The death of the business card

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By the time I joined the FT in 2021, business cards had mostly fallen out of fashion. Colourful stacks of embossed cards sat on the desks of my colleagues, gathering dust. Here in San Francisco, … Read more

The Fed cuts US economic outlook

The Federal Reserve cut its outlook for the US economy on Wednesday, and in the UK, inflation remains higher than ideal. Plus, Big Tech companies are lobbying for a decade-long ban on AI regulations, and the Israel-Iran conflict has hit the global supply chain. Mentioned in this podcast: UK inflation was 3.4% in May Federal … Read more

It’s time AI started to play by the rules

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Late last year, California almost passed a law that would force makers of large artificial intelligence models to come clean about the potential for causing large-scale harms. It failed. Now, New York is trying on … Read more

Test for Europe as it tackles a crisis of confidence in green projects

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It isn’t the easiest time to be a green industrial start-up in Europe. The sudden collapse into bankruptcy of Northvolt, Europe’s best-funded start-up and its big hope for battery manufacturing, has in recent months cast … Read more