In Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get crushed by the big guys. Story Published at: May 31, 2023 at 09:57AM Continue Reading…
A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom
Change Makes Fools of Us All
Banking is a critical form of public infrastructure that we pretend is a private act of risk management, Story Published at: March 18, 2023 at 01:00PM Continue Reading…
Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride
In Rafael Frumkin’s “Confidence,” a shy grifter is more than infatuated with a charismatic friend: He sees them getting rich peddling electromagnetic “bliss.” Story Published at: March 7, 2023 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…
A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom
An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination. Story Published at: January 7, 2023 at 08:00AM Continue Reading…
Silicon Valley’s Unbridled Euphoria Runs Into Economic Reality
Once-buzzy start-ups had held out against the new reality that the good times are over. No longer. Story Published at: October 29, 2022 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…