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The article discusses the phenomenon of 'zombie unicorns' — private tech startups valued over $1 billion that are struggling to grow or exit, creating a lingering presence in Silicon Valley's venture landscape.
An article exploring the use of drugs like ketamine and psychedelics by AI industry workers, referencing Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and questioning potential impacts on AI models.
AI industry groups are pouring tens of millions of dollars into midterm elections to influence future AI regulation, with a key proxy battle unfolding in a New York congressional primary.
WIRED reveals that Peter Thiel's private Dialog club secretly ranks its members by wealth and fame using a hidden A, B, C grading system, tracking relationships and employing algorithms to manage attendance and seating, based on a leaked data trove of nearly 200 prominent individuals.
Silicon Valley elite financial advisers report that the current wave of tech wealth creation is faster and larger than before, with clients from companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic seeking strategic financial planning around IPOs and lock-up periods.
A leak exposed internal records of Peter Thiel's secretive Dialog society, revealing members including US officials, tech executives, and sensitive details about private retreats.
The article analyzes the rapid decline of Meta's engineering culture, from a high-performance profit center to a demoralized cost center, driven by aggressive AI mandates, layoffs, and poor leadership decisions.
WIRED profiles Stewart Brand, the 87-year-old tech visionary behind the Whole Earth Catalog, and the specially designed house he and his wife built to accommodate his aging and illness, embodying his ethos of self-sufficiency and maintenance.
Skydio CEO Adam Bry discusses the company's focus on enterprise drones, the impact of Chinese drone bans, and why Silicon Valley should not avoid working with the military on AI.
Tech millionaires claim China is funding local opposition to U.S. data centers, but evidence is lacking; OpenAI found a limited Chinese influence campaign using ChatGPT to generate anti-data-center content.
Silicon Valley tech workers, spurred by AI's existential questions, are increasingly embracing Christianity through coworking spaces, events, and church attendance, marking a shift in the region's famously secular culture. The trend includes figures like Peter Thiel and Garry Tan, and has drawn attention from faith leaders including the Pope.
A blog post cataloguing appearances of the Emacs text editor in films and TV, including The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, Arctic Blast, and Silicon Valley.
Valley 101 announces the launch of a paid community offering online closed-door seminars, live streams, offline events, and industry networking, focusing on tech and investment topics such as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
A high-end heterosexual companion service is emerging in Silicon Valley with a daily fee of up to $23,000. The service providers are highly educated and capable of in-depth discussions on topics like AI and semiconductors with tech elites.
President Trump proposed US government taking ownership stakes in AI companies, surprising tech CEOs and sparking debate about public wealth funds and trust in American AI.
The Trump administration is internally divided over whether to revive an executive order on AI regulation that President Trump canceled last month, with key officials like Susie Wiles pushing for regulation and former AI czar David Sacks opposing it.
A compilation of real cases of Chinese executives from Silicon Valley returning to China to start businesses but failing, reflecting common cross-cultural pitfalls and market differences.
Andrew Ng discusses the resurgence of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) in AI, comparing the role to AI Engineers and predicting that AI Engineer jobs will vastly outnumber FDEs as the field matures.
Casey Muratori criticizes former Google CEO Eric Schmidt for using passive voice to evade responsibility in his commencement speech, noting that Schmidt oversaw the rise of dark patterns in internet business but told the next generation "it happened" while urging them to enthusiastically participate in AI decision-making.