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Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its SF HQ and London and Zurich offices (www.ft.com)
23 days ago London Jeff Bezos

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (www.ft.com)
24 days ago Russia Ukraine Africa Cryptocurrency

Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Asset

Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (www.ft.com)
28 days ago

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is “not able to build models in the very largest scale yet” but its “computation ramp is coming to enable us to do” it in 2026 (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Microsoft

Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Google Startup AI Nvidia Texas

Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is a complicating factor (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Amazon Apple

Source: AWS' operation in Bahrain was damaged after an Iranian strike; Bahrain earlier said the civil defence force was “extinguishing a fire in a facility” (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Iran

How a small German state's bid to replace Microsoft with open-source alternatives like Linux and Kamailio faces issues, as the EU pushes “digital sovereignty” (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Germany Linux Microsoft

As Apple turns 50, a look at how a management course in postwar Japan paved the way for Steve Jobs' obsession with quality and its dominance in the iPhone era (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Japan iPhone Apple

OpenAI has tapped retail investors for the first time, raising $3B+ as part of its $122B round, through a trio of banks and ETFs managed by ARK Invest (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Retail ETF

US CTO Ethan Klein plans to urge the UK and its allies to help “shore up” quantum computing supply chains at a London meeting, after a US-UK tech deal standoff (www.ft.com)
30 days ago London Quantum

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft's business software unit to assess whether it should be designated with “strategic market status” (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Microsoft

Iran mobilizes its hackers to sow chaos, gather intel, and find targets; ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs says Iran is “throwing everything they have at this” (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Intel Iran

UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (www.ft.com)
30 days ago AI

Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Startup London

Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center (www.ft.com)
2026-3-31 Texas

A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat (www.ft.com)
2026-3-31 LinkedIn Elon Musk

AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications (www.ft.com)
2026-3-30 AI

Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (www.ft.com)
2026-3-30 Europe Startup AI Nvidia Paris

Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a “standstill” (www.ft.com)
2026-3-30 Startup

Vinod Khosla says AI is accelerating a shift of wealth and power away from workers, and an income tax overhaul in the US could offset voter fears about job loss (www.ft.com)
2026-3-29 Tax AI

US memory chip stocks lost ~$100B in market value this week, led by Micron's 15% drop, after Google Research detailed its TurboQuant compression algorithm (www.ft.com)
2026-3-28 Google Algorithm

Sources: Google nears a deal to help finance Nexus Data Centers' Texas campus that is leased to Anthropic, as Google deepens its partnership with the AI startup (www.ft.com)
2026-3-28 Google Startup AI Texas

The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (www.ft.com)
2026-3-26

OpenAI puts plans for an erotic chatbot on hold “indefinitely” as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after concerns from staff and investors (www.ft.com)
2026-3-26 chatbot

The US Army selects Carlyle and KKR to build two data centers on military bases, set to cost $2B each, as its token usage rises 8x during the US' war in Iran (www.ft.com)
2026-3-26 Iran

OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month (www.ft.com)
2026-3-26 China AI

Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case (www.ft.com)
2026-3-26 LinkedIn California

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure (www.ft.com)
2026-3-25 IOS Europe Apple Credit Card

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