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Silicon Valley

  1. what it’s like
    How Nvidia Became ChatGPT's Brain And Joined The $1 Trillion Club
    What It’s Like to Get Rich As an Nvidia Engineer “I’ve been splurging. I need to slow down.”
  2. silicon valley
    I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is ForThe headset is already changing disabled users’ lives.
  3. screen time
    The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary TaleThese wearable devices feel new and ambitious — and that’s the problem.
  4. chapters
    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
  5. screen time
    The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is AppleNobody wants to lend a hand to the richest tech company on earth.
  6. screen time
    Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?The smartphone economy is booming — and it also feels awful.
  7. crime
    What’s the Matter With Stanford?The Sam Bankman-Fried scandal reveals a lot about Silicon Valley’s favorite school.
  8. the money game
    Mark Zuckerberg Corrected Me About His Sweater on InstagramIt turns out the Meta CEO spends hundreds, not thousands, on hoodies. I regret the error.
  9. the money game
    How Loro Piana Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite FlexThe luxury Italian fashion brand is no longer quite as understated as it once was.
  10. screen time
    Lies, Damned Lies, and Social-Media MetricsThose view counts on Twitter, TikTok, and Netflix? Be very skeptical.
  11. the money game
    Wall Street Is Finally Ready for Its Next IPO SeasonInstacart’s long-gestating stock-market debut is another sign that a recession is nowhere in sight.
  12. the system
    Richard Hanania’s Chilling NormalityThe revealing case of the anti-woke crusader.
  13. screen time
    Are Apple’s New Goggles a Nightmare? Maybe.The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.
  14. screen time
    Why Every App Now Feels Like TikTok, But WorseAlgorithmic videos are killing social media.
  15. screen time
    Is AI Coming for Coders First?The tech industry is running a big experiment on itself.
  16. life in pixels
    Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
  17. silicon valley
    Silicon Valley Bank Execs Investigated for Selling Stock Before CollapseThe Feds are reportedly looking into the CEO and CFO, who scheduled millions of shares to be sold less than two weeks before the bank went bust.
  18. silicon valley
    10,000 People at Meta Will Lose Their JobsAfter Meta lost $700 billion in market cap last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced a mass layoff to make sure this is its “Year of Efficiency.”
  19. screen time
    ‘It’s a Big F - - - - - - Mess’: How SVB’s Collapse Is Creating ChaosWhat was America’s 16th largest bank now no longer exists. Lots of regular people are already being hurt.
  20. big tech
    The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
  21. screen time
    Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like MagicThis is no ordinary next big thing for Silicon Valley.
  22. screen time
    Amazon’s New Car Cam Takes Personal Surveillance on the RoadIt’s marketed as a security solution. But there will be other uses.
  23. screen time
    Twitter Is Just a Guy NowAt the company — and on the platform — there’s no escaping Elon.
  24. screen time
    Why Elon Wants to Make Them PayNice Twitter account you got there. Shame if something happened to it.
  25. screen time
    It’s Official: Meta Is a DisasterThe dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.
  26. screen time
    Elon Musk’s Incredible Shrinking FutureHe charmed his fans with visions of Mars and cool cars. But an “everything app” just sounds like a nightmare.
  27. the money game
    ‘The Poster Child’ of the Tech MeltdownSecretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad.
  28. big tech
    Pity the BillionaireSilicon Valley’s oligarch class can’t stop feeling sorry for itself.
  29. mark zuckerberg
    Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to MetaThe social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.
  30. media
    Parler CEO Says the MAGA Answer to Twitter Is ‘Grace’The pitch for conservative social media is anti–cancel culture, but its biggest problem may simply be TikTok.
  31. peloton
    Peloton Could Be the WeWork of the PandemicThe company thrived during the first stages of COVID-19, then failed to plan for what came after.
  32. business
    Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley With ItHundreds of billions of dollars disappeared overnight, and it may get worse.
  33. silicon valley
    The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg’s ReignFacebook lost nearly $200 billion in value because while his head was in the metaverse, his company was being eaten alive in the real world.
  34. art
    How Agnieszka Pilat Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Artist“It’s our obligation to have a relationship with machines so they grow up to be good citizens.”
  35. the money game
    Jack Dorsey’s Silicon Valley Grudge Match Has Only Gotten WeirderThe former Twitter CEO and his archnemesis Marc Andreessen are still dunking on each other.
  36. silicon valley
    The Elizabeth Holmes Verdict Is No Reckoning for Silicon ValleyElizabeth Holmes was convicted, not her way of doing business.
  37. just asking questions
    How Jack Dorsey Failed TwitterScott Galloway dances on the outgoing CEO’s grave.
  38. silicon valley
    At Twitter, @jack Is Out As CEO and @paraga Is InJack Dorsey is now leading only one large Silicon Valley company.
  39. tech
    How Miami Seduced Silicon ValleyAwash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving — and beginning to shape — its newest industry.
  40. silicon valley
    Book Excerpt: Peter Thiel’s Untold College StoriesHis ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.
  41. gavin newsom recall
    Gavin Newsom and the End of the California DreamThe recall drive against the governor is something of a joke. But the frustrations with the status quo are dead serious.
  42. media
    Inside the Nasty Battle Between Tech and JournalismSilicon Valley feels picked on by “woke” journalists “who can’t code.” Reporters feel picked on by petty zillionaires with anger-management problems.
  43. media
    Facebook Blocks All Sharing of News in AustraliaThe unprecedented move is the result of a proposed law requiring online platforms to pay news sources for displaying and linking to their work.
  44. end-times
    The Most Important Takeaways From Big Tech’s Deplatforming of TrumpBetween San Francisco and Washington, the power shifts by the day.
  45. silicon valley
    Google Workers Are UnionizingThe news follows years of bad press for the tech giant.
  46. silicon valley
    ‘Beginning of the End’: Scott Galloway on Antitrust Lawsuits Against FacebookFirst the government came after Google, now they want to break apart Mark Zuckerberg’s company. It’s part of a trend.
  47. late capitalism
    America Has Central Planners. We Just Call Them ‘Venture Capitalists.’Venture capitalists guide significant portions of industrial development by using their vast wealth to subsidize their favorite money-losing firms.
  48. silicon valley
    Is Palantir’s Crystal Ball Just Smoke and Mirrors?An inside look at how Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn got its start.
  49. vision 2021
    Biden 2020: Change That Wall Street Liberals Can Believe In?Biden seems interested in redistributing income, but not in challenging the private power of his party’s favorite industries.
  50. conservatism
    The Big Tech Hearing Showed That Anti-Monopoly Is a Partisan IssueWith token exceptions, Republicans don’t want Silicon Valley’s giants to be less powerful, only more conservative.
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