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- Michael Bloomberg said he opted for a lower-paying job when he started his banking career.
- Bloomberg said young people are "looking at the wrong thing" and are too focused on pay and titles.
- Gen Zers in particular value work-life balance and flexibility, sometimes more so than pay.
Michael Bloomberg may be worth more than $100 billion, but he
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- Nandita Giri shares her journey from Amazon to working as a senior software engineer at Microsoft.
- She has observed the rising demand for AI skills at Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft throughout her career.
- Giri recommends self-learning AI and suggests one hour a day for beginners in artificial intelligence.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nandita

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- Common Gap connects high school graduates with startup jobs for paid gap year experiences.
- The program targets ambitious teens interested in taking a year off before or during college.
- Startups will pay gap year takers at least $75,000 annually, with some offers exceeding $100,000.
The college application season is well underway, and high school
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- Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal signals an important shift in the AI market.
- AI workloads are moving from model training to real-time inference as the main focus.
- Specialized inference chips like Groq's LPUs offer speed and efficiency over traditional GPUs.
For years, Nvidia's rise has been synonymous with one idea: GPUs are the engine of
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- Microsoft is reshuffling teams to bolster its GitHub software development platform.
- It's part of a plan to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding tools, recent meeting audio shows.
- GitHub faces new AI rivals such as Cursor and Claude Code as developer preferences shift.
Microsoft wants to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding rivals and

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