Slate Money - The $12.93 Billion Emoji Joke

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Sep 5, 202645:35News & Politics

This week: Nvidia joined Silicon Valley’s A.I. investment frenzy and bought Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Felix Salmon , Elizabeth Spiers , and Emily Peck discuss what this deal signals about the astounding amounts of...

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