2025-01-24
NEW: X has refused to remove a video that Axel Rudakubana watched minutes before murdering three young children, despite numerous requests from authorities in Australia and the UK who have appealed to Elon Musk about the dangers of keeping it online. — www.ft.com/content/3c89...
Financial Times
X refuses to remove a video of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop watched by Axel Rudakubana minutes before murdering three kids in UK's Southport last summer
Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities
2024-11-20
NEW: The head of the £800mn ‘Exascale’ project cancelled by the Labour government has warned it would be a national “disaster” not to invest in supercompute capacity very soon. Data yday showed the UK no longer has a supercomputer in the global top 50 https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind
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2024-10-30
NEW: The UK should reduce the cost and complexity of visas for people with expertise AI and create special investment zones for data centres, Matt Clifford's gov-commissioned report is expected to say https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: an upcoming UK government-commissioned report says the UK should streamline the visa process for AI experts and create special zones for data centers
Anna Gross / Financial Times : X: @emmalbriant and @annasophiegross X: Dr. Emma L. Briant / @emmalbriant : The nightmare to come. Why does Britain have no choice over selling out ...
2024-08-08
NEW: British officials have faced resistance from this platform - X - over calls to take down posts that are deemed a threat to national security during violent riots across the UK, sources say. Story w/ @MsHannahMurphy @stephistacey https://www.ft.com/...
Politics.co.uk
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
Elon Musk has deleted a post on X, the social media platform he owns, in which he spread fake news about …
NEW: British officials have faced resistance from this platform - X - over calls to take down posts that are deemed a threat to national security during violent riots across the UK, sources say. Story w/ @MsHannahMurphy @stephistacey https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
UK officials say X has been less responsive to removing disinformation than Google, Meta, and TikTok, as Elon Musk launches a series of jibes at PM Keir Starmer
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2024-08-07
NEW: British officials have faced resistance from this platform - X - over calls to take down posts that are deemed a threat to national security during violent riots across the UK, sources say. Story w/ @MsHannahMurphy @stephistacey https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
UK officials say X has been less responsive to removing disinformation than Google, Meta, and TikTok, as Elon Musk launches a series of jibes at PM Keir Starmer
Social media site owner Elon Musk has also been posting jibes at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
2024-03-06
Great piece on the mysterious rise of Temu's parent PDD Holdings by @FD Why do US investors have so much confidence in an opaque operation whose financial statements seem to lack much pattern or explanation? https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A deep dive into PDD's finances and operations, which are shrouded in secrecy and raise questions about US investors' confidence in Temu's parent company
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2023-10-19
NEW: The UK is planning to announce an international advisory group on artificial intelligence at its AI summit next month, loosely modelled on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. W/ @madhumita29 https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: the UK plans to announce an international advisory group on AI, loosely modeled on the UN's IPCC, at the November 2023 AI summit in Bletchley Park
The British government wants to draw on expert knowledge about the fast-developing technology — The UK is planning to announce …
2023-10-18
NEW: China is planning to attend both days of the UK's summit on AI at Bletchley Park next month With @CristinaCriddle @GeorgeWParker @QianerLiu https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
UK and Chinese officials say China plans to attend the AI summit at Bletchley Park in December, despite controversy over alleged spying by Beijing in the UK
Financial Times :
NEW: China is planning to attend both days of the UK's summit on AI at Bletchley Park next month With @CristinaCriddle @GeorgeWParker @QianerLiu https://www.ft.com/...
Reuters
In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes chiefs from the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand warn on China's IP “theft” and using AI to hack and spy
The Five Eyes countries' intelligence chiefs came together on Tuesday to accuse China of intellectual property theft …
2023-03-29
Embracer has grown into Europe's biggest gaming group via a dealmaking bonanza, hoovering up video game IP, board games and comics. But its distinctive accounting has attracted criticism from a number of hedge funds. Story with @FD 1/2 https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A profile of Swedish gaming company Embracer, whose growth via frantic dealmaking has raised questions of financial performance, accounting practices, and more
Financial Times : Tweets: @annasophiegross , @arashmassoudi , and @lordshipstrade Tweets: Anna Gross / @annasophiegross : Embracer has grown into Europe's biggest gaming group via...
2023-03-23
Here's a diagram we made to explain the proposed business model better 2/2 https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Arm seeks to raise prices for its chip designs by charging device makers based on the value of a device instead of chipmakers based on a chip's value
SoftBank-owned group aims to charge more for each chip design in radical shake-up of business model
New: Arm is seeking to overhaul its business model and boost prices, telling partners it plans to stop charging chipmakers royalties based on a chip's value and instead charge device-makers based on device value. w/ @ChengTingFang and @KanaInagaki 1/2 https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Arm seeks to raise prices for its chip designs by charging device makers based on the value of a device instead of chipmakers based on a chip's value
SoftBank-owned group aims to charge more for each chip design in radical shake-up of business model
2023-03-14
Front page: Companies are forging cable routes that avoid contested waters in the South China Sea because of permit deadlocks with Chinese authorities, according to multiple sources. W/ @alexandraheal @Dimi @KathrinHille @mercedesrue @mjruehl https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: China begins impeding South China Sea subsea internet cable projects due to spying fears, imposing strict permit requirements and delaying approvals
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2023-01-09
Scoop: Rishi Sunak met Arm chief executive Rene Haas last month in Downing Street, with Masayoshi Son joining via video. The renewed lobbying effort is focused on trying to secure a ‘dual listing’ for Arm in NY and London. With @DanielThomasLDN https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: UK PM Rishi Sunak met Arm CEO Rene Haas and Masayoshi Son to revive efforts to secure a London listing for Cambridge-based Arm's IPO alongside New York
Officials and London Stock Exchange face uphill battle to secure UK role for chip designer's IPO
2022-12-14
Scoop: Alibaba and other Chinese tech groups cannot buy some of the world's most advanced chip designs after Arm determined that the US and UK would not approve licences to export the technology to China. W/ @QianerLiu and @Dimi https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Alibaba will not be able to buy Arm's high-performance Neoverse V chips, after Arm concludes that the US and UK would not approve its export to China
Alibaba among groups unable to purchase top designs — Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs …
2022-12-01
The government has opted to use Musk's Starlink rather than OneWeb, which it rescued from bankruptcy in 2020 with a controversial $500mn investment. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
The UK government plans to test SpaceX's Starlink in remote locations, including Snowdonia National Park, choosing the service over British rival OneWeb
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2022-09-14
Scoop: Newport's former owner Drew Nelson is plotting to buy the company back with private equity group Palladian Investment Partners. And the gov is on course to make Nexperia unwind its stake before October 3. With @PickardJE https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Newport Wafer Fab's prior owner is orchestrating a bid to buy back the company, as the UK plans to tell Chinese-owned Nexperia to reduce its stake
Financial Times : Tweets: @editorbtb Tweets: Sam / @editorbtb : What a dog's breakfast. Drew Nelson, the previous owner of Newport Wafer Fab, is in a bid to buy back the company h...
2022-05-14
Elsewhere, SoftBank has been having a shocker. “It looks like Masa might be out of ideas,” said one investor. Article w/ @slodek @KanaInagaki @BondHack and @ArashMassoudi https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Masayoshi Son was subdued on SoftBank's earnings call as he runs out of options to restore investor confidence; public companies in the Vision Fund are down 62%
Financial Times : Tweets: @yoda , @annasophiegross , @tariqpanja , and @muradahmed Tweets: @yoda : Me when it's time to make a decision about dinner. https://twitter.com/... Anna ...
2022-02-15
When Son spearheaded the $31bn purchase of Arm, he saw it as a wager on the IoT concept. Five years later, it has become increasingly clear that this gamble was a costly misadventure. With @tim and stellar editing by @muradahmed https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
How SoftBank's costly bet on IoT at Arm backfired and distracted the company from the much bigger data center market
UK chip designer changes strategy ahead of planned float with renewed focus on lucrative server market — As Masayoshi Son tried to persuade investors of the wisdom …