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Meta plans advanced ‘agentic' AI assistant for consumers (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 AI

DefiLlama: investors pulled ~$14B from the DeFi sector after North Korea-linked hackers stole $290M from Aave in April, weeks after stealing $280M from Drift (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Korea

Sources: the Big Fund, China's biggest state-backed chip investment fund, is seeking to lead an investment in DeepSeek that could value the AI company at ~$45B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 China AI

The delayed IPO of Visma, an accounting software company valued at €19B, amid SaaSpocalypse fears, is a major setback for PE parent Hg, a software buyout giant (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 IPO

Sources: Blue Origin outlines a new employee stock plan to quell staff unrest and make its incentives more competitive with SpaceX (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 SpaceX

Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 Apple

Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots (www.ft.com)
2026-5-6 AI

Panthalassa, which aims to power floating data centers using energy generated by ocean waves, raised $140M led by Peter Thiel, source says at a $1B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-5-5 Energy

Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount (www.ft.com)
2026-5-4 Oracle

Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically (www.ft.com)
2026-5-4 IOS Startup Apple

Nintendo's share price has fallen by ~45% since August 2025, as rising memory chip costs drive investor concerns over profit margins for the Switch 2 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-3 Nintendo

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says “the iPhone 17 family is now the most popular lineup in our history” and “we believe we gained market share during the quarter” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-1 iPhone Apple

Sources: Huawei expects AI chip revenue to hit ~$12B in 2026, up 60% from $7.5B in 2025, as orders for its Ascend 950PR chip surge and Nvidia stalls in China (www.ft.com)
2026-5-1 China AI Nvidia

Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500+ at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the chip toolmaker after it discovered his family had invested in competing Chinese startups (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 China Startup Tokyo

Memo: Google told employees that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over US DOD contracts (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 Google

Sources: SoftBank plans to create an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US to build data centers and list it as early as 2026, seeking a $100B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 AI Robot

Google has told employees in a memo that it “proudly” works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts (www.ft.com)
2026-4-30 Google

Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29

A working paper uses an LLM to analyze political discourse on X, finding that anger is the dominant emotion expressed by US users, especially those over 65 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29

Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include 10%+ of its global revenue from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29 China AI

Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
2026-4-29 Hong Kong Goldman

Kpler, an online analytics platform tracking global maritime traffic and energy flows, says it has gained millions of new users since the war in Iran began (www.ft.com)
2026-4-28 Energy Iran

China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-28 China Singapore

Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27

Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Chinese regulators block Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus, after reviewing whether the deal violated Beijing's investment rules; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 China Singapore

Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors (www.ft.com)
2026-4-27 China Tokyo

Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend (www.ft.com)
2026-4-26 Google AI

Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha agree to a merger deal valuing the combined group at ~$20B to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal (www.ft.com)
2026-4-24 Germany AI Canada

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