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Cracks in the A.I. Borrowing Binge

Investors are growing increasingly concerned about the debt-fueled spending spree at the heart of the artificial intelligence buildout.

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Tech stocks suffered a brutal sell-off last month as artificial intelligence jitters consumed corners of the market.

Meta Settles Social Media Addiction Case, Avoiding Trial

The case, brought by an 18-year-old Mississippi woman and set for trial next week, was the fourth of nine bellwether personal injury lawsuits.

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The latest lawsuit against Meta over child social media addiction was set to go to trial in Los Angeles Superior Court next week.

The Tech Tumult Rocks Wall Street

Investors are growing nervous about the huge spending bills that tech giants are amassing to pay for their bets on artificial intelligence.

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Tech stocks sold off heavily on Friday.

Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St.

Amazon became the latest tech company to announce swelling investments in A.I. amid stumbling share prices.

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Amazon is spending heavily on new data centers to operate with this one in Ashburn, Va.

Microsoft Up, Google Down. A Tale of Two Hyperscalers.

Investors are showing little patience for lavish spending and meager returns on companies’ artificial intelligence bets.

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Investors are cheering Microsoft’s strategy around artificial intelligence.

Investors Brace for Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Bill

Tech stocks have rebounded before pivotal earnings reports from artificial intelligence hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft.

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Strong demand for Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing offering, has helped bolster the tech giant’s bottom line.

In Anthropic I.P.O., Goldman and Morgan Stanley Slug It Out for Top Bank

Anthropic named the Wall Street firms lead underwriters on its upcoming public offering, a role that will generate generous fees and enormous prestige.

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The Goldman Sachs headquarters, center, in Lower Manhattan.

Meta and SpaceX to Raise Billions More to Fund A.I. Ambitions

The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is consuming increasingly enormous amounts of cash at the biggest tech companies.

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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta. The company aims to raise up to $95 billion to invest in A.I. infrastructure.

A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

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One in five voters plan to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.

Zuckerberg’s Big Deal to Stay in California

The agreement that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, cut to stay in California underscores businesses’ fears about a major tax proposal.

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The price Meta was willing to pay to keep Mark Zuckerberg living in California: overhauling its capital structure.
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