#silicon-valley — Public Fediverse posts

🎬 The Audacity is a great show about the Epstein class, dark comedy and teen angst right in the middle of Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Audacity

#siliconvalley #darkcomedy #drama #techbros #nowwatching

🚜🐓 Wow, finally a website that bridges the gap between Silicon Valley and your local barn! Because who doesn't want raw dairy delivered to their urban high-rise? 🏙️🥛✨ Now you can impress your friends with your knowledge of A2A2 dairy and make those pastured eggs the star of your next brunch Instagram post. 📸🍳 #FarmToTableHipstersUnite
https://farm-to-door.com/ #FarmToTable #SiliconValley #LocalDairy #UrbanFarming #BrunchGoals #A2A2Dairy #HackerNews #ngated

Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shakeup

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/openai-reorg-greg-brockman-product/

Politico: EU social media ban could come this summer, von der Leyen says. “European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that raising the social media age limit across the European Union is on the table, and a proposal could come as soon as this summer.”

Reuters: Big Tech turns to Sesame Street, Girl Scouts to deflect scrutiny over kids’ screen time. “Meta and Google enlisted trusted children’s brands such as Sesame Street, Girl Scouts and Highlights magazine to teach kids to use technology in moderation – even as the companies designed apps that made it difficult for those same young users to unplug, public statements and internal documents […]

Reuters: Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200 million partnership for AI in health, education. “Anthropic and ​the Gates Foundation have pledged $200 million to back artificial intelligence-related public goods ‌and areas including health and education, they said on Thursday.”

Cerebras IPO'd at $95B on $510M revenue, buoyed by $20B in unshipped OpenAI compute contracts. Meanwhile, OpenAI weighs legal action over Apple's Siri integration miss, and Anthropic quietly raised Claude Code limits without disclosing the token amounts. Three snapshots of how AI companies manage uncertainty differently. https://www.implicator.ai/cerebras-cashes-the-hype-openai-calls-a-lawyer-anthropic-counts-in-private/ #AI #CapitalMarkets #SiliconValley

Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/mira-murati-humans-in-the-loop-ai-models-thinking-machines/

An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employee-protest-mouse-tracking-surveillance-ai-training/

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/

Le Grand Continent
Une mouvance philosophique obscure a pris le contrôle de la Silicon Valley
https://mcinformactions.net/une-mouvance-philosophique-obscure-a-pris-le-controle-de-la-silicon-valley
#USA #SiliconValley #IA

😂🤥 Oh, joy! Another tech trial where the truth gets more twists than a chatbot's definition of "ethical AI." Sam Altman stars in this courtroom drama, struggling to convince the world he's not the Pinocchio of Silicon Valley. 🙄🎭
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/altman-forced-to-confront-claims-at-openai-trial-that-hes-a-prolific-liar/ #techtrial #SiliconValley #SamAltman #ethicalAI #courtroomdrama #chatbot #HackerNews #ngated

"I was briefly stopped by a Tencent recruiter who — to his great disappointment — had misread the word 'media' on my badge as 'Meta.'" —Viola Zhou for Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-ai-researchers-silicon-valley/?src=longreads #technology #innovation #ai #artificialintelligence #siliconvalley #longreads

Reuters: TikTok challenges EU ‘gatekeeper’ status at Europe’s top court. “Bytedance’s social media platform TikTok on Tuesday made a last- ditch attempt at Europe’s top court to scrap its ‌designation as a ‘gatekeeper’ under EU rules, which require it to meet tougher standards ‌as regulators seek to curb the power of Big Tech.”

New York Times: Meta Is Dying. It’s About Time.. This link goes to a gift article. “There is a grim satisfaction in watching this organization hoist with its own petard. This is the company that profited from trafficking in lies, that tuned its algorithms to boost hatred and division, that stole our data and used it against us, that created the culture of toxic memes that are now central to […]

Also in the news: the sky is blue, water makes things wet and you don't appreciate your closest enough.

But yeah, #AI - as a service created by the #SiliconValley barons - is the evolution of #tracking. It's basically being packaged as "#SurveillanceState as a Service" at this point.

Do you want #SharpEyes in the west? Because this is how we get sharp eyes in the west.

You'd think that a market for #DataBrokerage was a dead giveaway, but nooooo!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance

International Business Times: ‘OpenAI Is Coke, Grok Is RC Cola’: Experts Slam Elon Musk’s AI Adoption Rates. “The slowdown is stark in the numbers. According to analysis firm AppMagic, downloads of Grok’s app fell to about 8.3 million in April, a steep decline from a peak of more than 20 million in January. In other words, in less than four months, more than half of that download momentum […]

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116561792802802294

demanding everybody submits to #spyware and 24/7 #surveillance is digital slavery. it turns anywhere there is a mobile phone into an open prison.

you are gaslighting people to trap generations, now and forever, into open prisons controlled with #mobile tech and the #internet.

the Digital Services Act will turn #techbros into a globalized tyranny.

this isn't about protecting children.

this is about Brussels complicity in #USA #SiliconValley #fascism.

CNBC: OpenAI trial updates: Board chair Taylor continues testimony, Altman set to take stand. “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is slated to testify in federal court in Oakland, California, on Tuesday as part of the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company. Altman is expected to take the stand after Bret Taylor, the chairman of the board at OpenAI, concludes his […]

Lmao burst out laughing when poor Dinesh saw Gabe.

"F**king Gabe!"

Sigh I miss Silicon Valley. Just about the only show that could make me laugh.

When you work in tech, and am a tech nerd yourself, you just know these people are real 😆

https://youtu.be/qhmOQQPXlYY?si=c3lLKx0RgCS8W_44

#tech #siliconvalley #tv #entertainment

Courthouse News Service: Meta can’t duck majority of Android advertising tracking claims. “A federal judge ruled Monday that Meta must face claims brought by Android users who say the tech giant exploited vulnerabilities in Android smartphones to match users’ browsing activity to their Meta social media accounts in an attempt to create more detailed advertising profiles.”

Reuters: Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website. “The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website ‌about its agreement with Google, xAI and ‌Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models for security vulnerabilities, ​according to a Reuters review of the agency’s site.”

If Altman's case relies on him taking the stand and proving to the jury he is a trustworthy man and a good leader...he is fucked.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-openai-altman-trial

#OpenAI #USLaw #ElonMusk #Musk #SamAltman #AI #TechBros #SiliconValley

Ketamine, TMS, a fecal analysis: my year trying San Francisco’s most experimental depression treatments https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/11/silicon-valley-depression-wellness-boom #Depression #SiliconValley #MentalHealth #Drugs #Health #Technology #SanFrancisco #California #WestCoast #UsNews