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Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Asset

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (www.ft.com)
2 days ago

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is “not able to build models in the very largest scale yet” but its “computation ramp is coming to enable us to do” it in 2026 (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Microsoft

Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Google Startup AI Nvidia Texas

Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Amazon Apple

Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility” (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Iran

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty” (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Germany Linux Microsoft

As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Japan iPhone Apple

OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Retail ETF

US CTO Ethan Klein plans to urge the UK and its allies to help “shore up” quantum computing supply chains at a London meeting, after a US-UK tech deal standoff (www.ft.com)
5 days ago London Quantum

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft's business software unit to assess whether it should be designated with “strategic market status” (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Iran mobilizes its hackers to sow chaos, gather intel, and find targets; ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs says Iran is “throwing everything they have at this” (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Intel Iran

UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (www.ft.com)
5 days ago AI

Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Startup London

Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Texas

A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat (www.ft.com)
6 days ago LinkedIn Elon Musk

AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications (www.ft.com)
6 days ago AI

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Europe Startup AI Nvidia Paris

Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a “standstill” (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Startup

Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Tax AI

US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Google Algorithm

Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the AI startup (www.ft.com)
8 days ago Google Startup AI Texas

The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (www.ft.com)
10 days ago

OpenAI puts plans for an erotic chatbot on hold “indefinitely” as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after concerns from staff and investors (www.ft.com)
10 days ago chatbot

The US Army selects Carlyle and KKR to build two data centers on military bases, set to cost $2B each, as its token usage rises 8x during the US' war in Iran (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Iran

OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month (www.ft.com)
10 days ago China AI

Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (www.ft.com)
10 days ago LinkedIn California

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure (www.ft.com)
11 days ago IOS Europe Apple Credit Card

Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules (www.ft.com)
11 days ago China

Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers (www.ft.com)
11 days ago AI

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