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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s biggest technology companies have begun the long and difficult process of switching their development of artificial intelligence to homegrown chips, as they contend with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors and tightening US export … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The German government is drawing up plans for a 10 per cent tax on global internet giants such as Meta and Google in a move that could further fuel transatlantic trade tensions. Germany’s federal commissioner … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Will Elon Musk start filling out a time sheet? The world’s richest man is under pressure to act more like a regular chief executive at his electric-car maker, Tesla. He is even making some gestures … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon, marking the first time the news giant will allow its stories to train a tech company’s artificial intelligence models. The deal allows … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The launch of Stargate, an apparent $500bn project to build data centres in the US, was hailed by President Donald Trump in January as “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history”. An “immediate” … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is no doubting the phenomenal impact that venture capital has had on the US — and global — economy over the past few decades. A tiny number of VC investors have helped create some … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Commission is investigating four large adult content websites — Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos — over concerns that they are failing to protect minors online. The investigations fall under the Digital Services Act, … Read more
Hi everyone! This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your #techAsia host for this week. I just got back to Taipei from a weekend trip to Singapore to take in the tropical sea views and a Lady Gaga concert — and for a brief, refreshing break after the Computex trade fair. A news alert this month caught my … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a maker of chips that power artificial intelligence, everything looks like a “token”. That is the industry lingo for the units of information an AI model … Read more
Big law firms’ adoption of generative artificial intelligence is well under way across the globe, but their corporate clients say they are yet to see cost savings. In fact, the price for outside legal services continues to rise. In the US, for instance, a recent report from legal operations specialist Brightflag found that outside counsel … Read more