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A clear target emerges in tech layoffs: Middle managers

As Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and other Silicon Valley behemoths look to lighten payrolls after years of feverish hiring, a clear target has emerged: the middle manager.

Tribune News Service

Biden expected to assail Silicon Valley Big Tech in State of the Union address

President Joe Biden will reportedly attack Big Tech in his State of the Union address Tuesday in a bid to unite lawmakers in Washington concerned about the industry’s unprecedented influence and impact on all facets of American life.

Tribune News Service

Philly employers are desperately seeking tech workers even as Silicon Valley giants are laying off thousands

Major layoffs at big technology companies have dominated national headlines in recent months, seemingly portending doom and gloom for tech workers. But the reality for most companies, including Philadelphia employers, is a continuing shortage of skilled technologists and a desire to hire more.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Brian Merchant: How tech is changing LA — and how LA is changing tech

Is tech OK? It's not just the mass layoffs. It's that, to an alien observer, many of the most hyped ideas emerging from America's vaunted tech industry over the last few years would seem untethered from reality, if not outright unhinged.

Los Angeles Times

Vivek Wadhwa: ‘I lost my wife to cancer in 2019–and decided to defeat it for good. Now all of India is joining my quest for world-saving innovation’

Why Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa took his grand plan to defeat cancer to India.

Fortune

Commentary: NewsGuard tested ChatGPT’s potential for misinformation. Here’s what we found

The Oscar-nominated short film “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” could be the name for Silicon Valley’s latest gift to Western civilization — and to many practitioners of misinformation.

Chicago Tribune

Brian Merchant: How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel

In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was…

Los Angeles Times

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So long Silicon Valley. Cerebral Valley is the new hot tech zone in San Francisco

San Francisco's Hayes Valley gets a new nickname.

Fortune

Jeremy Hunt must ensure ‘Silicon Valley UK’ vision doesn’t leave people behind

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is an optimist, happy to believe that “when it comes to the innovation industries that will shape and define this century, the UK is powerfully positioned to play a leading role”. His speech at Bloomberg on Friday was full of enthusiastic references to digital technology, life…

Evening Standard

ChatGPT is ‘down all the time’ and people keep using it. What that says to Google alum Elad Gil about bad Silicon Valley advice

ChatGPT maker OpenAI and similar ventures have seen their ideas catch on very quickly, says Elad Gil.

Fortune

VCs weigh in on what a possible Stripe public listing—or a down round—means for Silicon Valley

VCs react to news of Stripe’s liquidity options—including possibly, finally, going public.

Fortune

5 takeaways from the massive layoffs hitting Big Tech right now

Some 200,000 tech jobs have been lost in what is seen as one of the sharpest downturns in the tech industry's history. Here is what you need to know about the mass layoffs in Silicon Valley.

WEKU

Truth Social looks deader than ever. Why Donald Trump’s cult of personality couldn’t survive Silicon Valley

The ex-president’s social media platform is on its last legs, proving that celebrity can’t overcome a lack of innovation.

Fortune

Why Zuckerberg should face the threat of jail

The UK government is about to do something that will make Silicon Valley shudder, or at least make social media executives think twice about flying over British airspace.

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Axios

Tech's downturn is mostly the result of trends outside the industry

Silicon Valley thinks it sets the economy's direction, but it's at the mercy of interest rates and other forces.

Fortune

A closer look at the A.I. apps taking over social media

A.I. image generators have proliferated across Silicon Valley and have gone viral across social media.

Fortune

Elon Musk's buddies in Silicon Valley are predicting he will emerge laughing from his year of record-breaking wealth destruction

The Twitter and Tesla CEO will get "complete financial flexibility" this year, predicts VC Chamath Palihapitiya.

Evening Standard

Watch: How ‘Deep Casual’ became the new status symbol

It started with the Silicon Valley set, with their Steve Job’s-inspired Mom jeans and orthopaedic-looking All Bird trainers; went up a gear as street style and its attendant low-slung waistbands and chunky trainers invaded the red carpet and settled in for good as the world burrowed in during Covid, taking…

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The Conversation

Long before Silicon Valley, scholars in ancient Iraq created an intellectual hub that revolutionised science

Time and again, collaboration has proven to be a key driver of scientific and technological innovation. So it follows that some of the greatest advances have come from intellectual hubs set up for this very purpose.

Axios

Layoffs are the tech industry's new normal

Tech was never immune from forces in the broader economy, and Silicon Valley has always followed a boom-bust rhythm.

Reason

How Venture Capital Made the Future

Sebastian Mallaby's The Power Law explores how venture capital and public policy helped shape modern technology.

Tribune News Service

Silicon Valley debate over Twitter divides county leaders in the heart of it

The thorny national debate about Twitter’s future skidded into Silicon Valley’s largest local government this month as Santa Clara County grappled over whether it should abandon the increasingly contentious social media platform or ride it out with new owner Elon Musk.

The Conversation

LinkedIn at 20: how a new breed of influencer is transforming the business networking giant

When someone says social media, you probably don’t immediately think of LinkedIn. But there’s no denying that the business networking site has gone the distance: it is now 20 years since it was founded in Silicon Valley.

Bangkok Post

The Backstory of ChatGPT Creator OpenAI

ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence program captivating Silicon Valley with its sophisticated prose, had its origin three years ago, when technology investor Sam Altman became chief executive of the chatbot's developer, OpenAI.

Belfast Live

Nextdoor app CEO on growing up in Tyrone to taking charge of one of Silicon Valley’s biggest names

Sarah Friar said the sense of community growing up in a border area is one of the pillars on which her career was built

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