Rising aviation emissions threaten UK climate targets, official advisers warn

Rising aviation emissions risk jeopardising the UK’s climate targets, independent government advisers have warned, with flights now contributing more greenhouse gas than the entire electricity supply sector. In its annual assessment of the UK’s progress on its net zero emissions goals, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said emissions from flights jumped by 9 per cent … Read more

Robert Kennedy touts health ‘wearables’, leading glucose tracker shares higher

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares of glucose-monitoring company DexCom jumped nearly 10 per cent Tuesday afternoon after US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lauded medical “wearables” and said he would like all Americans to be using the technology … Read more

Britain will search in vain for ways to hobble Google

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Innovation leads, and regulation follows. Even so, the UK competition watchdog’s efforts to rein in Google are out by a country mile. While there are potential dangers to the search giant’s dominance, including large language … Read more

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: AI hype vs reality

In the fourth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman ask if advances in artificial intelligence will reshape the working world as we know it. Or are we hearing an old familiar story that has been told many times before? Paul … Read more

Has Jeff Bezos sold out?

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year’s election campaign. Now, he has instructed the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post, to shift its editorial line to be more in line with the president. So what provoked Bezos’s political change of heart? Murad Ahmed and … Read more

Google faces UK push to loosen its grip on search

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s competition regulator is proposing to loosen Google’s control of its search engine in the first application of Britain’s tough new digital market rules.  The Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday that Google … Read more