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
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
The chief executive of a start-up that forced OpenAI and former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive to pull down marketing materials about their $6.4bn AI device venture has accused them of trying to “bury” his firm after discussing a potential collaboration. iyO founder and former Google executive Jason Rugolo told the Financial Times he … Read more
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
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France’s consumer affairs and fraud investigators have ordered Tesla to stop “deceptive” claims over the level of autonomy of its cars or face thousands of euros in fines, in the latest blow to Elon Musk’s … Read more
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
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
This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday and fortnightly on Saturday morning. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Can the EU really claim to have a single market? Our correspondents … Read more
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
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