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The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, has told shareholders it intends to dismantle its variable-interest-entity (VIE) structure […]

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Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn’t AI as much as what is. Nintendo’s stock climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo on Tuesday for its third straight day of gains, Bloomberg […]

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Bill Winters told investors in Hong Kong that the bank’s HR, risk and compliance functions will shrink by more than 15% over five years, with the headcount efficiency aimed at lifting income-per-employee 20% by 2028. Standard Chartered will cut more than 15% of its back-office roles by 2030, chief executive Bill Winters told investors at […]

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The A$410bn pension fund is comparing the disruption to what retail and consumer services have already experienced. ASIC is already monitoring frontier-AI risks across the Australian financial system. AustralianSuper, the country’s largest pension fund with A$410bn ($293bn) under management, has said agentic artificial intelligence could fundamentally reshape how it serves its 3.5 million members, Bloomberg’s […]

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Bloomberg reports early-stage takeover conversations with the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, which raised $800m at a $3.2bn valuation last year and counts Bezos Expeditions and Samsung among its backers. Tenstorrent, the Jim Keller-led AI chip startup, has held early-stage takeover conversations with Intel and Qualcomm, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the […]

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Chief People Officer Janelle Gale’s Monday memo described ‘smaller teams’ and a ‘flatter’ structure built around new AI groups for agents, apps, and infrastructure. Layoffs are due later this week. The Meta Saga continues with layoffs and “reassigning”. Meta Platforms is reassigning 7,000 workers to new artificial-intelligence-focused jobs as part of a broad corporate restructuring, […]

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The hackers exfiltrated a codebase that was already open source, then demanded payment to keep it from being released. Grafana said no, and cited the FBI’s standing advice. It is the second high-profile extortion case in seven days. Grafana Labs, the open-source monitoring and visualisation company, disclosed on Monday that hackers had broken into its […]

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Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees earlier this year to hand over their personal US tax returns as […]

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Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI infrastructure: a healthy cloud business, its own custom chips, and supply […]

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Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex’s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial’s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it. A Reuters investigation published on Monday documents that Nobitex, Iran’s largest crypto exchange, has processed at least […]