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‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right

As Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg gathered for Trump’s inauguration, crypto diehards and members of the Paypal Mafia celebrated a new era for the Magaverse

The Guardian - US

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

LiveScience

Meta’s shifting goalposts, new tools of censorship: Will 2025 be India’s year of jeopardy?

Modi’s vision of a restrained online space in India had a busy but not wholly satisfying 2024. The latest version of the Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill vanished from sight after content creators vociferously pushed back. The Digital India Bill, which aimed to wrestle control from Silicon Valley, similarly could not…

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Children ‘no match’ for Silicon Valley billions, peer says in online safety plea

‘A child whether five or 15 is no match for the billions of dollars spent hijacking their attention’, Baroness Kidron said

Evening Standard

TikTok realized the advantage of bowing to autocrats. The tech barons at Trump’s inauguration are following suit

ANALYSIS: The chaotic unbanning of TikTok signals a new political fusion between corporate power and American authoritarianism — and Silicon Valley stands eager to serve, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

With Trump 2.0, the balance of power shifts from banks to Silicon Valley

What the new administration could mean for financial technology—and beyond.

Fortune

A Tesla Cybertruck joyride with Elon Musk’s biggest fans

How can a group of climate-conscious, liberal-leaning Tesla superfans in Silicon Valley support the Trump-Musk alliance? Josh Marcus took a cruise in a Cybertruck to find out

The Independent UK

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The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

The Guardian - UK

TikTok is the only truly democratic social platform. A US ban would rob us all

Nothing has challenged Silicon Valley like the Chinese app. Blocking its use in the US would be like stealing half the books in a library, writes content creator Sophia Smith Galer

The Guardian - UK

Silicon Valley’s bet on AI defence startups and what it means for the future of war – podcast

From Gaza to Ukraine, today’s war zones are being used as testing grounds for new systems driven by artificial intelligence. Billions of dollars are now being pumped into AI weapons technology, much of it from Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

The Conversation

Silicon Valley’s tycoons are bending the knee to Trump

In 2017, Silicon Valley rebuked Trump’s travel ban. Today, it has reversed course and is bending over backwards with displays of deference to Trump

The Guardian - US

Technology will never be a god – but has it become a religion?

Way back in September 2015, the controversial engineer, entrepreneur and Silicon Valley magnate Anthony Levandowski set out to establish a new religion. He called it the Way of the Future – or WOTF.

The Conversation

Steve Bannon mocks ‘toddler’ Elon Musk after he tells X user to ‘f*** yourself’ over visa bust-up

Deepening schism over immigration and visas splits MAGA, pitting ‘America First’ cohort against Silicon Valley Trump supporters

The Independent UK

A Silicon Valley nudist resort is on sale for $30m – but will its new owner ‘go textile’?

Members are in limbo as Lupin Lodge is on the market after nearly 90 years – with next buyer likely to require clothes

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Secretive Game Developer Codes Hit 'Balatro' In Canadian Prairie Province

There are no photos or videos of LocalThunk, an anonymous computer programmer who lives in the vast and desolate prairies of Canada's Saskatchewan province, far from Silicon Valley.

Fortune

OpenAI says it’s not using voice data or transcripts of calls to new 1-800-ChatGPT phone line for AI training

Offering a free phone service to collect voice data is a tried-and-true Silicon Valley technique pioneered by Google.

Fortune

How GSK’s Silicon Valley veteran transformed the pharma giant into a tech powerhouse

Shobie Ramakrishnan has helped transform GSK into a data-led company, helping speed up drug discovery.

Fortune

Meet Trump's ultra-rich administration: The wealthiest political team in history is collectively worth $474 billion

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Silicon Valley VC Marc Andreessen are among the billionaires lending their support to President-elect Trump.

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer says UK strengthening defence partnership with Saudi Arabia as charities criticise human rights record – as it happened

Amnesty International UK says prime minister needs to ‘challenge repression of human rights defenders’ as he meets crown prince

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Michael Douglas: Silicon Valley is dumbing down the film business

Hollywood star Michael Douglas has bemoaned the ever-increasing influence of streaming platforms.

Fortune

How the 173-year-old glass-maker behind Edison's light bulb and iPhone screens became a Silicon Valley darling

CEO Wendell Weeks talks about Corning Inc.’s innovations—ranging from Edison’s lightbulb to the face of your smartphone—and how its fiber-optic cables are powering the AI revolution.

The Independent UK

OpenAI announces weapons company partnership to provide AI tech to military

Partnership marks increasing Silicon Valley openness towards working with defense partners

Benzinga

Silicon Valley Titans And Their Psychedelic Journeys: The Experiences That Shaped Them

Silicon Valley's top leaders, including Steve Jobs, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk, share their experiences with psychedelics, from personal transformation to innovation.

Benzinga

Elon Musk's DOGE Dream Team: From Marc Andreessen To Uber's Travis Kalanick, Silicon Valley Titans Reportedly Join Forces To Overhaul Federal Spending

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with a team of Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Travis Kalanick, Marc Andreessen, Sriram Krishnan, and Antonio Gracias, to reform federal spending and identify opportunities to cut up to $2 trillion from the budget.

Al Jazeera

Encircled by geopolitical risks, Armenia builds a lively tech startup scene

Ex-Soviet state is betting on a growing tech eco-system to drive its economy in region rife with geopolitical tensions.

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