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Dispute arose between OrCam's controlling shareholders Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram and institutional investors (Clal, Harel, Leumi, and Meitav) over the conversion mechanism of a SAFE financing round. Founders, who had injected around $9 million, sought to convert their investment into shares at a valuation of $30-40 million, contrasting sharply with the several hundred million dollar valuations at which institutional investors had previously invested. This dispute highlighted the company's dramatic fall from unicorn status ($1B valuation in 2018) to near-worthless valuation.

In March 2025, Bill Gates dissolved Breakthrough Energy's public policy units in both the United States and Europe, saying the advocacy work was 'not likely to have a significant effect in Washington' as the second Trump administration promoted fossil fuels and dissolved climate programs. The decision shifted Breakthrough's strategy away from policy advocacy toward supporting clean energy technology alone.

In March 2025, Jack Ma appeared alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping after disappearing from public life for nearly 5 years following his October 2020 criticism of China's financial regulators. By September 2025, Ma was back on Alibaba campuses directing the company's AI pivot and e-commerce strategy under a 'Make Alibaba Great Again' banner. His return signals rehabilitation by the CCP but raises questions about what concessions were required.

In February 2025, Sundar Pichai ended Google's DEI hiring goals that he had announced in 2020 (30% increase in underrepresented leadership by 2025). Google discontinued DEI training, dropped 58 DEI-related groups from funding, and removed DEI language from its 2024 10K filing. Pichai told employees the changes were needed to comply with Trump executive orders.

Delaware Bankruptcy Court Judge John Dorsey ruled that $533 million from a $1.2 billion loan was fraudulently transferred from BYJU's Alpha Inc. to Camshaft Capital Fund, a hedge fund run by a man in his mid-20s operating out of an IHOP in Miami. The court found Think & Learn actively misled lenders into believing funds remained in cash equivalents. Court filings alleged the money was routed through intermediaries to Byju's Global Pte Ltd, a Singapore entity wholly owned by Byju Raveendran. Raveendran denies orchestrating fraud, claiming funds were used for legitimate international expansion.

Sergey Brin published an internal memo to Google's Gemini employees recommending 60-hour work weeks and requiring employees to be in office every weekday. He wrote 'Competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to AGI is afoot. I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts.'

Australian Federal Police and regulators executed search warrants at WiseTech offices regarding alleged trading by founder Richard White and three employees during late 2024 to early 2025. White reportedly sold $200M+ in shares without following proper processes, including during blackout periods when executives are prohibited from trading.

On February 26, 2025, Jeff Bezos announced that The Washington Post's opinion section would only publish columns 'in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,' and that viewpoints opposing those pillars would not be published. Opinion editor David Shipley resigned following the announcement. Former executive editor Marty Baron wrote that Bezos was doing this 'out of fear of the consequences for his other business interests.' Over 75,000 subscribers cancelled within two days. Senator Bernie Sanders called it 'what Oligarch ownership of the media looks like.' The move followed Bezos's October 2024 decision to block the paper's Harris endorsement.

At Apple's February 2025 shareholder meeting, Tim Cook defended DEI programs, stating 'Our strength has always come from hiring the very best people and providing a culture of collaboration.' Over 97% of shareholders voted against a proposal to end DEI efforts. Trump attacked Apple the next day on Truth Social, writing 'APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES.'

Qualcomm progressively escalated its return-to-office requirements: initial policy suggested 2 days per week, upgraded to 4 days in May 2023, and announced full 5-day in-office mandate in February 2025. CEO Cristiano Amon announced during an all-hands meeting on February 19, 2025, that 5 days in office would be fully implemented by end of FY25. Employees not in compliance with the 4 days/week mandate received notices giving them 45 days to comply before termination. Employee comments on forums describe concerns about work-life balance and 'worst toxic management' with 'unimaginable' stress levels.

On February 18, 2025, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative disbanded its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility team, just 39 days after reassuring concerned staff on January 10 that Meta's DEI cuts would not affect CZI. CZI COO Marc Malandro cited 'the shifting regulatory and legal landscape.' CZI also canceled its $1.5 million Science Diversity Leadership Awards, ended its Diverse Slate Practice for hiring, scrubbed all DEI references from its website, and laid off staff working on affordable housing and economic inclusion. The move followed Meta's own DEI rollback and Zuckerberg's $1M Trump inauguration donation.

On February 16, 2025, a cyclist was hospitalized after being doored by a passenger exiting a Waymo robotaxi. The cyclist sued Waymo, alleging the vehicle had stopped in an unsafe location and failed to warn passengers before exiting. The incident raised questions about autonomous vehicle passenger safety protocols.

In 2025, Alibaba was confirmed as Apple's AI partner for China. Users have an additional Alibaba layer over Apple Intelligence that manipulates output to ensure all information is censored according to Chinese government requirements. This partnership enables systematic content filtering and government compliance in AI responses.

A spokesperson at Hewlett Packard Enterprise confirmed to The Register that it is not dismantling its DEI team, stating: 'We know that differences of experiences, perspectives, opinions, and ways of thinking lead to better debate, better innovation, and better decision making.' CEO Antonio Neri has championed DEI, and HPE was named 'America's Most Just Company' for 2024 by JUST Capital.

An 18-month investigation by The Markup, The Guardian, and The 19th revealed Match Group's internal 'Sentinel' database tracked hundreds of assault reports weekly since 2019, yet banned users could rejoin without changing their name, birthday, or photos. A promised 2020 transparency report was never released, and Congressional requests from 11 members were ignored since 2020. The company dismantled its central Trust & Safety team in 2024, outsourcing to overseas contractors.

On February 13, 2025 a coalition of major US news publishers including Condé Nast, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, McClatchy, Politico, The Republican Company, Toronto Star and Vox Media filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cohere in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged Cohere ingested and reproduced full articles from at least 4,000 publications and that the company's hallucinations falsely attributed fabricated content to named publishers. The suit was among the largest publisher-led actions against an enterprise AI company.

Starting February 13, 2025, multiple class-action lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Rakuten USA Inc. and Ebates Performance Marketing Inc. (d/b/a Rakuten Rewards), alleging that Rakuten's shopping browser extension overwrote influencers' and content creators' affiliate tracking cookies with its own, diverting commissions that should have gone to the creators who drove the sale. Plaintiffs allege the practice violates California's Unfair Competition Law and Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, and Arizona's Consumer Fraud Act; one attorney estimated damages in the tens of millions of dollars. Rakuten funds part of its consumer cashback rewards program (which it says has paid out over $4.6 billion to date) from these diverted commissions without disclosing the money's origin to consumers. Rakuten is one of several companies (alongside PayPal's Honey, Microsoft, Capital One, and Klarna) targeted in a wider wave of similar litigation following a December 2024 exposé of the practice. The allegations are contested and unresolved in litigation.

In February 2025, Microsoft contributed $100,000 to oppose Proposition 1A, a ballot measure to fund Seattle's social housing authority through a 5% payroll tax on companies for salaries over $1 million. Microsoft joined Amazon and other corporate donors in spending $780,000 total against the measure. Despite the corporate opposition, the measure passed with 63% voter support.

In February 2025, Amazon contributed $100,000 to oppose Proposition 1A, a ballot measure to fund Seattle's social housing authority through a 5% payroll tax on companies for salaries over $1 million. Amazon joined Microsoft and other corporate donors in spending $780,000 total against the measure. Despite the corporate opposition, the measure passed with 63% voter support.

On February 7, 2025, Infosys terminated hundreds of freshers at its Mysuru campus. NITES (IT union) alleged freshers were confined in rooms with security, forced to sign 'mutual separation' letters under duress, and evicted from campus the same day. These recruits had waited 2+ years after receiving offer letters. India's Ministry of Labour directed Karnataka to investigate. A second round terminated 240 more trainees in April 2025.

In 2025, Google systematically retreated from its diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments. In February, the company announced it would end diversity-based hiring goals, review its DEI initiatives, and removed DEI commitments from its annual report, citing compliance with federal policies. By August, Google had purged more than 50 DEI-related organizations from its funding list, including the African American Community Service Agency, Latino Leadership Alliance, and similar groups. The rollback followed the Trump administration's executive orders against DEI programs.

PayPal has largely removed language on diversity from the human capital section of its annual report to investors. Bloomberg Law reported on February 5, 2025, that PayPal cut diversity language in its new report to shareholders.

In February 2025 WhatsApp and forensic researchers at Citizen Lab disclosed that Paragon Solutions' Graphite spyware had been deployed against approximately 90 WhatsApp users worldwide, with confirmed Italian targets including investigative journalist Francesco Cancellato, head of the migrant-rescue NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans Luca Casarini, and activists working with refugees crossing the Mediterranean. Paragon, which had marketed Graphite as a 'responsible' alternative to NSO's Pegasus and was acquired by US PE firm AE Industrial Partners in 2024, publicly stated it had terminated its contract with Italy after the Italian government refused an audit. Italy denied authorizing targeting of journalists.

Demis Hassabis co-authored the February 2025 blog post justifying removal of Google's 2018 pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. The post framed military AI as necessary for 'democracies to lead' in AI development. This contradicted DeepMind's founding promise that its technology would never be used for military purposes.

Google removed its commitment to abstain from using AI for weapons and surveillance from its updated AI Principles. The prior version stated the company would not pursue 'weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people' and 'technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.' Amnesty International called it 'a shame that Google has chosen to set this dangerous precedent.'

In early February 2025, after Trump imposed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke posted publicly that 'Trump believes that Canada has not held its side of the bargain, and he set terms to prove that we still work together: get the borders under control and crack down on fentanyl dens,' framing Trump's demands as reasonable. He criticized Canada's retaliatory tariffs, saying 'hitting back will not lead to anything good... Canada will decline' and 'starting a trade and tariff war... just doesn't make any sense for anyone.' The comments drew significant attention as a prominent Canadian CEO siding with the US administration's position against his own government.

HP Inc announced it would lay off up to 2,000 more employees as part of a continuing cost-cutting plan, bringing the total number of job cuts under the restructuring to as many as 9,000. The company said it would save an additional $300 million by the end of its fiscal 2025. CEO Enrique Lores said the layoffs will hit 'all over the company,' including factory workers, consumer support reps, HR administration, and legacy tech engineers.

NY Attorney General Letitia James announced a $16.75 million settlement with DoorDash for misleading consumers and delivery workers by using tips intended for Dashers to subsidize their guaranteed pay. Between May 2017 and September 2019, DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers. Approximately 63,000 New York delivery workers benefited from this settlement.

In February 2025, Google eliminated its 2018 pledge not to develop AI for harmful purposes including weaponry and surveillance. The original pledge came after employee protests over Project Maven, a US Defense Department initiative using AI to analyze drone footage. The company now pursues military contracts including a $200M DoD CDAO contract.

In February 2025, Beyond Meat laid off 64 employees (9% of global workforce) and halted all operations in China. In August 2025, the company cut an additional 44 employees (6% of global workforce) in North America. These layoffs came amid continued declining revenues, with Q2 2025 US retail revenues falling 27% and total sales dropping 19.6% year-over-year. CEO Ethan Brown acknowledged it was 'not the moment for plant-based meat right now.'