Alphabet’s Layoffs Aren’t Very Googley
In 2004, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin engaged in a comically passive-aggressive IPO road show. They eschewed business suits for casual garb, refused to answer many questions from … Read More
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Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
“I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that all the preceding legal minds to examine this issue have … Read More
What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the Opium … Read More
Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as I am, let me … Read More
Silicon Valley Is Obsessed With Its Evil Twin, TikTok
Hi, everyone. Summer is gone but not the heat. People might return to the office not because of employer mandates, but to save on their air-conditioning bills. The Plain View … Read More
Silicon Valley Conservatives Are Stepping Out of the Shadows
That stigma no longer seems to apply. There may not necessarily be more who lean right, but you no longer see stories with titles like “The Secret Republicans of Silicon … Read More
Benjamin Franklin Meets the Blockchain
Hi, everyone. Another grim week. The plain truth is that we have got to stop selling weapons of war to random civilians. The Plain View In 1727, 21-year-old Benjamin Franklin … Read More
Can an Online Course Help Big Tech Find Its Soul?
The new course is meant, in part, to answer that question, speaking directly to rehabilitated techies like Read. It contains eight modules and is intended to take about eight hours … Read More
Today’s Startups Are Flush With Cash—and Watching Every Penny
Liz Giorgi expected she would raise more money for her startup, Soona, in April. But when she saw how much money was sloshing around the startup world, she decided to … Read More
Ex-Apollo CEO Leon Black is accusing his fellow co-founder of a ‘malicious campaign’ against him
Ex-Apollo CEO Leon Black is accusing his fellow co-founder of a ‘malicious campaign’ against him | Fortune