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[ad_1] China’s tech exports to the US have cratered, but demand from the rest of the world is keeping the East Asian giant’s trade machine humming.In August, Chinese shipments of tech products to the US plunged 70% compared to the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis published Sunday.The collapse followed the rollout of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, including a 20% “fentanyl tariff” on all Chinese imports that took effect in March.Meanwhile, other Asian economies filled the gap. From the fourth quarter through August, tech exports to the US from countries like South Korea, Vietnam, and…

[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella arrived in the US in 1988 to attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He graduated in 1990 and later received an MBA from the University of Chicago.In his memoir, “Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone,” Nadella said he married his wife in 1992, and they decided she would move from India to live with him. However, her visa application was rejected.A coworker suggested that Nadella give up his “coveted” green card for an H-1B visa as another way to bring his wife stateside. Nadella applied for the…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yann Schuermans, the CEO of Baskit, who is based in Jakarta, Indonesia. His words have been edited for length and clarity.By 30, my career looked ideal on paper, but I couldn’t ignore the pull to create something of my own.When I was studying international management at the University of Manchester, I spent a year abroad in Hong Kong. That experience opened my eyes to Asia’s pace and possibilities, and I knew I wanted to be part of it.In 2016, two years after graduating, I joined AB InBev’s Asia Pacific headquarters…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Susan Lindgren, a 58-year-old from Santa Monica, California, who has been living in Da Nang, Vietnam, for the past year and a half. It has been edited for length and clarity.After 25 years of working as a business software consultant, I realized I was burned out.At my last job, I implemented software systems for multiple corporate clients simultaneously, and each role felt like a full-time job.I always felt like my plans were a “maybe.” Whether it was birthday parties or dinner plans, I was only committing at 80% because work…

[ad_1] 2025-09-21T22:32:22Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Paul Graham said his family canceled Disney+ after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s show. A movement to boycott Disney has grown since ABC, which Disney owns, took the show off the air. ABC suspended the show last week after Kimmel joked about Trump’s response to Charlie Kirk’s death. Y…

[ad_1] Minutes after President Donald Trump signed his H-1B visa executive order Friday evening, panic rippled through the cabin of an India-bound Emirates flight about to take off from San Francisco.As passengers’ phones lit up with calls and emails about the order, dozens of H-1B visa holders started walking off the plane one by one. Each exit sent ground crew scrambling to dig through the hold for luggage. In the cabin, tempers frayed. People whispered anxiously.From her window seat, Zarna Joshi, a US citizen and healthcare worker, watched as cart after cart of bags was hauled back away from the…

[ad_1] For years, Big Tech CEOs have touted visions of AI agents that can autonomously use software applications to complete tasks for people. But take today’s consumer AI agents out for a spin, whether it’s OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent or Perplexity’s Comet, and you’ll quickly realize how limited the technology still is. Making AI agents more robust may take a new set of techniques that the industry is still discovering. One of those techniques is carefully simulating workspaces where agents can be trained on multi-step tasks — known as reinforcement learning (RL) environments. Similarly to how labeled datasets powered the last…

[ad_1] 2025-09-21T18:34:29Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Turning Point USA hosted a memorial service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday. Local authorities said over 200,000 people registered to attend the event. Elon Musk attended alongside Trump, Vance, and other leaders. Tens of thousands of mourners arrived in droves at State Farm Stadium in Arizona on Sunday…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tanush Sharanarthi, a 26-year-old software engineer based in the Bay Area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I work at IBM as a software engineer.I joined three years ago and have been applying for an H-1B visa ever since. The process was rough for me because I wasn’t picked all three times.The H-1B lottery system isn’t merit-based. Each year, there’s one lottery where applicants are put into a pool, and around 85,000 people are picked randomly. Twenty thousand spots are also reserved for people with a master’s degree, but…

[ad_1] As the saying goes: when one door closes, another opens.President Donald Trump on Friday changed the rules of the H-1B visa program, which provides skilled foreign professionals permission to work in the United States.His executive order, which raised the visa application fee for new applicants from under $10,000 to $100,000, scrambled stakeholders around the world. Tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft issued travel advisories to their visa-holding staff, warning them to stay in the US or return to the country within 24 hours.In the midst of the chaos, some immigration specialists pointed to a possible side door for…