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Chips, workplace software, and the infrastructure behind the American internet economy.
Artificial intelligence
Ultrafast, in limited preview, is billed at up to 750 tokens a second — about 14 times standard speed — for incident response, trading desks and live support.
Semiconductors
New tools are arriving in Arizona and Texas. The jobs that follow are clustered in engineering, equipment maintenance and specialized construction — not a broad factory boom.
Workplace technology
Accounting, logistics and customer-service teams are piloting copilots. CIOs say they will pay for proven time savings — not for another platform that needs a six-month integration.