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The US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster may set the tone for how the Trump administration approaches competition policy (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Trump

Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, subscribers up 12% YoY to 268M, above its 265M guidance, MAUs up 10% YoY to 678M, and a €509M operating income (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Spotify

A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals (www.ft.com)
5 days ago Singapore

Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump's trade war pushes a pivot from China (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Trump China India Apple

Trump's chip tariffs may lead to even more overseas manufacturing to offset costs, not creating self-sufficiency; the US should focus on China's chip subsidies (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Trump China Manufacturing

A look at India's efforts to catch up in the AI race, as the government reviews 67 bids from startups and research labs seeking funding for domestic AI models (www.ft.com)
17 days ago India Startup AI

Sources: OpenAI recently gave staff and third-party groups just days, vs. several months previously, to evaluate the risks and performance of its latest models (www.ft.com)
17 days ago

The Trump administration excludes smartphones along with selected computers and laptops from reciprocal tariffs (www.ft.com)
20 days ago Trump

Current and former Google DeepMind scientists say a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy at the Google AI arm have made it harder to publish AI research (www.ft.com)
2025-4-2 Google AI

Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid for TikTok's US arm, after being approached along with Blackstone Group and others (www.ft.com)
2025-4-2 Oracle

Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump (www.ft.com)
2025-3-28 Trump Apple

AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry (www.ft.com)
2025-3-26 Startup AI Equity

Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules, says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia chips entering the country, suspecting many are ending up in China (www.ft.com)
2025-3-24 China Malaysia Nvidia

Annual meeting: Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee says the company will pursue “meaningful” M&A deals in 2025 and apologizes to investors for weak stock performance (www.ft.com)
2025-3-19 Samsung

Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged civil servants in charge of the $42B rural broadband program to increase the project's use of Starlink (www.ft.com)
2025-3-19

Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger says the company is preparing enterprise features and discussing voice product launches with “a bunch of partners” (www.ft.com)
2025-3-18

Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act, designed to protect internet users from illegal content harmful activity online, starting March 17 (www.ft.com)
2025-3-17

Current and former Meta employees describe how Joel Kaplan has risen over the past decade to become Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted political fixer (www.ft.com)
2025-3-16 Zuckerberg

Deliveroo reports FY 2024 revenue up 2% YoY to £2.08B and a £2.9M net profit, up from a £31.8M loss in 2023, its first annual profit, and plans a £100M buyback (www.ft.com)
2025-3-13

A look at UK fintechs Revolut and Monzo's push to expand in the US, where they face steep challenges in a complex regulatory environment and strong competition (www.ft.com)
2025-3-12

PitchBook: the AI frenzy has led to the fastest investment pace since 2021, with $30B+ invested into startups so far this quarter and $50B more in the works (www.ft.com)
2025-3-10 Startup AI

Sources: Microsoft canceled some CoreWeave agreements over delivery issues and missed deadlines before its IPO; Microsoft made up 62% of CoreWeave's 2024 sales (www.ft.com)
2025-3-6 Microsoft IPO

Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe AI deployment, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” (www.ft.com)
2025-3-5 AI

Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, making its Ascend chips profitable for the first time (www.ft.com)
2025-2-27 AI

Thoma Bravo closed a €1.8B fund for European software deals, after opening a London office in 2023; the US PE firm has deployed €14B in Europe since 2010 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-25 Europe London

Sources: Shein's 2024 sales were up 19% YoY to $38B, far below the forecasts made in 2023; some investors push Shein to cut pre-IPO valuation from $66B to ~$30B (www.ft.com)
2025-2-24 IPO

A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 China India iPhone Apple

Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake (www.ft.com)
2025-2-18 Arabia Saudi Arabia

How Walmart's investment in tech, including an AI tool to plan worker shifts, helped it take on Amazon, with 18% of its ~$680B revenue in 2024 generated online (www.ft.com)
2025-2-16 Amazon AI Walmart

Thoma Bravo stands to gain $4B+ from SailPoint's IPO, which is expected to value the company at $12B+; Thoma Bravo acquired SailPoint for $6.9B in April 2022 (www.ft.com)
2025-2-13 IPO

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