Tech and finance reporter in SF after a long time in China @ft formerly @afp @nytimes @FulbrightPrgrm @ucla bruin. ryan.mcmorrow@ft.com
Joined September 2014
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Jun 4
Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX’s AI revenue to surge 100 times by 2030 ft.com/content/516cd0e5-a402… via @ft
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I spent the last 2 months getting under the skin of Anthropic and its leaders. My @FTMag cover story this weekend captures the world’s most valuable AI start-up in this moment as it looks ahead to its next act. Here’s 6 things I learnt during my reporting ft.com/content/e17665ea-c5ca…
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
May 15
Brilliant read on all the ways that Elon is exerting his control over SpaceX in the upcoming IPO by @sjhmorris @GeorgeNHammond @rwmcmorrow. It’s like a corporate governance masterclass in reverse. Investors are lapping it up anyway.
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
May 6
The FT spoke to Henry Kravis and George Robert as KKR turned 50.
We spoke about the private markets they helped create and which now face a crunch, and how their once rebel partnership had changed the corporate mainstream before ultimately entering it.
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
May 5
SCOOP: Meta is building its own OpenClaw equivalent to carry out everyday tasks for its billions of users
The advanced assistant will be powered by its new Muse Spark model
It comes after OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger chose to join OpenAI over Meta
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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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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Apr 20
This story - November 14 - received considerable criticism at the time.
Congrats to my colleagues @tim @sjhmorris @MActon93 @DanielThomasLDN for nailing it.
Enormous scoop, now confirmed by @apple
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Apr 14
Great story — also the subject of the Apple in China epilogue, coming out for the paperback edition next month.
It ends: “China, once the world’s work-shop, has emerged as something far more consequential: an innovation
and production hub, with gargantuan scale and equal ambition. This is the largest geopolitical shift of our lifetimes, and we’re just beginning to reckon with what that means.”
Apr 14
China shock 2.0: the flood of high-tech goods that will change the world ft.trib.al/wwZVSHC
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Apr 13
NEW: Meta has been attempting to build photorealistic, AI-powered characters. But so-called 3D "embodiment" is difficult due to compute demands and latency issues
So Meta is now focused on developing an AI clone of Zuckerberg
And the CEO is personally training and testing it
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Mar 25
China reviews Manus sale to Meta as founders barred from leaving country
* Red & Peak restricted from exiting after NDRC meeting, re potential FDI violations
* No official investigation or charges; both remain free to travel within China
More details:
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Mar 12
This is a classic Chinese industrial approach applied to a new high-tech industry.
Robotics has a chicken-and-egg problem. Robots need data to improve, but they need to be good enough to actually be deployed.
Enter Chinese state-backed robot data gyms. ft.com/content/85bca5c7-f64b…
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Mar 12
👋 Back from maternity leave & into a world of the AI-driven “kill chain”. I wrote about how the technology we all use has brought unprecedented speed and scale to how the US and Israel are waging war in Iran. ft.com/content/fedb262e-e6db…
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Mar 12
I visited some of China's state funded robot training labs which are popping up around the country to collect training data for physical AI
Young grads at the labs spend their days showing the robots how to do the same thing over and over again, like picking up packages:
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Mar 12
While it's unclear for now if the data collection labs will lead to physical AI breakthroughs or be a waste of money, they are at least providing a market for China's legions of humanoid startups:
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An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
Mar 5
The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise.
We were the hosts.
I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless.
The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president .
The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship’s presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind.
The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation.
We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack.
Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane.
A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.
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Ryan McMorrow retweeted
Feb 4
My deepest thoughts with Posts journalists today.
It’s a drop in the bucket, but there are a few great @FT jobs going, starting with: greater China correspondent, based in Taipei, covering Taiwan, chips, security, elite Chinese politics and the PLA: job-boards.greenhouse.io/fin…
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