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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Donald Trump and his United Arab Emirates counterpart have revealed plans to build the largest group of artificial intelligence data centres outside the US, boosting the UAE’s ambitions of becoming a global AI hub. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nvidia is seeking to build a research and development centre in Shanghai that would help the world’s leading maker of artificial intelligence processors stay competitive in China, where its sales have slumped due to tightening … Read more
In a crisis year for international aid organisations, legal teams are exploring how artificial intelligence could help by cutting costs and workloads. One organisation hit hard by US President Donald Trump’s clampdown on foreign aid is UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. The US formerly provided about $2bn to UNHCR, about a fifth of its budget. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last year on a stage in central Tokyo, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son sat down with a group of medical professionals to talk about a subject both extremely personal and technologically significant. The billionaire founder of SoftBank … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The mood among law firm leaders in the Asia-Pacific region is sombre. Top of their concerns is the dilemma posed by Donald Trump to their counterparts in the US. Executive orders from President Trump after … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration plans to put a number of Chinese chipmaking companies on an export blacklist, but some officials want to delay the move to avoid hurting efforts to strike a long-term trade … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world If there was any doubt that geopolitics has come to play an outsized role in the fortunes of the US artificial intelligence industry, look no further than the recent upturn in the fortunes … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Scientists in the US have performed the first personalised gene therapy on a child with a life-threatening rare disease, raising the prospect of similar bespoke treatments for many other disorders. Researchers and clinicians in Pennsylvania … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has insisted he will not deviate “a single millimetre” from his commitment to renewable energy even after a catastrophic blackout raised questions over the country’s power mix. In his first … Read more
