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Just Eat Takeaway lays off 1,700 UK couriers and returns to a gig economy model, which CEO Jitse Groen had said “comes at the expense of society and workers” (t.co)
2023-3-22

London-based tech investors and founders say the government must back its pledges with policies and incentives or risk rival cities overtaking its startup scene (t.co)
2023-3-21 Startup London

Sources: China is giving its most successful chipmakers, including SMIC, Huawei, and Hua Hong, easier subsidy access and more control over state-backed research (t.co)
2023-3-21 China

Microsoft plans to launch a mobile app store for games as soon as 2024 if the Activision bid is cleared and the EU's DMA rules for app stores come into effect (t.co)
2023-3-21 Microsoft Mobile

OpenAI's GPT-4 failed a CFA Institute exam, the finance world's self-styled toughest test, scoring eight out of 24, despite the answers being available online (t.co)
2023-3-20

Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more (t.co)
2023-3-19 Google Facebook Apple

Some investors are concerned SVB's collapse and its rescue by the US government, after Silicon Valley investors' lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation (t.co)
2023-3-18

How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government (t.co)
2023-3-18 Startup AI Venezuela

Pornhub owner MindGeek is acquired by PE firm Ethical Capital Partners; MindGeek had $460M in 2018 revenue, and sources say it had ~50% profit margins at times (t.co)
2023-3-17

Peter Thiel says he had $50M in a personal account at SVB when it went under, even after Founders Fund warned portfolio companies that the bank was at risk (t.co)
2023-3-17

PwC partners with AI startup Harvey to launch a chatbot for its 4,000 lawyers, built using OpenAI's GPT-4, as law firms rush to find ways to integrate AI (t.co)
2023-3-15 Startup AI chatbot

Sources: multiple women accuse London-based TikTok executive Steve Ware of sexual harassment and say TikTok mishandled the allegations, a pattern at the company (t.co)
2023-3-14 London

Sources: the UK plans to launch a 10-year program to invest £2.5B in quantum computing, more than doubling the funding available to researchers (t.co)
2023-3-14 Quantum

Sources: China has begun to impede subsea internet cable projects in South China Sea over spying fears, imposing strict permit requirements and approval delays (t.co)
2023-3-14 China

A eulogy for Silicon Valley Bank, a business partner to tech for 40 years, which offered services when established banks would not and was undone by its loyalty (t.co)
2023-3-13

Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice (t.co)
2023-3-13

US private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada's largest pension fund plan to acquire Qualtrics for $12.5B, or $18.15 per share, as SAP divests its 71% stake (t.co)
2023-3-13 Silver Canada Equity

Sources: the UK is seeking a buyer for the British arm of SVB, which had ~£7B in deposits on Friday, with an UAE-based company as the “lead white knight” (t.co)
2023-3-13 U.K.

Sources: Tim Cook is pressing ahead with the MR headset debut this year, overruling designers' objections, and Apple expects to sell ~1M units in the first year (t.co)
2023-3-12 Apple Tim Cook

German states Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia are reviewing how police use Palantir's tech after a court ruled laws on data mining by police were too broad (t.co)
2023-3-11 Germany

Sources: after lobbying by Apple, Foxconn, and others, India's Karnataka state will allow two-shift production and 12-hour shifts, similar to practices in China (t.co)
2023-3-11 China India Apple

Silicon Valley Bank has launched a $2.25B share sale after a ~$1.8B loss on its ~$21B portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB is down 50%+ (t.co)
2023-3-10 mortgage

Milton Keynes-based Envisics, which is building hologram tech for in-car monitors, raised a $50M+ Series C at a $500M valuation, up from ~$250M in October 2020 (t.co)
2023-3-9

Sources: Chinese AI surveillance firms iFlytek and SenseTime are evading US sanctions to access high-end chips through cloud providers and other intermediaries (t.co)
2023-3-9 China AI

A profile of former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, who was criticized for the company's slow move into AI, cloud, and data analytics, as she releases a book on her life (t.co)
2023-3-8 IBM AI

Sources: EU regulators asked Twitter to hire more moderators and fact-checkers over concerns that Twitter aims to use more volunteers and AI to monitor content (t.co)
2023-3-7 AI Twitter

Many VCs question whether generative AI startups, currently attracting huge valuations, will make enough money, fearing a repeat of the crypto investment hype (t.co)
2023-3-7 Startup AI

US private equity firm Silver Lake and a Canadian pension fund offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as majority owner SAP looks to divest its 71% stake (t.co)
2023-3-6 Silver Canada Equity

Nansen: investors sold $6B+ of the BUSD stablecoin in the past month after US regulatory pressure; BUSD was ~40% of Binance's trading volume in December 2022 (t.co)
2023-3-6

Sources: Chinese officials declined to process Arm China's transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm's plan to offload its troubled joint venture (t.co)
2023-3-6 China

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