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While tech companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, they are also competing fiercely for AI talent — and the AI boom is reshaping the choices available to workers.Alongside established giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon, frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic now offer the chance to work at…
TAIPEI — There’s a term in Taiwan for the hardened, military-aged Americans who mysteriously pop up at the island’s annual simulation of a Chinese invasion.”English teachers.”Vaguely employed and surprisingly fit, they are often spotted in small groups, chatting with local soldiers, walking double-time on the streets, and giving death stares…
The US military has awarded a massive contract to dramatically ramp up the production of Tomahawk cruise missiles, the Pentagon said on Monday, after burning through hundreds of these long-range munitions during the Iran conflict.The $22.9 billion contract awarded to US defense contractor RTX’s Raytheon follows an earlier framework agreement…
When Vinit Juneja started as a software engineer at Amazon last year, he knew he might leave one day for a more attractive role.But after watching colleagues lose their jobs during two rounds of layoffs that eliminated roughly 30,000 positions at Amazon, another factor took on new importance: job security.”I…
Heading into the fall, retailers will need to shift their emphasis more toward offering a better value for cash-strapped households.While retail prices are relatively straightforward things, value is harder to nail down as households are continuing to look for ways to get the most out of their limited dollars. Other…
CMOs: Get ready to field more sales pitches from Nielsen.The TV ratings giant surprised the ad industry by announcing plans to buy DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion — and sent chins wagging with hot takes about the implications.At stake: trustworthy data.CMOs depend on data to craft their strategies, but it’s often…
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Kirk Gafill, an owner and general manager of Nepenthe, a restaurant on California’s Big Sur coast that is under an evacuation order due to the Timber Fire. Gafill is also the president of the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce. This story…
In his 12 years on the job, Justin Berk, a 44-year-old product manager at an insurance-tech company, had seen his employer get bought and sold twice. All he had received in return was a “pat on the back” at a company meeting.”A pat on the back is nice, but it…
On a cold morning in Dallas shortly before Christmas last year, CEO Colin Webb watched one of his robots work an eight-hour shift alongside warehouse workers. The wheeled machine, equipped with two robotic arms, spent the day packing beauty products into pouches as part of a pilot.A few miles away,…
Michael Burry looks to be in the chips after a timely bet against semiconductor stocks.The investor of “The Big Short” fame said in a June 30 post on Substack that he’d shorted the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) at about $643, and refreshed his bearish put options on it too.The exchange-traded…
