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Reddit Opens Up 38%, as Shares Begin Trading The social media company’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange was one of the first major tech initial public offerings of the year.

Reddit Said to Price I.P.O. at $34 a Share, in a Positive Sign for Tech The social media company raised $748 million in the offering. Its shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence The Middle Eastern country is creating a gigantic fund to invest in A.I. technology, potentially becoming the largest player in the hot market.

Reddit’s Long, Rocky Road to an Initial Public Offering The site, a throwback to an earlier era of social media, is poised to go public as soon as next week. It hasn’t been easy to reach this point.

In Silicon Valley, Venture Capital Meets a Generational Shift Big-name investors such as Reid Hoffman and Michael Moritz are pulling back, creating room for a new generation of tech power brokers.

He’s Not Just Looking to Make a Quick Billion Marc Lore, the entrepreneur behind Diapers.com and Jet.com, would like to disrupt food delivery. But he really wants to build a brand that actually lasts.

‘Dune: Part Two’ Gives Sci-Fi-Obsessed Silicon Valley a Reason to Party In a season of layoffs and cutbacks, techies seized on the second installment of the Denis Villeneuve-directed science-fiction epic by taking over movie theaters.

Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Are Breaking Up With China Under intensifying scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers, top firms have pulled back from investing in Chinese start-ups.

Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups The company raised $7.3 billion over the last year, as the lure of artificial intelligence changes Silicon Valley deal-making.

OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion The A.I. start-up’s valuation tripled in less than 10 months.

Opinion | The Empty Promise of Endless Steak Cultivated meat offered a delicious fantasy: that we can consume our way out of climate catastrophe.

American Firms Invested $1 Billion in Chinese Chips, Lawmakers Find A Congressional investigation determined that U.S. funding helped fuel the growth of a sector now viewed by Washington as a security threat.

After Its $20 Billion Windfall Evaporated, a Start-Up Picks Up the Pieces Regulatory scrutiny felled the sale of Figma, a design platform, to Adobe. Now it’s grappling with employee expectations and a changing market.

Opinion | This Tech Titan Wants to Turn West Virginia Into a ‘Start-Up State’ The idea is noble, but it faces very tough odds.

The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted In Solano County, Calif., a who’s who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families have been there for generations don’t want to sell the land.

The Messenger, Which Aimed to Transform Media, Faces Dire Financial Straits The company, which debuted last year with big plans to disrupt journalism, generated only $3 million in revenue by the end of December.

The Pentagon Road to Venture Capital Here is a list of people who have jumped from the Pentagon and other government posts into jobs with venture capitalists that are backing defense technology startups.

New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists Retired officers and departing defense officials are flocking to investment firms that are pushing the government to provide more money to defense-technology startups.

La falsa historia de éxito de HeadSpin, y cómo se descubrió el fraude de su fundador Las afirmaciones falsas y las operaciones arriesgadas HeadSpin, una empresa emergente de Silicon Valley, formaban parte de un patrón de problemas surgidos en compañías jóvenes que carecían de controles.

What’s Next in Artificial Intelligence? If 2023 was the year of A.I. awakening, 2024 could be the year of A.I. reckoning.

No Oversight: Inside a Boom-Time Start-Up Fraud and Its Unraveling False claims and risky trades at the Silicon Valley start-up HeadSpin were part of a pattern of trouble emerging at young companies that lacked controls.

Who Would Give This Guy Millions to Build His Own Utopia? Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers. Just don’t ask for details.

Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous.

De unicornios a zombis: decenas de ‘startups’ se declaran en quiebra Este ha sido el año más difícil para el sector en una década, según los expertos. En Silicon Valley, las nuevas empresas tecnológicas con más negocio son las que ayudan a otras a finiquitar sus operaciones.

From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money After staving off collapse by cutting costs, many young tech companies are out of options, fueling a cash bonfire.

The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I.

Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.

Back at OpenAI, Sam Altman Outlines the Company’s Priorities In a blog post, Mr. Altman, who was briefly ousted as chief executive, said he would focus on conducting A.I. research, improving products and building a new board.