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Silicon Valley

January 2025

  • Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

    He’ll be sworn in as US president for the second time on Monday – this time with the backing of Silicon Valley
  • Quinn Slobodian

    The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that

    Quinn Slobodian
    The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian

    • UK can be ‘AI sweet spot’: Starmer’s tech minister on regulation, Musk, and free speech

    • Tech giants told UK online safety laws ‘not up for negotiation’

    • Silicon Valley’s tycoons are bending the knee to Trump

December 2024

  • A side by side image showing a woman holding up a Mass Deportation Now sign and the other a image of Elon Musk

    Maga v Musk: Trump camp divided in bitter fight over immigration policy

    Feud flared up when president-elect chose Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born entrepreneur, as his AI adviser
  • wood sign that says 'Lupin Naturist Club' in white letters, by the side of a road

    A Silicon Valley nudist resort is on sale for $30m – but will its new owner ‘go textile’?

    Members are in limbo as Lupin Lodge is on the market after nearly 90 years – with next buyer likely to require clothes
  • three men side by side

    Revealed: the tech bosses who poured $394.1m into US election - and how they compared to Elon Musk

    FEC filings offer only a glimpse of the money tech is pouring into Washington as it seeks to influence government

November 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Elon Musk is not America’s new king. But he might be its new Thomas Cromwell

    John Naughton
    The billionaire was indispensable to Trump’s campaign and now has a senior job. He is about to become dangerously useful
  • A man stretches his hands above him, one clutching a mic. Behind him is the US flag and two panels on the right read Vote Early

    Silicon Valley’s right wing notches victories nationwide and at home

    Tech elites scored local and national wins after backing Donald Trump and conservative California ballot measures
  • Rebecca Solnit

    Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do

    Rebecca Solnit
    Americans will be stuck cleaning up after Maga’s destructive streak because men like this never clean up after themselves

October 2024

  • Photograph: Johan Lolos/Rex/Shutterstock

    The Audio Long Read
    10 years of the long read: Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (2018) – podcast

    This week from 2018: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific. By Mark O’Connell
  • two men in suits talk with each other

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Tech CEOs hedge their bets and make nice with Trump

    Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have picked up the phone, while Elon Musk gets to share the stage

    • Humanist chaplain Greg Epstein: ‘Our bowed interactions with our phones look like worship’

    • Californians want controls on AI. Why did Gavin Newsom veto an AI safety bill?

      Garrison Lovely

    • Is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them?

      Rebecca Solnit

September 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

    John Naughton
  • Tim Cook

    Apple reveals iPhone 16 and ‘Apple Intelligence’ AI features

August 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

    John Naughton
  • Chris Stokel-Walker

    Arresting Telegram’s Pavel Durov could be a smart move. Tech bosses care more about themselves than you

    Chris Stokel-Walker
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