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Thrive Capital: the venture firm staking billions on a few big bets, most notably OpenAI - Great piece by ⁦George Hammond⁩ via Financial Times on.ft.com/4fWW4uf

When supporting Trump in the election, Silicon Valley did so in the belief that his administration would strike an innovation-friendly stance. If this happens, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman hopes to see more competition and faster improvements. on.ft.com/3Z2TY5f

Microsoft urges Donald Trump to ‘push harder’ against Russia and China hacks ft.com/content/e56329… via @ft

NEWS: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says dealer franchise laws are "as close as you can get to corruption." "I think you essentially have, like, lots of dealers have paid for laws that make it really hard for us to interact directly with the consumer." insideevs.com/news/741992/ri…

Google vs the DoJ fight will be decided by a political call ft.com/content/ca1058… via @ft

New — Kamala Harris tells her major donors on the National Finance Committee debrief call that her campaign raised $1.5 billion over the course of the 107-day race. She also offered her corn bread stuffing recipe to anyone who doesn't have it.

Elon Musk spent years forging strong bonds with CCP leaders. His business empire now sits across a minefield of US-China conflicts from security, tech competition, tariffs and supply chains to free speech and the future of Taiwan. via Financial Times ft.com/content/e2ecd4…

Nato chief Mark Rutte to Donald Trump: “We cannot have a situation where we have Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving…” ft.com/content/8a80fa… by Henry Foy

“Vox populi, vox dei .” 👌🏻 Tesla loses bid to restore Elon Musk’s record $56bn pay package Financial Times w/ Sujeet Indap on.ft.com/49kIvTj

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at Dealbook: Our investors are allowed to invest in rivals, but we stop your information rights.

Brussels probes Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens - impact from our investigation published in the summer via Financial Times on.ft.com/49u7N1u

Here’s a peek at the future: Project Astra, our prototype showing glimmers of a universal AI assistant. We showed an early glimpse of it at I/O, and it’s now in the hands of trusted testers. Here’s how Robbie is using it. Can’t wait til we start shipping, 2025 is going to be an

Google races to bring AI-powered ‘agents’ to consumers Madhumita Murgia ft.com/content/96ba29… via @ft

Gwynne Shotwell, the woman making ⁦SpaceX⁩’s moonshot a reality via Financial Times on.ft.com/3ZVKQQz

Tesla fights to avoid the steep cost of scrapping Elon Musk’s pay package via Financial Times on.ft.com/41Ie9Z0

An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years (Stephen Morris / Financial Times) on.ft.com/4fFQBHH techmeme.com/250104/p4#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Big Financial Times scoop: SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer. Much of that money is expected to end up in Stargate With Arash Massoudi David Keohane and Stephen Morris ft.com/content/6a482d…

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

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Google will spend roughly $320bn on capex this year, with most cash funnelled into AI infrastructure. Story w/Stephen Morris on.ft.com/4hMQ7AX

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