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Silicon Valley's humanoid robots are learning how to do your job — in the kitchen
Fernando Flores can spend eight hours a day pouring the same cup of coffee. He is not a barista. He’s a robot puppeteer, trying to train…
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“The Audacity” Is a Brutal Silicon Valley Satire with an Agenda
Midway through my watch of the new tech-satire series “The Audacity,” I received an e-mail from Google that I had received many times…
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Pentagon's Anthropic bashing rekindles Silicon Valley's resistance to war
Artificial intelligence powerhouse Anthropic’s battle with the Pentagon has sparked some soul-searching in Silicon Valley that could…
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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher
Land has always been a controversial figure, but not for the same reasons he is now. In the nineties, at Warwick, he led the Cybernetic…
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Silicon Valley is driving users to ditch keyboards and spend hours talking to their tech
Gavin McNamara has abandoned his keyboard and spends all day talking rather than typing. He speaks for hours with his computer and phone,…
Business
Silicon Valley says to skip college
Across the country, a growing sentiment suggests the university degree is an artifact of a bygone era, a depreciating asset in an economy…
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At a Silicon Valley summit, robots fold laundry—and investors open their wallets
Robots from around the world converged on Silicon Valley to provide a glimpse of a potential future. Two robots picked up T-shirts with…
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MAGA and Silicon Valley Are Battling for Influence in the White House
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday intended to stop states from regulating AI—an idea that had received a lot of…
Culture
CDL sells US$143.5 million Silicon Valley residential asset
Part of the group’s capital recycling and portfolio management, the sale allows it to lower gearing and redeploy capital City Developments…
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Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn on What ‘Pluribus’ Is Really About, Why Hollywood ‘Needs More Heroes’ and How Silicon Valley Has ‘F—ed Up the World’
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the first two episodes of “Pluribus,” streaming now on Apple TV. Vince Gilligan is in the…
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Why Silicon Valley’s vision of the future is broken—and how to fix it
Nick Foster is not a fan of how Silicon Valley imagines the future. As a designer and writer who has spent his career at places like…
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Does Silicon Valley have a sense of humor?
David Temkin was driving south from San Francisco, down Highway 101, as billboard after billboard pitched AI in variations of dense word…
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Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Benioff wants National Guard deployed to San Francisco
Billionaire tech executive Marc Benioff said he wants President Trump to restore a sense of public safety in San Francisco by sending in…
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Mercedes-Benz spins out Silicon Valley chip group into new company
For chips used in cars, reliability is key, so critical self-driving functions are often handled by two or more separate chips in order to…
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Silicon Valley is reeling from Trump’s new H-1B visa fees
The Trump administration’s hefty new visa fees for H-1B workers have prompted high-level talks inside companies in Silicon Valley and…
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Silicon Valley wants its own Steven Spielberg, and it think it’s found him
It was an ambitious goal, but Hollywood was built on ambitious goals. Jason Carman gave himself until his 20th birthday to make a…
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Trump Hosts Silicon Valley Titans for Dinner at White House, Wins Major Investment Promises
US President Donald Trump invited some of the most influential faces of the global technology industry to the White House on Thursday…
Business
The Download: Taiwan’s silicon shield, and ChatGPT’s personality misstep
Taiwanese politics increasingly revolves around one crucial question: Will China invade? China’s ruling party has wanted to seize Taiwan…
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Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening
Squarely in the middle Taiwan’s modern security uncertainties stem from the long-contested issue of the island’s sovereignty. After…
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‘The /r/overemployed king’: A serial moonlighter was exposed for holding 19 jobs at Silicon Valley startups
A software engineer became X’s main character last week after being outed as a serial moonlighter at multiple Silicon Valley startups.…
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Wealthy Silicon Valley investors in line for US$17 billion windfall in US senate Republican tax Bill
Silicon Valley’s favourite tax break may be getting an upgrade. Venture capitalists, along with successful tech founders and early startup…
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Microsoft layoffs hit its Silicon Valley workforce
Microsoft is slashing its Silicon Valley workforce. The tech giant, which is based in Washington but also has Bay Area offices, is cutting…
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'Nowhere to hide.' How Apple and others in Silicon Valley are bracing for Trump tariffs
SAN FRANCISCO — The iPhone is a quintessentially 21st century product — Californian in its creation and design and now enmeshed in the…
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Commentary: Elon Musk brought a Silicon Valley mindset to Trump's Washington. It's been a disaster
Washington has never seen anything like the rule-breaking, power-taking, government-torching, protocol-scorching force of delighted havoc…