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Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Trump Apple

AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Startup AI Equity

Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules, says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia chips entering the country, suspecting many are ending up in China (www.ft.com)
6 days ago China Malaysia Nvidia

Annual meeting: Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee says the company will pursue “meaningful” M&A deals in 2025 and apologizes to investors for weak stock performance (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Samsung

Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged civil servants in charge of the $42B rural broadband program to increase the project's use of Starlink (www.ft.com)
12 days ago

Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” (www.ft.com)
12 days ago

Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act, designed to protect internet users from illegal content harmful activity online, starting March 17 (www.ft.com)
14 days ago

Current and former Meta employees describe how Joel Kaplan has risen over the past decade to become Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted political fixer (www.ft.com)
14 days ago Zuckerberg

Deliveroo reports FY 2024 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.08B and a £2.9M net profit, up from a £31.8M loss in 2023, its first annual profit, and plans a £100M buyback (www.ft.com)
17 days ago

A look at UK fintechs Revolut and Monzo's push to expand in the US, where they face steep challenges in a complex regulatory environment and strong competition (www.ft.com)
18 days ago

PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest investment pace since 2021, with $30B+ invested into startups so far this quarter and $50B more in the works (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Microsoft canceled some CoreWeave agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines before its IPO; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 sales (www.ft.com)
24 days ago Microsoft IPO

Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe AI deployment, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” (www.ft.com)
25 days ago AI

Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, making its Ascend chips profitable for the first time (www.ft.com)
2025-2-27 AI

Thoma Bravo closed a €1.8B fund for European software deals, after opening a London office in 2023; the US PE firm has deployed €14B in Europe since 2010 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-25 Europe London

Sources: Shein's 2024 sales were up 19% YoY to $38B, far below the forecasts made in 2023; some investors push Shein to cut pre-IPO valuation from $66B to ~$30B (www.ft.com)
2025-2-24 IPO

A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 China India iPhone Apple

Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 Arabia Saudi Arabia

How Walmart's investment in tech, including an AI tool to plan worker shifts, helped it take on Amazon, with 18% of its ~$680B revenue in 2024 generated online (www.ft.com)
2025-2-16 Amazon AI Walmart

Thoma Bravo stands to gain $4B+ from SailPoint's IPO, which is expected to value the company at $12B+; Thoma Bravo acquired SailPoint for $6.9B in April 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-13 IPO

A look at the race to bring satellite-connected smartphones to a wider market, as estimates suggest that ~350M people lack access to mobile broadband coverage (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 Mobile

Macron announces that companies have agreed to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years, saying it's France's equivalent to Stargate for the US (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 France AI

UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 Cloud Apple

Investors worry about EU satellite operators Eutelsat and SES amid soaring debt and rise of Starlink, which now has 6,000+ satellites and serves ~130 countries (www.ft.com)
2025-2-8

Sources: China is looking at launching a formal probe into Intel; a source says whether such a probe is officially launched could depend on US-China relations (www.ft.com)
2025-2-8 China Intel

Netflix hopes its expansion into live programming boosts its nascent ad business; Bernstein estimates its two NFL games generated up to $180M in US advertising (www.ft.com)
2025-2-5 Netflix programming

Investor letter: Elliott Management warns the White House's embrace of crypto is helping fuel a speculative mania that could cause “havoc” when prices collapse (www.ft.com)
2025-1-31

Mistral AI, seen as Europe's great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions (www.ft.com)
2025-1-30 Europe AI

OpenAI says it had seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models (www.ft.com)
2025-1-29

US tech stocks fell sharply pre-market over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 8%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped (www.ft.com)
2025-1-27 Japan

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