BERKELEY, Calif.—In the Bay Area, a place teeming with brainy computer scientists, an intellectual movement called “the rationalists” debates existential issues, such as preventing ...

On average there’s a future billion-dollar company in every group, Michael Seibel, CEO and partner at Y Combinator, tells the Silicon Valley investors. “Your job is to figure out which one it ...

Silicon Valley entered 2025 with strong momentum, attracting massive investments in artificial intelligence (AI), fintech and enterprise technology. Despite short-term market fluctuations ...

The Silicon Valley response to Donald Trump is a tale best told in two numbers: 45 and 47. During Trump’s first term as the 45th president of the United States, the tech elite of Silicon Valley ...

It also feels unusual given Silicon Valley’s history. I thought tech was happy ignoring Washington. There have been big names in tech who have had government roles before. Dave Packard was the ...

Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and ...