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Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (www.ft.com)
5 hours ago

Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (www.ft.com)
11 hours ago AI Nvidia

Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor, a lender that aims to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank, is in advanced talks to raise ~$1.5B at an $8B valuation (www.ft.com)
18 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg criticizes “closed” AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a “discourse ... so filled with doom”, and defends distillation as a principle (www.ft.com)
19 hours ago AI Zuckerberg

Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (www.ft.com)
19 hours ago London

A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight (www.ft.com)
1 day ago China

Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country (www.ft.com)
1 day ago

Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (www.ft.com)
3 days ago China Hong Kong IPO

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 (www.ft.com)
3 days ago AI 4Q Atlassian

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 (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Google AI

Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x Kimi K3 and potentially larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago AI

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 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Interview

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 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Google Startup AI

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 (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Intel AI

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 (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Uber

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 (www.ft.com)
6 days ago AI World Bank

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 (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Blockchain Wall Street Asset

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Google

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 (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Apple

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 (www.ft.com)
7 days ago

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 (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Startup AI London

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 (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Europe Real Estate AI London

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 (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Mexico Taiwan

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 (www.ft.com)
8 days ago AI Apple

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 (www.ft.com)
8 days ago China AI Robot

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Amazon

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 (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Autonomous Car

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 (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Google Amazon Microsoft AI

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 (www.ft.com)
11 days ago

Sources: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (www.ft.com)
11 days ago AI

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