Sam Altman’s recent global tour across Japan, South Korea, and India highlights OpenAI’s ambitious drive to establish strategic alliances throughout Asia. While SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, chairman of the Stargate joint venture, has played a crucial role in facilitating these connections, Altman’s engagement remains vital to OpenAI’s regional expansion plans.

TSMC has revised its sales growth prediction for the first quarter of 2025, narrowing its guidance range due to manufacturing losses from a significant earthquake that struck southern Taiwan in January.

Since Donald Trump’s election to a second term as US president, global political and economic media have closely scrutinized his every word and action. However, many have observed that Trump often makes bold claims that the US cannot realistically fulfill. For example, he promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24 hours and to have a direct phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the same timeframe, yet neither of which materialized.