The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer?
For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything.
Platform, chip and AI decisions set the terms other companies have to build on, so a single announcement here tends to ripple through products, supply chains and regulation.
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