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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 One of Elon Musk’s top lieutenants has left his job at Tesla amid plunging sales and a pivot to autonomous driving, artificial intelligence and robotics. Omead Afshar, who was promoted to run sales … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One of my relatives heard some strange stories when working on a healthcare helpline during the Covid pandemic. Her job was to help callers complete the rapid lateral flow tests used millions of times during … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is founder and director of the New Britain Project think-tank Of all the tremors unleashed by Donald Trump’s second term, one of the most quietly consequential is a reordering of the global innovation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A year ago, the generative AI mania sweeping through Silicon Valley and Wall Street faced a serious reality check. In a widely quoted note, Goldman Sachs’ head of equity research, Jim Covello, questioned whether the … Read more
Carmakers push back against Apple’s takeover of the dashboard
Hello, this is Kenji in Tokyo. Since Donald Trump began his second term as US president in January, most of us living in this part of the world have probably got into the habit of checking first thing in the morning what he said, wrote or did while Asia was sleeping. This may have already … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The BBC will charge US users for access to its journalism through a subscription fee for its overseas website to boost revenues ahead of crucial negotiations over funding. On Thursday, the UK licence fee funded … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taiwan has developed suicide drones equivalent to those at the heart of Ukraine’s defence against Russia, the clearest sign yet of progress in the country’s efforts to build up rapidly its autonomous weapons capabilities to … 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 Not long ago, we lived in one of the most peaceful eras in modern history. 2005 saw the fewest recorded deaths in armed conflict since the second world war, according to the Uppsala … Read more
After decades of being labelled risk-averse technology laggards, corporate legal departments are emerging as enthusiastic early adopters of artificial intelligence. Legal services — often information-dense, analytical and procedural — are fertile ground for the AI-powered automation of tasks including drafting contracts and providing initial legal opinions, experts say. For in-house legal teams considering AI legal … Read more