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Big Tech’s AI Push Is Costing a Lot More Than the Moon Landing

It’s bigger than the railroad expansion of the 1850s, the Apollo space program that put astronauts on the moon in the 1960s and the decadeslong build-out of the U.S. interstate highway system that...

Big Tech’s AI Push Is Costing a Lot More Than the Moon Landing

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