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For many of their reluctant occupants, hospitals are not seen as shiny incubators of transformative technology. In the popular imagination — in the UK and beyond — many are seen as remaining far too dependent on antiquated postal appointment services and outmoded IT systems, blighted by poor building maintenance, bad food and harsh strip lighting. … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A consortium of 12 European universities has embarked on an ambitious project to better prepare health workers for a digital future. The initiative, Sustainable Healthcare with Digital Health Data Competence, or Susa for short, was … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When 91-year-old Gene Lokken fell in his home three years ago and fractured his leg and ankle, he was admitted to a local hospital in Wisconsin, US, and then — still weak and in constant … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Two pioneers of reinforcement learning, a scientific technique that has been fundamental to the artificial intelligence boom, have warned against the unsafe deployment of AI models after winning this year’s Turing Award. Andrew Barto, a … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world G20 finance ministers have been unable to agree a joint communique of their gathering in Cape Town, intensifying questions over the relevance of this body in an era of waning US support for … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is to extend the EU’s lenient approach to policing state subsidies, as it unveils guidelines this week that will allow member states to keep pouring cash into cleantech investments until the end of the decade. … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has charged 12 Chinese nationals, including two public security officials, with involvement in a hacker-for-hire campaign on Beijing’s behalf whose targets included American government agencies. The justice department indicted 10 of the Chinese … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a law professor at the American University Washington College of Law Wall Street has long fretted about the disruptive threat from technology to the business of finance. Now with Donald Trump back in … Read more

For the first time in more than 30 years, Europe’s defence sector is hot property. After decades in which European military budgets were squeezed to fund other commitments, US President Donald Trump’s hardline approach towards Ukraine and calls on allies to shoulder more of their security burden have forced the region’s leaders into action. Governments … Read more

This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Hello and welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from New York. US President Donald Trump has made adjustments … Read more