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View from the Valley: Turns out Big Tech has no shame
August began with a security snafus and ends with a Meta whimper, argues our man in San Francisco (and briefly Las Vegas). All of which reveals the Valley’s dark heart
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Iain Thomson
In over 30 years as a tech journalist, Iain Thomson has worked for PC Magazine, PC Advisor, V3.co.uk, and was a cofounder of IT Pro. In the last 15 years worked for The Register he wrote over 5,000 news, analysis and feature articles for the site, and is also a regular guest and occasional host on The Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast. He is now a freelance tech reporter based in San Francisco.
Exclusive interview with Cindy Cohn: “The idea that the Big Tech companies are going to stand up for us against the government seems laughable”
Iain Thomson interviews Cindy Cohn, outgoing director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a key player in why we have encryption today
Meet Dan O’Dowd, Elon Musk’s least favourite billionaire
We interview the safe-coding guru on his crusade for safe autonomous vehicles: they will come, he says, but it won't be Tesla in the driving seat
View from the Valley: Are we facing an AI subprime debt disaster?
This month’s quarterly results suggests so, reports our man in San Francisco. Perhaps it's time to rethink your portfolio...
View from the Valley: AI engineers enjoy their independence day
AI talent is bolting from Google to Anthropic, writes our man in San Francisco, as IPO riches push salaries and housing costs into absurd territory. But beneath the fireworks and trillion-dollar hype, the mood is turning uneasy...
Don’t panic, says Katie Moussouris: AI security isn’t replacing humans, it’s proving the need for them
In our exclusive interview, Katie Moussouris explains the current state of the bug bounty market, why humans remain a crucial part of any cybersecurity defence, and why the US Government ban on Anthropic’s engines is bogus
SpaceX IPO makes Musk the first trillionaire, thanks to your pension funds
SpaceX’s IPO may have broken records and made Elon Musk a trillionaire (on paper) but there are already fears that the company could be overvalued
View from the Valley: If you’re going to San Francisco, you’re gonna find some angry people there
From the richest man in the world to the lowest IT serf, it’s been a bad month in Silicon Valley - as our man in San Francisco reports
View from the Valley: The shot heard round the AI world
It's been yet another turbulent month in California, writes Iain Thomson from San Francisco, with OpenAI Sam Altman's home and offices under attack as the AI revolution disrupts lives and livelihoods
View from the Valley: Don’t call it a war
Our man in San Francisco explains that the "military operation" in Iran continues to have an outsized impact on tech firms... but at least their CEOs get to guide US science and technology policy