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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the ESG investing myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Don’t let the happy smiley face in my photo deceive you. I seethe at losing my job to this day. The stress on my family. Giving up our London home. Being broke. The worst thing … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Booming demand for artificial intelligence tools, accelerated by the uptake of generative AI, is putting an increasing strain on water supplies to cool the IT infrastructure underpinning the technology. Now, the companies operating … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As pollution shrinks the amount of freshwater that people across the world can use, tackling the problem with new treatments and upgraded infrastructure is urgent. However, having the most useful information possible to act on … Read more
The boss of the UK biotech seen as a beacon of hope for the London IPO market only four years ago has admitted the business has become a takeover target. Oxford Nanopore’s chief executive and co-founder Gordon Sanghera told the Financial Times that the gene sequencing company, whose shares have fallen 85 per cent from … Read more
Assaf Rappaport sought to reassure employees at his cyber security start-up Wiz last summer after walking away from a potential $23bn acquisition by Google’s parent company Alphabet. “We are going to go so big, we are going to make so much money in the future that you won’t regret it.” That was the message from … Read more
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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. Nvidia’s market capitalisation of roughly $3tn has occasionally made it the biggest company in the world. Founder Jensen Huang, a man rarely short of self-confidence, hinted this week at plans that could make it even … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For Tesla, the pursuit of market dominance and shareholder value has, until recently, served the company well. The US company dominated the electric vehicle industry and has long been synonymous with innovation, propelled in part … Read more
One thing to start: London’s Heathrow airport has been forced to close until midnight after a fire at a nearby electricity substation caused a “significant power outage”. And another thing: Alimentation Couche-Tard and Seven & i expect concrete negotiations with private equity firms to start within weeks on the carve-out of thousands of stores in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer should not cave in to Donald Trump’s “bullying” by lowering the UK’s Digital Services Tax, the leader of the Liberal Democrats has warned, arguing the US president is “an unreliable ally”. Sir … Read more