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Sources: Marc Andreessen complained to the UK government last week about the Online Safety Act and called for a reprimand of technology secretary Peter Kyle (www.ft.com)
2025-8-8

AI's energy demands are driving fossil fuel investment, as energy needs for AI training and data centers are poorly matched with the patterns of solar and wind (www.ft.com)
2025-8-7 Energy AI Solar

Darktrace says it plans to invest $200M in the US in 2026, up 11% YoY, as part of a push to surpass $1B in revenue and grow its US sales to 50% of its revenue (www.ft.com)
2025-8-7

Sources: Mistral is in discussions, including with Abu Dhabi's MGX, to raise $1B at a valuation of about $10B, up from its previous valuation of €5.8B (www.ft.com)
2025-8-2

Experts say Samsung's $16.5B Tesla chip deal alone is unlikely to revive its foundry division, which has struggled since TSMC became Apple's principal supplier (www.ft.com)
2025-7-31 Samsung Apple Tesla

Arm CEO Rene Haas says the company is accelerating its R&D spending as it considers offering “full end solutions”, suggesting plans to launch its own chips (www.ft.com)
2025-7-31

China's JD.com launches a takeover bid for German electronics retailer Ceconomy, which operates 1,000+ stores in Europe, valuing Ceconomy's equity at ~€2.2B (www.ft.com)
2025-7-31 China Germany Europe Equity

Sources: Bank of England governor blocked a meeting arranged by UK Chancellor between regulators and Revolut to discuss Revolut's full banking authorization (www.ft.com)
2025-7-30

A US trade group for 30+ fintechs and aggregators says JPMorgan's plan to charge for data access could cost some firms 60% to over 100% of their annual revenue (www.ft.com)
2025-7-30 JPMorgan

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg's aim with the Superintelligence Labs is to create a start-up-like unit within Meta that is unencumbered by the company's bureaucracy (www.ft.com)
2025-7-30 Zuckerberg

The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League (www.ft.com)
2025-7-28 Microsoft AI Adobe

Google has defended Search against the first wave of disruption from generative AI, but AI agents and apps that can reduce clicks now threaten its ad business (www.ft.com)
2025-7-26 Google AI

Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations (www.ft.com)
2025-7-25 AI

The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for “ideological bias” and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer “objective truth” (www.ft.com)
2025-7-24 Trump AI

Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud encrypted data after pressure from US officials, including JD Vance (www.ft.com)
2025-7-21 Apple

Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish (www.ft.com)
2025-7-13 Elon Musk Poland

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (www.ft.com)
2025-7-12

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip designed for China that will be a version of its Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 processor, as soon as September (www.ft.com)
2025-7-10 China AI Nvidia

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in January 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (www.ft.com)
2025-7-9

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (www.ft.com)
2025-7-6

UK retailers are building an arsenal of anti-theft tech powered by AI, computer vision, and facial recognition, as organized crime fuels a shoplifting epidemic (www.ft.com)
2025-6-28 AI Facial Recognition

Analysis: A7A5, billed as the first Russian ruble-pegged stablecoin for cross-border payments, has moved $9.3B on a dedicated exchange after a February launch (www.ft.com)
2025-6-26 Russia

Wolfspeed, a NC-based chipmaker for EVs, says it made a deal with creditors to reduce its ~$6.5B debt in a bankruptcy package that nearly wipes out shareholders (www.ft.com)
2025-6-23

An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more (www.ft.com)
2025-6-22 Interview AI

Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid complex intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators (www.ft.com)
2025-6-20 Tesla

A look at the lack of consensus in the tech industry on what AGI is, whether LLMs are the best path to it, and what AGI might look like if or when it arrives (www.ft.com)
2025-6-19

How ad agency WPP is embracing AI tools, despite the threat to its creative business; its stock is down 50% in seven years and its AI platform has 50K+ users (www.ft.com)
2025-6-13 AI

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying “along a pre-planned route” even after losing signal in Russia during “Operation Spiderweb” (www.ft.com)
2025-6-11 Russia AI Drone Ukraine

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (www.ft.com)
2025-6-8 Apple

Microsoft plans to add a “safety” category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (www.ft.com)
2025-6-8 Microsoft AI

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