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Teen Founders, Tap The Brakes: Paul Graham Says Curiosity Beats Companies In High School — Despite YC Wins With Airbnb, Reddit, And Sam Altman At 19

The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.

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Trump's Son-In-Law Jared Kushner Co-Founds Brain Co., A $30M AI Startup Partnered With OpenAI And Backed By Silicon Valley Billionaires

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and former White House advisor Jared Kushner has entered the artificial intelligence sector with Brain Co., a startup that announced on Sept. 11 that it raised $30 million in Series A funding to help governments and large enterprises adopt AI in practical ways.

Benzinga

What the rise of ChatGPT mastermind Sam Altman reveals about AI, tech and power

Since dropping out of Stanford University, Sam Altman has become one of the world's most influential tech entrepreneurs – at the helm of OpenAI and its artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The author of a new biography of Altman tells RFI what his ascent reveals about AI, Silicon Valley and how…

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Swiped to Twiggy: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Lily James plays the co-founder of Tinder and Bumble in a damning film that shows up Silicon Valley’s toxic male culture – plus Sadie Frost pays homage to the fashion icon who became the face of the swinging 60s

The Guardian - UK

How to Save the Internet by Nick Clegg review – spinning Silicon Valley

Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking points

The Guardian - UK

YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning in class before jumping into their dream business.

Fortune

Ozempic Is The New Botox And Big Pharma Is Printing Billions

Ozempic and Zepbound have morphed from diabetes treatment into a cultural phenomenon, helping Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE:NVO) and Eli Lilly And Co (NYSE:LLY) achieve a combined market cap topping $900 billion. Celebrities flaunt it, Silicon Valley elites swear by it, and analysts predict the GLP-1 market could surpass $150 billion…

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Silicon Valley's graying workforce: Gen Z staff cut in half at tech companies as the average age goes up by 5 years

As AI takes over entry-level jobs, the amount of Gen Z at large public tech companies like Meta and Microsoft has been slashed in half, and the age of the typical worker went up up 5 years since 2023. Experts say this shift could stifle innovation—but here’s how young workers…

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Seasteading is making a comeback — but these utopian paradises on the high seas have a history of failure

IN FOCUS: They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and buoyed by tech. What they built instead was a costly illusion. Holly Baxter reports on how seasteading started, unraveled and is now rising again in popularity

The Independent UK

Eat the rich: The computer programmer who believed he could join the elite through cannibalism

The first episode of The Tech Bro Murders, a new Investigation Discovery docuseries premiering Tuesday, September 9 on HBO Max, focuses on a horrifying case of cannibalism

The Independent UK

From Wall Street To Silicon Valley: Bosses Are Silencing Staff And Firing Activists In Explosive New Trend

Major tech and finance firms—from Microsoft to JPMorgan—are rolling back internal activism, citing operational risks as employees pushing for social and political change face increasing pushback.

International Business Times UK

Big Tech Titans Including Nvidia, Google And Bill Gates Back $863 Million Bet On Nuclear Fusion As Next Energy Revolution

The future of energy just got a massive boost from Silicon Valley’s biggest players. Nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced on Aug. 28 that it secured $863 million in Series B2 funding, with AI giant Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) joining as a first-time investor.

Benzinga

Palantir's Monopoly Is Breaking - It's No Longer Pentagon's Only Favorite

Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR), long the poster child of Pentagon-backed defense AI, is losing its monopoly grip as a new breed of U.S. startups – flush with capital and Silicon Valley backing – race into its turf. Companies like Anduril Industries, Shield AI, and Applied Intuition aren't just catching up;…

Benzinga

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there

From Gates to Zuckerberg, Trump hosted dozens of Silicon Valley icons in the newly renovated Rose Garden.

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Microsoft engineer found dead at Silicon Valley campus — sparks renewed debate over tech burnout

Microsoft engineer Pratik Pandey, 35, was found dead at the company’s Silicon Valley campus. His family believes overwork played a role, sparking renewed concerns over burnout, layoffs, and the demanding work culture in tech.

Evening Standard

Will AI wipe us out or drastically improve society? Elon Musk and Bill Gates' favourite philosopher explains

Nick Bostrom, Silicon valley’s favourite philosopher, explains why AI taking jobs should be the least of our worries

Fortune

My $2.25 billion exit taught me that Silicon Valley's obsession with 100-hour weeks is actually sabotage. It's a marathon, not a sprint

The entrepreneurs who create lasting value—and the exits that matter—aren't the ones burning themselves out in hundred-hour weeks.

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Musk cries conspiracy in latest Silicon Valley scrap. Your tech and science digest

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Is An AI Apocalypse On The Horizon? These Doomsdayers Say Yes… And They're Getting Ready

While much of the tech world is agog over the multitude of ways AI could change our lives and world for the better, a certain sector of Silicon Valley experts feels quite differently about the advancement. For them, AI is a harbinger of doom, an invention that is poised to…

The Independent UK

How Silicon Valley is using religious language to talk about AI

As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious

The Independent UK

AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence

The Guardian - US

How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA

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Man Saves Enough for 'the Perfect Truck.' Then He Reveals It

Forget bulletproof glass and 500-mile range. For this TikToker, the “perfect truck” doesn’t come from Silicon Valley hype. Instead, it comes from Subaru’s short-lived Baja, the half-car, half-truck oddball that somehow still has die-hard fans.

Fortune

OpenAI’s president and Andreessen Horowitz are helping lead a $100 million Silicon Valley push against tougher AI laws and the lawmakers behind them

The organization will support politicians who are friendly to AI “innovation.”

Benzinga

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Raises $30M For Parallel Web Systems To Challenge OpenAI GPT-5 With Deep Research API

Parag Agrawal, the former Twitter CEO ousted after Elon Musk's 2022 takeover, has reemerged in Silicon Valley with Parallel Web Systems, a startup promising to push artificial intelligence beyond current limits.

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