The Silicon Plague: The quiet industrialization of the American heartland

The future of chipmaking looks more like Manhattan than Silicon Valley

Constrained by physics and politics, chipmakers are building upwards

Revival of craft: Quiet rebellion against glass screen

​Every era leaves behind a defining image. ​The Industrial Revolution is remembered by the towering factory chimney, choking the sky with the smoke of mechanical triumph. The 20th...

This Industrial Revolution Is Not Like the Last One

Policymakers’ approach to automation won’t work for AI.

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

AI is powering an economy in which many Americans are falling behind

At the Richmond Neighborhood Center in San Francisco, more than 200 people are on the waitlist for the food pantry. The center is just a couple of miles west of “AI Alley,” where a cluster of major AI companies take in billions of dollars in investments and pay out high salaries to employees — in The post AI is powering an economy in which many Americans are falling behind appeared first on Egypt Independent.

Broadcom Is 24% Off Its High and Just Unveiled a Custom AI Chip With OpenAI. Time to Buy the Dip?

The partnership with AI's most-watched start-up has now unveiled silicon. Yet the stock is still on markdown.

3 interesting new restaurants in Oakland — and what they mean

3 interesting new restaurants in Oakland — and what they mean Reem's, Bar Skula, and Berkeley goop kitchen have come — or returned — to Oakland. Our Nosh food journalists tell you why that's interesting.

Foundry for the Future: The Silicon Valley of Appalachia

Pittsburgh is quietly cementing its status as the Silicon Valley of Appalachia, anchoring a new industrial revolution.

Is A24 Still Cool?

We are entering an era when anything Big Tech-associated smells bad, and even the most beloved brands are getting smoke-bombed.

The Cocktail Was America’s First Great Culinary Innovation

This is one export we can all be proud of.

A Silicon Valley Genocide

World's First Trillionaire is Killing the World's Poorest Children

Q&A: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on how AI will transform autos

PARK CITY, Utah — If the early 20th-century auto revolution was sparked in Detroit by entrepreneurs like Ford, Dodge, and Sloan, the early 21st century has brought a new, digital auto revolution on America’s West Coast right out of a science ...

37 All-American Diners, Hash Houses, And Greasy Spoons To Fuel Your Summer Road Trip

All over the country, you'll find a microcosm of Western civilization known as the quintessential American diner.

Millionaires’ playground Marbella wants to become a tech hub

Now, the city wants to reinvent itself, with a “2.0” vision that positions the Costa del Sol as a Silicon Valley of Europe, with Marbella as its Palo Alto.

K-Pop Stars Are Fueling the Rise of Vietnamese Fashion

More than just a manufacturing hub, Vietnam is undergoing a dynamic transformation, as its economy surges and a new guard of young fashion designers — bolstered by the support of girl groups like Blackpink, Aespa, and Katseye — take the global stage.

MacBook Neo now available in Canadian Apple Refurbished store

Apple’s MacBook Neo is the talk of the town by offering the company’s speedy iPhone 16 Pro silicon in a more affordable and colourful body. This device launched last year, but you can now find it in the Apple Refurbished store at an even lower price. Regularly, the MacBook Neo is 949, but you can []

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

An chip plant's real cost isn't concrete. It's the machines nobody budgets for

Chip factories have grown into some of the priciest buildings ever constructed. Machines packed inside actually cost more than the walls around them

Nasdaq Rises 1%, Dow Hits Record High As AI Chip Stocks Accelerate; Micron Up 3%

Major chipmakers like Micron Technology Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. surged within minutes of the opening bell.

Can Uncle Sam Finally Take The AI Chip Crown?

Taiwan has the goose that lays the silicon eggs, but now America is learning to breed our own. The fastest AI chip on earth was designed in California, funded by American investors and celebrated in Washington as a

Palo Alto Networks: A Hold I'd Love To Turn Into A Buy

Palo Alto Networks: A Hold I'd Love To Turn Into A Buy

LG Chem expands chip materials business with Amkor deal

LG Chem said Sunday it will begin mass supplying semiconductor strippers to Amkor Technology, a leading US-based outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company. Amkor provides semiconductor packaging and testing services for major chipmakers worldwide. A stripper is a key process chemical used to remove photoresist and residue from semiconductor wafers after circuit patterning. As chip circuits become smaller and more complex, stripping performance has become increasingly important for manuf

Silicon Valley Is on a Lobbying Spree in California

Big Tech has grown enormously due to tactics such as price gouging and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. New legislation to address these in California faces a stiff and very well-funded resistance.

U.S. Government Takes Equity Stake In Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) As Google And Tesla Deals Signal AI Expansion

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) finds itself at the heart of America’s domestic semiconductor strategy after the U.S. government converted a portion of its CHIPS Act support into a direct equity stake in the company. The move creates a new public shareholder in Intel with policy interests explicitly tied to the revival of domestic chip production and [] The post U.S. Government Takes Equity Stake In Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) As Google And Tesla Deals Signal AI Expansion appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.

HKSTP Leads Largest-Ever Hong Kong Delegation to BIO 2026 Showcasing Life and Health Tech Strength

41 local tech firms, institutes and university spin-offs head to San Diego to forge global partnerships, reinforcing the city's status as international healthcare innovation hub HONG KONG SAR/SAN DIEGO, UNITED STATES - Media OutReach Newswire - 24 June 2026 - Hong Kong Science and Technology ...

‘The Progresif Life’ blends tradition with digital innovation

‘The Progresif Life’ blends tradition with digital innovation

Le populisme de l’IA est là. Et personne n’y est préparé

Les magnats de la Silicon Valley s’inquiétaient des risques que leur technologie faisait peser sur le monde. Ils ont oublié les gens. Source : The New York Times, David Wallace-WellsTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises « Je me prépare à survivre », avouait Sam Altman, d’OpenAI, en 2016. « J’ai des armes, des comprimés []

IICA Calls for Strengthening Agri-Food Systems in the Americas

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) urged the promotion of innovation and systemic transformation in the Americas to sustain its role as a pillar of global food, energy, and environmental stability.

Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim RD hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Francisco. Over the past two decades, however, many of the world’s most influential technology companies

A Nostalgia-Invoking American Grill Brings Prime Rib and Seafood Plateaus to Georgetown

The Oak Room and Bernadette’s. 1218 Wisconsin Ave., NW. The Oak Room in Georgetown wants you to feel like you’ve been transported to a Gilded Age private club in New York or London, where you can feast on prime rib, Dover sole, and fancy fish sticks with caviar beurre blanc. Upstairs is Bernadette’s, a candlelit, [] The post A Nostalgia-Invoking American Grill Brings Prime Rib and Seafood Plateaus to Georgetown first appeared on Washingtonian.

I used a phone with a silicon-carbon battery, and now I get why Apple and Samsung won't

I dived into all the reasons brands are steering clear of silicon-carbon battery tech.

Sandwich surge: New banh mi, sub, burger and tea room options hit the East Bay

A running list of restaurants that have recently opened in Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, and beyond.

An Illinois Diner Was Just Named One Of America's Best

An Illinois Diner Was Just Named One Of America's Best

Kevin O’Leary’s Latest Warning: The Unexpected High-Paying Career AI Is Disrupting Next

The investor noted that the new tech is replacing a key role for many companies.

Israeli high-tech turnaround? Robots, sensors, chips and drones dominate early 2026's top exits

In the past, major Israeli high-tech exits came from software, cybersecurity and fintech companies, but in the first half of 2026 deep-tech companies making robots, sensors, chips and drones have led the way