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At Match Group, every employee now has an AI budget.The parent company of Tinder, Hinge, and other dating apps recently began giving department heads a set amount to spend on AI, which is then distributed across their teams. Employees can track their usage on a dashboard, and if they want…
More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computing infrastructure being built to meet the explosive demand for artificial intelligence has sparked opposition to rising electric bills, water…
Ken Bianco lets out a brief laugh when he hears the question. Open a factory in California — where most of his customers are? “Absolutely not,” says JCB’s vice president of commercial operations, slicing the air with his hand as if swatting away a bothersome fly. “California has become too…
The next AI career path could start with a hard hat, not a laptop.Meta said Monday it is investing a $115 million in a roughly 5-week program aimed at fast-tracking careers in the skilled trades as it looks to build out data centers to support its massive AI ambitions.Called “America’s…
One AI-proof job: protecting the data centers behind the boom.Safeguarding the sprawling facilities that power AI models and cloud computing is creating demand for engineers to build the technology, as well as for workers who guard those facilities.Job postings that mention “physical security” and “data centers” have nearly quadrupled since…
America has been experiencing a productivity boom for the past five years, and economists are debating what’s driving it. Loading audio narration… Stanford University economics professor and leading remote-work researcher Nicholas Bloom has one theory: remote work is playing a major role.In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Bloom shared a…
