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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s solar (solar, solar, solar) Biolite Luci Charge 360 Price: $59.95 Click: bioliteenergy.com Biolite’s catalogue is aimed at two very different target markets: people who are off-grid by choice in the pursuit of fun and … Read more

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn, as the world’s richest man returns to his business empire and the race to develop artificial intelligence. The deal will … Read more

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Quant group AQR Capital Management is embracing artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for trading decisions, ending years of reticence from one of the sector’s historic holdouts. The Connecticut-based hedge fund that has $136bn under … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence start-up Cohere is seeking to raise more than $500mn in new funding, aiming to catch up in the hugely expensive race to build cutting-edge AI models alongside rivals such as OpenAI, Google and … Read more

Gaia Marcus, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, leads a team of researchers investigating one of the thorniest questions in artificial intelligence: power. There is an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a few large AI companies as economies and societies are transformed by the technology. Marcus is on a mission to ensure … Read more