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Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (www.ft.com)
2026-1-12 China Korea AI Nvidia

Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (www.ft.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI

Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the '90s dot-com boom and comparable to the mid-2010s US shale boom (www.ft.com)
2026-1-11 AI GDP

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (www.ft.com)
2026-1-11 China AI

Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 China

Microsoft's chief scientist Eric Horvitz warns that the US' cuts to academic research funding could push talent abroad and hand rivals an edge in the AI race (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft AI

As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 Trump AI

London-based data center company GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 London

Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the “last details” with the US government (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China Nvidia

Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7

An interview with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 Google Interview AI

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's purchase of Manus for possible technology export control violations (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China

PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says PwC decided to “lean in” to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump's embrace of digital assets (www.ft.com)
2026-1-5 Trump Asset

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for “exceptional” artists (www.ft.com)
2026-1-5 Immigration

EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (www.ft.com)
2026-1-4 Trump

Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, “designed for intentional living”, in November (www.ft.com)
2026-1-4

Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-4 China India Asia Indonesia

London is set to become the first city where both US and Chinese robotaxis operate, as Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch their robotaxis in the city in 2026 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-3 China London

Yann LeCun says Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results (www.ft.com)
2026-1-3

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (www.ft.com)
2026-1-2 AI Nvidia Nokia

A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-1 Google AI

Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could IPO in 2026; those three deals alone would exceed the total proceeds from roughly 200 US IPOs in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-1 IPO SpaceX

Analysts and manufacturers expect smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices to rise by as much as 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs (www.ft.com)
2026-1-1 AI

IDC expects Apple to ship just 45,000 units of the Vision Pro in Q4 2025; Sensor Tower says Apple cut digital ad spend for the headset by 95% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-1 Apple 4Q Sensor

Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries (www.ft.com)
2025-12-31 Trump Mobile

UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (www.ft.com)
2025-12-30 Energy Equity

How diamonds are being converted to quantum sensors by inserting tiny imperfections, opening up potential uses in medicine, brain-computer interfaces, and more (www.ft.com)
2025-12-30 Quantum

ACCA, the world's largest accounting body, says it is ending remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating by using AI tools when taking tests (www.ft.com)
2025-12-30 AI

PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (www.ft.com)
2025-12-29 Startup AI

Global hotel groups are intensifying efforts to get customers to book directly, as they seek to save on online platform commissions and prepare for AI agents (www.ft.com)
2025-12-29 AI

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