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Big Tech’s AI spending bonanza isn’t slowing down anytime soon.On quarterly earnings calls with investors this week, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta all raised capex guidance for the year as the AI race intensifies.The level of investment represents a dramatic spike in spending in a short period of time. Amazon…
Over the course of my career in Big Tech, I’ve been lucky to work at several successful, fast-growing companies. At Meta and Airbnb, I helped scale research and design teams from 2012 to 2022, ultimately becoming Head of Design Studio at Airbnb.I loved building teams of talented people, but it…
Russia is regularly hammering Ukrainian cities with one-way attack drones. Kyiv, however, intends to meet that threat by pouring millions of dollars into interceptor drones designed to engage Russian threats.In a statement posted to Telegram on Wednesday, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced four contracts for drone intercept technology worth over…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with retired lawyer Kristine Wu, 31, based in Hong Kong. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I pursued law solely because I saw it as a practical, respectable career, but I didn’t love it. Before starting my first job, I came across…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jay Jung, 28, a software engineer from San Francisco, about landing jobs in Big Tech. The following has been edited for length and clarity.During college, I found it hard to get internships.Since then, I’ve built my career as a software…
After 17 years in Los Angeles, I was fluent in traffic shortcuts, niche coffee shops, and how to be optimistic when someone casually mentioned they were working on a screenplay. I could parallel park on a hill, one-handed. I’d survived preschool waitlists, earthquake drills, and overpriced poke bowls. Los Angeles…
As millennials, my husband and I have long been aware that our likelihood of home ownership was abysmal. After all, the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis was still fresh in our memories as we began designing our future. So, in 2009, when we got the opportunity to have our own home…
NATO pledged to massively increase its air defenses as part of soaring defense spending. The aim is to rebuild a capability that the war in Ukraine has shown to be crucial but has been allowed to wither in the West since the end of the Cold War.The heads of government…
From taxes to student loan forgiveness, provisions in President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will soon be impacting Americans’ wallets.On Thursday, the House passed the final version of the bill, which would extend the president’s 2017 tax cuts and make key changes to the tax system, along with implementing significant…
Elon Musk is not done slamming President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” just yet.Musk started criticizing Trump’s spending bill on June 5 but walked back the attacks just days later. Musk said in an X post on June 11 that some of his remarks on Trump had gone “too…
