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AI Gold Rush: When Tech Titans Spend Billions and Investors Want Their Money...Yesterday

Silicon Valley is like a giant gold rush town, except instead of dusty prospectors with pickaxes, you've got tech billionaires in hoodies wielding credit cards the size of surfboards. They're all chasing the same shiny nugget: Artificial Intelligence, the magical element everyone thinks will change the world. The Great AI Gold Rush: When Tech Titans Spend Billions and Investors Want Their Money...Yesterday For a while, it was a party! Stock prices soared higher than a rogue hot air balloon, fueled by dreams of robots doing our laundry and fridges that order groceries themselves. Investors were giddy, throwing money at anything with "AI" in the name, faster than you could say "machine learning." But then, as with any good gold rush story, things got a little...complicated. Here's where our heroes, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Microsoft, enter the scene. Both companies, pockets bulging with investor cash, decided to build humongous server farms, basicall...