Lauren Goode

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Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump’s Breakup

Silicon Valley investors and tech executives who loudly supported both US president Donald Trump and Elon Musk may now be forced to pick sides as the president of the United States and...

OpenAI’s Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two...

US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer

Since the end of January, Ryan Helgeson, a Chicago-based immigration attorney, has noticed an unusual trend: He’s been getting significantly more pushback from US Citizenship and Immigration Services as he files employment...

Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia

These days, when Nicole Yelland receives a meeting request from someone she doesn’t already know, she conducts a multi-step background check before deciding whether to accept. Yelland, who works in public relations...

Investors Worry Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause a ‘World of Hurt’ for Startups

At the start of the year, Tom Drummond, managing partner at the San Francisco-based venture capital firm Heavybit, was feeling mildly anxious about the state of the world and how political volatility...

Trump’s Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry

Sweeping tariffs unveiled by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday will have ripple effects across the tech industry, according to experts who study global trade. The measures, which include a minimum 10...

Trump’s Trade War Pushes Canadian Tech Workers to Rethink Silicon Valley

Last week, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney declared that the “old relationship” his country had with the United States was “over,” and it’s “clear the US is no longer a reliable partner.”...

Nvidia Bets Big on Synthetic Data

Nvidia has acquired synthetic data firm Gretel for nine figures, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal.The acquisition price exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, the sources...

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