Taiwan-based San Fu Chemical unveiled a broad seven-point strategic roadmap at its annual shareholder meeting on June 9, 2025, signaling the company’s intent to deepen its footprint in the semiconductor sector and expand its global presence, particularly in Vietnam.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, now refocused on company operations after stepping back from government affairs, has unveiled plans to build a fully vertically integrated battery supply chain in the US as part of a strategy to cut reliance on Chinese materials.

Flex, the Texas-based global manufacturing and supply chain services firm, has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ‘s newly launched Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM)—a bold, institute-wide collaboration aimed at revitalizing American industrial capabilities. As one of six founding members of INM’s Industry Consortium—alongside Amgen, GE Vernova, Siemens, PTC, and Sanofi—Flex is aligning itself with academia and industry to drive a transformation of manufacturing through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and scalable systems innovation.

In a dramatic shift in US immigration policy, the State Department on June 5, 2025, issued a directive halting visa approvals for students bound for Harvard University, including those on exchange programs—part of President Trump’s tighter immigration enforcement push. When a federal court temporarily blocked the move a day later, the department resumed processing those visas but imposed additional scrutiny, such as probing applicants’ social media footprints. Experts warn that with broad discretionary power in visa denial—often without explanation—many students could remain mired in indefinite “administrative processing” with little visibility into their case status.