Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On his return to the White House in January, Donald Trump swiftly dismantled the regulatory framework his predecessor Joe Biden had put in place to address artificial intelligence risks. The US president’s actions included reversing … 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. Drax power station, which has dominated the North Yorkshire countryside near Selby for more than half a century, was given another lease of life this week. The biomass generating plant with 12 water cooling towers … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Major insurers face billions of dollars in losses from the Los Angeles wildfires, they said this week, despite dropping clients in California before the catastrophe. AIG and Allstate are among the national insurers that warned … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has accused the UK’s antitrust regulator of “looking backwards” by ignoring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the technology industry, in its response to the agency’s investigation into the £9bn UK cloud computing market. The … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Indian billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani paid £4mn to sponsor the green energy wing of London’s Science Museum, a contentious tie up that sparked protests and scrutiny of his conglomerate’s extensive coal business. UK Cabinet Office … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. My commute to the office last Wednesday was unexpectedly dramatic. As the doors of the Tube carriage shut, a mobile phone was snatched from the hands of the passenger opposite. As the train pulled off, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting with President Xi Jinping’s promise that carbon emissions would peak before 2030, researchers have said. In a report released … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft is shuttering its Skype video-calling service 14 years after buying the company for $8.5bn, hanging up on a pioneer of internet communications that upended the telecoms industry and paved the way for WhatsApp and … Read more