US insurers’ profits double as price rises exceed extreme weather claims

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US property and casualty insurers nearly doubled their earnings between 2023 and last year despite costly extreme-weather events, according to research that highlights the pay-off from several years of rising customer prices. A survey of … Read more

The US government has most to gain from ‘OpenAI for countries’

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Cyber Policy Center. She is the author of ‘The Tech Coup’ OpenAI has a new pitch for the world’s governments: … Read more

They smelt the future – and took it online

The indie director: Scout Dixon West @scoutdixonwest, 144.3k followers There’s a cinematic moodiness to Scout Dixon West’s Instagram feed that makes sense on discovering she’s a scriptwriter and a former model, one who can still work the camera with a smoulder that matches her eponymous perfume brand. Growing up in northern California, Dixon West, 28, … Read more