Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

"When I was at Facebook, the top engineers were like, 'If you had a LinkedIn account, people would be wondering if you're job hunting,' he said. Novati said these engineers don't need to publicly job hunt because of tech's extensive recruiting arm, which he called the 'secrets of the industry.' 'There are very senior, very highly paid recruiters that work at the top companies who have very strong long-term social relationships with a lot of top engineers,' he said."

"I can see a point in time in the future when it matters as the only way to do it," Tan responded, before saying, "We are not quite there yet."

In September, OpenAI launched a way for users to generate a digital likeness of themselves they could use to create personalized deepfake videos. This is one of the core features in Sora, OpenAI's app for sharing AI videos inside a TikTok-style feed. The self-deepfaking feature was called "cameo," and with that standout feature, Sora quickly rose to the top of Apple's iOS download charts.

Maybe it's a pair of pure white Allbirds. Maybe it's an abandoned Lime scooter, or a fleece North Face jacket bracing the bitter San Francisco wind. Or, maybe, it's pingpong tables and private charter buses chauffeuring software engineers to their moneyed jobs on the Peninsula. As they hammer code from morning until night, it's likely that, at some point, a nondescript bottle of Soylent accompanied them at their desks, stifling their hunger and quietly prompting them to continue working.

Datacenter capital expenditure is forecast to grow 17 percent annually through 2030, reaching $1.6 trillion, with supply chain constraints pushing up the price of components. The latest Cloud and Datacenter Market Snapshot [PDF] from analyst Omdia states that investment into AI infrastructure continues apace, despite all the talk of it being a bubble ready to burst. However, adoption of AI remains relatively low, it claims, with many more users and higher usage per user expected.

We have started choosing candidates for our annual worst CEO list, and Evan Spiegel of Snap Inc. ( NYSE: SNAP) is the next candidate. An all-time winner will be selected later in the year. Before looking at the past year, it is worth remembering that Spiegel has been chief executive of Snap since 2011. Snap shares are down 84% in the past five years, 36% in the past year, and 27% year to date. His net worth, in the meantime, is approximately $2.5 billion.

The neurally divergent (like myself) will disproportionately shape America's future,

Today, Komoroske and a loose group of concerned technologists are releasing The Resonant Computing Manifesto, an idealistic set of principles that attempts to recenter Silicon Valley around the values that have been lost in the scramble to hyperscale and maximize shareholder value. Komoroske and his coauthors are inviting anyone who, um, resonates with this jeremiad to sign it and proselytize those values in the products they create.

WIRED's Big Interview series prides itself on being the place for engaging conversations with political leaders, creators, executives, and scientists moving the world forward. In 2024, we brought those talks to a stage in San Francisco for the very first time. This year, we did it again, bringing together AMD CEO Lisa Su, Wicked director Jon M. Chu, Anthropic cofounder Daniela Amodei, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, and many more.

In theory, it's what's most popular on Reddit, but it's actually what is liked by the most active users on Reddit-which is not the same thing. Having it as a default feed gives the false impression of a singular Reddit culture, one that is neither representative of Reddit nor appealing to new users (or anyone at all, IMO).

Billionaire Peter Thiel runs the hedge fund Thiel Macro and is known for playing a significant role in identifying growth stocks. Based on the recent 13F filing, Thiel sold his entire stake in artificial intelligence (AI) giant NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and reinvested the proceeds in Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). While not everyone will agree with the move to abandon NVIDIA Corp. the other AI giants, Microsoft and Apple, are well positioned to benefit from the AI revolution and have made significant gains in the past few years.

Alphabet Inc. ( NASDAQ: GOOG) shares climbed 2.1% on Friday, November 28, 2025, as retail sentiment surged to 64 (bullish) while NVIDIA Corporation ( NASDAQ: NVDA) sentiment dropped to 33 (bearish). The catalyst: reports that Meta Platforms Inc. ( NASDAQ:META) is in advanced talks to spend billions on Google's TPU chips instead of NVIDIA's GPUs, triggering discussion about the first real crack in NVIDIA's dominance.

Gabriel Petersson said on an episode of the "Extraordinary" podcast published on Thursday that he's in a job traditionally only done by people with doctorate degrees because he was able to learn machine learning through ChatGPT. "Universities don't have, like, a monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore," he said. "You can just get any foundational knowledge from ChatGPT." "You start with a problem, you recursively go down," he added.

For many years, Tony Tran's daughters begged him to hang Christmas lights outside their San Jose home. He kept saying, Next year. Tran finally relented in 2018 and strung a few light strings. But his decorative ambitions really shot up to a whole new level when he, his wife and his then-teenaged daughters needed a family project during the COVID-19 lockdown. My daughters said, We can't go out of the house, and we could put on a really nice display for the neighborhood,' Tran said.

After yesterday's debacle in which approximately $1 trillion in market capitalization was erased from the stock market, some technology stocks are still hunting a bottom. With the Nasdaq Composite now down 3% for the month of November so far, the AI rally has lost its steam for the time being as the markets wrestle with bullish fundamentals overshadowed by negative headlines. While the selling hasn't been pretty for the bulls, it does not appear to be over, at least not yet.

Despite his vast fortunes, Elon Musk has an incredible ability to turn an enterprise into radioactive waste. Tesla, for example, has suffered unprecedented brand damage owing to Musk's rampage through the federal government, while the Boring Company is becoming a nearly $1 billion disaster. Another looming case in point: the user base on X-formerly-Twitter has been stagnating miserably since its acquisition by the billionaire in October of 2022.

Intuit said its tools, such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, will be accessible through ChatGPT, allowing users to ask questions and complete tasks such as estimating tax refunds, reviewing credit options, or managing business finances. With users' permission, Intuit's apps will be able to access their financial data to generate responses and complete tasks, like sending marketing messages or issuing invoice reminders.

AMD continues to claw market share away from Intel in CPU shipments, growing faster than its rival in most segments. Meanwhile business in the x86 processor arena is unusually flat overall, likely due to stockpiling over tariff fears. PC component market watcher Mercury Research says AMD's shipments during the third quarter of 2025 outpaced Intel's compared with the same quarter last year.

Last week, shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) plunged nearly 13% before recovering almost all of that loss to finish the past five trading sessions up 0.85%. Despite last week's AI-fueled sell-off, the stock is up 157.49% in 2025. Over the past year, PLTR is up more than 221%, and since going public on Oct. 2, 2020, it has gained an eye-popping 2,004.46%.

Eight days before his employment was to end, Luo allegedly hooked up an external hard drive to his Intel laptop, but when he tried to download a file, the company's internal controls blocked the transfer, the lawsuit claimed. Five days later, the lawsuit alleged, Luo deployed a different technology, a more sophisticated gadget that resembles a small computer server, called a network storage device.

It's been less than a week since OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring that saw Microsoft lose its ability to retain a stranglehold on the AI firm's computing resources, and Altman and company have already inked a $38 billion deal with AWS to start data crunching in another cloud. Prior to the restructuring that closed last Tuesday, Microsoft retained a right of first refusal if OpenAI were to take its cloud computing needs elsewhere,

And while it is true that Jobs was as charismatic as Clooney and as manipulative as Machiavelli, the legend we helped him construct served many purposes beyond pumping up his own ego. He was an irresistible force who knew that in order to bring to market the amazing technological wonders that bubbled in his imagination, he also had to become the Svengali of the digital revolution that was to be the hallmark of his generation.