I was a leader at Google and Microsoft. I thought my traumatic brain injury would hurt my career, but instead it made me stronger.

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Naseem Rochette was run over by a car in 2018. This changed the way she could function in Big Tech leadership.

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Virginia's data center construction boom is even bigger than you think. One company is behind most of it.

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A Virginia data center

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I earned $600,000 last year. I made half at Google and $300,000 from my side hustle, which I spend 5 hours a week on.

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Khalid earned $302,000 in revenue from her content creation side hustle in 2024.

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The AI boom could burst like a bubble if tech companies miss their growth forecasts, top economist Steve Hanke says

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Steve Hanke
Steve Hanke.

Steve Hanke

I left the Bay Area and moved to Barcelona after my tech layoff. It felt like losing my identity, but I'm so much happier now.

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Steph Kumar relocated her family from the Bay Area to Barcelona after getting laid off and founding her own company.

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Students are outsourcing thought to ChatGPT — here's why educators should worry, a business professor warns

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Middle school students play with robots at an educational facility in Laixi, east China's Shandong province, on September 9, 2025.
Generative AI is eroding students' critical thinking and shifting control of knowledge to Big Tech, a professor warned.

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After an initial panic, Silicon Valley looks beyond the H1-B

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch

Vercel

RIP 'rest and vest.' Big Tech has a new way of paying employees.

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mini-golf, office, rest and vest

BI Graphics/Anaele Pelisson

I quit investment banking to work in Big Tech. My work life balance is better but it's harder to make friends.

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Dana Schoolsky
After two years of working in investment banking this former analyst left for a job at TikTok.

Dana Schoolsky

Trump's H-1B overhaul could kneecap startups in the talent wars.

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Trump's proposed H-1B changes have sent startups scrambling.

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