@mshannahmurphy.bsky.social
Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation. 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open. Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Hello! I'll be in San Diego later this week...Folks at NeurIPS, what should I be learning about/let's catch up in person/best events?
My DMs are open. mshannahmurphy.04 on Signal.
Thrilled to be shortlisted for the Tech Commentator of the Year award in the 2025 UK Tech Awards!
Meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
“There’s a lot of big men on campus”
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent effort to direct the most dramatic reorganisation of Meta’s senior leadership in the group’s 20-year history
on.ft.com/3Jx6Yfz
“There’s a lot of big men on campus”
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent effort to direct the most dramatic reorganisation of Meta’s senior leadership in the group’s 20-year history
on.ft.com/3Jx6Yfz
chat, is this real
Meta inflated a crucial advertising metric by nearly 20 per cent and deliberately bypassed privacy rules on Apple iPhones in a bid to boost revenues, a former staff member has told an employment tribunal
www.ft.com/content/be6a...
Meta inflated a crucial advertising metric by nearly 20 per cent and deliberately bypassed privacy rules on Apple iPhones in a bid to boost revenues, a former staff member has told an employment tribunal
www.ft.com/content/be6a...
Zuckerberg's aim is to create a start-up-like unit focused on developing superintelligence that is unencumbered by the bureaucracy of his $1.8tn company -but supported by its well-capitalised business
But investors, and even insiders, have little insight into its vision and budget. Will he succeed?
Inside the Linda - Elon breakup
-Musk felt Yaccarino wasn't transparent about the company’s status with advertisers & put a gloss on reality
-He wanted her to more quickly restore X to financial health
-Post-DOGE, he started making unilateral decisions that blindsided her
www.ft.com/content/833c...
Inside the Linda - Elon breakup
-Musk felt Yaccarino wasn't transparent about the company’s status with advertisers & put a gloss on reality
-He wanted her to more quickly restore X to financial health
-Post-DOGE, he started making unilateral decisions that blindsided her
www.ft.com/content/833c...
After months of reporting (and even my own attempt at a jiu jitsu class), my FT Magazine cover story on Mark Zuckerberg’s metamorphosis to red-blooded “Maga Mark” is out!
Is this political expediency, a midlife crisis or who Zuck has been all along?
on.ft.com/4nsoktx
After months of reporting (and even my own attempt at a jiu jitsu class), my FT Magazine cover story on Mark Zuckerberg’s metamorphosis to red-blooded “Maga Mark” is out!
Is this political expediency, a midlife crisis or who Zuck has been all along?
on.ft.com/4nsoktx
Steve Bannon is urging Trump to cancel all of Musk's contracts, launch investigations into him, and deport him.
For perspective, Perplexity is valued at $15B and Anthropic at $61B.
So, for xAI to be valued at $113B is just...
FT SCOOP: Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn - validating the pricetag struck when xAI bought X in March
It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race
on.ft.com/4dGFY85
SCOOP: Telegram had a bumper 2024, booking over half a billion dollars in profit after a lossmaking 2023
The app has told investors that the French investigation could be a barrier to an IPO but that it could be resolved this year, as it launches a $1.5bn bond offering
www.ft.com/content/a8b4...
I started reading this thinking it was about users who *asked* about race and South Africa getting bogus responses. But no, Grok is - ASTONISHINGLY - providing responses on the topic to users who have asked entirely unrelated questions. WILD.
By @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social and Cristina Criddle
About a month ago, Tesla board members reached out to executive search firms to formally find a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, per WSJ
They also told him to spend more time at the company & he said he would. unclear if the succession planning is ongoing or not
👀
www.wsj.com/business/aut...?
AI optimisation/visibility is the new SEO…
Advertising groups and tech start-ups are racing to find ways to help brands boost their likelihood of surfacing in results from AI chatbots, marking a new era of 'SEO'
FT story w Cristina Criddle:
on.ft.com/4iAVZxr
FT SCOOP: US venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in TikTok as part of an effort led by Trump to wrest control of the popular video app from its Chinese owners
on.ft.com/4iXce94
w @antoinegara.bsky.social @ivanlevingston.bsky.social & @georgehammond.bsky.social
It’s not every day your best friend gets nominated for an Emmy for producing a beautiful show about young queer love - and you get to tag along to the awards ceremony. But yesterday was that day!
Very proud of Paddy. And if you haven’t already, go watch Heartstopper on Netflix 💕
Merci John!
thank you!! 🙏
Delighted to have won a SABEW @sabew.bsky.social Best in Business award in the Technology division for @financialtimes.com coverage of Telegram & Pavel Durov!
Just beaming 🙌
You can read my interview with Pavel just months before his arrest here: on.ft.com/4ijv9dI
“In the 2010s, there was a sense that Silicon Valley was different, had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate.”
Our FT analysis on the slow death of left-wing activism in the Valley, as Big Tech quells dissent and staff fear layoffs
on.ft.com/3XfJy29
Big tech is growing confident in their efforts to challenge EU regulations, believing new backing from the Donald Trump administration will allow them to fight what they see as hostile rules on AI and market dominance.
With @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social & Michael Acton
www.ft.com/content/3e75...
why thank you!!