Well, goodbye to all that. Now that 2023 is drawing to a close, and it’s time that we begin to look to the new year, why don’t we spend a minute clearing our closets and minds of all the tech we don’t need? The better to start fresh, and to steel ourselves for the AI-drenched year ahead. A...
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Merchant: The 10 best tech books of 2023
In the tech world, 2023 was a year of pure chaos. There was the artificial intelligence boom that breathed life into an industry in dire want of its next big thing, delivering a torrent of new startups, investment and hype. There was also the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the fraud...
Marc Andreessen’s tech manifesto and Joanne McNeil’s debut novel
On the Shelf Two versions of the tech future Wrong WayBy Joanne McNeilMCD, 288 pages, $18Newspaper Ads Canyon Crest CA The Techno-Optimist ManifestoBy Marc Andreessen If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent...
With OpenAI in chaos, tech recruiters are targeting talent
For OpenAI, which has become the face of the booming AI industry thanks to popular consumer products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, the last few days have been a crisis with no clear end in sight. But for competitors in the frothy AI sector, it’s an opportunity. More than 700 employees at the...
Tech billionaires plan to build California city from scratch
For years, residents in Solano County heard about a mysterious group buying up thousands of acres of farmland and making millionaires out of property owners. The agricultural land had been owned by the same families for decades — some of it for more than a century. But the company, Flannery...