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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. How do you know when a bubble has popped? Twenty-five years ago on Monday, a multiyear US stock rally hit its peak and began a precipitous decline that would wipe 77 per cent off the … Read more
Wind and solar farms are wasting energy at rising rates by stopping production because there is not enough capacity to transport or store the electricity when demand is not high enough to use it straight away. Almost one-tenth of Britain’s planned wind output was stopped from being produced last year and almost 30 per cent … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU business regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU will stick to its world-leading climate goals, the bloc’s economic competitiveness tsar has vowed, even as it prepares to water down some of the green policies to placate the bloc’s ailing industry. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 140 countries struck a deal on a strategy to raise and distribute billions of dollars to protect nature at a UN biodiversity summit that provided a “light of hope” amid rising geopolitical tensions … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sony Music has revealed the scale of its battle with artificial intelligence fakes of its artists by saying it has taken down more than 75,000 examples of AI-generated material featuring its biggest stars, including Harry … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. City veteran Martin Gilbert has vowed he will “never” sell his shares in fintech Revolut as he invests in a new fund aimed at buying stock from employees of fast-growing technology firms globally. Gilbert, who is … Read more
Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view, according to asset managers and investors involved in the transactions. Since Musk was named a key figure in US President Donald Trump’s drive to remake the US … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s attempt to immediately halt OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company was struck down by a US federal court on Tuesday, although the broader trial was expedited to this autumn. OpenAI is in the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft’s $13bn investment in OpenAI has been cleared by the UK’s competition regulator, weeks after the artificial intelligence start-up struck a new partnership with SoftBank that reduces its reliance on the US big tech company … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK advertising group WPP has invested in a generative AI start-up that last year secured funding from tech entrepreneurs including former Google boss Eric Schmidt, as part of a strategic tie-up that will give it … Read more