Cristina Criddle

Thursday, 10 July, 2025

News in-depthAmazon.com

Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to deepen AI alliance

The tech groups are increasingly tied to each other and act as a bulwark to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership

Wednesday, 9 July, 2025

Artificial intelligence

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Hitler on X

Incident follows xAI bot sharing ‘white genocide’ tropes in response to unrelated questions

Wednesday, 9 July, 2025

News in-depthUS tax

What Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ means for corporate America

Private equity cheers the legislation while Tesla and AI start-ups lose out

Tuesday, 8 July, 2025

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data

Wednesday, 2 July, 2025

Cloud computing

OpenAI signs $30bn data centre deal with Oracle

Stargate joint venture with SoftBank seeks more computing power to run powerful AI models

Tuesday, 1 July, 2025

Artificial intelligence

AI talent wars lead to superstar salaries for top tech staff

OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta

Sunday, 29 June, 2025

TikTok Inc

Trump says he has found group of ‘wealthy people’ to buy TikTok

US administration has repeatedly delayed deadline for Chinese owner to sell social media platform’s US operations

Wednesday, 25 June, 2025

Artificial intelligence

Meta wins AI copyright case in blow to authors

Court finds using online books to train artificial intelligence models without writers’ consent is ‘fair use’

Tuesday, 24 June, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI and Jony Ive accused of trying to ‘bury’ rival start-up

CEO of iyO won restraining order forcing Sam Altman-led group to pull marketing materials about $6.4bn venture

Tuesday, 24 June, 2025

News in-depthArtificial intelligence

The struggle to get inside how AI models really work

Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains-of-thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems

Sunday, 22 June, 2025

News in-depthMeta Platforms

The rise of Alexandr Wang: Meta’s $14bn bet on 28-year-old Scale AI chief

Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg spends big to hire well-connected entrepreneur to revitalise artificial intelligence ambitions

Friday, 20 June, 2025

Mira Murati

Murati’s Thinking Machines valued at $10bn after $2bn fundraising

Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley’s history

Friday, 20 June, 2025

Media

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping

British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

Thursday, 19 June, 2025

OutlookTechnology sector

The death of the business card

In San Francisco we prefer to tap our phones, scan QR codes or get microchip manicures

Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

News in-depthOpenAI

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks

ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI says Meta is trying to poach staff with $100mn sign-on offers

Mark Zuckerberg reported to be personally calling engineers to recruit for ‘superintelligence’ AI team

Wednesday, 18 June, 2025

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

Trump demands that Iran surrender

The US president turned to social media to speak on Iran-Israel conflict

Monday, 16 June, 2025

WhatsApp Inc

Meta introduces advertising to WhatsApp in push for new revenues

US tech group reverses ‘no ads’ stance at world’s most popular messaging service

Friday, 13 June, 2025

Meta Platforms

Meta invests $15bn in Scale AI, doubling start-up’s valuation

The deal values the data-labelling company at $29bn

Tuesday, 10 June, 2025

Meta Platforms

Meta plans to invest $15bn in Scale AI in bid to catch up to rivals

Deal would be one of the biggest of its kind and give Facebook parent a 49% stake in the start-up

Tuesday, 10 June, 2025

Special ReportFT Schools: Navigating the digital world

How to get the best out of AI

Artificial intelligence can be an invaluable learning tool — if you learn to avoid the pitfalls

Saturday, 7 June, 2025

Microsoft Corp

Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models sold to cloud customers

Tech group’s corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

Thursday, 5 June, 2025

Business InsightArtificial intelligence

Silicon Valley’s abundance of hype over abundance

Tech executives are now promising the AI revolution will lead to not just more, but everything

Tuesday, 3 June, 2025

InterviewArtificial intelligence

‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users

Turing Award winner warns recent models display dangerous characteristics as he launches LawZero non-profit for safer AI

Friday, 23 May, 2025

The Big Read

Can Google still dominate search in the age of AI chatbots?

For the first time in a generation, its monopoly is under threat. After two years of false starts, the company is trying to regain the initiative