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Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

9 December 2025 at 11:31
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.

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Ben Horowitz, a major A.I. venture capitalist, in 2019. β€œThe clearest sign that we are not actually in a bubble is the fact that everyone is talking about a bubble,” he said.

The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley

27 November 2025 at 08:10
Paulina Borsook’s β€œCyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.

Β© Bryan Meltz for The New York Times

Paulina Borsook in Berkeley, Calif. Her 1999 book, β€œCyberselfish,” was largely ignored and written off as overly skeptical of Silicon Valley at the time.
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