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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. Artificial intelligence start-up Cohere is seeking to raise more than $500mn in new funding, aiming to catch up in the hugely expensive race to build cutting-edge AI models alongside rivals such as OpenAI, Google and … Read more
Gaia Marcus, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, leads a team of researchers investigating one of the thorniest questions in artificial intelligence: power. There is an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a few large AI companies as economies and societies are transformed by the technology. Marcus is on a mission to ensure … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia’s war on Ukraine has thrown up a particular challenge for the defence industry: why use highly expensive missiles to take down cheap drones, especially when there might be hundreds of them? Military chiefs and … Read more
In Parc Adfer, North Wales, incinerator owner Enfinium is testing a new technology to capture some of the 218,967 tonnes of carbon dioxide that it spews out of its chimneys every year. The company — which generates power from waste — is aiming to clean up its output. But it also hopes eventually to be … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A majority of Warner Bros Discovery shareholders voted against the 2024 pay package for chief executive David Zaslav, whose remuneration has been a sore spot for investors amid steep declines in the media group’s share … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Texas has removed BlackRock from a list of companies boycotted from receiving its investment funds, three years after the state targeted the world’s largest asset manager over its environmental policies. The decision by the state’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chime Financial will seek to raise up to $832mn in an initial public offering this month, giving the US mobile banking group an $11.2bn valuation that is sharply reduced from four years ago. The San … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta has agreed to buy the output of a nuclear plant in Illinois for two decades, marking its first deal of this kind as it seeks to shore up electricity to power its artificial intelligence … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US property and casualty insurers nearly doubled their earnings between 2023 and last year despite costly extreme-weather events, according to research that highlights the pay-off from several years of rising customer prices. A survey of … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Cyber Policy Center. She is the author of ‘The Tech Coup’ OpenAI has a new pitch for the world’s governments: … Read more