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Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, called AI a “really unusually large, maybe once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity,” evidenced by his company’s projection for a record $75 billion in spending for 2024.

Technology

Tech giants are set to spend $200 billion this year chasing AI

Companies are racing to secure the scarce high-end chips and build the sprawling data centers the technology demands, and facing extreme costs to do so.

Mark Bergen and Lynn Doan, Bloomberg

Business

SAP’s Industry Center in Delco uses artificial intelligence to streamline manufacturing

Joseph N. DiStefano

As the cost of hair color and other products has increased, some Philadelphia-area consumers have seen their salon bills increase.

Small Business

$500 hair appointments are becoming the norm as the cost of cuts and colors rise

Erin McCarthy

Roxborough Memorial Hospital's emergency department is shown in 2021.

Health

Staffing firm failed to pay ED physicians at Lower Bucks, Roxborough, and Suburban Hospitals

Harold Brubaker

The years spent apart from colleagues have rusted workers’ social skills, and new ways of working have spawned a host of fresh etiquette issues. Meanwhile, younger workers are making up an increasing share of the workforce and bringing with them a preference for more-casual working environments, which is creating friction with older generations, experts say.

Business

Business etiquette classes boom as people relearn how to act at work

Taylor Telford, Washington Post

Economy

Transportation

SEPTA workers might strike soon. It wouldn’t be the first time.

The Transport Workers Union, now in negotiations with SEPTA, has gone out on strike before. So have other SEPTA unions. Here is what happened in previous strikes.

Thomas Fitzgerald

Commuters pass the closed SEPTA station at 31st Street and Market during the afternoon commute on the first day of a SEPTA strike on Nov. 1, 2016.

Transportation

SEPTA workers might strike soon. It wouldn’t be the first time.

The Transport Workers Union, now in negotiations with SEPTA, has gone out on strike before. So have other SEPTA unions. Here is what happened in previous strikes.

Thomas Fitzgerald

Economy