Indian-American tech entrepreneur and investor Vivek Wadhwa has said that 20-25% of people who come to the US on H-1B visas have fake degrees. Speaking on a podcast with Mark Halperin, Wadhwa…
No-poach agreements between competing firms can restrict employees’ job options, weaken their bargaining power and hold down wages, according to an analysis published by LiveLaw. Such arrangements involve companies agreeing not to…
Ritu Narayan, an Indian-origin former eBay executive based in Silicon Valley, has built a school transportation startup called Zum that is now valued at $1.7 billion. The company, which she co-founded in…
The term “hill-climbing,” originally a niche machine-learning concept, has become Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword, used by executives like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis. Nadella told The Wall…
A 12-acre estate in Hillsborough, California, has sold for $70 million to a buyer from the AI industry, The Times of India reports. Villa de Verano is the most expensive home ever…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei runs the fastest-growing major company in history like a religious leader, not a CEO, according to investors cited by The Information. Set for a potential IPO as…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has said tech executives are partly responsible for AI's poor reputation, arguing the industry focuses too much on enterprise software instead of tools for ordinary people. Speaking on…
Henry Chen, 38, a former Meta tech lead, was laid off on May 20 after more than 13 years at the company. He joined Facebook as a contractor in 2012 after a…
More than 3,500 people attended the Vintage Computer Festival in California in August, celebrating Apple's 50th anniversary. The event showcased restored machines such as the Xerox Alto, called the grandfather of the…
A California judge has refused Apple’s request to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by engineer Anita Nariani Schulze. In a tentative ruling, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sunil R. Kulkarni said…
