Tag: Silicon Valley

  • Theories: This is why AI king Sam Altman was fired

    Theories: This is why AI king Sam Altman was fired

    Hear Ekot’s tech reporter Sven Carlsson about how the company Open AI’s CEO Sam Altman became Silicon Valley’s fixed star, and about the conflicts that may have led to his sudden removal from his post. Host: Robin Olin Guest: Sven Carlsson Producers: Kim Hessius and Ludvig Jansson With clips from: Reuters, Bloomberg, OpenAI, PBS, Joe…

  • Part 1: Elon Musk – the tech billionaire and the dream of Mars

    Part 1: Elon Musk – the tech billionaire and the dream of Mars

    Elon Musk want to build a city on Mars. He dates movie stars and pop artists. He has made people associate electric cars with speed and luxury. He has been called the Ironman of reality – and wants to operate chips in people’s brains in the near future. In the first episode about Elon Musk,…

  • Sam Bankman-Fried – the crash landing of the crypto king

    Sam Bankman-Fried – the crash landing of the crypto king

    Sam Bankman-Fried was literally born into Silicon Valley and early became interested in effective altruism and making money trading cryptocurrencies. He founded Alameda research and then FTX which would become one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, with its own currency FTT. It made him a dollar billionaire. When the crypto industry was reeling in…

  • Biden’s recipe for the banking crisis

    Biden’s recipe for the banking crisis

    The party is over in Silicon Valley and in the space of a week three US banks have failed. Now the White House is working to save people’s savings and to avoid further bank collapses. What caused the banks to fail? And what tools does politics have to deal with the crisis? Ekonomiekot’s Pär Ivarsson…

  • The Helsinki stock exchange falls amid the US banking problems

    The Helsinki stock exchange falls amid the US banking problems

    The fallout caused by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank has affected the Helsinki stock market.

  • The billionaire who wants to stop human aging

    The billionaire who wants to stop human aging

    45-year-old tech billionaire Bryan Johnson believes that he has succeeded in making his body age more slowly. The method involves strict dieting, extreme exercise and lots of advanced treatments and tests. Among other things, he has done transfusions with blood from his 17-year-old son. Bryan Johnson is one of Silicon Valley’s most talked about people…

  • President Niinistö visits the United States and meets the senators

    President Niinistö visits the United States and meets the senators

    The program also includes visits to companies and a discussion about security policy at the National Nordic Museum. The president will then travel to Palo Alto on Tuesday, March 7, to participate in a discussion on security policy, great power competition and new technologies organized by Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. During…

  • Finnish election campaigner, crisis in the single-family home industry and in Silicon Valley

    Finnish election campaigner, crisis in the single-family home industry and in Silicon Valley

    HOUR 1 Parliamentary elections in Finland Finland on its way to NATO American journalist arrested in Russia Are virtual zoos the future? This week’s column Nina Wormbs This week’s panel: Fredrik Haage, Smålandsposten, Linda Jerneck, Expressen, Göran Greider, Dala-Demokraten HOUR 2 Crisis in the housing industry Climate Policy Council’s report The USA and the consequences…

  • ChatGPT is still in the early stages of proving its industrial value: Report

    ChatGPT is still in the early stages of proving its industrial value: Report

    The chatbot, which converses with users, has demonstrated its ability to write poems, essays and research papers, program computers and even take master’s level exams. Generative AI describes artificial intelligence algorithms that can be used to create new content, including text, images, videos, audio, code, and synthetic data. The excitement surrounding ChatGPT shows that the…

  • Knowledge Smart City will be built on 5,000 hectares in UP at a cost of $42 billion

    Knowledge Smart City will be built on 5,000 hectares in UP at a cost of $42 billion

    Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India]December 18 (ANI): Team Yogi (Government of Uttar Pradesh), which has been successful in garnering foreign investment for the state through its road shows abroad, has signed an MoU with Austin University in San Francisco, USA, to build a Knowledge Smart City at the cost of $42 billion (about Rs 35,000 crore).…

  • Right now: Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to 11 years in prison

    Right now: Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to 11 years in prison

    Elizabeth Holmes fooled all of Silicon Valley with her alleged innovations in medicine. Now she is sentenced to 11 years in prison. Ekot broadcasts directly.

  • Steve Jobs – visions of the future and mood swings

    Steve Jobs – visions of the future and mood swings

    Steven “Steve” Jobs (1955-2011) grew up in post-war Silicon Valley, California. Surrounded by innovation and widespread technological optimism, he soon became interested in computers. It is a hobby that will follow him for life – from the first summer job, to the almost revival-like product gifts that he will later hold as CEO of his…

  • Chana is recruiting for the Green Revolution

    Chana is recruiting for the Green Revolution

    100,000 people are estimated to move to northern Norrland within the next 15 years. Chana Svensson has already taken the step and left her legal career in Washington for love in Luleå. Now she will recruit the people who will make Sweden a leader in global climate change. At the same time, she struggles with…

  • Objectives of the Finnish Startup Community for the next government program: cryptographic legislation, platform economy and climate starters

    Objectives of the Finnish Startup Community for the next government program: cryptographic legislation, platform economy and climate starters

    The objectives are divided into seven main themes, under which the community has listed more concrete proposals and ideas for decision-makers. The new goals range from reviewing the legislation on the platform economy to adding English-language school places to Finland. In addition, the community emphasizes opportunities to provide more support for Finnish climate technology, create…

  • What are the chances of a Kremlin coup?

    What are the chances of a Kremlin coup?

    Warsaw – With Russia’s ground invasion largely stagnant and stuttering, a minority view is emerging among some Kremlin observers that the days of Russian leader Vladimir Putin are numbered. “Whatever Putin does, he does not look like he can survive long,” tweeted Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist and former economic adviser to the governments of…

  • NASA’s Webb telescope fires to see the first galaxies, distant worlds

    NASA’s Webb telescope fires to see the first galaxies, distant worlds

    The Webb Observatory, a joint venture with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, is NASA’s revolutionary flagship mission to search for light from the first galaxies in the early universe and explore our own solar system and other orbiting planets. stars called exoplanets, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in…

  • Six reasons why you should invest in Helsinki

    Six reasons why you should invest in Helsinki

    Helsinki is known for developing urban solutions in cooperation with companies, research institutes and residents. Helsinki is characterized by the development of solutions in cooperation with companies, research institutes and citizens. Still wondering why the capital of the happiest country in the world is the right place to be? Read below 6 reasons why you…

  • Meng Wanzhou – The arrest of Huawei’s Crown Princess and the 5G War

    Meng Wanzhou – The arrest of Huawei’s Crown Princess and the 5G War

    Meng Wanzhou, born in 1972, grew up in Shenzhen, the small port city that will eventually be transformed into a kind of China equivalent of Silicon Valley. As the daughter of multi-billionaire and Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, she is a part of witnessing both the city’s and China’s transformation up close. After graduating, Meng Wanzhou…

  • Eternal life

    Eternal life

    Age myths run like a common thread through human history. From the patriarchs of the Bible who were said to be hundreds of years old, to notions of the stone of the wise, the elixir of life and the source of youth. Today, the pursuit of a radically longer life is a thriving field of…

  • Finnish security expert: Concentration of online services in Silicon Valley is a weak point

    Finnish security expert: Concentration of online services in Silicon Valley is a weak point

    Research Manager of F-Secure, a Finnish cyber security company, Mikko Hyppönen, said the long Facebook outage on Monday was exceptional. The social media platforms Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were away for about six hours on Monday night Finnish time. The problem also affected companies that use Facebook as a login service, as well…

  • Linus Torvalds, a Finnish Swede who changed data processing forever

    Linus Torvalds, a Finnish Swede who changed data processing forever

    Linux is now used in a wide variety of computer and mobile systems. To list just a few things based on Torvalds brain types, NASA computers, Instagram, Hadron Collider, the vast majority of supercomputers, and the U.S. Department of Defense are all powered by Linux. Even if you have never booted the Linux kernel on…

  • Jackos naked … but this is the whole future of art bare

    Jackos naked … but this is the whole future of art bare

    On the hunt for the web and local art magazines, it’s hard to figure out what ‘Dead Star’, the latest exhibition by artist and gallery owner Eric Prince, entails. It’s no coincidence: Prince has kept it a closely guarded surprise. Visitors enter a gallery with blank walls with nothing but a wireless VR headset —…

  • Hunting for status yields record prices on art

    Hunting for status yields record prices on art

    450.3 million dollars or just over 2.8 billion kroner was the final price. The value of special works of art has increased explosively in recent years, but why are some paintings worth more than others? There is an elite of about 650 people who are behind the dealers of the most expensive works of art.…

  • How the welfare state has helped Swedes with the start of technology

    How the welfare state has helped Swedes with the start of technology

    Stockholm – When Klarna’s billionaire founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski prepares to stage one of the largest European fintech company listings, a celebration of capitalism, he credits an unlikely backer for his fleeting success: the Swedish welfare state. In particular, the 39-year-old sets a government policy from the late 1990s to put a computer in every home.…

  • How to get started with investing in 202

    How to get started with investing in 202

    Are you considering investing in the new year? Well, maybe it’s time to get started. You may find investing in the stock market sounds boring and hard, maybe a little too complicated for your liking. But the truth is, the stock market is for everyone. And you might as well be next. So we are…

  • Capitals of Culture, fighters and flights at home: Finland in the world press

    Capitals of Culture, fighters and flights at home: Finland in the world press

    The cultural program includes events such as the Moomin on Ice ballet, which will be held at the new Male Live Arena (a venue that seats more than 13,000 spectators). This week’s news also included Finland’s HX Fighter Program, which aims to find compensation for the country’s current fighter. The last bids for the last…

  • The happiest place in the world needs foreign talent

    The happiest place in the world needs foreign talent

    Finland must be attractive to foreign workers. Finland suffers from a weak labor force and is facing the demographic challenges of an aging population. The Finnish Ministry of Labor has estimated that 65,000 vacancies could have been filled in 2019 if there were no labor shortage in our country. Foreign labor is especially needed in…

  • Finland is trying out the fast lane for specialists this year

    Finland is trying out the fast lane for specialists this year

    Minister of Labor Tuula Haatainen (SDP) informed the news agency that the government intends not only to test the band this year as well, but possibly also to introduce it to all candidates who meet the criteria by the end of the year, provided the project is adequately funded by the EU Return and Flexibility…

  • Finland on trial "two weeks" allow process times in work-based migration

    Finland on trial "two weeks" allow process times in work-based migration

    The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labor announced a number of new measures to promote labor migration and attract highly skilled workers to Finland. Minister of Labor Tuula Haatainen (SDP) said the desire of the business community to streamline and expedite immigration-related applications is justified. "At the same time, the attitude of Finnish society further…

  • Technical matching platform between Cape Town and Stockholm was launched

    Technical matching platform between Cape Town and Stockholm was launched

    A new technology partnership called Cape Town / Stockholm Connect has been launched. Developers, investors, entrepreneurs and institutions from Cape Town can join them in Stockholm, Sweden. The project will run for the next three years. A new technology partnership aims to create a platform where companies, developers, investors, entrepreneurs and institutions from Cape Town…

  • Kofod: Tech ambassador cannot be measured in kroner and øre

    Kofod: Tech ambassador cannot be measured in kroner and øre

    For most of 2020, the position as Denmark’s tech ambassador was vacant, after Casper Klynge announced his farewell in January last year in favor of a job at tech giant Microsoft. It was not until August last year that Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen was hired to replace him in the position that Denmark was the…

  • The momentum to attract foreign talent

    The momentum to attract foreign talent

    In some cases, Finland is an incredibly difficult place to get to, as Flake told Yle’s A-studio earlier in October. Migri took three face-to-face meetings and several months of waiting before he was granted a temporary residence permit. The expert permit originally applied for was still not granted because he did not have a Finnish…

  • Agencies study the idea of ​​Finland as a “teleworking paradise”

    Agencies study the idea of ​​Finland as a “teleworking paradise”

    The sparsely populated country and the relatively stable coronavirus situation make Finland an attractive destination for more and more teleworkers, according to some government agencies. There is pandemic emigration in California, Stefan Lindström, The Consul General of Finland in Los Angeles, told Yle. "One of my friends, an Native American, will move to Estonia next…