Silicon Valley

Stephen Witt on the microchip maker’s rise, and the geopolitical challenges it faces. And Rothman thinks people outside the tech world should help shape the impact of A.I.

Alexander Karp, Palantir’s philosopher-C.E.O., thinks that a restored military-industrial complex can make our country great again.

The Microsoft founder discusses vaccine skepticism, his fellow-billionaires’ political pivots, and his dinner with the President at Mar-a-Lago.

Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.

Representing Silicon Valley in Congress, Khanna knows tech moguls—and knows how dangerous they are. “Some of them,” he tells David Remnick, “think they’re Nietzsche’s Superman.”

In San Francisco, it’s getting easier to hail a ride from no one.

The ambitious California congressman has made a career of navigating the demands of Big Tech and the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.

“We’d better get that vault open before the cops come or the bank becomes insolvent.”

The annual conference is moving from Maui to the Metaverse—an equally exotic locale! And we’re discontinuing fertility assistance, but that went without saying, right?

My town, once celebrated for its laid-back weirdness, is now a turbocharged tech megalopolis being shaped by exiles from places like Silicon Valley.

The disgraced founder of FTX played on the vanities of the establishment, reassuring V.C. firms and the media that smart-guy insiders like him could save the world.

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?

The software-inspired logic of scale is bringing a copy-paste sensibility to America’s techiest city.

The new chair of the Federal Trade Commission intends to change the way we treat monopolies.

As monopolies and other large companies gain increasing control of our daily lives, Khan is Joe Biden’s pick to do something about it.

The billionaire venture capitalist has fans and followers. What are they looking for?

In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.

A leading figure in the movement to rein in Silicon Valley monopolies has a powerful new post.

In Silicon Valley, “disruption” is giving way to “building.” What will be built?

Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.