Hannah Murphy
@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...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
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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!
“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
Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
[FREE TO READ] Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades
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“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
Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
[FREE TO READ] Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades
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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 ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears
Former product manager alleges social media platform misled marketers in push for revenues
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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 ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules, tribunal hears
Former product manager alleges social media platform misled marketers in push for revenues
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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?
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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
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FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com · last yr.Will Zuckerberg’s secret AI plan win over Wall Street? https://on.ft.com/3ITmMJe
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...
Linda Yaccarino: Elon Musk’s X deputy who ‘tried to ride the tiger’
Inside the former social media CEO’s tumultuous partnership with the world’s richest man
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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...
Linda Yaccarino: Elon Musk’s X deputy who ‘tried to ride the tiger’
Inside the former social media CEO’s tumultuous partnership with the world’s richest man
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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
How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler
[FREE TO READ] The boss’s transformation shocked liberals at Meta, but his closest allies say this is who he was all along
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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
How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler
[FREE TO READ] The boss’s transformation shocked liberals at Meta, but his closest allies say this is who he was all along
on.ft.com
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...
Hannah Murphy@mshannahmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
Elon Musk’s xAI seeks $113bn valuation in $300mn share sale
Deal to allow investors to buy into group following March takeover of X
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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...
Telegram jumps to $540mn profit despite founder facing legal peril
Messaging app’s finances are booming even as chief Pavel Durov fights French case over alleged content failings
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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
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot shared ‘white genocide’ tropes on X
Grok answered users’ queries on completely unrelated matters with responses about South African race relations
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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...?
Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk
With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.
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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
Brands target AI chatbots as users switch from Google search
[FREE TO READ] Ad agencies adopt new strategies to ensure clients appear in results produced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude
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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
Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok’s Chinese owners
[FREE TO READ] Venture capital group could join last-gasp bid by allies of Donald Trump to take control of video app owned by ByteDance
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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 💕
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
Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
[FREE TO READ] Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
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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...
Silicon Valley fights EU tech rules with backing from Donald Trump
US groups such as Meta emboldened in effort to water down regulations on AI and market dominance
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And now for some real journalism! I took a break from reporting on tech billionaires and Trump to write about getting my lashes done by an AI-powered robot While the era of fully automated beauty treatments still seems some way off, disruption is coming to the sector - on.ft.com/4jCLevZ
Fun piece by @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social on robot beauticians! Struggling to believe they're going to be cheaper than humans any time soon, mind, esp as one machine appears to need two human minders www.ft.com/content/f98d...
Scoop: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is exploring buying a property in Washington DC, as part of a push to work more closely with the Trump administration He joins a growing group of tech titans - Elon Musk, David Sacks - seeking bases close to the White House www.ft.com/content/9310...
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg explores purchase of Washington DC property
Billionaire founder of social media group seeks to work more closely with Trump administration
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Scoop: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is exploring buying a property in Washington DC, as part of a push to work more closely with the Trump administration He joins a growing group of tech titans - Elon Musk, David Sacks - seeking bases close to the White House www.ft.com/content/9310...
Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg explores purchase of Washington DC property
Billionaire founder of social media group seeks to work more closely with Trump administration
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