
Founders Fund turns Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey into game-show bait
The venture firm is using a star-studded debut episode to turn its tech network into content, signaling how investors now market influence as much as capital.
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The venture firm is using a star-studded debut episode to turn its tech network into content, signaling how investors now market influence as much as capital.

The pact could speed RNA drug discovery, showing how AI is becoming a core tool in biotech dealmaking, not just a lab experiment.

Founders Fund's new show puts 12 tech names in a deception game, signaling how far Silicon Valley's media playbook is spreading.

Layoffs have hit Google Cloud and Mandiant, including the Threat Intelligence Group, as the company says it is reallocating toward growth areas like AI.
As AI infrastructure bills explode, Meta is testing a cheaper, faster build method that could reshape how big tech adds capacity.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas says companies are citing AI more than any other layoff reason, even as critics argue the technology is being used as a convenient excuse.

Meta is keeping its workplace monitoring push alive, but granting 30-minute privacy breaks and exemption requests as staff push back over battery and bandwidth costs.
A new Google-funded grid project tests whether customers will accept payoffs to cut usage so data centers can keep growing.

Amazon is betting warehouse automation gets easier to scale when workers can talk to robots like teammates, not programmers.
The tax collector is keeping its biggest software bets in motion, but shifting the CRM timetable by three months while handing Capgemini a major front-end services contract.

Her yearlong experiment shows where AI is useful, where it is flimsy, and why companion bots may be the real boardroom problem.

Microsoft, Atom Computing, and EeroQ all released fresh quantum progress reports, a reminder that the race is being won one hard technical step at a time.