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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Myung-hee Na, an engineer with more than two decades of experience in the semiconductor industry who leads technology research at Intel Foundry. At Intel, she focuses on developing next-generation technology in semiconductor chips. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve worked in the US, Europe, and Korea, and across all those places, the technology itself was the same. Device physics is device physics, no matter where you are.The culture around that technology, however, can be very different.There is the culture of the country, the company, and the technology sector…

Highway 321 runs like a lifeline through Pigeon Forge, a tourist town in the US state of Tennessee. On either side of the road, at the foot of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, amusement parks sit alongside two-story motels and toothless fast-food joints with drive-through windows — it doesn’t get much more American than this.Inside a Pizza Hut branch here, televisions flicker against beige tiled walls, the windows have taken on a yellowish film, and garlands reading “We love USA” dangle from the ceiling, swaying wearily in the breeze of the air conditioning. After nearly half an hour’s wait, a…

If it talks like AI, and it walks like AI, it might just be AI.An application to the startup accelerator Y Combinator includes several written prompts. Founders need to explain how they picked the idea, who their competitors are, and how they’ll make money. Many techies have offloaded their writing skills to AI — and application data suggests it shows in their applications.YC applications have grown by 60% in length over the past three years, according to partner Tyler Bosmeny. “I wonder what could explain that…” he wrote on X.Pete Koomen, another YC partner, wrote on X that he noticed a…

Jean-Michel Lemieux missed building things with people.The former chief technology officer at Shopify served on boards and dabbled in VC work, yet said that leadership alone left him too far removed from the work.”I’m in these board meetings, and it feels like I’m a coach of a pro team, but I can’t see them play the game,” Lemieux, 54, said.He said he loves the energy of “hands on keyboard.” So, these days, he’s working at Spellbook, which makes an AI copilot for lawyers. With the title “executive individual contributor,” he’s able to both lead and build.”I love that adrenaline,” he…

Everyone has that one colleague they dread working with.If you haven’t yet, it’s probably only a matter of time, T-Mobile’s former chief business and product officer, Mike Katz, told Business Insider.Katz began his career as a college student selling cellphone services at retailers before working his way up the C-suite. He exited his role in July to pursue new professional interests and will remain in a strategic advisory role through December 2026.”There’s going to be people that you run into that, no matter all your best efforts, they’re just going to be super difficult,” said Katz. Mike Katz has held…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rose Marie Obey, an 80-year-old widow living in a retirement community in Ambler, Pennsylvania. The following has been edited for length and clarity.After my husband of 54 years, Lee, died last year, I knew I didn’t want to stay in our big house. I visited a friend at a retirement community and didn’t like it, but I found another community, Gwynedd Estates in Ambler, Pennsylvania, that appealed to me more.It’s pretty. It’s white. I like how they keep the lawn. I have a parking space. It’s quiet. When I walk in…

Nvidia is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, according to a cluster of job listings posted late last month.The company is hiring a distinguished engineer to serve as a “founding technical leader” for the “newly assembled team,” as well as a security research engineer, an evaluation engineer, and a senior manager. The team will evaluate AI agents before they’re deployed and build AI-powered tools to patch software vulnerabilities, according to the job listings.The hiring suggests Nvidia is making AI safety a bigger priority as it bets on a future shaped by open-weight models and AI agents. Open-weight models…

JPMorgan Chase announced plans to shell out $750 billion to boost America’s home supply — and it isn’t the only big bank in the housing development game.The Jamie Dimon-led financial giant said this week that it will finance 1 million affordable housing units and help 500,000 buyers purchase homes over the next decade through its “American Dream Initiative,” which focuses on local-level economic development. While the firm is already among the US’ top multifamily and residential mortgage lenders, this is the biggest investment it has ever made in homebuilding initiatives.”Housing, you have two issues: One is affordable, so we’re doing…

As leveraged exchange-traded funds draw growing scrutiny, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is pointing to a broader risk across markets.”Market leverage is pretty high,” Dimon told CNBC in an interview aired on Wednesday.”When you have that, you do have a higher chance that something will disrupt the market in a quick way and people will get rattled over it,” he said.Dimon made the comments after being asked about the proliferation of leveraged single-stock ETFs that have drawn renewed attention in recent weeks.While Dimon said leveraged ETFs were not his primary concern, he pointed instead to broader market leverage.”Margin debt is…

DoorDash’s delivery robot isn’t quite ready for prime time.The delivery service has spent the last several months testing its Dot delivery robot as it makes deliveries in parts of Phoenix, Arizona. And while the company is working on securing permits for Dot to expand to other cities, there’s still a lot that the company needs to figure out before it expands the autonomous delivery option, CEO Tony Xu said on a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday.”I’m a big believer that you really have to nail something before you scale it,” Xu said.To make autonomous deliveries work, DoorDash has to correctly…