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A profile of Maria Davidson, who leads California Renewal, a pro-business policy group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100 million in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 20, 2026

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Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon tapped Silicon Valley to create AI-based warfare tools currently used in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 14, 2026

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JPMorgan’s efforts to replace Silicon Valley Bank for startups

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 13, 2026

People line up outside the closed headquarters of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10, 2023 in Santa Clara, California.Justin…

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The Pentagon’s fight against Anthropic is raising fears in Silicon Valley and on Capitol Hill of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between Washington DC and the AI industry (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Toronto startup Taalas, which embeds AI models in custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has…

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Palantir is moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami as city leaders aim to make it the next Silicon Valley, with the support of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

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Silicon Valley tech workers are increasingly experimenting with gray market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, to improve focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

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Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI team, will leave at the end of 2025; Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of AWS, will lead a group combining AI, silicon and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

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A deep technical dive into Amazon’s Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKU specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 6, 2025

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff rejects idea of flavor-coded CRM replacing SaaS companies, saying data security and compliance make Salesforce indispensable (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

SK hynix announces that it has started mass production of the 192 GB SOCAMM2, a next-generation low-power LPDDR5X DRAM module designed specifically for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin (The Korea Herald)

A profile of Maria Davidson, who leads California Renewal, a pro-business policy group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100 million in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer is leaving the company as the data center developer faces problems finding an anchor tenant and construction delays (Amy Harder/Axios)

Vercel says it detected unauthorized access to its internal systems after a hacker using the handle ShinyHunters claimed a breach on BreachForums (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Browsing: silicon

A profile of Maria Davidson, who leads California Renewal, a pro-business policy group backed by Silicon Valley power players, seeking to raise $100 million in 2026 (Emily Shugerman/The San Francisco Standard)

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

An excerpt from the upcoming book Project Maven details how the Pentagon tapped Silicon Valley to create AI-based warfare tools currently used in Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

JPMorgan’s efforts to replace Silicon Valley Bank for startups

The Pentagon’s fight against Anthropic is raising fears in Silicon Valley and on Capitol Hill of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between Washington DC and the AI industry (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Taalas, a Toronto-based chip startup that integrates AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, has raised $169 million, bringing its total funding to $219 million (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Palantir is moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami as city leaders aim to make it the next Silicon Valley, with the support of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)

Silicon Valley tech workers are increasingly experimenting with gray market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, to improve focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)

Rohit Prasad, head of Amazon’s AGI team, will leave at the end of 2025; Peter DeSantis, senior vice president of AWS, will lead a group combining AI, silicon and quantum computing teams (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A deep technical dive into Amazon’s Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKU specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)