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Can Intel's new CEO turn Silicon Valley charm into chip success?
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (916+ words) After Lip-Bu Tan became chief executive officer of Intel Corp. in March of last year, the struggling company's shares went nowhere for seven months while the chipmaker was getting trounced in the market for artificial intelligence. But after forging ties…...
The growth metric Silicon Valley loves most is also its least trusted
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (438+ words) The co-founder of Cluely " an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup with the motto, "Cheat on everything" " ignited a controversy earlier this month after confessing to lying to a reporter about his company's performance on a popular Silicon Valley metric: annual recurring revenue,…...
Singapore Metalens Maker Expands U. S. Presence from Silicon Valley Base
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (568+ words) Tucked inside a modest facility at Ayer Rajah Crescent in Singapore, a four-year-old company is doing something that the giants of the semiconductor industry have taken notice of: manufacturing metalenses at mass-production scale. That last application " known in the industry…...
California's richest real estate: Why these cities top our list without Silicon Valley gold
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1192+ words) It's hundreds of miles from the AI boom and tech billionaire class of Silicon Valley. It maintains an image, at least in some minds, as a beachside mecca for old money, big yachts and conspicuous consumption. A Times analysis for…...
Micro-Mobility Leader NAVEE Unveils Its Worldwide Intelligent Mobility Vision in Silicon Valley
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (353+ words) NAVEE, one of the top three brands for micro-mobility in Europe, recently transformed into a worldwide intelligent mobility brand. The global expansion strategy, that started with the U. S. , was announced at a closed-door event at the Computer History Museum in Silicon…...
Silicon Valley leaders highlight concrete returns as AI anxiety grows
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (630+ words) If a key focus at last year's World Economic Forum in Davos was the need for massive private and public investments to support artificial intelligence development, this year's event was more about proving the payoff. Packed into the crowded AI…...
Musk's Grok Under Fire While AI Funding Soars to $150 B - Los Angeles Times
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (56+ words) Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is facing backlash after it generated sexualized images of children, raising serious questions about content safeguards as watchdogs report a sharp rise in AI-enabled abuse. .. Grok Faces Backlash Over Safety as Silicon Valley AI Funding…...
Silicon Valley's $2. 8 Billion Robotics Bet Meets Kim Kardashian's Skims Livestream Breakthrough
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (57+ words) At a Silicon Valley humanoid robotics summit, companies showed off robots that can fold laundry and perform physical tasks as venture capital funding for the sector surged to nearly $2. 8 billion this. .. Silicon Valley's $2. 8 Billion Robotics Bet Meets Kim Kardashian's Skims…...
Is Silicon Valley repeating dot-com bubble mistakes with AI frenzy?
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (450+ words) For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the dot-com craze of the late 1990s that ended in a spectacular crash and a wave…...
How could an Open AI partnership with Broadcom shake up Silicon Valley's chip hierarchy?
8+ mon, 3+ day ago (729+ words) Broadcom Inc. is helping Open AI design and produce an artificial intelligence accelerator from 2026, getting into a lucrative sphere dominated by Nvidia Corp. Its shares jumped by the most since April. The two firms plan to ship the first chips…...