The US needs to reinvent manufacturing for the AI age, or risk losing out to China, Marc Andreessen warns

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Workers applying digital technology to produce core components of an elevator in Haian, Jiangsu Province, China, on January 23, 2024.
Marc Andreessen urged policymakers to reimagine factories not as relics of the past, but as engines of America's AI future.

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Companies are struggling to fill manufacturing positions, let alone plan for what Trump's administration has in mind

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Donald Trump tours a Carrier factory with Greg Hayes, CEO of United Technologies (L) in Indianapolis
Reshoring manufacturing is a cornerstone of Trump's policy.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink is hiring technicians to ramp up manufacturing

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Neuralink recently posted job listings on its website and held multiple hiring events at its facilities in California and Texas this month.

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Russia's defense industry has a massive labor shortage. Rules on what jobs women can do are part of the issue.

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Putin visiting Uralvagonzavod, Russia's main tank factory, in February 2024.

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Palmer Luckey's startup Anduril raises $1.5 billion to build a Tesla-style weapons factory

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A rendering of Anduril's new manufacturing hub, Arsenal-1. A grey futuristic building with solar panels on top is surrounded by grass.
A rendering of Arsenal-1, the factory planned by Palmer Luckey's Anduril.

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The most immediate threat to China's economy isn't external. It's internal.

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Chinese and foreign tourists in Shanghai, China.
China's economic challenges include weak consumer sentiment and demand.

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China basically just admitted it's also concerned about solar panel overcapacity

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Solar panels on buildings in the Anhui province of China.

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The 10 highest-paying blue-collar construction jobs in the US

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Trade jobs like electric power-line installers can earn over $80,000 annually in the US.

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The EU slapped massive tariff hikes on China's EV giants. Investors don't seem to care.

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Employees work on an EV factory assembly line in China.
Employees work on an EV factory assembly line in China.

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China became the world's factory by selling cheap goods. This strategy won't work for EVs.

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A large number of Chinese-made cars and construction machinery are gathering at the port of Yantai, waiting to be loaded for export, in Yantai, China, on April 1, 2024.
A large number of Chinese-made cars and construction machinery are gathering at the port of Yantai, waiting to be loaded for export.

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