Meet the Silicon Valley billionaires, founders, and investors backing Kamala Harris

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Mark Cuban, Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla
Mark Cuban, Reid Hoffman, and Vinod Khosla are among the dozens of Silicon Valley leaders backing Kamala Harris.

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Elon Musk is very publicly trying to recruit his billionaire peers to the Trump-Vance camp

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Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance at the Republican National Convention; Elon Musk at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony.
"My smartest friends, including those living in the San Francisco Bay Area who have been lifelong Dems, are excited about Trump/Vance," billionaire Elon Musk said in an X post on Sunday.

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Elon Musk asked OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla to support Trump. Khosla said he doesn't 'accept depravity'.

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Elon Musk tried but failed to convince Vinod Khosla to support Donald Trump.

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Inside Elon Musk's burn book — the non-exhaustive list of billionaires he's fought with in 2024

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Elon Musk.
Elon Musk.

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An OpenAI investor says TikTok is China's 'programmable fentanyl,' a CCP-controlled tool used to manipulate US citizens

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Vinod Khosla (left) and TikTok (right).
Early OpenAI backer, Vinod Khosla said in on op-ed for the Financial Times on Tuesday that TikTok "is an AI-powered subversion weapon" wielded by the the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP.

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Silicon Valley's elite are moralizing about the future of AI

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI on March 1.

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Silicon Valley moguls are weighing in on Elon Musk's battle with OpenAI, and it's getting cattier than a 'Real Housewives' reunion

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Elon Musk (left), Vinod Khosla (center), and Marc Andreessen (right).
Elon Musk, Vinod Khosla, and Marc Andreessen.

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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts AI will deflate the economy over the next 25 years

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Vinod Khosla, 68, was an early backer of OpenAI. In 2019, his VC firm invested $50 million into OpenAI.

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OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla says people should worry more about China than a sentient AI killing us off

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Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, 68, was an early backer of OpenAI. The billionaire's VC firm invested $50 million into the ChatGPT maker in 2019.

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AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes

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Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, predicts we'll have free doctors, tutors, and lawyers — even robots — in the next 25 years thanks to AI.

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