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Simon Johnson: ‘Nobody needs as many white-collar workers as they used to’

The Nobel laureate and former IMF chief economist on how to prepare for what AI will do to jobs

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Is the Windsong the sailboat of the future?

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Patch the Planet: a Daybreak initiative to support open source maintainers

We are introducing Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative built with Trail of Bits to help maintainers strengthen the critical open-source software the world relies on. We’re pairing AI-assisted security research using our most cyber-capable models with expert human review to not only identify vulnerabilities, but help patch them.

Daybreak: Tools for securing every organization in the world

New tools, partnerships, and the full version of GPT‑5.5‑Cyber to move past vulnerability discovery and onto the acceleration of end-to-end patch automation.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

OpenAI and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) today unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor: an accelerator architected around OpenAI’s vision for the future of LLM inference, and the first AI accelerator in a multi-generation compute platform the companies are building together to make advanced AI faster, more reliable, and more accessible to more people.

Samsung is no longer South Korea’s most valuable company.

Chipmaker SK Hynix, which supplies high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia and Google, has overtaken Samsung, with Reuters reporting that its market capitalization has now hit $1.35 trillion. Samsung had held the top spot since 2000, prior to the AI boom.

From a tense split to dueling IPOs: A timeline of Anthropic and OpenAI's rivalry

Ever since Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei left OpenAI in December 2020, the two startups have found themselves at loggerheads.

Anthropic's engineering leader says Claude Code is making programmers lonelier

Fiona Fung, who leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork, says AI agents are making her teams lonelier. She has some solutions to the problem.

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says AI monopolies are a problem (duh).

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, the Microsoft CEO says that people won’t tolerate a small group of companies “doing all of the learning for the world.” Insert the We’re-All-Trying-To-Find-The-Guy-Who-Did-This meme. According to Nadella:

Nvidia says AI's water challenge is largely solved

It's a bold claim with high stakes given the scrutiny of data centers.

Moody’s: Europe Fights to Match US in AI Data Centres

Moody's new report reveals how Europe strives to rival the US in AI data centres by scaling secondary markets to triple region-wide infrastructure capacity