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Silicon Valley

The CIA runs a nonprofit venture capital firm. What's it investing in?

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Oct 7, 2024
Agency's taxpayer-funded investment arm seeks tech that could boost national security. It's made some smart bets, says Jon Keegan of Sherwood.
In 1999, the CIA created a venture capital firm to invest in technologies that could be used in national security programs.
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Silicon Valley is feeling the AI boom on the ground

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jul 22, 2024
Real estate prices are getting unreal, thanks to the ripples of Nvidia's success.
San Francisco and much of the Bay Area real estate market are seeing a wave of luxury buying by tech workers who are cashing in their lucrative stock holdings.
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Election 2024

Why tech billionaires are now flocking to Donald Trump

by Mitchell Hartman
Jul 19, 2024
The flood of big tech names coming out publicly for Trump and the GOP is a sharp departure from Silicon Valley’s past political practices.
Support for Republicans from figures like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel comes in part from a strong libertarian, hands-off-my-business ideology, experts say.
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Google is going all-in to win the AI arms race

by Matt Levin
May 11, 2023
The company's announcement of new AI product offerings this week adds new fuel to the fire.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O developers conference on May 10, 2023 in Mountain View, California.
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My Economy

California retailer weathers the storm of tech layoffs and a "climate pandemic"

by Nicholas Guiang
Mar 31, 2023
In the laid-back beach town of Santa Cruz, a local retailer adds wildfires and epic rain storms to the list of things to plan for.
Sonia McMoran consults her weather app to plan ahead for her store, above.
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Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

Silicon Valley Bank is seized by U.S. after historic failure

by Associated Press
Mar 10, 2023
The bank's failure arrived with incredible speed, with some industry analysts on Friday suggesting it was still likely a wise investment.
The Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on March 10.
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New York City's push to become a tech hub

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Feb 24, 2023
New tech is sprouting up in subsectors that already thrive in NYC, like finance and media, according to Tech:NYC's Julie Samuels.
The New York City skyline as seen from Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island.
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The Transistor at 75

The transistor's role in the birth of Silicon Valley

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Dec 15, 2022
Silicon Valley exists for a number of reasons. Chief among them might be the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.
Companies like Intel were born from the semiconductor revolution. But how did silicon — and the transistor — end up in California?
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Is Congress about to regulate Big Tech?

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jun 24, 2021
Axios reporter Margaret Harding McGill breaks down the antitrust bills moving through the House of Representatives.
Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline is the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.
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Impeachment won't interfere with Democrats' economic agenda, Rep. Ro Khanna says

by Rose Conlon and David Brancaccio
Jan 13, 2021
Silicon Valley lawmaker Ro Khanna on impeachment, Twitter and breaking up Big Tech.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing California's Silicon Valley, said he favors regulation and antitrust enforcement over breaking up Big Tech companies.
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