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
Entrepreneur Félix Martín-Aguilar is looking overseas to expand his Málaga-based start-up. It’s not that he has anything against the Spanish city, his hometown, but Aliqindoi, a device as a service platform, is ready for the big time, he says, and in some ways his choice shows how Málaga is, too. In the past, that might … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The sight of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and French President Emmanuel Macron being mobbed by techies at Paris-based Station F recently was a reminder — if any were needed — of the business incubator’s … Read more
If 2023 was the year of downturn for the tech industry, last year was broadly one of recovery. The job losses continued but global investment in start-ups rose 5 per cent, fuelled by a boom in artificial intelligence. The recovery has been geographically patchy, however. The UK — the biggest tech market in Europe — … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Mario Draghi could not have been blunter. The former Italian prime minister and ex-president of the European Central Bank warned last year that Europe faced an “existential challenge” unless it could take advantage of the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK defence champion BAE Systems is exploring opportunities to deepen collaboration with Japanese defence groups, including potential joint development of drones to fly alongside a next-generation fighter jet the two nations are building with Italy. … Read more
This year’s list covers 150 hubs in 25 countries. Plus: Trump policies are a wake-up call for European climate tech; Spain’s smaller hubs play to their strengths; Germany’s stagnant economy dents investment in consumer start-ups; and how a Paris-based hub is at the vanguard of AI