Silicon Valley

California home size of hotel room on the edge of Silicon Valley hits market for $1.7M

Business
Jessica Roberts

Real Estate By Richard Pollina Published April 13, 2024, 1:30 a.m. ET Developers are salivating over this pricy pocket-size palace. A bite-size ...

Alibaba Leads Record Deal to Create $2.5 Billion China AI Firm

Business
Jessica Roberts

(Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. led the largest single financing round for a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, the latest in a ...

Viral hoax claims Gmail is shutting down, here’s what happened

Technology
Michael Johnson

A hoax statement purportedly issued by Google on Thursday claimed that the search giant was shutting down its ubiquitous Gmail service — ...

Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro Launches Today—What To Know About The Mixed-Reality Headset

Technology
Michael Johnson

Topline Apple’s Vision Pro headset will be released in the U.S. tomorrow starting at $3,500, bringing the highly anticipated and pricey product ...

Zach Woods on His Brutal, Loving NPR Parody ‘In the Know’

Entertainment
Laura Davis

When Zach Woods was first cast as Gabe on Season 6 of The Office, he found a comment online where someone described ...

Google employees blast ‘profoundly boring’ management which lacks ‘visionary leader’ amid layoffs

Business
Jessica Roberts

Business By Ariel Zilber Published Jan. 19, 2024, 7:09 p.m. ET Angry Googlers are finished being nice. Current and former employees of ...

There’s a secret WhatsApp group chat with more than 100 Silicon Valley CEOs in it and even they didn’t know what Sam Altman did to get fired

U.S.
Amanda Smith

Sam Altman (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right).Justin Sullivan via Getty Images; Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images It turns out that Silicon ...

Sam Altman Returns as OpenAI CEO in Dramatic Reversal

Business
Jessica Roberts

(Bloomberg) — OpenAI will bring back Sam Altman and overhaul its board to bring on new directors, a stunning reversal in a ...

What Sam Altman’s Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI

Business
Jessica Roberts

Altman’s ouster shows the organization meant to align superintelligent AI with humanity failing to align the values of even its own board ...

Corporate, global leaders peer into a future expected to be reshaped by AI, for better or worse

Politics
Amanda Smith

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Joe Biden and other global leaders have spent the past few days melding minds with Silicon Valley ...