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20 Jan 2025
🚨Inauguration Day: I’ve moved to the FT’s San Francisco bureau to help cover Amazon, Microsoft and Uber as well as enterprise providers inc. Oracle and Salesforce.
Shoot me a line if you have any intel/gossip/advice.
I’m on Signal: Rafeuddin.01 or email: rafe.uddin@ft.com
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Apr 23
After a decade reporting in China, I've finally moved home to SF!
As my wife noted, I'm bringing back two girls and an extra forty pounds
Hope to meet old friends and new and excited to be reporting on finance and tech in the FT's SF bureau with @rafeuddin_ @MsHannahMurphy @CristinaCriddle @GeorgeNHammond @sjhmorris
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Mar 27
The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/…
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19 Nov 2025
We're continuing to report on the Ellison Institute. If you have any relevant information on the venture, please reach out to the team. I'm on Signal at rafeuddin.01
18 Nov 2025
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's new Oxford science institute forecasts it will spend more than £10bn over the next decade. But it has been shaken by its first president's departure and changes in strategy.
With @rafeuddin_ & @hannahkuchler.
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18 Nov 2025
I've been working with colleagues to tell the story of Larry Ellison's institute in Oxford. It's a tale of grand vision and turbulent management.
Please reach out on Signal at rafeuddin.01 or via email if you have relevant information.
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23 Oct 2025
RT @JohnReedwrites: Explainer: What makes us so vulnerable to cloud computing outages? on.ft.com/3WkI7yv via @financialtimes
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12 Sep 2025
NEW: Larry Ellison was back in the spotlight this week with Oracle hitching its wagon to OpenAI with a $300bn five-year deal. Can it deliver? Can the start-up afford it? Investors think so.
Fun to help @RichardWaters on the @FT's Person in the News. on.ft.com/46eLlIj
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12 Sep 2025
We also wrote about how Oracle reached this point and some of the complications in the deal here: on.ft.com/46zulxU
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11 Sep 2025
RT @JohnReedwrites: Bangladesh’s missing billions, stolen in plain sight: Watch our FT film about one of the world’s biggest asset recovery…
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11 Sep 2025
NEW: This year the FT investigated UK City Minister Tulip Siddiq’s links to Bangladesh. Our findings led to her resignation. They also invited a deep look at allegations of endemic corruption.
Film by @tom_griggs w/ @JohnReedwrites and @SavageSusannah on.ft.com/4pjqCMi
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21 Aug 2025
NEW: During a hearing in London, Meta sought to block the disclosure of docs in a employment tribunal.
Following a application by the FT, we were able to report claims Meta inflated its ad performance and bypassed Apple’s privacy rules. w/@MsHannahMurphy
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31 Jul 2025
The FT's Visual Storytelling team has published the first part in a trilogy exploring the relentless race for AI capacity and the data centres at the heart of hundreds of billions of dollars in capital investment.
It's a tale of breathless ambition: ig.ft.com/ai-data-centres/
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24 Jul 2025
We've encouraged recent visitors to the FT's San Francisco bureau to hail a ride with Waymo. The experience is proving popular in the tech-forward city but how will robotaxis meaningfully scale across the globe?
Story with @tim and @sjhmorris
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24 Jul 2025
Remarkable Scoop from @zijing_wu and @EleanorOlcott on the movement of Nvidia chips into China, despite US export restrictions
24 Jul 2025
Glad this is finally out after months of old-school journalism. There’s so much more to the story - and it needs to be told. Reminds me why I returned to the newsroom.
Nvidia AI chips worth $1bn smuggled to China after Trump export controls
Free link: on.ft.com/46V1hBy
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24 Jul 2025
Glad this is finally out after months of old-school journalism. There’s so much more to the story - and it needs to be told. Reminds me why I returned to the newsroom.
Nvidia AI chips worth $1bn smuggled to China after Trump export controls
Free link: on.ft.com/46V1hBy
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10 Jul 2025
Amazon is weighing another multi-billion-dollar investment in Anthropic
Already $8bn in, this is an attempt to surpass Google, also an investor, and deepen its partnership with the AI lab
Claude is tied into Alexa & Prime and a 2.2GW data centre project is underway
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18 Jun 2025
NEW: Microsoft is prepared to leave the negotiating table with OpenAI if it can't find a deal that is equal to or better than its current arrangement w/ @Tabby_Kinder , @rafeuddin_ & @GeorgeNHammond
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6 Jun 2025
How have global companies fared since Donald Trump’s inauguration?
Here are the big stock market winners — and losers: on.ft.com/43P2c3c
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25 May 2025
‘Microsoft is the AI ringleader’: tech rivals flock to software giant’s stage on.ft.com/43wPciH
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Have you just been fired from the #NSC and want to talk? Please message me on Signal at 202-763-4267. Here is my current story about the #massacre: on.ft.com/3F5vbru
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