I’m off to Shanghai, see ya

Why is Elon Musk’s profile picture Edward Elric from FMA rather than Edward Elric from FMA:B

Exc: spoke to Sir Richard Branson about Virgin Galactic's future plans after the company announced it was going public in merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment vehicle of ex-Facebook billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya: telegraph.co.uk/technology/201…

TELEGRAPH BUSINESS: Blacklisted Chinese firm has 1m CCTV cameras in UK #TomorrowsPapersToday

New: Tiger Global backed the ‘Netflix of Russia’ a decade ago. Now, the New York hedge fund’s bet sits uncomfortably alongside investments from Roman Abramovich and other sanctioned entities businessinsider.com/tiger-global-h…

🚨 Scoop w/Hasan Chowdhury: Grocery delivery startup Gorillas is set to raise $250m in funding from internal investors in a bid to extend the company's runway. The deal comes on the back of the business cutting half of its staff in May. More on Business Insider: businessinsider.com/rapid-grocery-…

New w/Callum Burroughs: Some of Europe’s most prized startups have started to show signs of weakness as layoffs and valuation cuts mount. Several VCs told us that worse is yet to come for a region desperate to prove it can emulate Silicon Valley businessinsider.com/europes-tech-c…

Scoop w/Callum Burroughs: US venture capital firm Sequoia has written down its stake in British chip firm Graphcore. The company, valued at almost $3 billion, is currently undergoing layoffs globally. businessinsider.com/graphcore-sequ…

New from me + Ben Bergman + Hasan Chowdhury: buckle up for a tale of Softbank's terrible, no good, really bad year, told to us from former employees, investors, and rival VCs. businessinsider.com/inside-softban…

New: the rise of OpenAI has put Sam Altman at the helm of arguably the most consequential technology today. But experts warn of uncomfortable parallels between Altman and Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media empire changed the world forever. My deep dive businessinsider.com/ai-technology-…

lol UBS calls it “acquisition”, CS calls it “merger”

Every day is a slow day on the crime desk at a Japanese newspaper

Incredible first hand testimony - in the additional evidence bundle - from a No10 official how there were no rules enforced but they were told to behave in front of the cameras

Greetings from Mount Fuji

Views from Kyoto

I sat down with Lionel Barber ahead of the release of his new book on Masayoshi Son. We discussed the life of the enigmatic SoftBank founder, a perennial outsider and high-stakes gambler who has bet his career on a singular vision of the future. businessinsider.com/masayoshi-son-…

As I wrote this week, OpenAI’s moat is looking smaller after DeepSeek’s R1 release. An o1-level reasoning model appears to have been emulated with speed. Is Stargate an effort to build a new moat then? Sure seems that way businessinsider.com/openai-stargat…