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Financial Times: Sources: multiple staff at the UK's AISI have been signed off work with stress, as tight model release schedules and AI fears lead to low morale and burnout — Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI…
Financial Times: Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules — US prediction markets platform is…
Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: Meta enters a voluntary access agreement granting the UK's Prospect trade union direct access to recruit its 5,000 UK employees, ahead of new UK employment laws — Greater…
Financial Times: Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases — Wall Street finds new way to turn…
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit — Treasury…
Owen Walker / Financial Times: AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures — Anthropic and…
John Thornhill / Financial Times: An interview with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Foundation, his skepticism of AI evangelists, AI driving edge compute device demand, and more — The British tech…
Sarah Neville / Financial Times: Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness — The technology's…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's…
Financial Times: EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra rebuffs calls for an EU-wide digital services tax until “all possibilities” for taxation at the global level are exhausted — Global efforts towards tech…
Financial Times: Sources: ~$18B of debt tied to an Oracle New Mexico data center slid into stressed territory, as investors grow wary of construction delays amid local pushback — Investors grow wary of permitting…
Financial Times: Leaked presentation: OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 to 2030 and projects its revenue will grow from $36B this year to $350B in 2030 — AI start-up has projected deeply…
Financial Times: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky says the fintech is exploring a dual stock market listing in New York and London, after previously dismissing listing in the UK — Fintech's chief executive says US…
Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI…
Financial Times: Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, set to launch as soon as 2028 — Rollout would be most ambitious…
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with US slowdown calls…
Financial Times: A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors — Autonomous systems are being rapidly…
Financial Times: PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined — Start-ups developing…
Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation — Researchers leaving Big Tech…
Financial Times: Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI — Shane Legg launches new…
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic staff felt blindsided by Dario Amodei's and Sam Altman's calls to slow the frontier; some fear evaluators may compromise security — Staff at the…
Financial Times: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calls AI “the second tipping point of our times”, alongside climate change, and says its risks must be “addressed” — Ursula…
Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has held early conversations with investors about raising another private funding round at a $1.2T valuation before its planned IPO — Sam Altman's start-up could capitalise on…
Financial Times: China tightens overseas travel controls for citizens via exit bans and fines in a sweeping new law, as Beijing moves to secure state secrets and advanced tech — President Xi Jinping steps up…
Tom Wilson / Financial Times: Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation — Rome-based company is…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: The IFPI says music companies and distributors agreed on new rules to combat the use of AI-generated music to defraud streaming services and divert royalties — Scammers are…
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to the nation's political and social security, including cyber defenses — Beijing signals…
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic told investors it will be profitable for a second straight quarter, with 80%+ gross margins before partner revenue sharing and training costs — Claude maker seeks to ease cash…
Myles McCormick / Financial Times: President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up” — President…
Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition — Low-profile…
Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: South Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector — Seoul broadens its…
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in “moonshot” sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 — Tech…
Najmeh Bozorgmehr / Financial Times: Sources: Iran's central bank has quietly relaxed foreign currency controls and encouraged traders to repatriate funds via cryptocurrencies to bypass sanctions — Authorities…
Financial Times: Sources: PE firm Silver Lake intends to merge French software companies Cegid and Silae in a €10B+ deal, allowing them to combine data and integrate software — Plan comes as buyout groups…
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism — Decision to exclude Aisi has…
Financial Times: Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers — Tech giant plays ‘project…
Andy Bounds / Financial Times: Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan — Prosecutors in Belgium…
Financial Times: A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage — Five years after finance chief Meng…
Simon Foy / Financial Times: Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy — Graduates and…
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms — Atoms gears…
Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times: The data center backlash is challenging Texas' pro-business approach; Wood Mackenzie: Texas has more data center capacity under construction than any US state — For 30 years…
Michael Acton / Financial Times: A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO — Tim Cook's…
Financial Times: Some European defense officials are pushing back on efforts to cut US tech reliance, warning it could leave Europe with inferior systems and greater cyber risks — Brussels' effort to reduce US…
Valeriya Safronova / Financial Times: How some parents, mostly mothers, use AI to help them organize their families' schedules and automate mundane household tasks via apps like Ollie and Cozi Max — Parents are…
Nick Huber / Financial Times: Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks — Desire for…
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business — Ride-hailing app…
Financial Times: Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments — Executives and biosecurity experts…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Study: ~33% of UK adults say they used illegal streaming services in the past three months, costing the sports, TV, and film industries ~£1.4B in annual revenue — Coalition…
Jim Pickard / Financial Times: The UK unveils a £100M Sovereign AI R&D Procurement Scheme for domestic AI startups focused on public services, amid growing opposition to Palantir contracts — Scheme comes in…
Elaine Moore / Financial Times: A look at Pangram, the AI detector at the center of disputed accusations against writers, including a pulled novel and a Commonwealth Prize-winning short story — Detection software…