Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley billionaires' $1B project to build a new California city faces fierce local opposition, causing a $3B defense investment loss and highlighting regulatory hurdles.

Jeff Dean, one of Google's most renowned engineers, has left the company after 27 years and is already generating significant buzz in Silicon Valley. Dean is in advanced talks to raise $1 billion for his new startup, Discovery Loop. The planned fundraising round is expected to value the company at approximately $10 billion, an exceptionally high figure for a startup at such an early stage.

The artificial intelligence industry has invested billions in autonomous agents, but the general public is ignoring them. Josh Miller, co-founder of The Browser Company, explains to WIRED why this tech trend is failing.

Amid the war with Iran, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth held an emergency meeting with tech startup leaders. The Pentagon is seeking their assistance to rapidly rebuild depleted stockpiles of precision munitions.