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Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it (www.ft.com)
2026-4-12 Google Algorithm

A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system (www.ft.com)
2026-4-12 China AI Immigration

Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35% (www.ft.com)
2026-4-11

Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (www.ft.com)
2026-4-11 Trump Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable “MaaS” models led to Qwen exec departures (www.ft.com)
2026-4-10 Alibaba AI

xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections (www.ft.com)
2026-4-10 AI

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no cameras; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 AI Tencent

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 Japan AI

Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results” as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 AI

An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1 per barrel for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (www.ft.com)
2026-4-9 Iran

Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (www.ft.com)
2026-4-8

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Korea Robot

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 Startup AI Sony

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 AI Tencent

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its SF HQ and London and Zurich offices (www.ft.com)
2026-4-7 London Jeff Bezos

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (www.ft.com)
2026-4-6 Russia Ukraine Africa Cryptocurrency

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)
2026-4-4 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)
2026-4-3

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)
2026-4-3 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)
2026-4-2 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)
2026-4-2 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)
2026-4-2 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)
2026-4-1 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)
2026-4-1 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)
2026-4-1 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)
2026-3-31 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)
2026-3-31 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)
2026-3-31 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)
2026-3-31 AI

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