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I’ve emerged from my holiday-induced stupor to some very exciting Christmas post - the first Picador Books proof of my book, CODE DEPENDENT. It’s about nine ordinary people across 8 countries whose lives have been changed by their encounters with artificial intelligence.

A look at the complex structure of the OpenAI/Microsoft alliance; sources say it entitles Microsoft to up to 49% of earnings of OpenAI's for-profit subsidiary (Financial Times)

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What kind of stake in OpenAI does $13bn buy you? 0%, it turns out - at least in traditional equity.
We had a go at explaining the unusual alliance of OpenAI & Microsoft, as antitrust regulators loom
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why is Mistral AI the hottest deal in European tech right now? we spoke to CEO Arthur Mensch & investors Pia d'Iribarne ✨ Antoine Moyroud 🧑‍🚀🇫🇷 La Famiglia to find out ft.com/content/387eee…

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European venture capital firm Atomico raises $1.1bn to defy tech slowdown ft.com/content/c03919…

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The UK government is pushing DeepMind, Anthropic and OpenAI for unprecedented access to their LLMs, which could include visibility of model weights. The move raises significant security and IP concerns for the companies. Scoop w/ Madhumita Murgia
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ICYMI - I nabbed this first print interview(s) with Twitter/X CEO Linda Yaccarino for the Financial Times mag this weekend

Some observations:

Linda stonewalls and dodges questions on safety & how policy is actually developed. The spectre of Musk hangs over her.
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Sources: OpenAI and Jony Ive's LoveFrom are in advanced talks with Masayoshi Son to raise $1B+ from SoftBank to build the 'iPhone of artificial intelligence' (Financial Times)

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I spent time with Linda Yaccarino over the past few weeks, interviewing her four times for this week's Financial Times magazine

The Madison Avenue power broker sought out the CEO job at Twitter/X under Elon Musk

But will it be the making or the breaking of her?

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Amazon plans to invest ~$4B in Anthropic, with an initial investment of $1.25B for a minority stake in the AI startup and an option to increase the total to $4B (Financial Times)

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Sources and analysis: four of the eight CPUs in the Kirin 9000S SoC use Arm designs and four use Huawei-modified Arm designs, HiSilicon made the GPU, and more (@qianerliu / Financial Times)

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SCOOP 👀 Softbank eyes AI deals, including OpenAI, with post-IPO war chest ft.com/content/61d5b1…

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The world effectively allowed social media companies to regulate themselves, with predictable consequences. Will it make the same mistake with AI, a far more powerful technology?
Today's Financial Times big read via Cristina Criddle Javier Espinoza and Qianer Liu ft.com/content/59b9ef…