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Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2+ autonomy (www.ft.com)
1 hour ago London

An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (www.ft.com)
5 hours ago Interview AI chatbot

Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (www.ft.com)
22 hours ago IOS China AI Apple

Netflix agrees to buy WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash and stock deal; the transaction is expected to close after Q3 2026 (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Netflix

Ofcom fines AVS Group, which runs 18 adult sites, £1M+ under the OSA, the largest penalty so far, and threatens action against a “major social media company” (www.ft.com)
3 days ago

Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Europe AI WhatsApp

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's American Bitcoin closed down 38.8% on December 2, wiping out ~$1B in market value; TMTG is down nearly 70% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Trump U.S. Bitcoin

Copper demand is being boosted by AI data centers, which require 27-33 tonnes per MW, over 2x that of conventional data centers, according to miner Grupo México (www.ft.com)
4 days ago AI

Software testing startup Antithesis raised $105M led by trading firm Jane Street, as demand grows for software to vet code generated by AI coding tools (www.ft.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (www.ft.com)
5 days ago IPO

Sources: McKinsey and other top consultancies freeze graduate pay offers in 2026 for the third year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model (www.ft.com)
6 days ago AI

German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Germany Startup AI

HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (www.ft.com)
6 days ago AI HSBC

Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Intel

OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users (www.ft.com)
7 days ago

Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Taiwan AI GDP

Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is “the largest holder of gold outside central banks”, buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Central Bank

London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (www.ft.com)
10 days ago Tax Startup AI London

Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (www.ft.com)
10 days ago China Alibaba AI Nvidia Southeast Asia

Michael Saylor-led Strategy is down 50%+ in the past three months after crypto loses $1T+ in value, as the “digital asset treasury” craze at companies unravels (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Asset

Q&A with Sportable co-founders Dugald Macdonald and Peter Husemeyer on their sensor-based sports tech that generates data for teams, leagues, and broadcasters (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Sensor

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Spotify

Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense (www.ft.com)
13 days ago Google AI

Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (www.ft.com)
14 days ago AI chatbot

Taiwan's minister Wu Cheng-wen says the US won't impose “punishing” tariffs on Taiwan, after a “consensus” that Taiwan would support the US chip industry (www.ft.com)
16 days ago Taiwan

How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law (www.ft.com)
17 days ago Europe AI

Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO (www.ft.com)
18 days ago IPO AI

Nokia unveils a new strategy, including plans to split its high-growth AI operations into a separate unit from its telecoms business; Nokia's shares fall 7% (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI Nokia

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ tracked crypto coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping out $1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89,500, its lowest since April (www.ft.com)
19 days ago Bitcoin

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