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| June 2025 |
Silicon Valley BART extension
Agency staff recommended terminating the Kiewit Shea Traylor contract due to cost disagreements, potentially adding 18 months of delay to the project.
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| 2025 | Aarthi Ramamurthy launched Schema Ventures at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, announcing a $20 million first fund focused on early-stage opportunities for 'exceptional outsider founders' in developer tools and back-end infrastructure. |
| May 2025 | Joined a U.S. technology policy delegation to the Middle East, conducting 'AI diplomacy' and negotiating the spread of U.S. AI technologies with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. |
| May 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced beating NVIDIA Blackwell in Llama 4 Inference, achieving more than double the performance at over 2,500 tokens per second/user on the 400B parameter Llama 4 Maverick model.
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| May 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras unveiled Qwen3-32B, an open-weight LLM model built for high-speed reasoning and performance.
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| May 2025 |
Cerebras
In an interview, CEO Andrew Feldman stated that the company had obtained clearance from a U.S. committee to sell shares to G42 and hopes to go public in 2025.
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| 2025 |
San Jose, California
San Jose's population increased again, returning the city to its 12th largest city ranking.
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| 2025 |
PayPal Mafia
Elon Musk begins serving as a senior advisor to United States President Donald J. Trump and as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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| 2025 |
PayPal Mafia
Peter Thiel begins helping the management of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during the second presidency of Donald Trump.
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| April 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras partnered with Canadian photonics company Ranovus and secured a contract from DARPA to address compute bottleneck challenges.
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| April 2025 |
Cerebras
Meta announced a partnership with Cerebras to power the new Llama API, offering developers inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU-based solutions.
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| April 13 2025 | Milestone of turning 44 years old (based on her birth date of April 13). |
| 2025 | Aha! introduced Aha! Discovery, a new tool to help product teams manage customer interviews, centralize meeting transcripts, and link insights to roadmaps. |
| March 2025 | Promoted to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AI Squared, leading the dual-use technology company with significant Department of Defense and intelligence agency engagements. |
| March 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced six new datacenters across the United States and Europe, increasing inference capacity twentyfold to over 40 million tokens per second.
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| March 19 2025 | SoftBank Group announced its plan to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion, with the deal set to close in the second half of 2025. Ampere will remain an independent subsidiary with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. |
| February 2025 |
Google
Google announced the end of its minority recruitment targets and a reevaluation of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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| February 19 2025 | CHM appointed Marc Etkind, a former NASA Communications Leader, as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. |
| February 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced a collaboration with Perplexity AI, enabling their Sonar model to run at 1,200 tokens per second and deliver near-instantaneous AI-powered search results.
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| February 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras partnered with Mistral AI, providing computer power for Le Chat app that can respond to user questions at 1,000 words per second.
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| February 6 2025 | Reported by Reuters to be accompanying Vice President Vance to the Paris AI Summit, a major artificial intelligence event focusing on AI's potential with representatives from around 100 countries. |
| January 2025 | Continued reduction of DEI programs in Silicon Valley tech companies amid ongoing economic headwinds and cost-cutting measures. |
| January 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced support for DeepSeek's R1 70B reasoning model, claiming 57x faster performance at 1,600 tokens/second compared to GPU-based systems.
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| January 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras and Mayo Clinic announced a new genomic foundation model at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, aimed at transforming genomics and personalizing healthcare, with an initial focus on Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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| 2024 | Darren Kimura was announced as the President and Chief Operating Officer of AI Squared, a venture-backed company by NEA. |
| 2024 |
PayPal Mafia
After the United States presidential election, several PayPal Mafia members assumed significant government roles under Donald Trump's administration: JD Vance became Vice President, Elon Musk was appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and David Sacks became an advisor on AI and cryptocurrencies.
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| 2024 |
PayPal Mafia
Elon Musk donated over $250 million to Donald Trump's re-presidential campaign, demonstrating significant political financial support.
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| 2024 | Krishnan was potentially planning to leave a16z to pursue a project related to Elon Musk's and Vivek Ramaswamy's work at DOGE. |
| 2024 | Endorsed Donald Trump and donated to his presidential campaign. |
| 2024 | Donated $250,000 to Clear Choice, a liberal political action committee aimed at preventing third-party interference with Democratic candidates. |
| 2024 | Contributed with his sons half of the cash contributions to the political committee Oakland United to Recall Sheng Thao (OUST). |
| 2024 | Settled insider trading allegations with the SEC, agreeing to pay a civil penalty of nearly $1 million and receiving a five-year prohibition from serving as an officer or director of a public company. The settlement was related to insider trading involving Cisco's proposed acquisition of Acacia Communications, with illegal option trades netting over $400,000 in profits. |
| 2024 |
Henry Shi
Super.com was named one of America's fastest growing companies by Financial Times, with the company having grown to over 250 employees and generating $150M in annual revenue.
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| 2024 |
Apple Inc.
Charged by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for violations of the National Labor Relations Act, including maintaining unlawful employee contracts and illegally firing labor activist Janneke Parrish.
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| 2024 |
Apple Inc.
Faced a lawsuit by two female employees claiming bias in hiring and performance-review practices.
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| 2024 | Reintroduced Boris Johnson to Elon Musk, as reported by the Financial Times, following Musk's nomination to the proposed Department of Government Efficiency. |
| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Kamala Harris wins Presidential election in California with 63% of the vote
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| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Adam Schiff wins Senate regular election with 65% of the vote
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| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Congressional election held for California's 18th congressional district, though specific details of the election outcome are not provided in the given text.
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| 2024 |
Silicon Valley BART extension
Planned groundbreaking for Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara extension (SVX Phase 2).
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| 2024 |
Cerebras
TIME Magazine recognized the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-3) as a Best Invention of 2024.
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| 2024 | Projected significant growth with revenue expected to reach $350 billion, net income of $100 billion, and workforce expanding to 183,000 employees. |
| December 31 2024 | Announced his departure from Andreessen Horowitz at the end of the year. |
| December 22 2024 | US president-elect Donald Trump announced Krishnan would be Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence in his incoming administration. |
| December 10 2024 | Alphabet unveiled its new quantum computing chip 'Willow', which solved a complex problem in five minutes – a task that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe. The announcement caused Alphabet's shares to rise about 5%, with the stock up 25% for the year. |
| November 2024 |
Google
The U.S. Department of Justice proposed significant changes to Google's business, including potential forced sale of Chrome browser, Android OS, and restrictions on search engine deals, with a trial set for April 2025.
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| November 2024 | Andreessen spoke about debanking and the deep state on Joe Rogan's podcast, and publicly opposed President Joe Biden's re-election bid, citing concerns about potential higher taxes on billionaires and stricter regulations on cryptocurrency and AI industries. |
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