifle AI innovation.

I feel a visceral feeling right now, as if someone has broken into our home and stolen something. Please trust that we haven't been sitting idly by.

"The Community Action Grants program grantees don't just provide services; they're catalysts for positive change, led by and accountable to the communities they serve," foundation president and CEO Nicole Taylor said in a release.

The average grant size is $21,000, and the nonprofits funded under this program all have annual budgets of $3 million or less.

In Silicon Valley, people are not apt to linger over anything as long as they do a keyboard. Still, there are options for indulging in beautiful tea rituals.

The proposed U.S. defense budget for 2025 is $1 trillion, equivalent to Spain's GDP, highlighting the significant financial commitment to defense in light of global tensions.

The proposed residential complex will include 196 units, with 29 designated as affordable housing, strategically located near multiple major tech hubs in Silicon Valley.