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Silicon Valley has found its joke of the summer and, like the enormous white sweater at the center of it, it just keeps growing.An image of Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of venture fund Social Capital, wearing a chunky white turtleneck, has taken over tech circles on X.The picture, which appears…
AI’s future needs safety, not a catchy 2000s tech slogan, says the co-CEO of Waymo.”In Silicon Valley, there’s a common mantra to ‘move fast and break things,'” Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator talk released on Monday. “However, when you’re dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nick Sanchez, a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I would say 99% of my clients cite burnout as one of their biggest problems.As a licensed marriage and family…
Tattoos, company logos, and deleted apologies — oh my.A Y Combinator-backed startup founder is in hot water after saying his company would offer job interviews to anyone who got a tattoo of its logo at a party in San Francisco last weekend.Jordan Zietz, the cofounder of the small AI automation…
On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building.Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics, along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup’s new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees…
A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race.Kimi K3, unveiled on Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic — at a lower cost.The company…
I wish I could have gotten in early on that company.With AI company valuations acting like rocketships, it’s easy to play the “what if” game.The reality is the process isn’t as simple as writing a check and watching your money multiply many times over. (Even if it might seem that…
Humanoid robots have become the mascot of Silicon Valley’s physical AI boom.They dance in viral videos, bang out tunes on the piano, and are headed to Wall Street as Agility Robotics plans to go public. They promise a new workforce that never sleeps, never ages, and can work in spaces…
