Musk’s xAI signs Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ blooms

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has signed a $300mn deal with Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, to distribute xAI’s Grok chatbot to the messaging app’s 1bn users, in a sign of blossoming partnership between the two mercurial billionaires.  … Read more

Finance is ready for a blockchain reset

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the co-founder of Ethereum and chief executive and founder of Consensys, a blockchain software company The modern financial system is undergoing a foundational stress test. Decades of globalisation combined with increasingly fragile … Read more

Prague blames Beijing for cyber attack on foreign ministry

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prague said on Wednesday that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had targeted its foreign ministry’s unclassified communications network, the latest in a series of cyber attacks that have been blamed on Beijing.  The Czech government said the … Read more

Data centres remain troublingly reliant on Chinese lithium

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence chatbots, cloud storage platforms and financial systems all depend on data centres that operate round the clock. These facilities underpin the digital economy where even brief interruptions can have far-reaching consequences. That means … Read more