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Mass layoffs at Intel will mean less revenue for Oregon, even as the semiconductor industry remains a major economic driver
Experts studying Oregon employment and the semiconductor industry expect Intel to survive its current troubles, but will emerge a slimmer company with fewer workers in the state.

Virginia is for … data centers? Residents are increasingly saying no
The world's highest concentration of data centers is in Virginia. Many residents are not happy about that.

Politics
Oregon state employees to receive AI training
‘We cannot ignore the rapid growth of AI in our lives,’ Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement Friday. The state is working with InnovateUS, a nonprofit organization that has partnered with government agencies to provide no-cost AI training for public sector employees.
Intel expands layoffs, cutting more than 10% of Oregon workforce
As one of Oregon’s largest for-profit employers, the tech company is laying off nearly 2,400 workers in the state starting Monday.
Business
Intel cuts more than 500 jobs in Oregon
The global semiconductor firm signaled earlier this year layoffs were coming. Tuesday’s filing with the state shows 529 Oregon positions are being chopped.

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

Technology
Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder
The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI
The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

Alone in Tehran, a young Iranian turns to ChatGPT and video games for comfort
A young shop manager living alone in Iran's capital was panicking during the war with Israel. Her family wasn't nearby. Her therapist had fled. So she turned to an AI chat bot.

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.