Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it. Abdulwahab Omira hide caption
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing on Jan. 27. Chinese firm DeepSeek's artificial intelligence chatbot has soared to the top of the Apple Store's download charts. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Vice President Harris delivers a speech on artificial intelligence in London on Nov. 1, 2023. Daniel Leal/AFP/Via Getty Images hide caption
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio shakes hands with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Delaware, Ohio in 2023. Vance has ties to tech billionaires who are endorsing his vice presidential nomination. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
TikTok is the latest technology company to cut staff, as firms reorganize and re-allocate resources, just as the video-sharing app reports strong growth. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption
A.J. King, the CEO of Three Rivers Bank in Kalispell, Mont., sitting at his office. King says his bank shouldn't have to pay for mismanagement at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. Courtesy of A.J. King hide caption
A customer stands outside of the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 10, 2023. The lender was taken over federal regulators on Friday, marking one of the largest bank failures since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office on December 20, 2022 in Culver City, Calif. Congress passed legislation to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app from most government devices. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Founder and CEO of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2015. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images hide caption
Founder of LEAP Africa Ndidi Nwuneli attends Barnard College's Global Symposium in 2015. J. Countess/Getty Images hide caption
Faris Ajluni (right) and Jose Nazario pose in their vests in downtown San Francisco. Bobby Allyn/NPR hide caption
Apple's massive" spaceship" campus designed to centralize work and foster collaboration in 2017 may have to make way for satellite offices and other remote work. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Many tech workers say they have experienced more harassment, hostility and anxiety while working remotely during the pandemic. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Software engineer Tracy Chou's own experience on social media led her to create Block Party, an app that helps people filter their feeds to manage online abuse and harassment. Elizabeth Dalziel for NPR hide caption
Clubhouse launched in March of 2020, just in time for lockdown orders. Now, other tech companies are rushing to make Clubhouse clones. Sheldon Cooper/Sheldon Cooper/Getty Images hide caption
The Justice Department alleges Google has an illegal monopoly in search, setting up the biggest confrontation with a tech giant in more than 20 years. Don Ryan/AP hide caption
Mauktik Kulkarni (left) and Suraj Yengde (right) as children. Photos Courtesy of Mauktik Kulkarni and Suraj Yengde hide caption
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann addresses a Pinterest media event at the company's corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, on April 24, 2014. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption