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Monster ⁦Financial Times⁩ scoop: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25bn in OpenAI - (w much of that funding in turn to be used for Stargate) We break tons of new info here with my colleagues ⁦David Keohane⁩ ⁦George Hammond⁩ ⁦Stephen Morris⁩ on.ft.com/4hAMzlh

Anthropic is eating OpenAI’s lunch

Chef Pierre, thank you for being a great boss, colleague, mentor and friend. From the Brussels days to New York (and a cameo in Mumbai), we had a ton a fun. I will miss you. The Washington Post, you’re lucky to have Peter Spiegel - ciao chef

While the world has been hunting for clues about the mysterious DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, I hopped on a plane down to Guangdong to visit the village where he grew up. Liang returned to Mililing 米历岭村 for the Lunar New Year celebration with his family this week.

Consistently great @ft AI coverage from Madhumita Murgia & co. on.ft.com/3Q0qpNF

Tons of new information in our latest Financial Times feature on SoftBank and OpenAI Read: Masayoshi Son and OpenAI’s bet on AI — and each other ft.com/content/fc57fe… David Keohane Stephen Morris George Hammond

Who’s going to tell him millions of Indians fast regularly over decades..

In this week's episode of the FT's Tech Tonic podcast, Madhumita Murgia speaks to Synthesia 🎥 CEO Victor Riparbelli about the value that Fortune 500 companies get from using our AI platform to create instructional videos for employee training, customer support, or sales enablement.

Had fun looking at some of the assumptions around how AI will create economic value. Cost-cutting & efficiency gains are the big selling points but job cuts are limited and it's still unclear whether the price of AI is worth it for firms. w/ Madhumita Murgia ft.com/content/05dfd0…

Good non-fiction books are an important way of making sense of the dangerous world we now inhabit. Let’s get reading Women's Prize Kavita Puri theguardian.com/books/2025/feb…

Fab to be back on the shortlist for science/tech journalist of the year, and huge thanks to my indefatigable FT Technology News team of Murad Ahmed, Tanya Powley, Tim Bradshaw and co!

British journos – keen to follow in the footsteps of Abbie Cheeseman Cara McGoogan Laura Hughes Gabriel Pogrund Madhumita Murgia Louisa Loveluck Tom Rowley Sebastian Payne? Apply today for this fantastic opportunity to work at The Washington Post.

I spoke with Madhumita Murgia about the AI biz model: instead the explosion of innovation we've been promised, big tech companies are pursuing lock in at significant cost, while startups circle mundane use cases in the hope of being acquired. Listen here: ft.com/content/05dfd0…

Enjoyed this convo with Madhumita Murgia a few weeks ago, on AI’s (lack of a) business model and the hype-driven cycle we’re all now trapped in - the way out is to deny the push for overinvestment in AI infra now that firms are begging governments for a handout.

New: Russian executions of Ukrainian prisoners points to a systematic policy. Investigation with Christopher Miller Joe Sinclair [email protected] Peter Andringa Chris Campbell on.ft.com/41olT26

Went to an AI prompt engineering night school course and spoke to some people about the economics of AI for this podcast with Madhumita Murgia and Cristina Criddle Give it a listen 🎧 ft.com/content/acf80f…

AI may be on the rise, but these human writers have something to say about it. Hamilton MANN Parmy Olson Anil Ananthaswamy Madhumita Murgia Verity Harding open.substack.com/pub/nextbigide…

I’m so honoured to be one of six writers shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. I spoke to BBC Woman's Hour about my book, Private Revolutions, this morning alongside author Sanam Mahloudji: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Today I’m taking part in a special BBC Woman’s Hour programme on #AI in women’s health I think it will be a game changer for diagnostics, case finding and research specifically for women

Q&A with Christopher Bishop on leading Microsoft's AI for Science lab, why scientific discovery will be AI's single most important application, and more (Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times) ft.com/content/ed2acf… techmeme.com/250403/p8#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…