Five great gadgets for festival-goers

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

We have ‘surrendered more to the machines’, says quant fund titan Cliff Asness

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

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic

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