In the four weeks that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was on trial on fraud charges, the tech industry:Reacted to the war in Israel and Gaza, including protesting a tech conference organizer’s social media posts about the conflict.
Buzzed over a manifesto from a top venture capitalist outlining a list of enemies to technological progress.
Scrambled to invest money in the hottest artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, at triple its valuation earlier this year.
Hotly debated the new features on Threads, a social media site owned by Meta.
But a simpler answer could be that the tech industry has again done what it does best: move on to the next thing.
Persons:
Sam Bankman, Bankman
Organizations:
Meta
Locations:
Israel, Gaza, FTX