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
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. X chief executive Linda Yaccarino has said that users will “soon” be able to make investments or trades on the social media platform, as she outlined a push into financial services in owner Elon Musk’s … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The biggest optimist about the UK I’ve recently met is Ilan Gur. Naturally, he’s American. His buoyancy may owe much to his fun job as the founding chief executive of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency … Read more
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
Hello from Yifan in California, your #techasia host this week. I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of my job ever since Google’s I/O event in May, where the US tech giant laid out an ambitious plan to define what search will look like in the future. Some users in the US may have … Read more
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
China made millions of drones. Now it has to find uses for them
Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence
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
Margaret Mitchell, researcher and chief ethics scientist at artificial intelligence developer and collaborative platform Hugging Face, is a pioneer in responsible and ethical AI. One of the most influential narratives around the promise of AI is that, one day, we will be able to build artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems that are at least as … Read more