Under intensifying scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, top firms have pulled back from investing in Chinese start-ups.
Category: Silicon Valley (Calif)
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After Figma’s $20 Billion Windfall Evaporated, It’s Picking Up the Pieces
Regulatory scrutiny felled the sale of Figma, a design platform, to Adobe. Now it’s grappling with employee expectations and a changing market.
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The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted
In Solano County, Calif., a who’s who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families have been there for generations don’t want to sell the land.
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The A.I. Industry’s Desperate Hunt for GPUs Amid a Chip Shortage
To power artificial-intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordinary measures to obtain critical chips known as graphics processing units, or GPUs.
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Delicious Wine, Welcoming Hosts and Bucolic Picnics Are Found an Hour South of Silicon Valley
A growing patchwork of small and bucolic wineries an hour’s drive south from Silicon Valley are making and serving prizewinning chardonnay, pinot noir and other estate vintages.
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Reid Hoffman Is Praising the Virtues of AI
Few are as involved in so many different artificial intelligence efforts as Mr. Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor who co-founded LinkedIn.
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Silicon Valley Chosen for $4 Billion Chip Research Center
Anticipating federal subsidies, Applied Materials said it planned to invest up to $4 billion in the semiconductor project in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get
Critics say the intern selection process often favors wealthier students, just like the admission process at some elite colleges.
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How Silicon Valley Bank Sparked Global Financial Panic
The New York Times – Business:While its C.E.O. extolled innovation and the future of tech, Silicon Valley Bank paid less attention to risk management and was caught flat-footed by economic change.