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A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry

In 1993, Marc Andreessen was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked at the US-government funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications. With a colleague, the young software engineer authored the Mosaic web browser, which set the standard for cruising the information superhighway in the 1990s.

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It’s easy to be dazzled by the super-rich, but don’t believe that they’ll do the right thing

Silicon Valley tech showmen like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried can blind us with science. A little more scepticism would not go amiss

The Guardian - UK

When Musk met Sunak: the prime minister was more starry-eyed than a SpaceX telescope

As a man soon out of a job, perhaps Rishi Sunak sat dreaming of his own future in Silicon Valley, says Marina Hyde

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AI chatbots are coming to your workplace but are not necessarily coming for your job

Artificial Intelligence chatbots are everywhere. They have captured the public imagination and that of countless Silicon Valley inventors and investors since the arrival of ChatGPT about a year ago.

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Rishi Sunak’s vanity jamboree on AI safety lays bare the UK’s Brexit dilemmas

At a table where democratic accountability should dominate, a diminished nation is trading in Silicon Valley celebrity, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Crypto in the dock, Musk in the frame and fiendish puzzles – three chilling tales for Halloween

Gather round and hear three of the latest scary stories from Silicon Valley and beyond that will frighten you long after the candy is eaten

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s just a matter of time’: why AI could help Europe create its own Apple or Google

Silicon Valley overshadows its transatlantic rivals. But as artificial intelligence grows – and with a global summit on it this week – some think it could offer a Euro startup the chance to become a new Google

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Silicon Valley rushes to save the case for techno-optimism after Marc Andreessen’s hallucination of a manifesto

At a tech conference the day after Marc Andreessen’s manifesto went live, Sam Altman relayed many of the same points but without the bold proclamations that diluted the VC’s argument.

Fortune

MI5 boss warns of ‘aggressive attempts’ by hostile states like China to steal secrets

UK intelligence boss will appear alongside ‘Five Eyes’ spy chiefs from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand at Silicon Valley summit

The Independent UK

Cybertoonz explains Netchoice v. Paxton

One of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year will be a Big Tech challenge to Texas and Florida laws that seek to impose limits and transparency on social media content regulation. Silicon Valley argues that these laws interfere with Big Tech's first amendment right to "cull and curate" what…

Reason

Wild West Tech photo series holds a mirror up to Silicon Valley

In her photo series "Wild West Tech", US photographer Laura Morton documents the culture of Silicon Valley in San Francisco. Her project focuses mostly on startups and captures young technophiles in their everyday life.

Radio France Internationale

Netanyahu Lands In California For Meeting With Elon Musk

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in California early Monday for a meeting in Silicon Valley

Zenger

Netanyahu To Tour Silicon Valley Ahead Of UN Speech

Netanyahu is scheduled to visit San Francisco next week ahead of his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York

Zenger

Sam Altman explains what’s wrong with Silicon Valley—and why OpenAI has no road map

OpenAI gave its researchers a “huge amount of freedom” rather than tightly controlling them, says Altman, and it paid off.

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Silicon Valley investors want to create a new city – is 'California Forever’ a utopian dream or just smart business?

He was, said George Bernard Shaw, “one of those heroic simpletons who do big things whilst our prominent worldlings are explaining why they are Utopian and impossible”.

The Conversation

Not burning, drowning: why outdoor festivals like Burning Man are reeling from extreme weather

Climate activists lined the road to this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada to call out the “privileged mindset” of the Silicon Valley types who flock there – and the waste involved in creating a temporary city in the desert.

Fortune

Ranchers decry ‘arrogant’ Silicon Valley billionaires buying up land for ‘fantasy’ city near San Francisco: ‘We are now totally surrounded’

“If they want a new city, San Jose is ripe. Fix what’s there," suggested a Solano County rancher.

France 24

Tech titans’ vision for a new city in Northern California raises concerns

Silicon Valley tech tycoons on Thursday announced their intentions of building a new city in Northern California. The billionaire investors have to date spent over $900 million to acquire more than 50,000 acres of land in Solano County. Local and US officials, however, have raised concerns about what one Congressman…

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Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

Flannery Associates, the California group behind the $800m effort, launched a website showcasing renderings

The Independent UK

Billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. They must convince voters first

Silicon Valley investors behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree got off to a rocky start with the voters they need to build a green new city in Northern California

Fortune

Silicon Valley’s elites can’t be trusted with the future of AI. We must break their dominance–and dangerous god complex

Vivek Wadhwa and Vinita Gupta respond to Sam Altman's comments about India's AI prospects.

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: Meet the tech millionaires in search of eternal life

In this week’s newsletter: Psychologist Aleks Krotoski investigates the Silicon Valley scions trying to cheat death in The Immortals. Plus: five of the best US politics podcasts

Salon

Staking out the Silicon Valley vampires

In the quest for longevity, research funded by the wealthy belongs in the hands of the poorest

The Guardian - US

Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city

Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buys 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California

Fortune

Inside Peter Thiel’s powerful Silicon Valley network which started with a student paper

The Stanford Review has helped Thiel created a vast and powerful interconnected web.

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