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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Maga has always been about manufacturing. Donald Trump talks about bringing back production lines to the Midwest because so many of the economically precarious voters most open to his message were laid-off factory … Read more
Indian telecom giant Airtel is planning to double the capacity of its data centre business in less than three years, as growing domestic internet consumption and increasing artificial intelligence adoption drive unprecedented growth. Ashish Arora, chief executive of Airtel subsidiary Nxtra, the domestic leader in data centres, told the Financial Times it would invest about … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Researchers in Athens are working on predicting wildfires — a notoriously difficult thing to do — at the Penteli Observatory. But last summer the facility was engulfed in flames as a wildfire arrived … 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. US beef prices are soaring to record highs as the country’s cattle inventory reaches its lowest level in more than 70 years, putting further strains on Americans’ grocery bills. The average price of a pound … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Cyber Security myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre and professor of emergent harms at the University of Cambridge In the past few weeks you might have heard the name “Scattered Spider” in relation to … Read more
OpenAI and Microsoft are rewriting the terms of their multibillion-dollar partnership in a high-stakes negotiation designed to allow the ChatGPT maker to launch a future IPO, while protecting the software giant’s access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence models. Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is a key holdout to the $260bn start-up’s plans to undergo a corporate restructuring … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Criminals who have been spared jail will be monitored as closely as those who are locked up under plans to create “prison outside prison”, the UK justice secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood has asked Big … Read more
“Two years ago we were two steps ahead of the Russians,” according to Oleksandr Yakovenko, chief executive of one of Ukraine’s largest drone manufacturers. “Now, though, we are just one step ahead of them.” Just last month, Russian soldiers raced on motorcycles across Ukrainian territory in such numbers that it was impossible for Kyiv’s forces … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They consume vast tracts of content, cost a packet to train and graft well past normal office hours. Junior lawyers have much in common with generative artificial intelligence. Galling, then, for the former to face … Read more