Pleasanton
Americannoun
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Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday’s stock, which is down about 40% this year, has been battered by investor fears that artificial intelligence chatbots and large language models will make conventional business software obsolete.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Software giant Oracle has shed more than 700 workers in Santa Monica, Redwood City, Pleasanton and Santa Clara, filings to the California Employment Development Department show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Mendoza interned at Acre Investment Company, a real-estate investment firm in Pleasanton, Calif., the summer before his sophomore year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Another Maui resident, Roger Pleasanton, told the BBC that the traffic was "like New York City right now".
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
How many out there today, across that silent field: There was Pleasanton, of the cavalry, and Newton, new commander of the First Corps.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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