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AI Industry & Policy Reporter
Daniel is a tech reporter who covers the business side of artificial intelligence - funding rounds, corporate strategy, regulatory battles, and the power dynamics between the labs racing to build frontier models. Before joining Awesome Agents, he spent four years at Reuters covering the intersection of technology and finance, with a particular focus on how venture capital shapes the AI industry.
He holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a postgraduate diploma in Journalism from City, University of London. His economics training shows in his reporting: he follows the money, reads the filings, and is skeptical of growth narratives that do not come with numbers attached.
At Awesome Agents, Daniel covers AI industry news with an emphasis on deals, policy, competition, and market dynamics. He is especially interested in the geopolitics of AI - export controls, chip restrictions, and the US-China-EU regulatory landscape. His reporting tends to focus on who benefits, who pays, and what the incentives actually are.
Based in London, UK.
The Trump administration is simultaneously suing Anthropic in federal court over a supply chain risk designation and sending Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell to convince Wall Street banks to use Anthropic's most powerful model.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed the company will reserve IPO shares for retail buyers, after the firm raised $3B from individuals in its $122B funding round - three times what it set out to raise.
A UPenn-BU paper models AI-driven layoffs as a Prisoner's Dilemma: each firm wins by automating, but when everyone does it, collapsing demand makes every firm worse off. Their proposed fix is a Pigouvian tax on automated tasks.
Meta expands its CoreWeave partnership by $21 billion through December 2032, bringing total commitments to $35 billion and locking in early NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments.
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI labs from lawsuits even when their models contribute to mass casualties or billion-dollar disasters.
Intel will use its 18A process node to manufacture chips for the Tesla-SpaceX-xAI joint venture targeting 1 terawatt of AI compute annually - and claims $2B in CHIPS Act subsidies in the process.
Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Columbia propose financial guardrails for AI agents, with simulations showing up to 61% reduction in user losses.
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
Microsoft pledges $10B to Japan for AI data centers, cybersecurity cooperation, and workforce training from 2026 to 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet.
Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and claims AGI has arrived, but his own argument - and a $134B company's incentives - complicate the picture.
Eclipse Ventures closed two funds totaling $1.3B to build and back physical AI companies in robotics, defense, and manufacturing as investor conviction shifts from software to machines.
Project Glasswing unites AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and seven other organizations with $100M in credits for Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model to patch critical infrastructure before attackers catch up.
