2025-10-15
“OpenAI is working on new revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising as part of a five-year plan to make good on the more than $1tn in spending it has pledged to create world-leading artificial intelligence.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T+ spending pledges; OpenAI currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumer ChatGPT use
New revenue lines, debt partnerships and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs
2023-01-23
A topic that China has battled for years. How to make live streams work? Can Big Tech make livestreams safe? https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A look at the challenge of moderating livestreams for children and vulnerable users, even if age verification can be improved and privacy concerns addressed
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2022-12-26
“The consensus among analysts is that company revenues this quarter will fall just below the record $123.9bn it achieved over the same period last year, with net profits projected to tumble more than 8 per cent” https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Experts warn of a months-long disruption risk to Apple's iPhone production, operations, and Chinese consumer demand caused by China's latest COVID-19 wave
Supply chain experts warn outbreak following reversal of zero-Covid curbs creates uncertainty for iPhone maker
2022-11-28
“According to several employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post, concern about the virus started to spread when the factory imposed daily PCR testing requirements on workers starting October 10” https://www.scmp.com/...
Bloomberg
Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue
Turmoil at Apple Inc.'s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close …
“According to several employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post, concern about the virus started to spread when the factory imposed daily PCR testing requirements on workers starting October 10” https://www.scmp.com/...
South China Morning Post
Inside Zhengzhou's “iPhone City” lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots
2022-11-27
“According to several employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post, concern about the virus started to spread when the factory imposed daily PCR testing requirements on workers starting October 10” https://www.scmp.com/...
South China Morning Post
Inside Zhengzhou's “iPhone City” lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots
South China Morning Post :
2022-11-26
“According to several employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post, concern about the virus started to spread when the factory imposed daily PCR testing requirements on workers starting October 10” https://www.scmp.com/...
South China Morning Post
Inside Zhengzhou's “iPhone City” lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots
In a widely cited anecdote about the power of the Chinese workforce, a manager at an iPhone factory was once able …
2022-05-19
“China has not officially disclosed that it has two exascale systems. But their existence was confirmed late last year when scientific research run using the machines was entered for the Gordon Bell prize” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A look at the competition between China and the US to build exascale supercomputers, useful for defense and climate modeling, as China pulls ahead
World's biggest economies battle to dominate advanced processing power that will affect defence and climate modelling
2021-11-25
“The US has placed a dozen Chinese groups involved in quantum computing and other advanced technologies on an export blacklist, saying they pose a risk of gaining access to critical American technologies for the People's Liberation Army” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
The US places a dozen Chinese groups developing quantum computing, semiconductor, and aerospace technologies on an entity list, blocking exports to them
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times :
2021-06-08
“Apple's decision to withhold the feature in China is the latest in a string of compromises the company has made on privacy in a country that accounts for nearly 15% of its revenue” https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Apple: iCloud Private Relay will not work in China, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user's web browsing behavior …
2020-11-02
“India's economy has been hard hit by the virus, contracting almost 24% in the quarter that ended in June. But its booming education technology industry is hiring a record number of new employees, with many Indians doing more learning online as well” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Online study company Chegg says its subscribers grew 69% YoY to 3.7M in the last quarter, as many parents from the US turn to online tutors, many from India
helping students work through difficult homework questions—depends on thousands of freelancers, largely from India, to do the answering. It added thousands more in recent months to...
2020-10-02
‘The assessment was given by an oversight board, chaired by a member of the cyber-spy agency GCHQ. It said the agency had seen no evidence that Huawei had made a significant shift in its approach to the matter’ https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC
UK report says Huawei has failed to adequately tackle security flaws in its telco equipment despite previous complaints
Gordon Corera / BBC :