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Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values

Venture capital-backed, $1bn companies are disrupting the way war will be waged with AI and futuristic weapons. Will they overthrow the traditional big military manufacturers, and what would that mean for the battlefield?

The Guardian - UK

Silicon Valley CEO says 'vibe coding' lets 10 engineers do the work of 100—here's how to use it

Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword promises a new era of coding where AI handles the heavy lifting and innovation grows exponentially.

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

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From $6 billion unicorn to bankrupt cautionary tale: The story of 23andMe

DNA testing company 23andMe was a white-hot Silicon Valley startup for years, and Anne Wojcicki was a celebrity CEO. But after going public, investors lost faith in the DNA testing company.

Fortune

The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’

The Guardian - US

JD Vance has a message for Silicon Valley: The Trump administration is ‘working with you’

The vice president is pledging support to the tech industry and saying this administration is aligned with its interests.

Fortune

Inside South by Southwest, where tech bros and hippies battle for the soul of Austin

Austin, Texas is caught between two identities: the offbeat home of live music and the new rival to Silicon Valley. How did that tension play out South by Southwest, the yearly festival which blends the two?

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Texas Tech Boom: Silicon Valley's Southern Outpost Rises

Held every year in the capital of conservative-leaning Texas, the South by Southwest festival increasingly celebrates the state's emergence as a technology hub stepping out of Silicon Valley's shadow.

International Business Times

Dr. Peter Attia's $7,500 a year biohacking attracted Silicon Valley. Now he's betting on the wealthy elite of New York City

Investors back Dr. Peter Attia's biohacking clinic, which he says provides “the most advanced executive physical in the world.”

Fortune

CEO of $4.2 billion tech giant says defying Silicon Valley's ‘move fast and break things’ mantra was essential to growing his business

The founder of DBT Labs, Tristan Handy, says moving at his own pace fostered innovation and growth—it can feel antithetical to the strategies of Google and Meta.

Fortune

In a win for Silicon Valley, Senate votes to overturn key payments regulation that could benefit Elon Musk’s X

The rule was enacted under the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last November.

Fortune

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed

How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult

The Guardian - US

Could European AI create a more unified European identity?

While many artificial intelligence chatbots created by Silicon Valley tech companies, trained on American content, European tech companies are developing their own models, using the continent's culture and languages.

Radio France Internationale

If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security

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What’s next for AI innovation in a post-DeepSeek world

DeepSeek proves AI breakthroughs possible without Silicon Valley's massive resources and funding.

Fortune

Apple’s DEI shareholder vote sets it apart from other Silicon Valley giants—but that doesn’t mean it won’t make policy changes

The tech company reaffirms its commitment to DEI—for now.

Fortune

Palantir has a P/E near 500. Can Alex Karp justify the price?

Karp believes Big Tech needs to refocus on military and national-security work, once at the heart of Silicon Valley’s origins.

The Guardian - UK

‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

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The Guardian - US

Crypto and big tech’s backing pays off as Trump makes tech-friendly moves

Flurry of directives relaxes regulations and drops lawsuit – and billionaires who donated to Trump are ready to benefit

The Conversation

China: Xi Jinping has learned from Trump’s first trade war and is ready to fight back

The start of 2025 has been good for China and its reputation as a high-tech innovator. The unveiling of the Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) tool, DeepSeek, caused consternation on the US stock exchange and from potential competitors in Silicon Valley.

Fortune

Gecko Robotics CEO: How I bucked the trend of Silicon Valley’s monopoly on frontier tech

Gecko Robotics turned down a billionaire’s investment offer because of a demand cofounder Jake Loosararian couldn’t live with.

The Guardian - US

US and UK out of step with rest of the world on AI

Why the Paris summit on artificial intelligence failed and how Silicon Valley is toeing the Trump administration’s line

Fortune

Top Palantir execs slam Silicon Valley for focusing on 'trivial yet solvable inconveniences' instead of tackling national problems

"The age of social-media platforms and food-delivery apps had arrived. Medical breakthroughs, education reform, and military advances would have to wait."

The Independent UK

Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States

They seemed like just another band of anarchist misfits scraping by on the fringes of Silicon Valley — until the deaths began. Io Dodds unravels the complex web of ideology, friendship, and bloody violence that has baffled investigators nationwide

The Guardian - UK

If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them

Silicon Valley wants to spend a fortune on the fantasy of human-level intelligence. But there are more practical and valuable things to achieve

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