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Plus: GM will lay off more than 3,300 workers at EV and battery plants. And Amazon Web Services plans to invest an additional $5 billion dollars in South Korea to build new AI data centers. Julie Chang hosts.

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Plus: Verizon’s profit and revenue rise in the third quarter, but postpaid phone losses continue. And Paramount will cut roughly 2,000 workers across the company. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts.

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Plus: Nvidia unveils a new product that merges AI supercomputing with quantum. And the AI giant partners with Eli Lilly to build a supercomputer that could boost drug discovery. Julie Chang hosts.



Correction: OpenAI’s nonprofit parent owns a stake in its for-profit subsidiary, which has become a public-benefit corporation. An earlier version of this podcast incorrectly said OpenAI had become a for-profit company. (Corrected Oct. 28)

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Plus: AI inference startup Fireworks AI is valued at $4 billion in its latest funding round. And Peter Thiel-backed startup Substrate raises more than $100 million to manufacture chips in the U.S. Zoe Kuhlkin hosts.

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“Circularity” is the latest buzzword in AI, as tech companies strike megadeals with each other. WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Jonathan Weil breaks down why these deals might be a win-win—and how they could go wrong. Plus, WSJ reporter Katherine Bindley explains what brought San Francisco out of the shadow of a doom loop. Belle Lin hosts.



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