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Given the deep disenchantment with tech power that has set in during the past decade, why would political leaders have lined up to fete Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI? In 2023, buoyed by the blockbuster release of his company’s ChatGPT, Altman set out on a world tour that brought audiences with leaders in countries … Read more
Hello, this is Kenji, presenting this edition of the #techAsia newsletter from Tokyo. Leading automakers here in Japan have been busy dealing with a range of issues as the era of electrification and intelligent cars blunts their traditional competitive edge. Over the past weekend, Nissan Motor was in the spotlight, with Nikkei learning that the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Telegram leapt to a $540mn profit last year, as the messaging app achieved rapid growth despite the ongoing threat to its leadership from French legal proceedings against its founder Pavel Durov. The Dubai-based group told … Read more
M&S undone by old fashioned con: how retailer’s cyber hell unfolded
One scoop to start: US industrials group Honeywell has agreed a £1.8bn all-cash deal to buy the catalyst technologies arm of FTSE 250 chemicals company Johnson Matthey. And another thing: Investor Steven Wood has failed in his bid to win a board seat at Swatch Group, after the powerful Hayek family voted against his resolution … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A year before stepping down as chief executive in 2022, Håkan Samuelsson declared that Volvo Cars would go fully electric by 2030. “Instead of investing in a shrinking business, we choose to invest in the … Read more
Al Gore missed out on becoming US president in 2000 by a whisker. But since that fraught election, in which votes had to be recounted and the Supreme Court stepped in to deliver victory to Republican George W Bush, he has forged a different path. Instead of leading from the White House, the former US … Read more
After firestorms ravaged Los Angeles in January, insurers reassured investors that they had maxed out their appetite for risk in the region and would not suffer similar losses again. Major carriers such as AIG had already pulled back from California, citing caps on what they could charge — part of a broader trend in which, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has presented options to member states for ways to ease its proposed 2040 climate target amid a broader effort to cut legislation and water down some of its more ambitious environmental rules, following … Read more
