Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Blue Origin's Project Sunrise aims to create a network of spacecraft that will perform advanced computation in orbit, easing pressure on U.S. communities and natural resources.

I was a massive fan of 'Silicon Valley.' Anybody who says that you're just doing 'Silicon Valley' part two, thank you very much. Fantastic compliment. But there is a darkness in this show that I think is offset by comedy.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 is set to launch 25 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base to low-Earth orbit at 10:16 p.m. Monday, according to a post by the company. The launch will stream live on SpaceX's website and X account, starting five minutes before launch time.

The regional economy expanded 38 percent over the past decade, clearly surpassing growth recorded in California and across the United States. Venture capital investment climbed to $92 billion while local creators filed more than 23,000 patents in one year alone. Productivity has reached $336,515 per worker, standing 75 percent above the national average.

Engineered stone, or quartz, is a man-made material made with high concentrations of silica that is commonly used to make kitchen countertops in the U.S. And it's making the workers who cut this material sick.

gamers are probably going to feel left out since Nvidia seems to have decided renting cloud rigs to them is better than selling consumer hardware, small companies looking for AI chip compromises will be excited, and agentic AI is gonna be so hot that our Mann on the ground this week in San Jose isn't gonna need a jacket.

Around 70% of BPO in the Philippines comes from the United States, explains Gaffud. That is the same percentage, according to data from IBPAP, that U.S. companies save by locating their services in the Asian country. Residents of the archipelago have a neutral accent and according to Gaffud, offer cultural compatibility, empathy, friendly service and strict adherence to protocols.

In September, Donald Trump claimed that 'the United States is getting a tremendous fee' for brokering the TikTok deal. Now sources tell the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that fee is expected to be in the range of $10 billion. The money is supposedly being paid by new investors, including Oracle and Silver Lake.

Curry's activism has rarely strayed beyond consensus liberalism. When the United States fractures, he offers a milquetoast quote. During the Minneapolis protests, he called the turnout "beautiful," saying it "speaks to how important people felt it was to have their voice heard." He funds literacy and nutrition programs in Oakland through the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation.

Electrification generated about $5 billion in revenue in '22, and we now expect that number to be $13.5 billion to $14 billion in '26, and we are just getting started. Total backlog hit a record $150 billion at year-end 2025. That's not a quarterly number, that's a multi-year revenue runway already locked in.

Superpowers are effortless. My analogy for this is if Superman could fly. He could see through walls. But that wasn't some sort of arduous thing for him to do. It's just something he could do. The other side of this is identifying your kryptonite - in the series, a mineral fatal to Superman. It's not like something you can work on. The only strategy for Superman around kryptonite was to avoid it.

According to the Epstein documents recently released by the Department of Justice, on April 6, 2013, three months before the public filing, Epstein emailed Sinofsky a copy of Sinofsky's own "Resignation Agreement," asking for comments. After some back and forth about the non-disparagement clause, Epstein wrote: "[SEC] disclosure will appear as if they are concerned about what you say. seems very weak. appears they are buying your silence."

I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex. He added that usage per user is growing much faster than overall user growth, a sign that AI compute is becoming even scarcer and more valuable.

I spent forty years climbing ladders that led to nowhere special. The view from the top? Same sky as everywhere else. These weren't bitter people who'd failed professionally. The group included a former Fortune 500 executive, a surgeon, and a woman who'd built a successful retail chain from scratch. They'd "made it" by every conventional measure. Yet each one said they'd spent too much time treating their career like it was their identity.

Astronomy on Tap is a free public lecture series where astronomers give short, laid-back talks over drinks at local bars. No background in science required - our scientists share cool stuff about space while the audience sits back and relaxes, with plenty of time to indulge their curiosity and ask whatever questions they want.

Cylake focuses on organizations that cannot store their security data and analyses in public cloud environments. According to the company, there is a growing group of organizations that need to maintain complete control over their data due to regulations, security requirements, or operational risks.

TerraPower is one of several companies racing to build smaller, more efficient reactors to augment electrical grids under strain from AI data centers. In a 2024 interview with The Verge, Bill Gates said that he also believes nuclear energy can help solve the climate crisis by using designs that minimize the problem in terms of their safety or fuel use or how they handle waste.

This article was produced by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge and features the insights of faculty member Suraj Srinivasan.