Tim Bradshaw

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🎧 The first episode of my weekly podcast follows the emotional role chatbots are playing in our lives For many the interactions are positive, but we also cover the risks, and the huge ethical questions about sharing our most vulnerable selves with AI ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ft-…

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Mistral's revenue numbers are impressive and growing insanely fast but the bit that's most exciting as an investor is the durability of this revenue. Mistral selects who they work with carefully to ensure they actually achieve AI transformation.

Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation (@tim / Financial Times) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac… #a260211p2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260211/p2#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 2029 is highly ambitious, but the idea is plausible (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/a5cf86… #a260210p15" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260210/p15#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/834886… #a260206p14" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260206/p14#a26…

Kris Marszalek will use ai.com to launch a new personal AI agent via a Super Bowl ad this weekend. Full story @FT as.ft.com/r/7b4d08ed-a57…

scoop: the founder of Crypto.com paid $70mn to buy AI.com last year in what is believed to be the biggest-ever domain name purchase

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Apple just made one of its largest acquisitions ever - close to -$2bn for an Israeli stealth startup called Q.AI that has invented sci fi tech that can understand what you’re saying just by sensing face movements

Alphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/02d447… #a260112p22" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260112/p22#a26… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, "designed for intentional living", in November (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/6a33af… #a260104p1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/260104/p1#a260… 📥 Send tips! techmeme.com/contact

Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/2496ed… #a251028p23" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/251028/p23#a25… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

Silicon Valley chip start-up raises $100mn to take on TSMC and ASML on.ft.com/48QAVBH

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Don’t panic! It’s the “good” kind of bubble, reckons @JeffBezos, who has some experience in these matters. “This is kind of an industrial bubble as opposed to financial bubbles,” he told @italiantechweek, the kind that “can even be good. Because when the dust settles … society benefits from those inventions.”

Black Forest Labs -less than 50 employees -based in small German university city of Freiburg -One year old -Backed by A16Z And as we reveal today, in funding talks for $200-$300m at around a $4bn valuation @FT

UK-based Yoto, whose screen-free speakers for kids play audiobooks and music, reports 2024 revenue up 86% YoY to £94.8M and expects to turn a profit in 2025 (@tim / Financial Times) ft.com/content/fbd8db… #a250827p5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/250827/p5#a250… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro…

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TikTok is planning to lay off hundreds of "trust and safety" staff in the UK and S/SE Asia, replacing many content moderators with AI, just weeks after new Online Safety Act rules came into force - FT scoop w @AnnaSophieGross