{"id":22441,"date":"2026-03-24T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:37:34","slug":"divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger\/","title":{"rendered":"Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck <\/p>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery. This week in tech, we discuss a moment of divergence between Silicon Valley and everyday people; deep cuts at Meta to maximize spending on AI; writers caught using AI; and the frightening, fiery crashes of the Tesla Cybertruck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/21\/fbi-mass-surveillance-data-artificial-intelligence\">How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance \u2013 even without AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/kash-patel-fbi-location-data\">Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/19\/fbi-buying-location-data-use\">Why is the FBI buying people\u2019s location data and how is it using the information?<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/24\/silcon-valley-ai-techscape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/33b11539ba53c3319b8e079458592ca7a6586bf4\/787_0_6665_5335\/master\/6665.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2a7019cf2141d7f0bb36e41e2ca4d761\" title=\"Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger\" \/>Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery. This week in tech, we discuss a moment of divergence between Silicon Valley and everyday people; deep cuts at Meta to maximize spending on AI; writers caught using AI; and the frightening, fiery crashes of the Tesla Cybertruck.<br \/>\nHow the FBI can conduct mass surveillance \u2013 even without AI<br \/>\nKash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans<br \/>\nWhy is the FBI buying people\u2019s location data and how is it using the information? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big tech believes the future is AI while everyday Americans remain wary; and the dangers of riding in a Tesla Cybertruck Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m your host, Blake Montgomery. This week in tech, we discuss a moment of divergence between Silicon Valley and everyday people; deep cuts at Meta to maximize spending on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/divide-between-silicon-valley-and-ordinary-people-grows-ever-larger\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Divide between Silicon Valley and ordinary people grows ever larger<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}