Optica Cuts Ties With Huawei After Secret Funding Exposed.

The Optica Foundation has announced that it will no longer accept funding from Huawei Technologies Co. for its research competition at US universities. This decision comes after Bloomberg News reported that Huawei was secretly funding the program. The Optica Foundation will also return all the money donated by Huawei for the past three years. The move by Optica comes in response to concerns that Huawei's funding has diverted attention from the program's mission and compromised US research institutions. [Extracted from the article]