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Articles from www.ft.com

The UK Treasury gives the Bank of England a new legal objective to support payment systems and digital money innovation, seeking to keep London competitive (www.ft.com)
2026-8-28 London

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (www.ft.com)
2026-8-28 Google Alphabet

UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27 AI

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27

Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 Russia Ukraine Elon Musk

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 AI Asset

Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of starting this year (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 London

Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 IPO

A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-25 France Intel IPO

The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership (www.ft.com)
2026-8-25 Russia AI Ukraine

Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24 Ban

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24 Europe AI

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-24

The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course (www.ft.com)
2026-8-23 Korea ETF Education

Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses (www.ft.com)
2026-8-23 Samsung

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Robot

Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes last year, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes; Apple paid $43B in corporate income taxes globally (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Tax Apple Ireland

Uber is set to be fined €825M by the Dutch data watchdog over its use of automated systems to deactivate driver accounts, in the second largest fine under GDPR (www.ft.com)
2026-8-22 Uber Netherlands GDPR

A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services (www.ft.com)
2026-8-21 Europe London

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent ~10K Nvidia H200 chips each in mainland China in recent weeks; US licenses permit the H200 in China and Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20 China Hong Kong Tencent Nvidia

China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20 China Robot

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for “free porn” in June (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20

UK-based automotive dealership software maker Pinewood agrees to a £545M cash takeover by US private equity firm Ridgeview, after an Apax takeover fell through (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19 Equity

FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging established carriers that generate 3%-5% of revenue from roaming (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19 China Tencent Nvidia

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18 Apple Sensor

In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% in Q2, per Sensor Tower (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18 Apple Sensor

Monzo chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board's decision to remove TS Anil as CEO (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18

Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

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