Bouncing back: Silicon Valley bets on AI to regain past glory
By France24
27 November 2023 |
1:28 pm
Thousands of Silicon Valley employees have been laid off over the past year, often finding out the bad news by email. Hit hard by rampant inflation and over-hiring during the Covid pandemic, the US tech giants of the San Francisco Bay Area have faced one of the worst crises in their history.
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