All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
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Big tech’s futile attempt to kill death
Silicon Valley is pursuing immortality with religious zeal – but what’s the point?
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The guru of the AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity
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How to read Morgan McSweeney
Why is the Starmer’s chief adviser turning to Alexander Karp, a Silicon Valley billionaire, for inspiration?
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DeepSeek has exposed America’s AI fiction
The story which has pushed US tech companies to dizzying market valuations over the past two years is no longer…
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Donald Trump’s techno-futurist inaugural address
The president embraces the Silicon Valley elite, leaving populists with little to celebrate.
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Elon Musk’s hostile takeover
Inside the mind of the billionaire at the heart of American power.
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Has Facebook fallen in behind Trump?
Mark Zuckerberg is replacing Nick Clegg with a Republican.
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Why Trump’s Bitcoin boom is a fake
I have no idea what will happen to cryptocurrencies – and neither does anyone else.
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The American election belongs to the oligarchy
Self-interested plutocrats are bankrolling both candidates.
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Silicon Valley’s greatest moonshot
Big Tech’s billionaires aren’t scared of Trump – they like what he’s selling.
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How Elon Musk killed Twitter
His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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Silicon Valley wants to mess with your head
Tech bros are turning consciousness into a political battleground.
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The rise of the new tech right
How the cult of IQ became a toxic ideology in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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The sovereign individual in Downing Street
In 1997 a business book predicted tech disruption, the alt-right and the rise of the super-rich. Now, in Rishi Sunak,…
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Why Britcoin isn’t the answer to a banking crisis
We should be wary of suggestions that centralise the risk in depositing and lending money.
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Fear grips the markets
After three US banks collapsed in a week, the global financial system is facing a new set of systemic risks.
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Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros
They push for small government – until their companies are under threat.
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Who killed Silicon Valley Bank?
A $200bn institution was brought low by a bad bet, social media and central banks.
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