AI chips, shared trips, and a shorter work week

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's Indicators of the Week, our weekly news roundup. Today, AI doesn't want to invest in AI, a county in Washington state implements a 4-day work week, and NYC says bye bye to Airbnb, sorta.

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0:00.8	NPR.
0:11.6	This is the Indicator for Planet Money. I'm Adrian Ma, here with Darian Woods.
0:15.2	Hello.
0:16.0	And super special guest this week, Sarah Gonzalez from Planet Money.
0:20.7	Hey guys.
0:21.4	Welcome to the show.
0:22.6	Thank you, thank you.
0:23.7	We are here for Indicators of the Week.
0:25.6	We've got a pretty packed lineup with AI stockpickers,
0:29.6	seeing what they think of the market.
0:31.1	We're looking at the 32-hour work week,
0:33.8	and we're investigating this Airbnb crackdown.
0:37.9	Coming up after the break.
0:44.2	Indicators of the week?
0:45.2	Darian, you're first up. What you got?
0:47.2	My indicator is triple, which is related to the chip maker in video,
0:52.7	which has been in the spotlight a lot recently.
0:55.3	Its share price has more than tripled this year.
0:58.8	It's doing very, very well because a lot of AI systems use its chips.
1:04.4	Investors were laser-focused on its earnings report this week,
1:07.9	which came in even stronger than expected.
1:10.5	Its share price shot up even further.
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