Category: Tech

I’ve been building technology companies for over two decades. But my journey begins far from the glitzy headquarters and investment offices of Silicon Valley, in the fields of rural China. My early life gave few indications of the journey of discovery that lay ahead. It was simple, fraught with challenges—and perhaps counterintuitively, it planted the seeds of curiosity and boundary-pushing that have driven me right down to the present day.

Just two days earlier, on January 18, Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs, constituting around 5 percent of its global employees, with CEO Satya Nadella warning “some parts of the world are in a recession and other parts are anticipating one.”

The move, announced Tuesday by Beijing’s Commerce Ministry, could propel the economic rivalry between the two powers and their respective supply chains.

China has explicitly decided to target crucial materials for the production semiconductors, mobile devices, solar panels, and defense systems.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has become the latest tech billionaire to signal allegiance to Donald Trump by pledging to donate to the president-elect’s inaugural fund.

An OpenAI spokesperson told Newsweek on Friday that Altman would make a $1 million “personal donation” to Trump’s fund. Altman said in a statement that “President Trump will lead our country into the age of AI, and I am eager to support his efforts to ensure America stays ahead.”