A proposal to tax the accumulated wealth of California billionaires has ignited a political uproar in Silicon Valley and across the state.

Emails released by the House Oversight Committee reveal how Jeffrey Epstein maintained connections with influential figures despite his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longtime Republican donors and several of the president’s neighbors in Florida.

President Donald Trump has picked a former investor and critic of health regulations to oversee the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As the rapid, unregulated development of artificial intelligence continues, the language people in Silicon Valley use to describe it is becoming increasingly religious.

Geoffrey Hinton is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence.

The startup Olympic-style sports festival promising no drug testing has filed an $800 million antitrust lawsuit against its main critics for what it claims is an illegal campaign to make athletes boycott its own event.

A settlement has been reached in a class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders over claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

An $8 billion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leaders begins, with claims stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

A group of young engineers is playing a vital role in billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy through his Department of Government Efficiency.

X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

As he prepares to become the nation’s first millennial vice president, JD Vance is already a budding kingmaker in Republican politics and the presumptive heir to the “Make America Great Again” movement.

The super-rich have long played a role in U.S. politics but have an unusually prominent spot in incoming President Donald Trump's new administration.

Being a venture capitalist carries a lot of prestige in Silicon Valley.

Reddit soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the value of the company close to $9 billion seconds after it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Dozens of psychedelic startup companies are racing to begin selling mind-expanding drugs for depression and other mental health conditions, riding a wave of promising research and media hype.

Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down.

What made the failure of Silicon Valley Bank unique compared to past failures of large banks was how quickly it collapsed.

Can Washington come to the rescue of Silicon Valley Bank's depositors.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly led his Republican rival, venture capitalist Blake Masters, but the race that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate was too early to call.

Wednesday was a day for sorting, sifting and framing of an expensive, exhaustive and highly negative midterm election campaign.

Elon Musk used his Twitter megaphone to appeal to “independent-minded voters” on Monday, urging them to vote Republican in Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections, stepping into the country’s political debate that tech company executives have for years worked to stay out of so their platforms wouldn’t be seen as favoring one side over the other.

The first debate between Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan and Republican JD Vance descended quickly into attacks.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly distanced himself from President Joe Biden during his first and only debate against Republican Blake Masters on Thursday.

Primary elections are being held in six states on Tuesday.

The race for Arizona Senate doesn't fit easily into the Donald Trump vs.

Donald Trump has endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona.

Former President Donald Trump enters the next stretch of the midterm campaign emboldened by primary victories but facing new risks.

Millionaire candidates and billionaire investors are harnessing their considerable personal wealth to try to win competitive Republican primaries for open U.S. Senate seats in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Republicans hoping to emerge from crowded primaries this year have spent tens of thousands of dollars hiring operatives with ties to former President Donald Trump.

Former President Donald Trump’s late endorsements in hypercompetitive Republican Senate primaries in Ohio and Pennsylvania have unlocked a flood of support for his chosen candidates.

Several Republicans competing for the party’s nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia as the country intensifies its war against Ukraine.

A Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is hoping to easily secure a second term Tuesday.

The venture capitalist and author of “Hillbilly Elegy” has joined the crowded Republican race for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat being left by Rob Portman.

“Hillbilly Elegy” author J.

It cited revenues of $481 million for the first half of 2020, up 49% from the year-ago period. The document indicated that Denver-based Palantir will sell stock some time this year but did not specify a date. In the filing, Palantir said it believes current instability including systematic failures of government institutions to provide for the public present a growth opportunity for its business. Palantir initially filed for the stock sale confidentially on July 6. Under the stock listing, the documents say, control of Palantir will be concentrated with the companys founders through the designation of a new category of stock.

(AP Photo/John Hanna)HOLTON, Kan. Establishment Republican leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense party battle for the nomination in the Kansas Senate race, and they won't be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Trump's neutrality leaves the Kansas primary heading to a tight finish Tuesday under a barrage of attack ads from political action committees. Thats why the Senate race is so important in Kansas.Republican leaders have been trying to avoid a Kobach nomination for seven months, but the stakes have increased in recent weeks. The once-safe seat in a state where Republicans have won every Senate race since 1932 now looks shaky and a loss the GOP can't afford. In Kansas, Kobach has played up his ties to the president even without an endorsement.