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Tomorrow’s financiers are learning to think like machines
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world of finance has evolved beyond spreadsheets and human judgment. In today’s markets, many finance roles now involve navigating vast data sets, interpreting machine learning outputs, and making sense of AI-generated forecasts. Business schools … Read more
Carbon reporting urgently needs fixing — here’s how to do it
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Karthik Ramanna is a professor at University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. Robert Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School Much of companies’ carbon … Read more
Wall Street juniors should enjoy their moment in the sun
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 22-year-old Wall Street graduate trainee: hot commodity, or tragic victim of artificial intelligence? At the moment, the answer is both. Earlier this week, Navid Mahmoodzadegan — incoming CEO of the boutique investment bank Moelis … Read more
BT chief eyes deeper job cuts as AI becomes more powerful
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at BT, as the chief executive of the UK telecoms group opened the door to a possible future spin-off of Openreach. … Read more
Planning your retirement? ChatGPT can help with that
Ever wondered if you can afford to take early retirement? Traditionally, you might have engaged a financial adviser to help explore your options. This week, I’ve been talking to one reader who’s been using ChatGPT instead. Unlike the 12mn Britons estimated to be in the “advice gap”, 58-year-old Jim can afford to pay for regulated … Read more
Nintendo switches up the rules of console gaming
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Despite repeated predictions that the rise of mobile platforms, cloud gaming and high-performance PCs would make consoles obsolete, Nintendo has proved that hardware still matters. The record-breaking debut of the Switch 2 has reset the … Read more
23andMe founder buys back genetic testing company in second auction
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company … Read more
Sony Music spends $2.5bn on songs in battle with ‘speculative’ investors
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sony Music completed more than $2.5bn in song deals last year, buying up vast catalogues by artists from Queen to Pink Floyd in the face of rising competition from private equity-backed music investment firms. The … Read more
Hayley Atwell wants to tell you a bedtime story
In the basement of a museum, there exists an imaginary world. It is called The Archive of All-in-All. Here, “it is always late at night and always raining outside”, says actor Hayley Atwell, who conceived the comforting, cocooning space – one of the immersive audio scenescapes available on the Sleep Worlds app, which launched fully in February … Read more