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Terry Gou, the founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest assembler of iPhones, dropped out of the race to be Taiwan’s next president, hours before a deadline to formally register candidacy for the election on Friday.
It is not immediately clear whether Gou would resume any position at the company he founded, which is responsible for a majority of Apple’s iPhone production.
Gou first toyed…

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OpenAI Made an AI Breakthrough Before Altman Firing, Stoking Excitement and Concern

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