Microsoft targets Anthropic with new model releases
Microsoft targets Anthropic with new model releases Financial Times
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Microsoft targets Anthropic with new model releases Financial Times
Anthropic to expand Mythos access to more than 15 countries Financial Times
Anthropic files for blockbuster initial public offering Financial Times
Anthropic offers EU access to Mythos Financial Times
SoftBank pledges €75bn to build Europe’s biggest AI facility in France Financial Times
Elon Musk’s tweet undermines SpaceX’s claims about Anthropic data centre deal Financial Times
Anthropic finalises $65bn funding deal to surpass OpenAI’s valuation Financial Times
OpenAI’s foundation to spend $250mn on research into AI’s impact on economy Financial Times
OpenAI’s foundation to spend $250mn on research into AI’s impact on economy Financial Times
SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs set to test limits of AI boom Financial Times
FirstFT: SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs to ignite trading frenzy Financial Times
‘Fast entry’ SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs to ignite Wall Street trading frenzy Financial Times
Anthropic on track for first profitable quarter Financial Times
OpenAI readies IPO filing to list as soon as September Financial Times
Financial Times: Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week — Beijing aims to support domestic…
George Hammond / Financial Times: Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more — The co-founder of the…
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months — Chipmaker's spending rivals Big Tech's…
Alexandra Heal / Financial Times: Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M worth of assets from its €19B software group Visma, whose London IPO remains shelved amid the “SaaSpocalypse” — Move by private equity…
Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times: Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15%+ reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage — Bill Winters says new…
Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google…
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor Financial Times
Jamie John / Financial Times: Companies running bug bounty programs are tightening background checks and building AI agents to triage a flood of low-quality reports generated by AI — ‘Bug bounty’ programmes have seen a…
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic agrees to brief the Financial Stability Board on global financial system vulnerabilities found by Mythos, following a request by FSB's Chair — US tech group will discuss capabilities…
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing — The demographic…
Owen Walker / Financial Times: Sources: DayOne, the spinoff of China's largest data center operator GDS Holdings, plans dual IPO in Singapore and NY, seeking to raise $5B at a ~$20B valuation — Please use the sharing…
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chinese artificial…
John Gapper / Financial Times: King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others — A formerly rundown area has…
Stephen Foley / Financial Times: Professional services firm EY has withdrawn a study on loyalty rewards programs after researchers at GPTZero found apparent AI hallucinations and fake footnotes — Incident is latest…
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe — Social media platform…
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: London-based edtech startup Multiverse raised $70M at a $2.1B valuation from Index and others as it pushes into AI training; it acquired StackFuel in January — Multiverse raises $70mn in…
George Hammond / Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round — AI lab has tapped…
Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation Financial Times
Christian Davies / Financial Times: Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers — New subsidiary pivots to energy…
OpenAI considering legal action against Apple over iPhone AI deal Financial Times
Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments — Corporate climate…
David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B — Japanese group books…
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon head of devices and services Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, the Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Executive tasked…
Owen Walker / Financial Times: China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences — Beijing's move to block…
Financial Times: Analysts say AI fervor in the US and Asia has spread to Europe, boosting stocks like STMicro and Nokia as investors seek the AI boom's pick-and-shovel stocks — Investors hunt for winners in market that…
William Sandlund / Financial Times: China's CSI AI Index, which tracks AI supply chain companies, is up 28%+ YTD, while HK's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Alibaba and Tencent, is down 8% — Tencent and Alibaba…
Financial Times: Delivery Hero says founder Niklas Östberg plans to step down as CEO by March 2027, as the German food delivery group faces mounting activist investor pressure — Founder Niklas Östberg will leave German…
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese “cellular modules”, as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats — FCC chair Brendan Carr…
Financial Times: Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees…
Financial Times: Sources: German defense tech startup Helsing is set to raise $1.2B led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed at a valuation of about $18B, up from $14B in June 2025 — German company backed by Spotify's Daniel Ek…
Taylor Telford / Financial Times: Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it — Female-dominated…
Costas Mourselas / Financial Times: Investor letter: TCI, one of the world's biggest hedge funds, cut almost all of its $8B Microsoft stake, citing AI risks primarily for Office and some for Azure — TCI has cut its…
Financial Times: Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 — Silicon Valley giants have transformed…
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September — Toss aims to ‘eliminate…
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B — Start-up behind Claude tool is fielding…
Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling $53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; $49B was due to equity stakes in private companies — The AI…