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Topic: “Silicon Valley”

An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, seen on Aug. 26, 2026. Data centers' economic benefits versus their energy and water demands have become a debate ahead of the midterms. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Data center rebellion causes tech panic

Amanda Marcotte
(Photo Illustration by Salon / Aerial Footage / Getty Images)

White House encouraging cyberattacks

Troy Farah
Gillian Welch performing at New York City's Town Hall in 2001. (Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images)

Gillian Welch knew this was coming

Alex Galbraith
"Backrooms" (A24/Asterios Moutsokapas)

Backrooms: A stealth Silicon Valley tale

Keith A. Spencer
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Tech billionaire's Trump bet pays off

Jake Pearson - ProPublica
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Elon's freakout reveals deep MAGA rifts

Amanda Marcotte
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk participates in a town hall-style meeting to promote early and absentee voting at Ridley High School on October 17, 2024 in Folsom, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The dystopian dream fueling Elon Musk

Amanda Marcotte
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk looks on during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk isn't the biggest privacy threat

Nolan Higdon
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump Jr., Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Usha Vance, Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum and Vice President-elect JD Vance applaud during the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's triumphant celebration of scams

Amanda Marcotte
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tech's war on "woke" is a war on workers

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA "populism" was a con job

Amanda Marcotte
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Making American oligarchy great again

Heather Digby Parton
Mike Johnson and the Meta logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's Meta problem

Alix Fraser
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tech CEOs sell out Dems to please Trump

Sacha Haworth
Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Viral post exposes tech support of Trump

Amanda Marcotte
OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen, smoke in the background. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley's "coercive" sex parties

Rae Hodge
Red Evil Artificial Intelligence, concept (Getty Images/tampatra)

Why we need a megaproject for AI safety

Jacy Reese Anthis
(Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Chatbots are having a Tulipmania moment

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
Donald Trump | Facebook (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Meta's big money grab: Trump is the key

Amanda Marcotte
Robot hand using laptop and man hand writing (Getty Images/baona)

AI chatbots can write, but can't think

Jeffrey Lee Funk, Gary N. Smith
The TED logo stands illuminated on stage in the Community Theater in Vancouver, Canada. (Lawrence Sumulong/Getty Images)

The cult of expertise comes for Buddhism

Curtis White
Artificial Intelligence Chatbot concept (Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Meet the AI that thinks it can write

Gary N. Smith
Elon Musk | "Aeroritratto di Mussolini aviatore" by Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons)

Is Elon Musk actually a futurist?

Matthew Rozsa
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (Getty Images)

Jury: Elizabeth Holmes is guilty

Brad Reed - Raw Story
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