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Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old start-up developing self-teaching AI and founded by ex-DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised $500M+ (www.ft.com)
12 days ago AI

An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Interview AI

SynMax: ~40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays, with major sites for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others likely set back by more than three months (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Microsoft

Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosus, which would bring its total stake to ~7% (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Germany Uber

Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's $2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector (www.ft.com)
13 days ago China

OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell Architect Capital a below 20% stake at a $3B+ valuation, down from a previously reported ~60% stake at a ~$5.5B valuation (www.ft.com)
13 days ago

Trainer maker Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 150%+ (www.ft.com)
15 days ago AI

Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (www.ft.com)
15 days ago Uber Equity

Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules (www.ft.com)
15 days ago AI Democrat

Iran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (www.ft.com)
16 days ago Iran

AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey (www.ft.com)
16 days ago AI

The EU appoints Anthony Whelan as its top competition official; Whelan says he will press ahead with Big Tech investigations despite President Trump's pressure (www.ft.com)
17 days ago Trump

Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices (www.ft.com)
17 days ago AI

Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to employees (www.ft.com)
17 days ago AI Zuckerberg

Sources: UK regulators plan to warn banks, insurers, and exchanges about security risks exposed by Claude Mythos Preview at a meeting within the next two weeks (www.ft.com)
18 days ago

Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Google Algorithm

A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system (www.ft.com)
19 days ago China AI Immigration

Ramp data: 30.6% of US businesses paid for Anthropic's tools in March, up from 24.4% in February; OpenAI's US business adoption remained nearly flat MoM at ~35% (www.ft.com)
19 days ago

Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (www.ft.com)
20 days ago Trump Startup AI

Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable “MaaS” models led to Qwen exec departures (www.ft.com)
20 days ago Alibaba AI

xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections (www.ft.com)
20 days ago AI

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no cameras; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
21 days ago AI Tencent

Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (www.ft.com)
21 days ago Japan AI

Memo: UK NHS data chief Ming Tang says Palantir-built Federated Data Platform is delivering “outstanding results” as she pushes deeper rollout of Palantir tech (www.ft.com)
21 days ago

Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products (www.ft.com)
22 days ago AI

An Iranian union official says Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in crypto of $1 per barrel for tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (www.ft.com)
22 days ago Iran

Sources: Perplexity's estimated ARR rose to over $450M in March, jumping 50% in a month after the launch of a new agent tool and a shift to usage-based pricing (www.ft.com)
22 days ago

South Korea is deploying thousands of ChatGPT-enabled social care robots to help elderly people; over-65s now account for ~20% of the country's 51M people (www.ft.com)
23 days ago Korea Robot

Sources: AI music startup Suno's licensing talks with UMG and Sony have stalled; labels argue that AI tools like Suno rely on human-made music and should pay (www.ft.com)
23 days ago Startup AI Sony

A look at Tencent-backed Even Realities, which makes $600 G2 smartglasses with no camera; Omdia says AI smartglasses shipments grew 322% YoY to 8.7M in 2025 (www.ft.com)
23 days ago AI Tencent

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