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US tech stocks fall after earnings fuel AI spending concerns
Nasdaq 100 drops 1.5% after Google parent Alphabet and Microsoft report lower than expected capex
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Alphabet shares tumble in $500bn rout
Google owner admits ‘AI mode’ has hurt traditional search as sales and profits undershoot expectations
EconomyTechCrunch
Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
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US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
EconomyThe Verge
Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest sign yet that AI is about to fundamentally change the size of Microsoft's workforce. Microsoft is now offering voluntary buyouts to arou