Biden’s Noncompete Ban Is a Gift to Silicon Valley
Biden’s FTC moves to protect Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft with non-competitive conduct bans The Biden administration’s declaration that nearly all non-compete clauses in employment agreements will be treated as illegal should be understood for what they are. A partial war and a giveaway to Silicon Valley’s wealthy supporters. The Biden-appointed Federal Trade Commission voted […]
California home size of hotel room on the edge of Silicon Valley hits market for $1.7M
Developers are drooling over this expensive pocket-sized palace. A bite-sized 384-square-foot home on the edge of California’s Silicon Valley has been put on the market for a whopping $1.7 million. According to ABC7. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet residential area of Cupertino, the home is overlooked by neighboring $5 million […]
Sen. JD Vance’s Silicon Valley network bankrolling his Midwest mission to dump vulnerable Dem
Sen. J.D. Vance’s Silicon Valley network will play a pivotal role in the upcoming general election as Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno seeks to oust vulnerable Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. There is a possibility that it will be fulfilled. Moreno, a Cleveland-based businessman and major luxury car dealer, was endorsed by Vance last […]
Silicon Valley Bank is back, after collapse and acquisition – The Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Advertisements loom over commuters and tourists, peppered with colorful brands that many here in the tech capital thought were companies consigned to the dustbin of history. A year after Silicon Valley Bank suffered the third-largest banking failure in U.S. history, the startup and technology-focused bank wants you to know it’s back. The […]
Georgia’s booming tech and startup scene is helping Atlanta become the ‘Silicon Valley of the south’
FOX Business’ Madison Alworth reports on how Georgia is benefiting as more Americans leave blue states like California. States like Florida and Texas are experiencing economic booms and rapidly growing populations as many Americans flee blue states during the coronavirus pandemic. The population exodus is now spreading to battleground states as well. Thousands of people […]
Jayapal calls for government action on anniversary of Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chairwoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) on the anniversary of the Silicon Valley Bank failure, which briefly raised concerns of an escalation of the crisis, called on the federal government to issue a statement on the anniversary of the Silicon Valley Bank failure, which briefly raised concerns of an escalating crisis. He called for […]
‘I welcome our digital minions’: the Silicon Valley insider warning about algorithms – while embracing them | Australian books
Houses are hidden in the shadows of subtropical rainforest in Brisbane’s western suburbs. Horses graze on pastures and road signs warn of deer and kangaroos. The suburb of Anstead, nestled between a bend in the river and the foothills of the D’Aguilar Mountains, may seem like the wrong place to live for a Polish-born management […]
What has replaced Silicon Valley Bank as start-ups' favourite banker? – Financial Times
Silicon Valley Bank’s ski trip to Deer Valley was one of the biggest annual networking events for tech startups until the bank’s collapse last March, its biggest since the global financial crisis. First Citizens, the North Carolina bank that bought SVB out of bankruptcy, has been on the slopes of Utah for a year without […]
FCC commissioner makes admission over political bias, ideology that ‘permeates Silicon Valley’
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr spoke on “The Bottom Line” about how Google is facing calls to shut down its woke AI chatbot Gemini. How problematic are Google Gemini’s alleged racial and historical bias? Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr, a senior Republican, said this was “very concerning.” “What this is doing is exposing to the […]
‘Probability of Doom:’ Silicon Valley Invents Metric to Measure Chance AI Kills Us All
According to recent reports, it’s not uncommon in Silicon Valley these days for even strangers to ask, “What are the chances of your ruin?” When discussing artificial intelligence. Progressive brainiacs in Silicon Valley have created a metric called “p(doom)” that defines the probability that AI will wipe out humanity. according to recent reports from new […]