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With eye toward the future, Rep. Ro Khanna takes on the heartland from Silicon Valley

Ro Khanna was first elected as a whiz kid evangelist for Silicon Valley, the heart of his congressional district and home to Apple, Cisco and Intel’s headquarters. Today, though, the Californian's stumping for a different crowd.

Tribune News Service

Coppélia at Sadler’s Wells review: Silicon Valley reboot of this classic ballet couldn’t be more timely

Scottish Ballet continues to punch above its weight with another hit

Evening Standard

‘Exactly what I needed’: Silicon Valley teachers move into affordable units

After a full day of working at Raymond J. Fisher Middle School, sixth-grade teacher Elizabeth Sharkey would make the hourlong drive from Los Gatos, California, to a small room she rented in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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LinkedIn cuts scores of Bay Area jobs in new round of tech layoffs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — LinkedIn has revealed plans to eliminate scores of Bay Area jobs in a fresh round of layoffs that intensify the current tough times for Silicon Valley tech and biotech companies.

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Silicon Valley tech layoffs: Why so many jobs were slashed, and who’s hiring amid fierce competition?

A growing barrage of technology industry layoffs means slim pickings for job-seeking software engineers and other tech workers amid a fiercely competitive Bay Area job market that has tipped from bountiful to brutal.

Tribune News Service

We pitted ChatGPT against tools for detecting AI-written text, and the results are troubling

As the “chatbot wars” rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many baffled.

The Conversation

From cradle to compost: the disruptors who want to make death greener

Startups rush to gain foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's exit costs Silicon Valley one of its most influential female executives

She famously rented her garage to Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998.

Fortune

Silicon Valley sees generative AI and ChatGPT as its next platform

Tech insiders see the excitement over AI's new wave as a sign that the industry has moved into a new era.

Axios

Hobby group worried that F-22’s Sidewinder missile destroyed research balloon

‘They’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,’ Silicon Valley balloon company founder says

The Independent UK

Silicon Valley stays sturdy despite 'gloom and doom' of tech layoffs: report

SAN JOSE, California — Silicon Valley’s economy and job markets remain sturdy despite being jolted by a steady drumbeat of Bay Area layoffs orchestrated by tech and biotech companies, a new report released Tuesday states.

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The past and future Silicon Valley - Roll Call

Historian Margaret O’Mara discusses how Silicon Valley has reinvented itself for nearly a century, and the forces shaping it now.

Roll Call

Silicon Valley Sits on the Sidelines in the Fight Against Homelessness

With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?

Capital & Main

Commentary: San Jose, the metropolis of the future? How a ‘forgettable’ city may become a national model

San Jose, the 10th-largest city in the country with more than 1 million residents, has long been described as America’s “most forgettable” major city. That caricature has persisted even though it sits at the heart of one of the world’s most mythologized subcultures, Silicon Valley. The city is home to…

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Ex-Twitter officials reject GOP claims of government collusion

At a contentious House committee hearing, Republicans aired long-held grievances over what they say is Silicon Valley's bias against conservatives.

The Times of India

Meta, Alphabet target middle managers with tech jobs cuts

SAN FRANCISCO: As Meta Platforms Inc, Alphabet Inc and other Silicon Valley behemoths look to lighten payrolls after years of feverish hiring, a clear target has emerged: the middle manager.

Tribune News Service

A clear target emerges in tech layoffs: Middle managers

As Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc. and other Silicon Valley behemoths look to lighten payrolls after years of feverish hiring, a clear target has emerged: the middle manager.

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Biden expected to assail Silicon Valley Big Tech in State of the Union address

President Joe Biden will reportedly attack Big Tech in his State of the Union address Tuesday in a bid to unite lawmakers in Washington concerned about the industry’s unprecedented influence and impact on all facets of American life.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Philly employers are desperately seeking tech workers even as Silicon Valley giants are laying off thousands

Major layoffs at big technology companies have dominated national headlines in recent months, seemingly portending doom and gloom for tech workers. But the reality for most companies, including Philadelphia employers, is a continuing shortage of skilled technologists and a desire to hire more.

Los Angeles Times

Brian Merchant: How tech is changing LA — and how LA is changing tech

Is tech OK? It's not just the mass layoffs. It's that, to an alien observer, many of the most hyped ideas emerging from America's vaunted tech industry over the last few years would seem untethered from reality, if not outright unhinged.

Fortune

Vivek Wadhwa: ‘I lost my wife to cancer in 2019–and decided to defeat it for good. Now all of India is joining my quest for world-saving innovation’

Why Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa took his grand plan to defeat cancer to India.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: NewsGuard tested ChatGPT’s potential for misinformation. Here’s what we found

The Oscar-nominated short film “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” could be the name for Silicon Valley’s latest gift to Western civilization — and to many practitioners of misinformation.

Los Angeles Times

Brian Merchant: How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel

In Silicon Valley, the new year began as the last one ended — with tens of thousands of tech workers losing their jobs. Just a few days into 2023, Amazon Chief Executive Andrew Jassy announced that there would be 18,000 layoffs across the company. Within weeks, Microsoft revealed it was…

Fortune

So long Silicon Valley. Cerebral Valley is the new hot tech zone in San Francisco

San Francisco's Hayes Valley gets a new nickname.

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt must ensure ‘Silicon Valley UK’ vision doesn’t leave people behind

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is an optimist, happy to believe that “when it comes to the innovation industries that will shape and define this century, the UK is powerfully positioned to play a leading role”. His speech at Bloomberg on Friday was full of enthusiastic references to digital technology, life…

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