Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Investments myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Britain is pretty good at technological innovation and is home to many thousands of outstanding tech companies. Frustratingly, it’s less good at providing the right environment for these businesses to scale up into world-beating tech champions, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has delayed new artificial intelligence features for its Siri voice assistant, undercutting its effort to compete with offerings from rivals Google and Amazon. The iPhone maker confirmed in a statement on Friday that it … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ramp, the corporate payments start-up backed by Peter Thiel and Thrive Capital, has almost doubled its valuation to $13bn, as financial technology companies rebound from a painful period of lower spending and economic uncertainty. The five-year-old … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sachin Dev Duggal, the founder of one of the UK’s best-funded tech start-ups Builder.ai, has stepped down as its chief executive, capping a rollercoaster tenure running a company backed by Microsoft and SoftBank. The London-based … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year marks the 25th anniversary of BP’s attempt to rebrand itself as a greener oil and gas company, going “Beyond Petroleum”. The campaign, launched by the then chief executive John Browne, was immediately attacked … Read more
Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving start-up, is accelerating its international expansion after raising more than $1bn from investors including SoftBank, Microsoft and Nvidia in one of Europe’s biggest artificial intelligence deals last year. Alex Kendall, Wayve’s co-founder and chief executive, said it was testing its self-driving cars in Germany and the US, and setting its … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Four-year-old artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has raised $3.5bn in a deal that triples its valuation to more than $60bn, as it aims to keep pace with OpenAI and ahead of newer rivals including China’s DeepSeek. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Six climate protesters, including one of the founders of Just Stop Oil, have had their prison sentences reduced after the Court of Appeal said their right to freedom of expression should have been considered. A … Read more