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A profile of incoming WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah, who studied philosophy in Mumbai, advised Sequoia India, and joins a growing pool of Indian-born tech executives (www.ft.com)
28 days ago India WhatsApp

As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (www.ft.com)
28 days ago China AI Robot

Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end (www.ft.com)
28 days ago

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5B valuation, and is set for €1B+ in annual recurring revenue by year's end (www.ft.com)
28 days ago Startup Insurance Paris

Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~$40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May (www.ft.com)
28 days ago

Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its DGX B300 server went from ~$550K to ~$1.1M (www.ft.com)
29 days ago China AI Nvidia

An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Interview AI Apple

Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M (www.ft.com)
29 days ago China AI Nvidia

Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties (www.ft.com)
29 days ago Germany Drone

An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, help address trained medical staff shortages, and more (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Interview AI Nvidia

Eli Lilly plans to use its $7.3B cash reserve to fund an “App Store” for biotech scientists after launching a data center with 1,016 Blackwell chips in 2025 (www.ft.com)
30 days ago Biotech

OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of an IPO (www.ft.com)
30 days ago IPO

UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time; the case focused on unpaid fees (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI

JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or later”, and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 Robot

Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Ban

PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Drone

Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22

Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause (www.ft.com)
2026-6-21

Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms (www.ft.com)
2026-6-20

Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO (www.ft.com)
2026-6-20 IPO

Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 SpaceX

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 Europe Ukraine SpaceX

A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (www.ft.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced US chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18

A Blackstone-led consortium agrees to take control of software company Medallia from Thoma Bravo, which will lose the entire $5B it invested in Medallia (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18

Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Hong Kong AI JPMorgan Goldman

Study: Mistral and other open-source AI models are among the worst at filtering out Russian disinformation; Mistral's top model ranks 47 out of 60 tested models (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Russia AI

Sources: Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis called for US-led collaboration on AI rules at the G7 summit; Macron and Modi raised concerns over the US block on Mythos (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 AI

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (www.ft.com)
2026-6-18 Germany Google AI

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