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Nic Fildes / Financial Times: Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy $250M of company shares after strong Q4 results eased fears that AI could threaten its business model — Mike Cannon-Brookes' move…
Financial Times: Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis — Google is shifting control of its…
Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5 — TikTok owner training a model…
Financial Times: An interview with TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn on the paid API for high-speed access to Truth Social posts, the pending $6B TMTG-TAE merger, and more — Interview. The executive trying to turn…
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents — OpenAI and…
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 — The group's shares…
Financial Times: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company plans to spend $10B+ “over the coming years” to deploy 120K driverless vehicles, aiming to hit 15+ cities in 2026 — Chief Dara Khosrowshahi…
Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times: A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI — World Bank says…
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: How Wall Street learned to love the blockchain, as US regulators accept tokenized assets and other tech can offer significant advantages in speed and efficiency — Financial…
Financial Times: Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others — Private credit, chip leases and…
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data — iPhone…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a “wide-ranging” review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA — Ian…
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February — British…
Francesca Perry / Financial Times: A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain — The city has become…
Financial Times: As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales — Factories churning out servers for…
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors — Managers…
Financial Times: Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas — iPhone maker has limited the number…
Financial Times: Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% — Ecommerce giant has roughly 5% stake in…
Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars — Deal would land amid…
Financial Times: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year — Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta…
Financial Times: Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days — Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund…
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Amazon staff find cases of “catastrophically expensive” AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings &mdash…
Financial Times: An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil's 2026 elections — Lawyers for former president…
Financial Times: Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout — Hedge fund has held talks with…
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: Tens of millions of South Korean retail investors, the market's biggest buyers in 2026, were caught in this week's selloff, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumble — Millions suffer…
John Thornhill / Financial Times: Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The co-founder…
Financial Times: A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips — The Chinese company behind TikTok…
Financial Times: As the UK slips in Ookla's mobile download speed and Opensignal's network quality rankings, operators blame planning rules and low prices for underinvestment — Operators blame planning rules and…
Financial Times: Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+ — South Korean chip giant misses analyst…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X — Billionaire had…
Financial Times: BNY, the world's top bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems, which service $8.6T in assets — Banks rush to embrace tokenised…
Stephen Foley / Financial Times: GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's earlier investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with similar issues — Big Four consultant is…
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left — Landmark…
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviews or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people” — Meta…
William Sandlund / Financial Times: CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an eastern China inland industrial city, with the government sitting on 5,000%+ paper gains after an early investment — Funds run by…
Financial Times: LSEG data: prices for credit default swaps, a closely watched gauge of risk, tied to Oracle, SpaceX, Alphabet, Nvidia, and others rise sharply to record highs — Investors are increasingly…
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for Hut 8's planned 1GW data center in Texas, hosting hundreds of thousands of chips; Hut 8 didn't name its client — CEO Jensen Huang deploys balance…
Financial Times: Dealroom: defense giants such as Lockheed Martin have participated in a record $4.1B worth of VC rounds YTD, as drones and autonomous systems transform warfare — As drones and autonomous systems…
Jamie John / Financial Times: How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups — Anthropic and OpenAI…
William Sandlund / Financial Times: Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access — Perpetual…
Financial Times: A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most ambitious…
Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times: Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns — Some…
Financial Times: A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” — Known as ‘Yang…
Financial Times: Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft — Investment spree is reshaping…
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis — Partnership between…
Financial Times: Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B — Companies make biggest US…
Nic Fildes / Financial Times: A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — Peter Beck's Rocket…
Zijing Wu / Financial Times: The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline — More entrepreneurs from…
Antoine Gara / Financial Times: Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says “AI will not kill the software industry” as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target — Francisco…
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago — Search giant says it will commit up to…