Reporting on Silicon Valley from Lazy Tensor.
The Investors · Analysis
As venture capital firms grow larger and artificial intelligence reshapes the technology industry, the founder of Conviction is testing an older investment proposition: that concentrated bets, independent judgment and close…
By Sunny Tisch12 min read
Enterprise · Operations
Companies are investing heavily in AI to improve customer support.
By Sunny Tisch11 min read
The Investors · Analysis
The early investor in Twitter, Uber and Instagram believes the next generation of enormous businesses could emerge from energy, manufacturing…
By Sunny Tisch11 min read
CAPITAL / THE INVESTORS / ANALYSIS
The Benchmark investor says venture capital has become an industry that pushes money onto companies whether they need it or not.
By Sunny Tisch8 min read
AI is making software cheaper to create. Winning a market may be getting more expensive.
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Veteran transit planner selected to spearhead Caltrain grade-separation projects, autonomous shuttle pilots, and Vision Zero bicycle…
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Nearly two hours of public testimony at City Hall highlight concerns over diesel generator emissions, water cooling rules, and two…
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State officials petition federal bankruptcy court to prevent the liquidation and auction of hundreds of millions of confidential youth…
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Bipartisan coalition led by California and New York seeks court-ordered safety audits and civil penalties over algorithmic exposure…
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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim documentary You Can See Everything earns $15 million across 855 screens with 2,000 sellouts while…
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Menlo Park-based boutique firm Linx Dating is seeing record demand for memberships priced from $75,000 to $500,000 among wealthy…
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Unsealed legal records allege illicit transfer of unreleased product roadmaps and proprietary neural routing blueprints to competing…
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Deep tech startup deploys reinforcement learning agents to compress custom microchip physical design timelines from eighteen months to…
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Self-driving cars could change where we live. Artificial intelligence could change how our homes are built.
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Sunny Tisch explores the shift from dark factories to zero-page websites: as AI agents take over online tasks, web pages designed for…
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Following Character.AI's bankruptcy filing this week, The Walt Disney Company will onboard at least 60 engineers and product staff…
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Venture investors back predictive AI platform tracking cross-platform disinformation velocity and synthetic coordinated inauthentic…
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Silicon Valley research labs purchase clinical records, engineering CAD archives, and bespoke transactional logs to train…
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Santa Clara semiconductor titan standardizes 800V direct-to-chip liquid cooling and modular interfaces for gigawatt-scale AI factories
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PCIe Gen 5 computational storage hardware delivers hardware-level decompression and reduces distributed model training latency
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Frontier model achieves breakthroughs in macromolecular folding and automated mathematical proof verification across Bay Area research…
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Mountain View research lab collaborates with international cybersecurity authorities to detect voice spoofing without transmitting…
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