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Zuckerberg’s swerve: how diversity went from being a Meta priority to getting cancelled

Meta once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. After those aspirations peaked in 2019, the company scuttled them altogether

The Guardian - US

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"

SCS Software still has the "nicest offices" in the Czech Republic: "They've built up their own Silicon Valley kind of thing"

GamesRadar

US Marine Vet Acquitted In NY Subway Death Joins Tech Firm

A US Marine veteran who was acquitted in the chokehold death of a homeless man on the New York subway -- a high-profile case highlighting the divisive issue of race in America -- has been hired by a major Silicon Valley firm allied with Donald Trump.

International Business Times

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Daniel Penny is hired by top Silicon Valley investment firm months after being acquitted in Subway chokehold case

‘I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation. He was acquitted of all charges’, read a memo from the firms’ general partner

The Independent UK

Bill Gates says Elon Musk has been ‘mean’ to him — but he still wants to work together

Microsoft co-founder tells The Independent he’s ‘surprised’ by prominent Silicon Valley figures backing President Trump

The Independent UK

DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology

The Guardian - UK

Croydon ‘could become the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’, data shows

Research by GoDaddy suggests town is leaving the rest of London in its wake

Evening Standard

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Silicon Valley billionaires splurge £144m on London Spirit in Hundred auction

A consortium comprising chief executives of Microsoft and Google won the right to buy a 49% share in the Lord’s-based franchise

The Guardian - UK

Bill Gates says he's surprised about his fellow billionaires' rightward political shift: 'I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center'

Tech billionaires including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have recently thrown their support behind President Trump.

Fortune

Voices: DeepSeek has blown the AI competition wide open – and that’s great news for the UK

COMMENT: Coinciding its launch with Donald Trump’s inauguration was a stroke of genius on China’s part, writes Emily Sheffield – even more so given that most of Silicon Valley was sitting front row

The Independent UK

DeepSeek’s overnight success is powered by Gen Z new hires

Liang Wenfeng hires young people and bookworms for his engineering team. He says: "Experience is not that important."

Fortune

With China's DeepSeek, US Tech Fears Red Threat

The emergence of the DeepSeek chatbot has sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy, with calls to go faster on advancing artificial intelligence and beat communist-led China before it is too late.

International Business Times

DeepSeek is great news for Microsoft and software stocks

DeepSeek’s success initially rattled investors’ assumptions about the AI spending wave that has swept through Silicon Valley in recent years.

Fortune

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

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Reeves plans to create ‘Silicon Valley’ between Oxford and Cambridge

Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances

Fortune

DeepSeek selloff: Should you buy the dip in Nvidia, tech?

The success of a mysterious Chinese lab has investors questioning the AI spending boom that has swept through Silicon Valley.

Evening Standard

Is DeepSeek really AI's 'Sputnik moment'? The hazy backstory to ChatGPT's Chinese rival

A Chinese AI company has shaken up Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but is it really the disruptor people think?

International Business Times UK

Top 500 Richest Lose £86.7B After DeepSeek AI Chatbot Launch Triggers AI Market Selloff

The S&P500 and the Nasdaq Composite declined as investors questioned America's AI dominance after DeepSeek launched its free AI chatbot.

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Fortune

'Is DeepSeek a DeepFake or real?’: Silicon Valley freaks out

Also: Meta forms DeepSeek war rooms, Ryanair CEO hopes Trump scares Europe.

The Independent UK

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI app shaking up the tech market?

The new chatbot app, reportedly developed at a fraction of the cost of its rivals, has stunned Silicon Valley.

International Business Times

Breakout Chinese AI 'Programmed' To Toe The Party Line

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek has made waves in Silicon Valley, stunning investors and industry insiders with its ability to match the skills of its Western competitors at a fraction of the cost.

The Independent UK

Trump warns new Chinese DeepSeek AI is a ‘wake up call’ for US tech companies

The Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s latest large language model has been described as a ‘Sputnik moment’ for the American tech industry

International Business Times

Trump Warns Of 'Wake-up Call' As Low-cost Chinese AI Jolts Silicon Valley

Trump said the DeepSeek release "should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win." He argued that it could be a "positive" for US tech giants, adding: "instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less, and you'll come up with…

International Business Times

Silicon Valley Rattled By Low-cost Chinese AI

Fears that the AI gold rush could be under threat rocked Wall Street on Monday following the emergence of a ChatGPT-like model from China, triggering predictions of turmoil for Silicon Valley and accusations of cheating.

The Independent UK

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman sees bright AI future and hopes his tech peers are right about Trump

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s

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