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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last year on a stage in central Tokyo, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son sat down with a group of medical professionals to talk about a subject both extremely personal and technologically significant. The billionaire founder of SoftBank … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The mood among law firm leaders in the Asia-Pacific region is sombre. Top of their concerns is the dilemma posed by Donald Trump to their counterparts in the US. Executive orders from President Trump after … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration plans to put a number of Chinese chipmaking companies on an export blacklist, but some officials want to delay the move to avoid hurting efforts to strike a long-term trade … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world If there was any doubt that geopolitics has come to play an outsized role in the fortunes of the US artificial intelligence industry, look no further than the recent upturn in the fortunes … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scientists in the US have performed the first personalised gene therapy on a child with a life-threatening rare disease, raising the prospect of similar bespoke treatments for many other disorders. Researchers and clinicians in Pennsylvania … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has insisted he will not deviate “a single millimetre” from his commitment to renewable energy even after a catastrophic blackout raised questions over the country’s power mix. In his first … 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 could claim for losses of as much as £100mn from its cyber insurers following a sustained hack where some customer data was stolen. The UK retailer’s cyber policy allows it to claim … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s next agriculture minister has called for meat to be served at every school and kindergarten, in a symbol of the changing of the guard as Friedrich Merz prepares to become chancellor. Alois Rainer, a … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world There was no mistaking the mood in the Senate room in Washington last Thursday as politicians and tech bosses debated artificial intelligence. The consensus was that it was essential for the US to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been targeted by hackers who stole customer data and demanded $20mn to prevent its public disclosure, the company said on Thursday. The group, which next Monday is set to become … Read more