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DON'T PIVOT INTO AI RESEARCH

Chip design used to be a high-profile role, with the most famous chip designers viewed similarly to how famous machine learning researchers are seen today. Many students flocked to the industry as the number of chip companies boomed and the field was in demand. However, as market dynamics changed, the supply of hardware engineers grew too high. The high capital costs for chip manufacturing drove the number of employers down to a handful of major chip makers. The field of AI research will likely play out the same way.

GOOGLE ANTITRUST VERDICT LEAVES APPLE WITH “INCONVENIENT ALTERNATIVES”

Apple benefited greatly from Google's monopoly. While the Department of Justice has not yet said what it will seek for a remedy to the antitrust case, Apple will likely be deeply involved. Apple could be forced to accept a much less lucrative agreement with Microsoft or may be prevented from selling search defaults at all. Mozilla may also be heavily impacted by the decision - Google's 2021 payment to the company for the default position on its browser was about 80 percent of Mozilla's operating budget.

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