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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. For Elon Musk, tech’s great showman, this weekend’s long-awaited launch of a Tesla robotaxi service will be notably short of razzle-dazzle. The autonomous ride-hailing service is scheduled to hit the roads in Austin, Texas, with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU is accusing Chinese online marketplace AliExpress of breaching the bloc’s digital rules, as Brussels continues its efforts to utilise landmark legislation to police internet businesses. In preliminary findings issued on Wednesday, regulators said … Read more
José Lucas Costa da Silva peered over towards the warm up area for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition he was about to referee, faintly amused. It was early May 2023, and the 26-year-old martial arts instructor watched as one competitor in the high-school sports auditorium stretched and ran drills. He was wearing a white “gi”, a … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ministers will consider the economic benefits of North Sea oil and gas projects along with carbon “removal” activities when deciding whether to grant consents, under guidance designed to avoid courts overturning approvals. The fresh guidance … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Tuesday and Thursday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Welcome to Energy Source, coming to you from New York and Washington. Despite intensifying tensions in the Middle East, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the time I joined the FT in 2021, business cards had mostly fallen out of fashion. Colourful stacks of embossed cards sat on the desks of my colleagues, gathering dust. Here in San Francisco, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. X chief executive Linda Yaccarino has said that users will “soon” be able to make investments or trades on the social media platform, as she outlined a push into financial services in owner Elon Musk’s … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The biggest optimist about the UK I’ve recently met is Ilan Gur. Naturally, he’s American. His buoyancy may owe much to his fun job as the founding chief executive of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency … Read more
The Federal Reserve cut its outlook for the US economy on Wednesday, and in the UK, inflation remains higher than ideal. Plus, Big Tech companies are lobbying for a decade-long ban on AI regulations, and the Israel-Iran conflict has hit the global supply chain. Mentioned in this podcast: UK inflation was 3.4% in May Federal … Read more
Hello from Yifan in California, your #techasia host this week. I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of my job ever since Google’s I/O event in May, where the US tech giant laid out an ambitious plan to define what search will look like in the future. Some users in the US may have … Read more