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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is the author of ‘Chip War’ Donald Trump’s dealmaking tour of the Middle East last week saw the sales of Boeing aircraft, the signing of defence contracts and the announcement of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cyber attacks take longer to fix, and are more of a distraction, than bosses of afflicted companies tend to think at the outset. That’s what fellow chief executives have told Stuart Machin of Marks and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI is set to acquire former Apple design chief Jony Ive’s hardware start-up io Products for about $6.5bn, according to people familiar with the matter. Sam Altman’s AI venture is one of a number of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes in Britain for the first time, in a sign of how climate change is driving tropical diseases into new areas. Researchers found fragments of the pathogen’s genetic … Read more
Nvidia chief announces major Taiwan chip investments
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bloomberg, the markets data and media service, suffered widespread disruption on Wednesday morning that prevented traders from accessing live pricing and pushed back UK and EU sovereign debt auctions. Users complained that the $28,000-a-year Bloomberg … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marks and Spencer expects a £300mn hit to operating profits this year from a cyber attack that it blamed on “human error”, as the FTSE 100 retailer warned that disruption to its online operations would … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google is beefing up its “sovereign cloud” options in the EU, as US tech companies move to reassure the continent’s users that their access to crucial data and technology will be safeguarded, at a time … Read more
Last year IT spending in Europe reached about $1.1tn, up about 9 per cent from 2023, according to estimates by research company Gartner. Growth has been fuelled by the boom in demand for artificial intelligence technology, and the technical infrastructure, including cloud computing and data centres, to support that and other, more established, business software … Read more