Technology Companies Are Cutting Jobs and Wall Street Likes It
The sector is laying off workers after a hiring boom during the pandemic and their share prices are soaring.
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The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted
In Solano County, Calif., a who’s who of tech money is trying to build a city from the ground up. But some of the locals whose families have been there for generations don’t want to sell the land.
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How Elon Musk and Larry Page’s AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom
The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.
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The A.I. Industry’s Desperate Hunt for GPUs Amid a Chip Shortage
To power artificial-intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordinary measures to obtain critical chips known as graphics processing units, or GPUs.