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Nvidia posted another record quarter, but Wall Street wasn't impressed. Shares fell after-hours as investors grow anxious about whether the chip giant can sustain its extraordinary pace of growth, especially with competition intensifying and the AI spending boom showing early signs of maturation.

That tension between AI ambition and financial reality is playing out inside Meta as well. The company has laid off thousands of employees, with management telling affected staff the cuts are necessary to offset the cost of its massive AI investments. It's a stark reminder that building the future often means restructuring the present, and that workers are bearing much of that cost.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the UK government quietly increased the maximum value of its National Health Service AI procurement framework by six hundred million pounds, bringing the total to seven hundred fifty million, after conversations with tech suppliers made clear the original figure simply wasn't realistic. The revision raises fair questions about who's driving these numbers and whether public institutions are negotiating from a position of strength.

Those three stories tell one larger story this week: AI is expensive, the bill is coming due, and the people absorbing the consequences are rarely the ones who made the bets. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.

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