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Inside the Secretive City Hosting Tech Giants' R&D Hubs

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from MIT Technology Review ·

A city of 400,000 people hosts R&D hubs for Apple, Anthropic, Disney Research, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI. This concentration of tech giants rivals Silicon Valley in research density. The city's small size and secrecy make it a unique tech enclave.

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The story highlights an overlooked tech hub but risks overstating its secrecy—most of these companies' R&D locations are publicly known.
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