China Doesn’t Want Our Money

A tech news roundup covering China's directive for top tech companies to reject US investments without government approval, Meta laying off 8,000 employees (10% of workforce) while committing $135B to data centers, Microsoft offering voluntary buyouts to ~8,700 senior employees, Apple patching an iOS vulnerability that allowed the FBI to recover deleted Signal messages via push notification databases, Microsoft enabling IT admins to uninstall Copilot from enterprise devices, a ransomware negotiator pleading guilty to secretly aiding the Black Cat hacking group, and Sony's AI ping-pong robot becoming the first machine to beat a professional player under official tournament rules.