If anyone could find a connection between Elon Musk and Elizabeth Holmes, it’s director Alex Gibney. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has made movies on both polarizing figures. In 2019, he made the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.” His latest doc is “Musk,” a close-to-four-hour examination of the richest man in
Writing villains is supposed to be hard. No grand, world-dominating plan ever really makes sense in a story. Soon after “The Dark Knight” came out, David Goyer, its writer, told me the Joker had been a real relief. “Blessedly, because of who the Joker is, we just said, ‘fuck the plan. We don’t have to
Abdulrahman Alfozan loved Saudi Arabia. One day before arresting the former OpenAI engineer on charges of bugging the office, the Justice Department worried he would flee back to his home country. Alfozan, his wife, and another family member had already booked one-way tickets, the department said in a court filing. It wouldn’t be unusual for
Silicon Valley has built some of the world’s most impressive and valuable companies, with names like Apple, Alphabet, and Meta, worth trillions of dollars apiece. When it comes to building the actual facilities where chips, computers, and other game-changing innovations are created, however, America’s tech capital has much less to show. Most chip facilities are
Elon Musk took a dig at his robotaxi rival, Waymo, calling the vehicles “pet destroyers,” and said Tesla Robotaxi has solved the issue of avoiding stray pets. During a livestreamed interview at an event hosted by Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley on Saturday, Musk called out Waymo for its reported collisions with animals. “What a
In September 2015, the Founders Fund hosted a retreat at an eco-resort in British Columbia. Most of the attendees were VCs and people from the companies the firm was backing, but they also invited a few outsiders, including computer pioneer Alan Kay, writer Neal Stephenson, and me. One morning at breakfast I was sitting across
