Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: ‘Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud’ … Impersonating a YouTube exec … and how refugees are driving AI at big tech firms
We’re one month in to the blockbuster trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of blood testing startup Theranos, and it shows no sign of releasing its grip on the public imagination. Dozens of members of the media, myself included, have lined up each week since 31 August outside a crowded courthouse in San Jose, California, to bear witness to the justice process surrounding the company and its downfall – which has been called “Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud”.
