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Friday, January 31, 2025

Silicon Valley Hypocrites

Have we hit peak tech bro?
https://www.ft.com/content/cd2966ed-c458-4485-87a8-a483b79b8457
DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’ has cut Silicon Valley poseurs down to size.


Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/tech-bros-deepseek-china-sam-altman-openai
Marina Hyde:
As the entrepreneur and investor Scott Galloway has pointed out on numerous occasions, big tech are the biggest welfare queens that ever stalked the Earth. They’ve all drawn vast benefits from public money, chased countless tax breaks and demanded even more. Far from being some heroic form of risk-taking done without a single handout, theirs is the capitalism of the school bake sale – someone else buys all the ingredients and does most of the cooking, and the kids then claim they have turned a profit for the good of humanity.
 
Related:
https://medium.com/@profgalloway/tech-billionaires-are-the-new-welfare-queens-b17f8f314989