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#911 May
Mentioned in: GitLab rewrites engineering around AI agents
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#18 May
Executed AI content licensing deal with News Corp alongside OpenAI
Media's AI Pivot: News Corp names $1.5bn Anthropic settlement#57 May
Mentioned in: AI Omnibus deal splits enforcement into two speeds
European Tech Sovereignty#16 May
Disney declares AI strategy, drops $1bn OpenAI stake
Media's AI Pivot#41 May
Mentioned in: Brussels keeps Google DMA replies sealed
European Tech Sovereignty#230 Apr
Raised 2026 capex guidance by $10bn at both ends to $125-145bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers raise 2026 capex to $725 billion#830 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% as Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#429 Apr
Found in breach of DSA for insufficient child safety protections on Instagram and Facebook
European Tech Sovereignty: Meta breaches DSA on child safety#329 Apr
Raised FY guidance to $125-145bn citing higher component costs
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex#829 Apr
Raised 2026 capex to $125-145B and confirmed 8,000 May engineering layoffs with 6,000 roles unfilled
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Meta raises capex twice, confirms 8k May cuts#428 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission says DMA is fit, eyes cloud
European Tech Sovereignty#827 Apr
Mentioned in: Salesforce hires 1,000 graduates, but for sales
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#723 Apr
Mentioned in: BLS still absent; NY Fed fills the gap
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Apr
Mentioned in: Airbnb files motion against Madrid fine
Nomads & Communities#222 Apr
Mentioned in: ENISA scores NIS2 maturity with NCAF 2.0
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#722 Apr
Mentioned in: Snap cuts 16%, AI writes the code
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#719 Apr
Announced 8,000 engineering cuts and replaced job titles with AI-native role architecture
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Meta codes its own org chart#116 Apr
Mentioned in: IEA: 17% growth, $700B capex run-rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#215 Apr
Received DMA Supplementary Statement of Objections requiring reinstatement of third-party AI access to WhatsApp
European Tech Sovereignty: Meta faces DMA order on WhatsApp AI#615 Apr
Confirmed in Ukrainian service since 2023 with 1,080nm range and 150kg payload
Drones: Industry & Defence: Malloy revealed as BAE subsidiary as Tekever scale emerges#215 Apr
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#79 Apr
Mentioned in: SAG-AFTRA opens the AI royalty fight
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#67 Apr
Mentioned in: Anthropic drops ASL, expands Glasswing partners
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#114 Apr
Mentioned in: Ukraine Revealed Operating from Libya in Mediterranean Sea War
Russia-Ukraine War 2026#81 Apr
Mentioned in: Alphabet books $35.7bn Q1 capex; backlog hits $460bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#131 Mar
Signal, WhatsApp hit by three states
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#128 Mar
Mentioned in: Granola hits $1.5bn in three years
UK Startups and Innovation#326 Mar
Mentioned in: Azure up 40%, Microsoft posts $77.7bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Mentioned in: 'We went too far': Klarna rehires staff
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Mentioned in: Dell quietly cut 36,000 over three years
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Mentioned in: Only 2% of layoffs tied to real AI: HBR
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Mentioned in: IMF: AI stocks heading to dot-com levels
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Mentioned in: IRS loses a third of its revenue agents
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#222 Mar
Named in Bank of England warning on AI correction risk
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Bank of England flags AI correction risk#222 Mar
Cited in Morgan Stanley rebuttal dismissing AI bubble fears
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Morgan Stanley dismisses AI bubble fears#222 Mar
Mentioned in: 55% of firms regret their AI layoffs
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4420 Mar
Mentioned in: 3,000 vessels stranded in Middle East
Iran Conflict 2026#119 Mar
Mentioned in: BuzzFeed bets the company on Branch Office AI apps
Media's AI Pivot#117 Mar
Joined Big Five planning $650-690bn in AI spend for 2026
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Big Five to spend $650bn on AI in 2026#117 Mar
Mentioned in: Pinterest cuts 15%, stock falls anyway
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#117 Mar
Mentioned in: Four governments, four AI jobs answers
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#117 Mar
Mentioned in: Oxford Economics: AI layoffs overstated
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#117 Mar
Mentioned in: US payrolls miss by 142,000 in February
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#4016 Mar
Mentioned in: Leaked tape: Khamenei wife, son killed
Iran Conflict 2026#113 Mar
Planned layoffs of up to 16,000 staff, 20% of workforce
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Meta plans to cut 16,000 jobs#210 Mar
Mentioned in: Atlassian cuts 1,600 to self-fund AI bet
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#210 Mar
Warner-Rounds bill creates AI jobs body
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#14 Mar
Mentioned in: Oracle may cut up to 30,000 jobs
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#12 Mar
Fined Capita £14m citing absent PAM controls and AD tiering as GDPR-breaching security failures, establishing NCSC guidance as the GDPR technical baseline
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: UK 24-hour reporting bill at Report#11 Mar
Mentioned in: Nscale raises $2bn in record European round
UK Startups and Innovation#11 Mar
Contracted 366 MW behind-the-meter natural gas array for El Paso data centre
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: xAI wins 41 gas turbines for Colossus#624 Feb
Mentioned in: Dimon: JPMorgan displaced workers from AI
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#25 Feb
AI capex binge drains Big Tech cash flow
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#11 Jan
received €200m DMA fine for pay-or-consent advertising model
European Tech Sovereignty: Brussels fines Apple, Meta, and X €820m#11 Jan
#215 Oct
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#215 Oct
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#215 Oct
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#11 Oct