内容摘要：PDD Holdings reported a 47% drop in profit for the first quarter of the year. Its chairman, Chen Lei, said this was due to a "radical change in external policy environments such as tariffs".

PDD Holdings reported a 47% drop in profit for the first quarter of the year. Its chairman, Chen Lei, said this was due to a "radical change in external policy environments such as tariffs".

"We did it at great speed. I pitched it in December and wrote it in January... carried on re-writing it through pre-production and then shot it in 22 days, then edited it."We only finished (editing) about a week ago and it's on TV this weekend!"

Armstrong, 54, wanted to do a quick turnaround on the film to try to capture the feeling and pace of technological developments and society's fear about keeping up."The anxieties that we have about technology, especially AI, feel very present and move quite fast. And I wanted to try and write it in the same mood as you might be when you're watching it, so I was keen to do it quickly," he says."Another attraction for me was that I've never directed anything before and it made me feel less anxious to run at it and do it really, really quickly."

Armstrong, who cut his teeth in children's TV before writing for shows such as The Thick of It and going on to co-create series like Peep Show and Fresh Meat, said the inspiration for Mountainhead came from listening to podcasts., the crypto fraudster, and then I read more and more about tech, and I started listening to podcasts of senior tech figures, from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, but also the mid-level people and even lower level - it's an ecosphere.

"I couldn't stop thinking about the voice of these people. I do love getting the vocabulary right. For me, that opens the door, once I can hear them talking. And since it seems like the AI companies are scraping so much of our hard work to train their models, I thought I would scrape them back [using their podcasts]!"

Armstrong told the Hay audience that while he knew his job was to engage viewers, writing the film "was a way of expressing a load of feelings about that world and about those men - they're almost all men in that world - and it's cathartic"."It's bittersweet. I think we're just still in a little shock as he fought it so hard, and we didn't expect it now," she said.

"But he would have wanted us all here celebrating his life."Donna and Marcus Hill, who are both 53, travelled from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.

Marcus is in a band and has even played on stage with Peters."I played Mike's guitar... just one of those once in a lifetime moments," is how he described it.