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An entire logistics chain sprouted around soybeans and to support shipments to China—plants that crush and process beans into oil, rail lines and upgrades to West Coast ports.

American companies, meanwhile, were saddled with mounting legacy costs like pensions that discouraged investment in upgrades and research and development.

In the short term, having an upgraded Siri without spending the tens of billions of dollars that other big technology companies are pouring into AI could be a relief for Apple.

During that time, the museum spent a mere €3 million, the audit said, on advancing an €83 million plan for security upgrades.

At the same time, the council wrote, Edison had cut power to neighborhoods served by wires that had been undergrounded, an expensive upgrade that Edison has said would prevent the need for the shutoffs.