The power of randomness

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and author of ‘Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity’ Our kitchen at home is decorated with a series of coloured tiles. We installed it just after I’d … Read more

EV battery maker’s profits more than double on back of Biden-era tax break

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. LG Energy Solution’s profits more than doubled unexpectedly in the second quarter, as the world’s third-largest electric vehicle battery producer benefited from Joe Biden’s tax credits that are set to be scaled back under his … Read more

How we made it: Deadly heat domes

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This article is first published in the FT Climate Graphic: Explained newsletter. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox each Sunday. It has been a week of extremes across the world, … Read more

On-the-job learning upended by AI and hybrid work

Jamie Dimon is unequivocal about the impact of remote working on training new bankers. “It doesn’t work in our business,” the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase told Stanford’s Graduate School of Business this year. “Younger people [are] left behind.” He has previously spoken of the importance of “the apprenticeship model . . . which is almost impossible to replicate in the … Read more