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An interview with TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn on the paid API for high-speed access to Truth Social posts, the pending $6B TMTG-TAE merger, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Interview

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Google Startup AI

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Intel AI

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company plans to spend $10B+ “over the coming years” to deploy 120K driverless vehicles, aiming to hit 15+ cities in 2026 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-5 Uber

A World Bank report says developing economies stand to benefit more from AI boosting their workers' output than they will lose in jobs being replaced by AI (www.ft.com)
2026-8-5 AI World Bank

How Wall Street learned to love the blockchain, as US regulators accept tokenized assets and other tech can offer significant advantages in speed and efficiency (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Blockchain Wall Street Asset

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Google

UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Apple

Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a “wide-ranging” review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3

London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3 Startup AI London

A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3 Europe Real Estate AI London

As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 Mexico Taiwan

Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 AI Apple

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (www.ft.com)
2026-8-2 China AI Robot

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Amazon

Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Autonomous Car

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (www.ft.com)
2026-7-31 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (www.ft.com)
2026-7-31

Sources: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Sources: Amazon staff find cases of “catastrophically expensive” AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Amazon AI

An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil's 2026 elections (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI Brazil

Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Tens of millions of South Korean retail investors, the market's biggest buyers in 2026, were caught in this week's selloff, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumble (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Korea Retail Samsung

Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI Nvidia

A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 China AI

As the UK slips in Ookla's mobile download speed and Opensignal's network quality rankings, operators blame planning rules and low prices for underinvestment (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Mobile

Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+ (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 AMD

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people” (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 China AI Ban Zuckerberg

BNY, the world's top bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems, which service $8.6T in assets (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 Blockchain Asset

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