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October 17, 2025

EP-390 U.s.-china Tech Shift 🇺🇸🇨🇳, Surveillance Privacy Concerns 🔍, Openai’s Content Safeguards 🛡️

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i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for friday, october 17th! explore the latest tech developments:

tech giants shift supply chains: microsoft, amazon, and google are moving production away from china in response to u.s.-china tensions. microsoft aims to relocate 80% of its production, amazon web services sources pcbs for ai data centers, and google strengthens server production in thailand.

amazon's ring and flock partnership: this new collaboration raises privacy concerns as ring users might contribute footage for law enforcement, sparking debates over ai surveillance and bias.

openai's sora and dr. king portrayal: openai pauses sora's video generation capabilities of dr. martin luther king jr. amidst concerns from his estate, emphasizing the need for controls over public figure likenesses.

reddit expands ai search: introducing ai-driven search in french, german, spanish, italian, and portuguese to broaden accessibility beyond english speakers.

deel's financial success: a $300 million series e funding round boosts deel's valuation to $17.3 billion despite ongoing legal disputes, attracting notable investors like ribbit capital and andreessen horowitz.

that's all for today. we'll see you back here tomorrow!

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