Jun 7, 2024

Woah, that’s a lot of jobs

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We learned this morning that the U.S. economy added 272,000 new jobs in May. Let's put that into context.

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Unpacking today's jobs report

by Sabri Ben-Achour

The U.S. economy added a lot more jobs than many economists predicted. And it’s 110,00 more jobs than were added to the economy the month before. But the unemployment rate did tick up. We discuss with Christopher Low of FHN Financial.

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Two antitrust probes into giants of the AI race

by Nova Safo

According to multiple reports, the Justice Department will target chipmaker Nvidia, while the Federal Trade Commission will look into the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI in fresh antitrust inquiries.

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by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder

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