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Articles from www.ft.com

UK retailers are building an arsenal of anti-theft tech powered by AI, computer vision, and facial recognition, as organized crime fuels a shoplifting epidemic (www.ft.com)
2 days ago AI Facial Recognition

Analysis: A7A5, billed as the first Russian ruble-pegged stablecoin for cross-border payments, has moved $9.3B on a dedicated exchange after a February launch (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Russia

Wolfspeed, a NC-based chipmaker for EVs, says it made a deal with creditors to reduce its ~$6.5B debt in a bankruptcy package that nearly wipes out shareholders (www.ft.com)
6 days ago

An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Interview AI

Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid complex intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Tesla

A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (www.ft.com)
10 days ago

How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business; its stock is down 50% in seven years and its AI platform has 50K+ users (www.ft.com)
17 days ago AI

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying “along a pre-planned route” even after losing signal in Russia during “Operation Spiderweb” (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Russia AI Drone Ukraine

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Apple

Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Microsoft AI

Sources: Musk's feud with Trump will complicate xAI's attempt to raise $5B in debt, and might increase lending costs or cause some lenders to walk away entirely (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Trump

Sources: Chinese companies designing advanced chips for manufacturing in Taiwan, like Xiaomi, are set to be the hardest hit by new US export rules on EDA tools (www.ft.com)
23 days ago China Taiwan Xiaomi Manufacturing

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (www.ft.com)
25 days ago Europe Interview AI

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (www.ft.com)
25 days ago Startup AI Toronto

Alphabet offers to spend $500M+ over 10 years to rebuild its global compliance structure, in a settlement proposal for an antitrust lawsuit from shareholders (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Alphabet

Sources: the US Commerce Department tells electronic chip design automation groups, which include Cadence and Synopsys, to stop supplying their tech to China (www.ft.com)
30 days ago China

Sources: X covered some losses usually borne by banks when seven lenders, including Morgan Stanley, sold $1.2B of its debt at 98 cents on the dollar in April (www.ft.com)
2025-5-29 Morgan Stanley

UK-based R3, a blockchain tech developer for financial institutions, partners with the Solana Foundation to let R3 customers use the Solana blockchain (www.ft.com)
2025-5-23 Blockchain

How SpaceX's Starlink moved quickly to solidify its lead in the satellite internet business, as its competitors face production and launch capacity bottlenecks (www.ft.com)
2025-5-22 SpaceX

Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-5-22

Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit (www.ft.com)
2025-5-21 China iPhone Shenzhen

Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls a “failure” that sped up China's efforts, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% in four years (www.ft.com)
2025-5-21 China AI Nvidia

Sources and a document: the EU plans to levy a flat €2 fee on billions of small packages entering the bloc, mainly from China, in a fresh blow to Temu and Shein (www.ft.com)
2025-5-20 China

How India aims to become a regional data center hub, leveraging its low energy prices and AI-skilled workforce; the power grids' capacity is a major challenge (www.ft.com)
2025-5-15 India Energy AI

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft offers to cut its equity stake for continued access to OpenAI tech beyond 2030 (www.ft.com)
2025-5-11 Microsoft IPO Equity

The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt (www.ft.com)
2025-5-11 Uber

Filings: Abu Dhabi-based AI group G42 set-up a US company to boost its presence in the country, as the UAE plans to invest tens of billions of dollars in the US (www.ft.com)
2025-5-4 AI

Inside Japan's Disco Corp, which has a radical HR system where no employee has a boss and manufactures ~75% of the machines used to cut and dice semiconductors (www.ft.com)
2025-5-4 Japan

The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy (www.ft.com)
2025-4-30 Trump

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, subscribers up 12% YoY to 268M, above its 265M guidance, MAUs up 10% YoY to 678M, and a €509M operating income (www.ft.com)
2025-4-29 Spotify

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