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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 President Donald Trump says he has found a “group of very wealthy people” to buy the US operations of TikTok as part of efforts to separate ownership of the social media platform from … Read more
Russia launched the most extensive aerial bombardment of Ukraine since its full-scale invasion, according to Kyiv, signalling a sharp escalation in Moscow’s campaign and further undermining fragile hopes for a negotiated resolution to the war now in its fourth year. Ukraine’s air force said Russia had fired a staggering 537 aerial weapons in a single … Read more
US energy companies are pouring record sums into building power plants and transmission lines to meet electricity demand from data centres, raising concerns that the costs may be passed on to consumers. According to Jefferies investment bank, utility capital expenditure is expected to hit $212.1bn in 2025, a 22.3 per cent rise year on year … Read more
In a laboratory outside Cambridge sits a remarkable “biological computer”. Its 200,000 human brain cells, grown in the lab, lie on silicon circuitry that communicates their synchronised electrical activity on a screen to the outside world. The CL1 device, about the size of two shoe boxes, was developed by Australian start-up Cortical Labs with the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. People say nothing funny ever happens on LinkedIn and in my experience, people are right. But the other day, a colleague showed me a post on the site from a man named Chris who said … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korea’s stock market has been supercharged by an investor frenzy over won-based digital money this month, following newly elected President Lee Jae-myung’s pledge to allow crypto assets backed by the national currency. Stocks that … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nvidia insiders have sold more than $1bn of the company’s stock over the past 12 months including a recent surge in trading as executives cash in on investors’ enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. More than $500mn … Read more
Late last year, Florentine prosecutors finally identified a fugitive by the bloated corpse washed up months before on a beach near Dubai, naked and with most of its skin missing. But an official DNA match to Samuele Landi, formerly the boss of one of Italy’s top telecom companies, only deepened the mystery of his life. … Read more
This article is an online version of our Scoreboard newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Saturday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters This week the Scoreboard team attended a preview screening of F1, the imaginatively titled Hollywood blockbuster following the twists and … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Brazilian president-designate of the UN COP30 summit warned the widening gap between country pledges and a Paris accord goal to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C in the industrial era would make it … Read more