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Articles from www.ft.com

Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” (www.ft.com)
2025-3-18

Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act, designed to protect internet users from illegal content harmful activity online, starting March 17 (www.ft.com)
2025-3-17

Current and former Meta employees describe how Joel Kaplan has risen over the past decade to become Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted political fixer (www.ft.com)
2025-3-16 Zuckerberg

Deliveroo reports FY 2024 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.08B and a £2.9M net profit, up from a £31.8M loss in 2023, its first annual profit, and plans a £100M buyback (www.ft.com)
2025-3-13

A look at UK fintechs Revolut and Monzo's push to expand in the US, where they face steep challenges in a complex regulatory environment and strong competition (www.ft.com)
2025-3-12

PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest investment pace since 2021, with $30B+ invested into startups so far this quarter and $50B more in the works (www.ft.com)
2025-3-10 Startup AI

Sources: Microsoft canceled some CoreWeave agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines before its IPO; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 sales (www.ft.com)
2025-3-6 Microsoft IPO

Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe AI deployment, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” (www.ft.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, making its Ascend chips profitable for the first time (www.ft.com)
2025-2-27 AI

Thoma Bravo closed a €1.8B fund for European software deals, after opening a London office in 2023; the US PE firm has deployed €14B in Europe since 2010 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-25 Europe London

Sources: Shein's 2024 sales were up 19% YoY to $38B, far below the forecasts made in 2023; some investors push Shein to cut pre-IPO valuation from $66B to ~$30B (www.ft.com)
2025-2-24 IPO

A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 China India iPhone Apple

Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 Arabia Saudi Arabia

How Walmart's investment in tech, including an AI tool to plan worker shifts, helped it take on Amazon, with 18% of its ~$680B revenue in 2024 generated online (www.ft.com)
2025-2-16 Amazon AI Walmart

Thoma Bravo stands to gain $4B+ from SailPoint's IPO, which is expected to value the company at $12B+; Thoma Bravo acquired SailPoint for $6.9B in April 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-13 IPO

A look at the race to bring satellite-connected smartphones to a wider market, as estimates suggest that ~350M people lack access to mobile broadband coverage (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 Mobile

Macron announces that companies have agreed to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years, saying it's France's equivalent to Stargate for the US (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 France AI

UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data (www.ft.com)
2025-2-10 Cloud Apple

Investors worry about EU satellite operators Eutelsat and SES amid soaring debt and rise of Starlink, which now has 6,000+ satellites and serves ~130 countries (www.ft.com)
2025-2-8

Sources: China is looking at launching a formal probe into Intel; a source says whether such a probe is officially launched could depend on US-China relations (www.ft.com)
2025-2-8 China Intel

Netflix hopes its expansion into live programming boosts its nascent ad business; Bernstein estimates its two NFL games generated up to $180M in US advertising (www.ft.com)
2025-2-5 Netflix programming

Investor letter: Elliott Management warns the White House's embrace of crypto is helping fuel a speculative mania that could cause “havoc” when prices collapse (www.ft.com)
2025-1-31

Mistral AI, seen as Europe's great hope for AI, is losing ground to US rivals and being overshadowed by DeepSeek; sources say its ARR is in the tens of millions (www.ft.com)
2025-1-30 Europe AI

OpenAI says it had seen some evidence that DeepSeek used “distillation” to train its open-source competitor by using outputs from OpenAI's proprietary models (www.ft.com)
2025-1-29

US tech stocks fell sharply pre-market over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 8%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped (www.ft.com)
2025-1-27 Japan

UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, after pressure from UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon exec Doug Gurr as interim chair (www.ft.com)
2025-1-22 Amazon

The UK PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute by over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI (www.ft.com)
2025-1-13 AI

On Monday the UK will announce a five-year investment in government-owned AI computing capacity; a UK-commissioned report suggests building a ~100K GPU cluster (www.ft.com)
2025-1-13 AI

CFTC chair Rostin Behnam will resign on January 20; on his watch the CFTC deepened scrutiny of crypto and event contracts, like those allowing bets on elections (www.ft.com)
2025-1-8 CFTC

PitchBook: global edtech VC funding reached just $3B in 2024, the lowest amount since $2.3B in 2014, and down from $17.3B at the peak of the pandemic in 2021 (www.ft.com)
2024-12-24

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