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China Mobile Chairman Yang Jie outlined a future dominated by silicon-based AI at the 2025 Shanghai World Mobile Congress. He anticipates AI surpassing human numbers, becoming critical to the global economy. Highlighting AI’s capabilities and demonstrating economic benefits, Yang projects synergistic collaboration between humans and silicon entities, fostering new industries and driving unprecedented growth, ultimately shaping a new civilization.

Google is offering voluntary separation packages to employees across various departments, including knowledge and information, engineering, and marketing. This follows significant layoffs in 2023 and earlier voluntary separation offers to Android and Pixel hardware teams. The buyouts aim to reduce headcount and address employee anxieties about continued restructuring, despite Google’s financial health.