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The high-tech fight against shoplifters

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity-backed software group Visma has chosen London over Amsterdam for the planned initial public offering of the €19bn software company next year, scoring a rare win for the UK’s beleaguered stock market. British buyout … Read more

Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intelligence

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As more companies order their workers back to the office, queues at coffee shops in London are definitely getting longer. With most of the capital’s chains charging around £4 a cup, it’s also an expensive … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The author is Professor of Sustainable Finance at Vlerick Business School in Brussels Sergio Ermotti, chief executive of UBS, is facing a dilemma as he considers his bank’s future in a network created to drive … 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 US companies are maintaining climate commitments while trimming their messaging about it, as they walk a tightrope between competing pressures on the environment, research shows.   An exclusive analysis shared with the Financial … Read more

The push to decarbonise European steelmaking suffered a fresh blow last week as ArcelorMittal turned down more than €1bn in public subsidies to convert its German plants to run on greener hydrogen. The company blamed the prohibitively high cost of energy, just as Swedish steel producer SSAB also admitted to delays at its flagship low-emission … 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 At least the Soviet Union only produced one “Sputnik moment”, when the launch of its orbiting satellite in 1957 administered a galvanising shock to the US scientific and defence establishment. America’s current superpower … Read more

If you are over the age of 40, there is a good chance you remember where you were on September 15 2008, the day Lehman Brothers went bust. It was one of the first of many shocking moments during the last global financial crisis, a searing time of bank runs, crashes and bankruptcies when big economies … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Meta’s use of millions of books to train its artificial intelligence models has been judged “fair” by a federal court on Wednesday, in a win for tech companies that use copyrighted materials to develop AI. … Read more