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The world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear. OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic are all working on reining in sycophantic behaviour by their generative AI products that offers over flattering responses to users. The issue, stemming from how … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oracle shares jumped following an upbeat forecast on Wednesday when it said its pipeline of cloud computing contracts would more than double next year. Shares in the $500bn database company rose nearly 8 per cent … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Environmental Protection Agency has begun to dismantle rules restricting pollution from power plants as Donald Trump takes aim at green regulations imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden. The EPA on Wednesday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The World Bank is lifting its decades-long ban on financing nuclear energy, in a policy shift aimed at accelerating development of the low-emissions technology to meet surging electricity demand in the developing world. In an … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves is banking on big productivity gains from the adoption of AI across the UK government to help deliver efficiency savings totalling £14bn by the end of the parliament. The chancellor said she had … 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 former vice-president Europe at Breakthrough Energy and a former director-general of the European Commission No EU entrepreneur has been able to create a European listed start-up with a market cap of more … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK plans to bring a small number of driverless taxis to British streets next year, as the country tries to catch up with the US and China in adopting autonomous vehicles. Heidi Alexander, UK … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Telefónica is prepared to invest in data centres and cyber security services in a bid to convince European regulators to approve telecoms mergers, as the Spanish company aims to lead consolidation on the continent. The … Read more
