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In 2007, 49ers legend Jerry Rice asked $22 million for his custom-built Silicon Valley mansion; it later sold for $9 million and is now back on the market for $35 million, with 12,520 square feet, Versace floors and Swarovski crystal accents

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In 2007, 49ers legend Jerry Rice asked $22 million for his custom-built Silicon Valley mansion; it later sold for $9 million and is now back on the market for $35 million, with 12,520 square feet, Versace floors and Swarovski crystal accents

The French-inspired mansion in California’s Silicon Valley that NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice built for himself is back on the market, asking $35 million. The 49ers legend built the estate at 267 Atherton Ave. in the early 2000s, and it sits on 1.24 acres, according to a report by SFGATE. Built for the NFL … Read more

Pope vs Anthropic: Why ‘AI consciousness’ is dividing Silicon Valley and Vatican

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Pope vs Anthropic: Why 'AI consciousness' is dividing Silicon Valley and Vatican

The dispute points to a much bigger question surrounding the rapid development of AI. A debate over whether artificial intelligence could have something resembling consciousness has put Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI companies, at odds with the Vatican after Pope Leo XIV rejected the idea that machines could replace or surpass human beings.The … Read more

Two rival CEOs of Silicon Valley AI companies fight over an employee. Vinod Khosla, an investor in both, steps in

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Two rival CEOs of Silicon Valley AI companies fight over an employee. Vinod Khosla, an investor in both, steps in

Two rival AI companies in Silicon Valley fight over poaching of an employee. Cognition and Factory AI, two rival AI coding startups of Silicon Valley, made a public spectacle when the CEOs fought it out on X over an employee, Chris Degnan. FactoryAI announced that they fired Chris as he was passing information to rival … Read more

How Taiwan’s ‘silicon shield’ has kept it safe from China, indispensable to US in age of AI

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How Taiwan’s ‘silicon shield’ has kept it safe from China, indispensable to US in age of AI

Trump, Xi and Taiwan sit at the centre of a global semiconductor race, with the island producing most of the world’s advanced chips The latest meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping has once again put Taiwan at the centre of the world’s most consequential geopolitical and technology rivalry.Xi pressed Trump … Read more

‘Silicon Valley bodyshops specialize in faking up resumes’: Trump aide Harmeet Dhillon on H-1B, PERM abuses

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'Silicon Valley bodyshops specialize in faking up resumes': Trump aide Harmeet Dhillon on H-1B, PERM abuses

Harmeet Dhillon appeared on Sara Gonzales’ show and spoke about H-1B abuse and PERM fraud. President Donald Trump’s aide and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, Harmeet Dhillon, spoke about her department’s action against the discrimination of Americans in US jobs. Speaking to Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who … Read more