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Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Influence on DC?


This episode of "Uncanny Valley" covers black holes, woke AI, and the relationship between Silicon Valley billionaires and the Trump administration.

In today’s episode, WIRED's director of business and industry, Zoë Schiffer, is joined by senior writer Jake Lahut to run through five of the most important stories we published this week—from Trump’s newly unveiled AI plan to how supermassive black holes could have originated. I can't 100% guarantee you would see this if you did find a vessel that could take you, but WIRED contributor Jorge Garay reported that a team of astronomers from Yale and Copenhagen recently discovered two galaxies colliding with each other. This is actually critically important and covers both of our areas of reporting, Jake, because de-banking was a core reason that a lot of the Marc Andreessen types in the world really soured on the Biden administration and went all in on Trump.

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