Ryan McMorrow

Tech and finance reporter in SF after a long time in China @ft formerly @afp @nytimes @FulbrightPrgrm @ucla bruin. [email protected]

[Antoine Gara @AntoineGara]

Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX’s AI revenue to surge 100 times by 2030 https://t.co/QAs5ZTYNf5 via @ft

[Madhumita Murgia @madhumita29]

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 https://t.co/6xgUaJ9ue5

[Tim Bradshaw @tim]

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.

[Antoine Gara @AntoineGara]

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.

https://t.co/vfbngjNJ1C

[Hannah Murphy @MsHannahMurphy]

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
https://t.co/iMfBvvRZ57

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@dakekang Congrats Dake, well deserved!

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@immichaelwang @byersblake Good point

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@tonypengcomms Sure happy to

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

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

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@AnnicaBenning Thanks Annica!

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@ritacyliao Thanks Rita. Would love to meet if you're here too

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@annafifield @rafeuddin_ @MsHannahMurphy Thanks Anna!

[Ryan McMorrow @rwmcmorrow]

@rafeuddin_ @MsHannahMurphy And of course @MActon93 too!

[Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_]

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

[Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_]

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.”

[Hannah Murphy @MsHannahMurphy]

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

[Zijing Wu @zijing_wu]

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:
https://t.co/DxVmcaFy1C

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

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. https://t.co/Xh81e6X11Y

[Madhumita Murgia @madhumita29]

👋 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. https://t.co/VlYAUJ18Jf