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
Britain is “going bust” in its pursuit of net zero and its zeal to tackle climate change without collective action from the rest of the world, the right-leaning media tycoon behind GB News has told the Financial Times. Hedge fund boss Sir Paul Marshall is urging the UK government to repeal the Climate Change Act … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has lashed out at the UK’s demand for Apple to grant secret access to its most secure cloud storage system, comparing the move to “something . . . that you hear about with China”. In … Read more
Atlantis Studio in Stockholm is where Abba recorded tracks such as “Waterloo”, “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia”. But on a recent bitter winter day it was home to a different Swedish icon: the most powerful figure in Ikea’s sprawling business empire. Jesper Brodin, complete with electric guitar, was at the studio to talk both about … Read more
Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta are turning to a process called “distillation” in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt. The technique caught widespread attention after China’s DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open-source systems released … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan is betting $1.5bn on a breakthrough in next-generation ultra-thin, light and bendy solar panels, subsidising the commercialisation of a technology that analysts say could disrupt China’s dominance of renewable energy and reduce Tokyo’s dependence … Read more
By Victoria Turk Since ChatGPT first launched at the end of 2022, AI has become embedded in many aspects of our lives, from social media to shopping. Now, even gardening is being transformed — and you might be pleasantly surprised at just how useful it turns out to be. One such vision of AI-enabled horticulture … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Financial Times has created a searchable dashboard of 193 countries’ historical emissions and future climate targets, providing information on the energy mix that indicates their progress on renewable energy. The database is in its … Read more