--- title: CHINA WILL SAVE US | daily.dev description: A tech news roundup covering several stories: Lenovo shipping laptops with YMTC (Chinese) SSDs amid rising NAND prices, Microsoft laying off ~4,800 employees... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/china-will-save-us-f5ggghjfj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: CHINA WILL SAVE US | daily.dev og:description: A tech news roundup covering several stories: Lenovo shipping laptops with YMTC (Chinese) SSDs amid rising NAND prices, Microsoft laying off ~4,800 employees... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/china-will-save-us-f5ggghjfj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f5ggGhjfj.png og:image:alt: CHINA WILL SAVE US og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # CHINA WILL SAVE US **[TechLinked](https://daily.dev/sources/techlinked)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A tech news roundup covering several stories: Lenovo shipping laptops with YMTC (Chinese) SSDs amid rising NAND prices, Microsoft laying off ~4,800 employees mostly from Xbox and sales divisions with some studios being spun off or sold, SpaceX deorbiting 260 Starlink satellites raising environmental concerns about aluminum oxide pollution, Midjourney shifting legal strategy against Disney/Universal/Warner Bros. by forcing studios to reveal their own AI use, ByteDance and Alibaba shutting down AI companions ahead of new Chinese regulations, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8/Flip 8 price leaks showing increases, Illinois signing an AI safety bill requiring third-party audits, and Google releasing an AI-generated Independence Day ad featuring Gemini. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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