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Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (www.ft.com)
2026-5-18

Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-5-18 China IPO Singapore

King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others (www.ft.com)
2026-5-17 Google AI London

Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes (www.ft.com)
2026-5-16 AI

Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate content within 24 hours, following a probe (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15

London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15 Startup AI London

Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15

Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers (www.ft.com)
2026-5-15 Energy AI Battery Ford

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese cellular modules, as the US FCC takes measures to reduce Beijing's security threats (www.ft.com)
2026-5-14 Trump China Ban

Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments (www.ft.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Climate

SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-13 4Q

Q&A with Amazon head of devices and services Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, the Leo satellite broadband business, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-5-13 Amazon

China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences (www.ft.com)
2026-5-13 China Singapore

Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks (www.ft.com)
2026-5-13 Europe Asia AI Nokia

China's CSI AI Index, which tracks AI supply chain companies, is up 28%+ YTD, while HK's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Alibaba and Tencent, is down 8% (www.ft.com)
2026-5-13 China Alibaba AI Tencent

Delivery Hero says founder Niklas Östberg plans to step down as CEO by March 2027, as the German food delivery group faces mounting activist investor pressure (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Germany

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese “cellular modules”, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Trump China Ban

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon AI

Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise $1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about $18B, up from $14B in June 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-12 Germany Startup

Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it (www.ft.com)
2026-5-11 AI

Investor letter: TCI, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, cut almost all of its $8B stake in Microsoft, citing AI-related risks to Office and Azure (www.ft.com)
2026-5-9 Microsoft AI

Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Korea Retail Fintech

Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8

Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies (www.ft.com)
2026-5-8 Amazon Goldman Equity Alphabet

Source: Samsung offered to allocate ~13% of operating profit to chip division staff; unions threaten an 18-day walkout, seeking a 15% share and a 7% wage hike (www.ft.com)
2026-5-7 Samsung

Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours (www.ft.com)
2026-5-7 4Q

The UK FCA says it is investigating PayPal, Mastercard, and Visa for alleged anti-competitive behavior, in a rare antitrust investigation by the regulator (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6

Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B, below $13.3B est., Gross Bookings up 25% YoY to $53.7B, trips up 20% YoY to 3.6B, and a $1B revenue UK tax law hit (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Uber Tax

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise funds, and the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip fund, is seeking to lead the investment at a ~$45B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 China

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