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996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000?

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach, says Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Firms are pushing for your data to be sold to big tech. Labour won't say who they are

THE UK Government has refused to reveal which companies are encouraging them to sell Britons’ data to Silicon Valley despite transparency fears.

The National (Scotland)

Silicon Valley leader who navigated the internet's boom and bust sees another wild ride with AI

Former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers learned all about technology’s volatile highs and lows as a veteran of the internet’s early boom days during the late 1990s and the ensuing meltdown that followed the mania

The Independent UK

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Meet Mira Murati, the 36-year-old tech prodigy who shot to fame at OpenAI and now runs a startup that's a poaching target for Mark Zuckerberg

Murati enjoyed roles at Goldman Sachs and Tesla before making her name in artificial intelligence.

Fortune

Trump’s H-1B shift is a bold reform that will power U.S. workers and immigrant dreamers alike

I'm an immigrant, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and I think President Trump's grenade for America’s immigration system is exactly what the country needed.

Fortune

The H-1B fee hike will hold back America's tech community

I spent 15 years building tech in Silicon Valley on an H-1B visa, at AMD and Google. I never would've gotten my first U.S. job under this structure.

Fortune

Remebering Be Incorporated - the early 90s startup whose fate was decided by Steve Jobs

Former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée co-founded Be Inc in the early 1990s, hoping to take on Silicon Valley titans.

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The 996: Is this dystopian work trend coming to the UK next?

IN FOCUS: The toxic practice has already made the leap from China to America's Silicon Valley. Helen Coffey looks at the rise of endless hustle culture at a point when we should be harnessing tech to work smarter, not harder

The Independent UK

This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue

In Silicon Valley’s unofficial literary canon, few works loom as large as The Sovereign Individual. A kind of survival manual for 21st-century tech billionaires, it has been enthusiastically championed by Palantir and Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel (mentor to JD Vance), who wrote the foreword to the 2020 edition.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on AI and jobs: the tech revolution should be for the many not the few

Editorial: Britain risks devolving its digital destiny to Silicon Valley. As a TUC manifesto argues, those affected must have a greater say in shaping the workplace of the future

The Guardian - UK

‘To them, ageing is a technical problem that can, and will, be fixed’: how the rich and powerful plan to live for ever

When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin were caught on mic talking about living for ever, it seemed straight out of a sci-fi fantasy. But for some death is no longer considered an inevitability …

The Guardian - UK

Before hiring his now-CEO, MrBeast insisted the Silicon Valley investor meet his mom

Jeff Housenbold spent a couple of hours with the YouTube star’s mother—and missed his flight.

Fortune

The hottest workplace policy at startups right now: No shoes

Silicon Valley startups are embracing one of their favorite work-from-home perks: attending meetings in just socks.

Fortune

One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent Democrats just called Trump’s $100k H-1B visa fee a 'great solution'

Other tech leaders, like Elon Musk, have said they will ‘go to war’ to defend the program.

Fortune

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AI Is Quietly Deciding Who Gets Medicare Care—And Lawmakers Are Sounding the Alarm

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to Silicon Valley startups or tech giants—it’s quietly shaping healthcare decisions for millions of seniors. Medicare Advantage insurers increasingly...

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Donald Trump backstabs Silicon Valley, but apparently he has ‘zero legal authority’ to charge $100K H-1B Visa fee

Microsoft and JP Morgan are already warning their employees.

International Business Times

Ukraine Courts Foreign Cash For Military 'Silicon Valley'

At the opening of Ukraine's biggest defence tech fair, arms executives and government officials were welcomed by a giant movie screen blaring an action-style trailer with heavy base undertones.

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6 Surprising Industries Where Average People Are Becoming Millionaires

The path to wealth no longer looks like Wall Street suits or Silicon Valley startups. In fact, many millionaires today come from unexpected industries. Ordinary people are spotting opportunities in niches others overlook. With persistence and strategy, side hustles and small businesses can scale into fortunes. Here are six surprising…

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Why IVP’s Somesh Dash believes that Silicon Valley can look beyond artificial general intelligence for spirituality

Between Peter Thiel’s Antichrist lectures and the quest for AGI, religion is on the tech industry’s mind.

Benzinga

Nvidia Rival Groq Raises $750 Million: 'Inference Is Defining This Era Of AI,' Says CEO Jonathan Ross

On Wednesday, Silicon Valley startup Groq announced $750 million in new financing, valuing the Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) rival at $6.9 billion as it expands its global footprint in AI inference infrastructure.

The Conversation

A booming longevity industry wants to sell us ‘immortality’. There could be hidden costs

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t just making tech products – they’ve set their sights on immortality.

The Guardian - UK

Nick Clegg: US-UK tech deal is ‘sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley’

Meta’s former president of global affairs says agreement will leave UK more reliant on US tech firms

Fortune

Openness to foreign talent could help non-U.S. tech hubs in Europe and Asia: ‘Wherever is more open still has a chance to win the next cycle’

“Silicon Valley will remain very pro-immigrant,” Notable Capital managing partner Hans Tung said at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last week.

Benzinga

Teen Founders, Tap The Brakes: Paul Graham Says Curiosity Beats Companies In High School — Despite YC Wins With Airbnb, Reddit, And Sam Altman At 19

The co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most influential startup accelerator is delivering a reality check to ambitious teenagers everywhere. Paul Graham, whose Y Combinator has funded giants like Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB), Stripe, Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), and Reddit (NYSE:RDDT), is warning high schoolers to pump the brakes on their entrepreneurial dreams.

Benzinga

Trump's Son-In-Law Jared Kushner Co-Founds Brain Co., A $30M AI Startup Partnered With OpenAI And Backed By Silicon Valley Billionaires

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and former White House advisor Jared Kushner has entered the artificial intelligence sector with Brain Co., a startup that announced on Sept. 11 that it raised $30 million in Series A funding to help governments and large enterprises adopt AI in practical ways.

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