Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Insurers have warned that mass firings at US science agencies could threaten the critical weather and geospatial data that the industry uses to manage natural disaster risks and potentially raise prices for consumers. The Reinsurance … Read more
DeepSeek focuses on research over revenue in contrast to Silicon Valley
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. More than 120 European tech founders — including the leaders of Shopify, Klarna and Mistral — are joining forces to mentor and invest in entrepreneurs as young as 18, as part of an effort to fight … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four decades ago this Saturday, a computer company called Symbolics Inc registered the first ever dotcom internet domain name. It’s still alive today as an online relic, despite the company itself going bankrupt long ago. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deliveroo has reported its first annual profit as the takeaway group pushed further into grocery and retail orders, but a warning of weak consumer sentiment sent shares down on Thursday. Deliveroo posted a net profit … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Overawed European companies struggling to compete with domineering US rivals should draw inspiration from Airbus. Founded in 1970 through a mash-up of European aerospace interests, the ungainly multinational has become the industry’s most successful operator, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Central banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a former professor of economics and senior adviser at the Bank of England. There are many dark visions of the far future of artificial intelligence: Skynet vs humans, as depicted in the … Read more
You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player These are amazing times because we’re at the beginning of a new industrial revolution. This is the heart of US exceptionalism. Nvidia has the Midas touch in Silicon Valley. Revenue growth year on year of 200 per cent or more. The emergence of DeepSeek now putting … Read more
Last year, as the German economy stagnated, an unlikely trend emerged among its start-ups: the amount of overall funding, year over year, increased by about €1bn, to €7bn. However, there were 12 per cent fewer funding rounds than in 2023, meaning the average deal size went up. “Most funding rounds above €20mn or €30mn are … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. To have faith in the recent uptick of multibillion-dollar valuations for tech start-ups that have no profits, no sales and no product to speak of, you have to believe normal rules do not apply. This, … Read more