Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country...
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The Democrats’ Choice: Fight Trump’s Oligarchy or Keep Groveling to Billionaire Donors
Elon Musk’s power grab is finally energizing a resistance. But it’s already being undermined by the party elite’s dependency on Silicon Valley.
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Trump's Dominic Cummings and the dismantling of democracy
Curtis Yarvin's name is not yet well known in the mainstream - but the influence of his thinking is increasingly apparent in the actions of the Trump...
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The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
As the Trump administration and its cadre of Silicon Valley machine-learning evangelists attempt to restructure the administrative state, the IRS is...
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Welcome to the New Military-Industrial Complex
An assortment of new firms, born in Silicon Valley or incorporating its disruptive ethos, have begun to challenge the older ones for access to...
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The Hollow Core of Elon Musk’s Productivity Dogma
Silicon Valley has struggled to measure employees’ effectiveness. So how can Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency expect to fix the...
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Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America
When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President...
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What Elon Musk Is Doing to the Government
In today’s newsletter, our columnists try to make sense of Elon Musk’s Washington takeover, offering insight into his ideology, erratic...
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Why the fall of 23andMe marks the end of an era for genetic testing
23andMe is a company on the ropes. The one-time leader of the DNA analysis market – valued at $6 billion in 2021 – is now worth less than $100...
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Exclusive: Organic baby food startup Yumi has slashed its valuation after running low on cash
Yumi is a startup backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors that makes high-end organic baby food. The company is raising a down round that values...
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