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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. Substack has added more than 1mn subscribers since Donald Trump’s triumph in the US election last November, as the online platform benefits from the shift towards creator-led journalism. Substack, a platform for writers and other … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 30 years, Google has gone from not-yet-existent to part of the furniture. To flaunt this fact, parent company Alphabet recently did something that’s typically the preserve of businesses that expect to be around for … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial & markets regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US regulators are calling on the world’s financial rulemakers to downgrade a flagship project to tackle the risks of climate change in the latest sign of America’s retreat from environmental causes since Donald … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Scientists have used artificial intelligence analysis of the faces of cancer patients to predict survival outcomes and in some cases outperform clinicians’ short-term life expectancy forecasts. The researchers used a deep learning algorithm to measure … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By 2035, almost a third of China’s population will be over the age of 60. A shrinking young workforce poses a policy challenge for the country, particularly for traditional growth engines such as manufacturing. Yet … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India said it had “neutralised” Pakistani drone and missile attacks on military targets in the north and west of the country on Thursday, in skirmishes that pushed the nuclear-armed neighbours closer to war. “Pakistan attempted … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It can be hard to train a chatbot. Last month, OpenAI rolled back an update to ChatGPT because its “default personality” was too sycophantic. (Maybe the company’s training data was taken from transcripts of US … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. DoorDash has agreed to buy food delivery company Deliveroo in a £2.9bn deal, ending the UK group’s tumultuous time on the public markets. San Francisco-based DoorDash said it would pay 180p a share in cash … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nintendo said on Thursday it expected to sell 15mn units of its new Switch 2 console in its current fiscal year, undercutting market expectations as the Japanese video game company warned that US tariffs could … 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 UN is considering sweeping reforms that would transform the 80-year-old body as it braces for even deeper funding cuts from the Trump administration. An internal review ordered in March by António Guterres, … Read more