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OpenAI secures $300bn valuation after $40bn SoftBank-led funding round

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Financial Times 3 place · 03/31/2025 19:10 EDT

Newest financing comes as ChatGPT maker seeks to become conventional for-profit company Read more ›

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Musk’s merger suffers from serious grade inflation

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Financial Times 2 place · 03/31/2025 13:09 EDT

The huge valuations ascribed to X and xAI have raised eyebrows Read more ›

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Google DeepMind’s drug discovery spin-off Isomorphic Labs raises $600mn

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Financial Times · 03/31/2025 10:45 EDT

AI unit is boosted by first external funding round led by OpenAI-backer Thrive Capital Read more ›

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Banks and tech groups commit to live data-sharing in UK fraud clampdown

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Financial Times · 03/31/2025 07:50 EDT

Industry-led initiative promises to beat existing scam-monitoring systems Read more ›

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EQT teams up with Fortnox chair in bid valuing Swedish software group at $5.5bn

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Financial Times · 03/31/2025 06:41 EDT

All-cash offer for accounting software specialist sends shares up 35% Read more ›

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EQT teams up with Fortnox chair in bid valuing Swedish software group at $5.5bn

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Financial Times · 03/31/2025 04:28 EDT

All-cash offer for accounting software specialist sends shares up 36% Read more ›

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China’s WeRide warns driverless tech profitability ‘difficult to predict’

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Financial Times · 03/30/2025 22:03 EDT

Nasdaq-listed autonomous vehicle company says government regulation and local partners are key to ending years of losses Read more ›

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It’s a WhatsApp world at work now

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Financial Times 2 place · 03/30/2025 00:00 EDT

And that’s not always a good thing Read more ›

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Smiths expands US manufacturing of chip testers, after trade restrictions

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Financial Times 1 place · 03/30/2025 00:00 EDT

Some production will move from China, although plant there will still supply Asia and Europe Read more ›

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn

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Financial Times 1 place · 03/28/2025 22:08 EDT

Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power Read more ›

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CoreWeave chief Michael Intrator tests market faith in AI hype

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Financial Times 1 place · 03/28/2025 20:01 EDT

‘Hyper-rational’ CEO secured important deals with Blackstone and Microsoft to create a cloud computing giant ahead of IPO Read more ›

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence group buys X for $45bn

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Financial Times 1 place · 03/28/2025 18:24 EDT

Billionaire entrepreneur says social media platform and AI group will share data and computational power Read more ›

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CoreWeave treads water in market debut after downsized IPO

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 16:08 EDT

Investor enthusiasm for companies linked to artificial intelligence boom has waned this year Read more ›

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CoreWeave falls in market debut after downsized IPO

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Financial Times 2 place · 03/28/2025 13:16 EDT

Investor enthusiasm for companies linked to artificial intelligence boom has waned this year Read more ›

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Breast-pump maker Elvie bought by US rival that sued ‘femtech’ pioneer

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 13:00 EDT

London-based start-up that fell into administration acquired by US rival Willow Read more ›

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Tencent takes €1.2bn stake in spin-off from ‘Assassin’s Creed’ maker Ubisoft

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 09:09 EDT

Chinese tech group helps shore up balance sheet of struggling French games developer Read more ›

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Do AI companies really care about safety?

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 09:00 EDT

Or are they kidding us into thinking they really looking out for our interests? Read more ›

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Taiwan accuses Chinese chipmakers of illegally poaching engineers

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 07:40 EDT

Beijing’s semiconductor champion SMIC accused of posing as Samoa entity to evade foreign investment restrictions Read more ›

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Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 01:00 EDT

New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers Read more ›

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How Europe can make it easier for start-ups to scale

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Financial Times · 03/28/2025 01:00 EDT

Entrepreneurs and investors are rallying behind a call for a voluntary pan-European legal framework for fledgling companies Read more ›

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