Venture capitalists including Mark Cuban back Kamala Harris’s campaign
More than 100 Silicon Valley investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reed Hastings, launch website VCs for Kamala
Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI
Ed Newton-Rex
Company after company is swallowing the hype, only to be forced into embarrassing walkbacks by anti-AI backlash, writes Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained
Ballot measure to build billionaire-funded city in California withdrawn
Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
Carole Cadwalladr
Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid
June 2024
Silicon Valley wants unfettered control of the tech market. That’s why it’s cosying up to Trump
Evgeny Morozov
From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties. FTX wants its $5m back
Voters to weigh in on whether tech billionaires can build new California city
May 2024
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe
A Hamilton-esque performance extolling the virtues of design software was exactly the wrong kind of corny
March 2024
Wearable AI: will it put our smartphones out of fashion?
Other lives
Derek Shaw obituary
The G2 interview
‘Musk needs to be adored … Zuckerberg is out of his depth’: Kara Swisher on the toxic giants of Big Tech
Crypto Super Pac spends $10m on Katie Porter attack ads in California race
February 2024
Apple reportedly scraps multibillion-dollar plan to build electric car
Reports say tech giant made announcement during meeting and forecast layoffs, ending secretive and resource-heavy project
The latest billionaire trend? Doomsday bunkers with a flammable moat
Arwa Mahdawi
Is all this bunker-building a sign that the 1% know something we don’t and are preparing for end times?
When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg’s apology is empty
Carole Cadwalladr
The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change
January 2024
‘This hasn’t been done before’: can tech elites build their own city – and win over the skeptics?
Tech billionaires want to build a new city in rural California. Voters may get a say on it
December 2023
Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?
Hamilton Nolan
Just below billionaires’ charity is an endless well of self-preservation. Their desperate planning for the end betrays everything they spout about equality and progress