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Oct 23, 2026
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OpenAI's CFO, Sarah Fryer, and its chief research officer, Mark Chen, invested personally.
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In Taiwan, 11 union officials at Micron's Taoyuan memory plant held a symbolic one-day strike on Thursday.
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The union wants 15% of operating profit to go to workers, as demand for AI memory sends revenues up.
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More than 2,000 workers had planned to stop work.
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But a day earlier, Micron signed a deal with its much bigger Taichung union, and the Taoyuan union says it was left out.
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Talks resume today.
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Andreessen Horowitz gave its crypto unit a new name, a 16Z Frontier.
JessicaHOST
Today we are talking about something that has never happened before in Taiwan.
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On Thursday morning at 9 o'clock local time, workers at a Micron memory plant in Taoyuan launched the first strike in the history of the Taiwanese semiconductor industry.
BrianHOST
And I want to be upfront about the scale, because the headline sounds enormous, and the picture on the ground was a lot smaller.
BrianHOST
Reporters on site counted somewhere between 5 workers and 11 union officers on the picket line.
BrianHOST
So now we get to the workers.
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There are two unions at Micron in Taiwan.
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One represents the big site in Taichung, roughly 12,300 employees, and the other represents Taoyuan, which has about 3,000 employees and makes memory wafers.
JessicaHOST
Together, those two unions represent about 12,000 of the roughly 15,000 people Micron employs in Taiwan.
JessicaHOST
Yeah.
AlexHOST
They experienced their first ever semiconductor strike at Micron's Taoyuan facility.
JessicaHOST
Yeah, that was a huge wake-up call.
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Ninety-nine percent of the union members walked out for a twenty-four-hour stoppage.
JessicaHOST
Well, the most sophisticated, near autonomous software ever created by humanity is completely tethered to localized, highly fragile physical realities.
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Yeah, that's true.
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An AI cannot navigate six thousand enterprise connectors if union workers in Taoyuan withhold their labor or if ecological zoning boards in Mason County, West Virginia refuse to grant a permit.
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This unprecedented physical sacrifice, the strikes, the staggering corporate losses, the environmental risks, combined with models actively deceiving their creators, it's forcing the tech industry into a deep philosophical crisis.
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And then there's a story from Taiwan that connects the semiconductor supply chain directly to the AI profit conversation.
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Micron Technology Union members walked out of the company's Taoyuan Fabrication Facility Thursday morning local time, a 24-hour stoppage that Nikkei Asia is calling Taiwan's first-ever semiconductor strike.
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The dispute is specifically about how to split the profits from AI memory, the high-bandwidth memory chips that are critical to running large AI workloads.
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99% of the 1,994 members who voted backed the action.