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Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (www.ft.com)
2026-6-2 Google

Sources: Tencent, which has fallen behind domestic rivals in AI models, plans to test an AI agent for WeChat with a small group of users before a phased rollout (www.ft.com)
2026-6-2 AI WeChat Tencent

French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 France AI Equity Paris

SoftBank becomes Japan's biggest company by market value after hitting an all-time high, overtaking Toyota, which has been the country's largest for 20+ years (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 Japan Toyota

A look at Operation Jailbreak, a US Army-led hackathon where nine defense firms use AI to integrate weapons systems, drawing on Ukraine interoperability lessons (www.ft.com)
2026-6-1 AI Ukraine

SoftBank pledges to invest up to €75B in AI computing clusters in France, first leading a €45B investment to build 3.1GW of capacity by 2031 in Hauts-de-France (www.ft.com)
2026-5-31 France AI

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B (www.ft.com)
2026-5-29 Amazon

A look at strains in the UK's fintech sector, as former industry darlings are forced to overhaul their operations or merge under pressure to reach profitability (www.ft.com)
2026-5-29 Fintech

UK Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby warns that rejecting AI in public services means choosing “decline”, vowing to prioritize its Whitehall rollout (www.ft.com)
2026-5-29 AI

Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (www.ft.com)
2026-5-29 Amazon AI

Doc: the EU is preparing emergency powers to intervene in Europe's chip supply chains during shortages, including by forcing chipmakers to override contracts (www.ft.com)
2026-5-29 Europe

Sources: Australia-founded Airwallex, which Keith Rabois accused of being a “Chinese backdoor”, is relocating some staff out of China amid its US expansion (www.ft.com)
2026-5-28 China Australia

Analysis: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which tracks 30 largest US-listed chipmakers, is up ~75% YTD and on track for its biggest annual gain since 1999 (www.ft.com)
2026-5-28

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (www.ft.com)
2026-5-28 AI

Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week (www.ft.com)
2026-5-28 Uber

Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for $500M (www.ft.com)
2026-5-27

Filing: Monzo reports its “refer a friend” payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (www.ft.com)
2026-5-27

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström defends the company's expansion into AI-generated music, arguing that “controlled” products are superior to unregulated AI “slop” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI Spotify

Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals (www.ft.com)
2026-5-26 AI

Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed (www.ft.com)
2026-5-25 Uber

The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons (www.ft.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market (www.ft.com)
2026-5-24 China Asset

Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin (www.ft.com)
2026-5-24 Bitcoin Quantum

The Trump administration plans to require most green card applicants to return to their home countries to apply, which could adversely impact tech workers (www.ft.com)
2026-5-23 Trump

Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Trump China Nvidia

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Startup AI

Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M worth of assets from its €19B software group Visma, whose London IPO remains shelved amid the “SaaSpocalypse” (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 IPO Asset London

Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15%+ reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage (www.ft.com)
2026-5-19 AI

Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ (www.ft.com)
2026-5-19

Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, following a request by FSB's Chair (www.ft.com)
2026-5-18

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