Articles from www.ft.com

Articles from www.ft.com

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (www.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI

A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (www.ft.com)
2026-2-1 China

France blocks Eutelsat's ~€550M sale of its ground antenna business to EQT, calling it Europe's only Starlink competitor; France has a 29.6% stake in Eutelsat (www.ft.com)
2026-1-30 France Europe

Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions and could enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (www.ft.com)
2026-1-30 AI Apple

Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI (www.ft.com)
2026-1-29 AI Tesla Robot Manufacturing Elon Musk California

A look at Amazon's and Walmart's differing approaches to agentic AI shopping; Similarweb: Walmart doubled its share of AI referrals in the US to 32.5% in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-29 Amazon AI Walmart

Q&A with James Wu on leaving his role as DJI's chief scientist to found FJDynamics to build robots for labor intensive sectors like agriculture and construction (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Robot

Sources: Google's “cease and desist” letter forces Kantar and Barb to halt UK TV measurement service comparing YouTube viewership with linear TV and streamers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Google YouTube

Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Nvidia

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into “sovereign” AI (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 AI

A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against “Woke” AI, aims to “fight China”, and rallies executives around Trump's policies (www.ft.com)
2026-1-27 Trump China AI

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24+ US projects were blocked in January alone (www.ft.com)
2026-1-26

The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue (www.ft.com)
2026-1-26

A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (www.ft.com)
2026-1-26 AI

Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-24 France IPO Cryptocurrency

Sources: Revolut scrapped plans to buy a US lender and will instead apply for a US banking license, betting Trump's lighter touch on approvals will be faster (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Trump

The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Algorithm

Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called “selling young crops”, a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 China

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid “doesn't pass the sniff test” and a “very small” number of WBD holders backed it (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Netflix

TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Oracle Silver

A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload (www.ft.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power (www.ft.com)
2026-1-22 Japan AI

How Ukraine and Russia both rely on the same Chinese drone suppliers, whose tech is vital to the war; China officially bans sensitive drone tech exports to both (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 Russia China Drone Ukraine

Galaxy Digital plans to launch a hedge fund in Q1 2026 investing up to 30% in crypto tokens and the rest in financial stocks; sources say it has raised $100M (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a “huge buying opportunity” (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 AI

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 AI Africa

The UK government will take a £25M stake in Octopus Energy's tech spin-off Kraken, last valued at $8.65B, in an effort to encourage Kraken to list in London (www.ft.com)
2026-1-20 Energy London

The IMF says the “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the “levels of market frothiness” are below the dotcom bust (www.ft.com)
2026-1-19 AI IMF

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (www.ft.com)
2026-1-19

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (www.ft.com)
2026-1-18

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