Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making "Hypernova", through a spate of dealmaking (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b397f80d-5772-483b-9e48-b9fa83279c75
Ukraine finance minister calls for use of Russian frozen assets from 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/16/ukraine-finance-minister-calls-for.html
GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d01290c9-cc92-4c1f-bd70-ac332cd40f94
HyImpulse: Millionen für die geplante Weltraumrakete
Im Jahr 2027 will das deutsche Start-up HyImpulse eine Weltraumrakete starten. In einer ersten Finanzierungsrunde sind nun 45 Millionen Euro zusammengekommen.
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China says US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the deal with the US includes "licensing the algorithm and other IP rights" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/550e4680-89e7-4b59-bb5d-2064cd6799c7
Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is "probably more" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2ea2b35b-e009-42ed-b4d3-6b21aa9b2a13
CoreWeave investors sold more than $1B in shares as the IPO lockup ended; the stock held steady on Friday after dropping about 35% over the previous two days (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e1281a73-61bf-4161-bd00-2be6a53cf074
Tencent and Baidu sold $3.3B combined in offshore bonds this year, the most ever for Chinese tech companies, as companies secure cheap financing for AI buildout (Janice Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/openai-hires-former-xai-cfo-a…