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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

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (www.ft.com)
2025-12-28 AI

The top 10 US tech billionaires added $550B+ to their combined net worth in 2025; Mark Zuckerberg's net worth grew 14% YoY to $236B, but fell to #6 in rankings (www.ft.com)
2025-12-27 Zuckerberg

PitchBook: crypto M&A hit $8.6B across 267 deals in 2025 vs. $2.17B in 2024; 11 crypto IPOs raised $14.6B worldwide, up from $310M from four IPOs in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-25 IPO

Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B (www.ft.com)
2025-12-25 AI Oracle

The Trump administration says it will replace the lottery program used to grant H-1B visas with a “weighted” system that prioritizes higher-paid individuals (www.ft.com)
2025-12-24 Trump H1B

US companies sold $1.7T of investment-grade bonds in 2025, nearing the $1.8T 2020 record, driven by AI infrastructure borrowing; Goldman says AI makes up ~30% (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23 AI Goldman

Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads on X in 2024, down from £9M in 2021 (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23

Sources: ByteDance has made preliminary plans to spend ¥160B, or ~$23B, in AI capex in 2026, up from ¥150B in 2025, and has budgeted ~$12.07B for AI processors (www.ft.com)
2025-12-23 AI

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B+ contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (www.ft.com)
2025-12-21 Tencent Tokyo

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20 Bitcoin

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (www.ft.com)
2025-12-20

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