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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. At least 151 “unprecedented” extreme weather events hit regions across the globe last year, driven by 2024’s exceptional temperatures caused by record levels of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, according to a report … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Software giant SAP has overtaken Novo Nordisk to become Europe’s most valuable company, in the latest milestone for Germany’s surging stock market. SAP shares rose 1.3 per cent in early trading on Monday, lifting its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The risk of a global trade war is “a very big concern” that would damage the world’s ability to tackle rising temperatures by limiting access to crucial technology, the chief executive of this year’s UN … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Malaysia is planning to tighten regulations on semiconductors as it comes under US pressure to stem the illicit flow to China of chips crucial to the development of artificial intelligence. The country’s trade minister said … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The other week I made the disturbing discovery that Google Maps thinks the London apartment building I have lived in for the last 19 years is located at an address I have never heard of. … Read more
Builder.ai, one of the UK’s best-funded tech start-ups, has relied on an auditor with long-standing links to its founder to sign off its accounts — a finding that has raised alarm with corporate governance experts. A partner at accounting firm PKF Littlejohn signed off the UK accounts of the artificial intelligence start-up, despite having previously … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. StubHub, the online ticket marketplace that earned a windfall from Taylor Swift’s Eras concert tour, has filed for a US initial public offering that will test investor appetite for tech listings amid a slump in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In economics, shifting from a concentrated market with a handful of dominant players to a highly competitive market of small players is usually considered a good thing. But when the products these players are targeting … Read more
In southern Spain, among the sprawling terracotta-roofed villas that line the Costa del Sol, plans for Villa Noon at Sotogrande stand as a symbol of the future. The work of architect Fran Silvestre, it will consist of five large marble-clad cylinders connected like a Jenga puzzle, providing 2,000sq m of living space. The villa, for sale off-plan at … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels is pressing ahead with regulatory action against Apple and Google under landmark legislation designed to expose the groups to new competition, despite tensions with President Donald Trump over the EU’s tough regulation of US … Read more