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In-Your-Face DOJ Aide Rides Prosecutors for 'Chief Client' Trump (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/in-your-face-doj-aide-rides-prosecutors-for-chief-client-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p29#a260219p29

Let's Encrypt Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
#news

Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026
Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026. Most users who use Let’s Encrypt to secure websites won’t be affected and won’t need to take any action. However, if you use Let’s Encrypt certificates as client certificates to authenticate to a server, this change may impact you. To minimize disruption, Let’s Encrypt will roll this change out in multiple stages, using ACME Profiles:

Testing scheduled Posts in Elk https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

GitHub - elk-zone/elk: A nimble Mastodon web client
A nimble Mastodon web client. Contribute to elk-zone/elk development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sources: Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30B equity investment into OpenAI that will replace the long-term $100B commitment agreed by the companies last year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dea24046-0a73-40b2-8246-5ac7b7a54323

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7a778d46-8bf8-4b11-af4e-5e5bd891cb9d

If you use OpenID Connect Generic Client on WordPress, you might want to make sure you're using an up-to-date version - and made some configuration updates.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/daggerhart-openid-connect-generic/

Directed an #acting #coaching client to do a take in a way that lead to no discoveries. A blind alley or sorts, it seemed. Then another layer of rage, fear, frustration, anger, love and hate made a quick appearance. We're gonna be cooking with gas with this material.

This piece makes the interesting case that accountants can be a first line of defense against cyber threats.
Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
https://theconversation.com/research-r

Research reveals a surprising line of defence against cyber attacks: accountants
Researchers found auditors who had dealt with one cyber-breached client became more likely to spot serious weaknesses in systems and controls elsewhere.

In the latest defense filing,
Luigi Mangione's lawyers claim
Pam Bondi was a partner at the lobbying firm
Ballard Partners
before she became attorney general,
and the company lists UnitedHealth Group (UHG) as a client.
As a result,
Bondi derives and continues to receive personal and financial benefits from Ballard
"in the form of a profit-sharing plan from Ballard's professional association with UHG,"
according to cour…

Luigi Mangione Says Pam Bondi Has Financial Ties to Murder Victim's Company
Luigi Mangione says he now knows the real reason why Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against him ... she allegedly has deep ties to the murder victim's health care company.

Anyone here from #akamai? Is this page still intended to function? It's trying to load CSS and JS assets from static.tm​.akamai​.com, which doesn't resolve.
https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-loo

Das derzeit prominenteste Problem, was ich mit #OpenCloud habe, ist "PROPFIND ist nicht im XML-Format".
Was mir das sagen soll, weiß ich nicht und warum Client und Server hier nicht miteinander klarkommen, ist mir auch schleierhaft.

Usando el Pride Versioning🌈, puedo decir que acabo de hacer la versión 1.0.0 de un pequeño proyecto del que estoy super orgulloso para lo pequeño que es. Es un script para gestionar directorios cifrados mediante #ageencryption que funciona en #linux :linux:

I set SRV records for _xmpps-{client,server}._tcp.example.org. Prosody docs don't mention those anymore (but other websites do) and `prosodyctl` complains about "unknown Direct TLS port". Are they deprecated? Do I need them or can I make use of them at least?
#prosody #xmpp

“When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name: Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California.
LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned.
I had never heard of Persona before this. Most people haven’t. That’s kind of the point — they sit invisibly between you and the platforms you trust.”
(via @…

I know I talk a lot about technical challenges & frustrations of IT work, however:
I’ve had clients tip me
Gotten Christmas cards
Christmas presents
One client sends me a pie every year
And my all-time favorite, a scrawled note from a little girl thanking me for setting up her computer

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

spam of the day
> Hi there, I am [generic chinese name], a senior full-stack developer with 7 years of experience. I’m looking to partner with someone in the US who can handle the client-facing communication side of projects, while I focus on the technical work and delivery.
> The idea is simple:
> You handle communication − I build the solution − We share the profit.
I should have setup per-contact email long ago, so I know how I got on the spam list of John …

Sources: Meta cuts its annual distribution of stock options by ~5% for most of its staff, equating to tens of thousands of employees, after a ~10% cut in 2025 (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/071d5503-b3dc-46bc-bc55-28f92dbdd42a

Are you struggling with getting the right kind of clients? Or would like to win more deals? Or get the "right" clients?
I can help!
https://silentz.co/about/coaching
If you want help increasing per client revenue, improving your win rate and getting better at sales, let me know!<…

You Suck At Sales

It looks like JuiceSSH, my go-to SSH client on Android for over a decade, has been delisted. Requesting recommendations of a good replacement app!

@… Heya! When you report an account, you can’t add the infringing posts for admins to review. This likely makes reports less useful. Would be great if we had this functionality that exists in the official client. Thanks!

Interview with WPP CEO Cindy Rose, who says AI puts pressure on the ad agency's pricing and WPP has 10K data scientists and software engineers and 12K creatives (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3eb36aed-8366-4db9-8ea0-e7484416dc43

Client explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…

Stop Using ‘Drop-down’
TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers and web developers. While control names might differ, if a control was functionally the same then it was not an issue. A TextBox, for example,…

I got a Megalodon Triple Knob Macro Pad running QMK last year, mainly for a potential project for a client which didn't pan out so I decided to start using it.
Sadly, it's a piece of shit that bricked itself for macros, so I have a macro pad that cannot macro.
I have a way to make it work (hack!) but it's a pain in the ass.
I want to blame the hardware and not the firmware for this. Seems like it might be an EEPROM issue since even reflashing does not fix it.

Working with an #acting #coaching client on a speech and finding the arc of it. Within that arc there are options for how intense and how unhinged to get. So good to have them playing with those options, and see, feel and hear what is resonating from it.

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

Video-Podcasts: Apple baut „neues Erlebnis“ mit HLS – und will mitverdienen
Mit iOS 26.4 dreht Apple auch an seinem populären Podcasts-Client. Der setzt nun verstärkt auf Bewegtbild. Werbetreibende müssen abgeben.

i don't understand why I would want a jellyfin desktop client? Why not just use the web client?
#jellyfin #nas

After what can only be considered mean to the hardware, the Sisyphus encoding client version 1.6.3 is released with full support for Av1an. While I won't guarantee it won't eat your pets, I can say that I've encoded enough using the Av1an module that I'm confident you'll at least get some nice videos in return.
The documentation has also been updated as well on the main site along with the README.md with some better directions on getting it up and running.
Li…

just released liboprf-0.9.3
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol fo…

The Justice Ministry is proposing to take 75% Client Account Interest into its own hands, so a tax.
This is essentially Clients own money as Solicitors have to account for it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultation

Interest on Lawyers' Client Accounts Scheme

Update: Phanpy is NOT supporting the official Mastodon quoted posts at the moment. They are still using their own implementation, means quotes are only shown in Phanpy and for example when using Moshidon as a client.
[When you click the little rocket under a toot a dialog pops up, asking whether you will "boost" or "quote" the toot. In this toot I have chosen "quote"]
(and I don't know if this will work 😄)

So... is the field named `Client Name` actually Client Name or is it really Client ID (which is a GUID)?
_Oh, you have to put Client ID in there otherwise it won't work_
Um.... so why isn't the field labelled `Client ID` then?
_Client ID was too confusing._
(despite this being what its called everywhere in the code, the config backing store etc.)
1/

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a "huge buying opportunity" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8c2a5c48-17bf-4baa-9bbf-ac6cbe9279ca

Hey there #Fediverse! It’s been a little while since my last update.
I’ve been heads-down on my #DITS issue tracker application, working hard to get the web client finished and #TestReady

US unemployment rate hits four-year high of 4.6%
#Trumponomics https://www.ft.com/content/17a1674d-0e6b-4e9b-9c0d-82de5887be15

Galaxy Digital plans to launch a hedge fund in Q1 2026 investing up to 30% in crypto tokens and the rest in financial stocks; sources say it has raised $100M (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c96bafe-c25a-492d-b3ce-e8ebe37bd274

Mozilla specifying valid upstreams with ASPA object
https://console.rpki-client.org/rpki.ripe.net/repository/DEFAULT/39/675399-81be-4fec-9f86-55131cc1efea/1/PpC-jCzEwXeURniqNoGbKQGbl80.asa.html

@… Hey Lenz,
Is there a repository somewhere where I can report issues with Hetzner’s OpenAPI spec?
This is the issue, by the way, in case there isn’t and you can forward it to the correct folks:
***
As far as I can tell, the generateHetznerCloudClient(opts: PlatformaticClientOptions): Promise<HetznerCloud> function’s opts parameter is…

hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client generated from the official specification using Massimo.

How Ukraine and Russia both rely on the same Chinese drone suppliers, whose tech is vital to the war; China officially bans sensitive drone tech exports to both (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/58416bf8-97d0-4d99-8152-cff9ec2dd3ef

The UK government will take a £25M stake in Octopus Energy's tech spin-off Kraken, last valued at $8.65B, in an effort to encourage Kraken to list in London (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6d29dab0-c18d-4244-ba89-c5a4bb40e516

Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/26595ae7-a338-4abf-8b45-1f7e66e34694

RE: https://kanoa.de/@makeratschool/115745271781976036
Eine Ebene mehr mit dem Browser Client von Mastodon

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3732a646-da35-4437-bfde-7f9efc2725ff…

Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/352fc0e3-0f0d-4e72-abe6-dd992b040caa

🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…

RE: https://mas.to/@ChanceyFleet/116083424891788667
The one I use most frequently in email: animated Simpsons-yellow skin tone thumbs-up emoji.
Somebody once thought the email client was writing that automatically because it couldn’t show the image they …

Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d10398db-b8b4-40f3-8c6d-b340470f5f3c

BAFTA Chair Sara Putt says the charity is adding "human creativity" as a guiding principle for its awards in 2026, as the film industry grapples with AI (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25517882-92bb-46d0-b2f0-91e96a6675e2

Taiwan's minister Wu Cheng-wen says the US won't impose "punishing" tariffs on Taiwan, after a "consensus" that Taiwan would support the US chip industry (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/28648c5f-5dcf-4300-9074-b1b0ef4704fd

RE: https://tilde.zone/@senesens/115744711857435253
Funny thing is, your server is already supporting the official quoting function
(quoted with the Mastodon web client)

Prince Harry and celebrities including Elton John prepare for a ~10-week trial against Daily Mail publisher, Associated Newspapers, for "unlawful activity" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/42abdd54-4155-4e7f-963e-72f01ed2846f

Avantos, which develops an AI-native client management system for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, bringing total funding to $35M (Minh Le/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/bessemer-leads-25m-series-a-in-us-fin…

Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 (Financial Times)

A look at Tokyo-based neocloud provider Datasection, which sources say has a $1.2B contract giving Tencent access to a large share of its 15K Blackwell chips (Financial Times)

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c

OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7691a233-953b-450e-aefc-f7678ddca6e1

TV Republika, the largest right-wing broadcaster in Poland, plans an English-language channel, seeking to fill a market gap in Europe for MAGA-aligned outlets (Raphael Minder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fec67146-0654-4104-a2cc-d354feb0e6c1

Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50% since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dbe5de32-1274-4adc-9e14-c05823ca9d76

Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/53220829-2ab2-471c-9a00-30d24beb8d48

Sources: Standard General hedge fund founder Soo Kim has been in talks with a major WBD shareholder over potentially buying or investing in the WBD TV networks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2edd5517-ee6c-41e6-ae3c-c0aedb433e98

The IMF says the "surprisingly resilient" global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the "levels of market frothiness" are below the dotcom bust (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2af4d92a-452c-4d35-ab55-3afce930f98a

Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fc7ebe87-8099-45f8-a8c2-2cf1c0b7dd83

A profile of Wikipedia as it faces challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and legal challenges in India (Darren Loucaides/Financial Times)

Meta commits to a multiyear deal to buy Nvidia chips, including Vera Rubin; source: Meta's in-house chip strategy had suffered technical challenges and delays (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d3b50dfc-31fa-45a8-9184-c5f0476f4504

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c

Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dffe72d0-4064-4412-8ebc-50198a30d40e
…

How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c9ec7b1-f9a6-41db-9493-3ff09f6943ef

Q&A with Synthesia founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, AI regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/26595ae7-a338-4abf-8b45-1f7e66e34694

Sources: Blue Owl Capital will not invest in Oracle's $10B, 1GW data center in Michigan after funding talks stalled due to concerns over debt terms and delays (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/84c147a4-aabb-4243-8298-11fabf1022a3

In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at "bargain prices" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cbe24118-1c60-4f3c-acb8-9ace586246fa

Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb16cda6-157b-4d23-9c3b-c2a699d919f3

TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d88729c0-c44f-4530-b888-bafa29ee0446

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…

Ireland's DPC says it has opened a "large-scale" inquiry into X over the creation and publication of "potentially harmful" sexualized images by Grok (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3c720c9b-d2b6-41b3-a7b7-960b5f1fb94b

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd202eb4-c06a-4932-8328-2ddd3cc0c175

UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16 after Apax Partners withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing "prevailing challenging market conditions" (Alexandra Heal/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/438b5e5e-7a4e-4add-b68b-927837bc2269

Sources: US healthcare manufacturer Danaher is nearing a deal to buy medtech company Masimo for ~$10B; Masimo is in an IP dispute with Apple over Apple Watch (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/da25dd17-0e28-4ad1-bc38-a8be2ab88368

UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an "undervalued and overlooked" AI play due to its "advanced ceramics" used in chips (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4252e45f-75fb-4dfc-aebe-72de48b7fb…

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make "low billions" from ads in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ec1656cd-e07b-48ed-92a8-26c7fe517899

Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $11B, four months after a secondary share sale that valued it at $6.6B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bb87485-7641-4577-8b64-144a1553d42e

Sources: suppliers of parts for Nvidia's H200 chips have paused production after Chinese customs officials blocked shipments of the AI processors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02a3eb7c-684f-4e39-87b8-36e9595ef800

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eb677cb3-f86c-42de-b819-277bcb042295

Sources: following investor backlash, Monzo to give outgoing CEO TS Anil an expanded role after he steps down in February; he is likely to retain a board seat (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d4e11d3-f30e-4c33-bedc-908cf221cffc

Meta is partnering with Singapore-based K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, with plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8164c36c-f224-4006-bc1f-561952c119b6

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1487940f-03ed-40b9-a19e-da1b657ff37a

Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f5f3bfeb-79cc-4eff-8999-1cecd6360003

Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bc300579-4b19-4f82-b232-e537e992c310

Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest "reasoning" models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…

London lawsuit: Getir co-founders Nazim Salur and Serkan Borançılı sue Abu Dhabi's Mubadala for $700M, alleging a "significant loss" in breaking up Getir assets (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64729378-9a91-4c4f-bd4c-f51fd9b78b1f

Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring (Erik Brynjolfsson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419dc5

Analysis: sports bets on Kalshi generate an estimated ~$1.3B in annualized revenue, underscoring the threat prediction markets pose to traditional operators (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1aa7d6a6-9bb8-44cd-83c6-9190d4b562f4

Keir Starmer says no platform "should get a free pass", as the UK moves to tighten online safety laws covering AI chatbots and social media, to protect children (Mari Novik/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/15917aa4-2d40-49be-85c3-da395b16e7f1

Sources say Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5aa2f310-d023-441d-97e4-a23ba6ad0874

Shares in Chinese companies critical to AI infrastructure surged in 2025, with CATL up 45% and Sungrow up 130%, as exports boost margins despite Trump's tariffs (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ea276954-7dab-49be-a152-98caa95e8c9d

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (Financial Times)