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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…
Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI staff were “freaked out” when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic — Increasing use of…
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses — Decision will…
Financial Times: Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm — South Korean giant…
Ella Lee / Financial Times: Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 — Adam Candeub authored…
Financial Times: Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports — Chinese regulators are considering…
Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+ staff use AI, up from 12% in September 2023, and the average number of AI tools grew from 1.4 in 2023 to 1.6 — Free tools are…
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: How “synthetic insider” attacks raise the stakes for corporate cyber defense; a Verizon analysis of 22K incidents finds 12% were carried out by internal actors — Use…
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI “a growth opportunity”, as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI &mdash…
Barbara Moens / Financial Times: The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal products, the largest DSA fine to date — Record penalty…
Financial Times: How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse — Remote access to domestic devices…
Financial Times: LSEG: Morgan Stanley collected $2.3B in debt and equity capital market fees in H1 2026, up from $1.4B in H1 2025, driven by AI infrastructure financing deals — Big Tech-backed financing has cut…
Financial Times: As memory stocks fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle — Massive investment plans lead to…
Andrew Hill / Financial Times: AI is reshaping entry-level professional services jobs, as companies redesign hiring, training, and workplace culture rather than simply cut junior roles — Here are the ways leading…
Haley Zimmerman / Financial Times: Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access — Large corporate…
Michael Acton / Financial Times: Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, asking them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers — iPhone maker steps up…
George Steer / Financial Times: US chip, memory, and storage stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with Sandisk down 13%, Seagate 10%, Western Digital 9%, and Intel and Micron 6% each — Investors pull away from shares…
Financial Times: Sources: Dassault Systèmes is in talks to buy drug trial software maker ArisGlobal from Nordic Capital for about $2B, extending its push into life sciences — Potential purchase of…
Financial Times: Sources: Moonshot plans to launch Kimi K3, China's largest model to date with 2T-3T parameters, in the coming days; it's expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 — Kimi K3 expected to exceed…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom report: VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025 — Regulator Ofcom finds…
Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers — Decisions will…
Financial Times: Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies — Larry Ellison's…
Financial Times: Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February — Roaming systems and ad tech were…
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…