Meta apparently trying to poach OpenAI staff with $100mn bonuses... would love to hear more about some of the crazy offers being made for AI talent! My signal is criddle.67 for tips 🤫 ft.com/content/a3011e…

We’re excited to be at TNW Conference 2025 tomorrow and Friday, in sunny Amsterdam! Join our CEO Fabrizio Del Maffeo on Friday at 16:00 CEST for a main stage panel discussion: “The Good, The Bad, and The Future of AI” moderated by FT’s Cristina Criddle, with leaders from Perplexity and

NEW: Microsoft is prepared to leave the negotiating table with OpenAI if it can't find a deal that is equal to or better than its current arrangement w/ Tabby Kinder , Rafe Uddin & George Hammond ft.com/content/072e90…

Live in 15 minutes on the Purple Stage: CSO of Hugging Face Thomas Wolf alongside Cristina Criddle! Join the talk about Open Source Will Win (But Not How You Think): Power, Scale & the New AI Battleground 🔥

thank you Cristina Criddle for including Chipped 💅 in your latest Financial Times piece 💙

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping as the UK national broadcaster takes its first steps to defending its IP against US big tech ft.com/content/b743d4… scoop w/ Cristina Criddle via @ft

mira locking in a $10 billion valuation without pitching a product or financials, with full board control, is kind of wonderful

Researchers: "chain of thought" techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning (@cristinacriddle / Financial Times) ft.com/content/b349f5… techmeme.com/250624/p8#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats on.ft.com/4lltHJm

putting it in your nail is so much cuter <3

New - Nvidia, AMD and Jane Street (Anthropic investor) among participants in the $2bn funding round for Mira's startup Thinking Machines Lab - ft.com/content/136c04…

OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues on.ft.com/3GvkzCV

Sources: OpenAI is aiming to add a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission (Financial Times) ft.com/content/449102… techmeme.com/250716/p20#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

we learn how “unlimited GPT-5” for free users will be subsidised: agents go shopping for you, merchants pay a commission, no charging for placement, no adverts