Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says US chip curbs on China ‘a failure’

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has condemned US export controls designed to limit China’s access to artificial intelligence chips as “a failure” that spurred Chinese rivals to accelerate development of their own products. In strongly worded … Read more

We still don’t know how much energy AI consumes

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a research scientist and climate lead at open-source AI platform Hugging Face With every query, image generation and chatbot conversation, the energy that is being consumed by artificial intelligence models is rising. … Read more

Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A fifth of Shell’s shareholders have cast doubt on its strategy to become the world’s biggest supplier and trader of gas and LNG, questioning whether it makes sense from an economic or climate perspective.  Wael … Read more

Deepfake equity analysts hint at the future of finance

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investment banking is a people business. Clients pay generous fees in the hope of getting smart advice from analytical thinkers; relationships are managed deftly by silver-tongued advisers. An experiment by UBS raises the question of … Read more

will China be the first electrostate?

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major “electrostate”, with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final … Read more

Nvidia unveils major Taiwan chip investments

This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome to FirstFT Asia. On today’s agenda: Nvidia announces major new investment in Taiwan The Trump Organization … Read more