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Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May — Unusually swift pace…
Martha Muir / Financial Times: Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 — Deal signals continued…
Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions — Tougher vetting in…
Financial Times: Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany — Move strengthens…
Barbara Moens / Financial Times: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors”, with a proposal after a summer break &mdash…
Naomi Rea / Financial Times: How museums are using AI chatbots to reach new audiences, as some museum staff worry AI-generated inaccuracies and bias could undermine them as trusted sources — Touted as a way to…
Financial Times: A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months — Elevated to fix Microsoft's…
Financial Times: AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations — Hotel bookings fall short of…
Laura Dubois / Financial Times: EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps — Justice commissioner…
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: OpenAI and Google are providing advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in US AI controls — US groups have been…
Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Manus investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor — Chinese tech giant set…
Financial Times: Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle — Deal underscores bright spot for…
Financial Times: South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns — Kospi retreats more than 20% from…
Financial Times: Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent — Pushback to the tech group's…
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zuckerberg's…
Financial Times: Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight — Sharp turnaround for state-backed company…
Financial Times: European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose “systemic risks to the financial system”, giving lenders four months to prepare — IT weaknesses could be…
David Keohane / Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy — The veteran…
Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America must not…
Financial Times: Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps more than a…
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-hailing…
Financial Times: A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays — Automated system first mooted in…
Financial Times: An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more — Sriram…
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Engineers are still finding ways…
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Platform…
Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies — The…
OpenAI offers to transfer 5% of shares to the Trump administration - FT
Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: UK lawyers say the tide of AI-assisted employment claims is straining an already overloaded employment tribunal system, whose backlog has doubled in two years — A flood of…
Financial Times: An EU draft proposal dated June 30 shows the bloc is weighing weaker climate impact rules for gas-powered data centers, after heavy lobbying from tech groups — Past proposals for strict rules on…
Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government as the company seeks to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump admin — Sam Altman's start-up in early…
George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: the White House is in advanced talks with AI companies on voluntary standards and release timelines for new models to be announced as soon as next week — Guidance to be…
Financial Times: Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US…
Financial Times: BYD, Nio, and other Chinese carmakers are rushing to design and increase the use of locally developed chips with AI functions in a bid for chip self-sufficiency — EV makers such as global leader…
Financial Times: Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech…
Financial Times: A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US companies…
Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY — More instinctive…
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatbots could…
Peter Campbell / Financial Times: AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows — The technology has…
Financial Times: The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back — FCA eases capital and disclosure…
Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Regions outside…
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster — Companies to invest…
David Keohane / Financial Times: Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's surging…
Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents — Battle over…
Financial Times: Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects — Surging appetite for advanced…
Financial Times: Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices — The iPhone maker wants Trump…
Stephen Foley / Financial Times: How AI-native law firms use “management services organization” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds — Interest…
Financial Times: Sources: Revolut told new hires they'll have to work in office at least three days a week from next year, retreating from its long-held remote-first approach — Europe's most valuable fintech will…
George Steer / Financial Times: Sources: Donald Trump Jr. got ~$300K in Kalshi equity after becoming a strategic adviser in 2025, when Kalshi was valued at ~$2B; now it's worth $22B+ — Privately owned company's…
Financial Times: Binance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week — World's biggest crypto exchange…
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model — The…