#Silicon Valley

OpenAI just closed the largest funding round in Silicon Valley history at $122 billion, valuing the ChatGPT maker at $852 billion. It's still unprofitable. Here's what that tells us about the AI economy.

In CA-17, tech founder Ethan Agarwal is challenging five-term incumbent Ro Khanna — backed by billionaires opposed to a wealth tax. It's already getting dirty.

All 11 of xAI's original co-founders have now left Elon Musk's AI startup. With the company absorbed into SpaceX and declared 'rebuilt from foundations,' what does this mean for Grok—and for Musk's AI ambitions?

Alphabet's new pay deal for Sundar Pichai links his compensation to Waymo and Wing performance—signaling where Google is placing its biggest bets. Here's what investors should actually read into it.

Anthropic champions careful AI development while OpenAI backs acceleration. Their clash reveals a deeper ideological divide that could shape humanity's future.

Tech billionaires who once backed Ro Khanna are now funding his challenger over wealth tax support, setting up 2026's most expensive primary battle. A deeper look at the money-politics nexus in America's wealthiest district.

Defense Secretary designates Anthropic as supply-chain risk, shocking Silicon Valley. OpenAI strikes deal same day with identical terms. What's really happening?

An anthropologist of disruption chronicles San Francisco's AI boom culture, from doomers to accelerationists to Trump-style tech marketing.

Defense Secretary Hegseth's ultimatum to Anthropic reveals a fundamental clash over AI safety, surveillance, and who controls the most transformative technology since nuclear weapons.

As AI coding agents reshape Silicon Valley, 'high-agency' humans become the new premium talent. But what happens when everyone else becomes obsolete?

The biggest shift since ChatGPT has arrived with AI coding agents. Why are developers suddenly afraid of their own shadow? We examine the paradox of technological progress and job displacement.

Why AI researchers are quitting million-dollar jobs to become poets, and what it reveals about the future of artificial intelligence development.