Signal through the noise
Weekly Silicon is an AI-ranked news site covering semiconductors, AI, and Silicon Valley. Every day the pipeline pulls hundreds of stories from newswires, RSS feeds, Hacker News, Google News, and Reddit, removes the duplicates, and has an AI editor score each one across five weighted dimensions. What you see on the homepage is the ranked result, refreshed through the day.
The premise: most tech coverage is the same handful of stories rewritten dozens of times, and the loudest story is rarely the most important one. Scoring every story against a fixed, public rubric surfaces the news that actually changes things, including the workforce and regional stories the hype cycle skips.
How the scoring works
How technically novel or capability-advancing the development is. Genuine engineering progress scores high; press-release "revolutionary" claims do not.
Dollars, deals, capacity, and the structure of competition. Fab buildouts, major funding rounds, earnings surprises that move a sector.
Hiring, layoffs, training programs, and automation displacement. Workforce stories are systematically undercovered elsewhere; we weight them deliberately.
How directly the story affects US tech hubs: Silicon Valley, Texas, Arizona, Ohio, the Pacific Northwest, and the Northeast.
Export controls, CHIPS Act activity, antitrust, immigration, and cross-border friction. State action, not corporate strategy.
Each story gets an integer score from 1 to 10 on each dimension; the composite is the weighted sum. Rankings are editorial judgments made by a machine, and like any editor, it has a point of view.
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