Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Commission’s powerful competition directorate is blocking a push that would allow governments to subsidise the production costs of clean energy technologies, flaring tensions between EU officials enforcing state-aid rules and those working on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta has invested $15bn into data-labelling start-up Scale AI and hired its co-founder Alexandr Wang, as part of its bid to attract talent from rivals in a fiercely competitive market. The deal values Scale at … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Space Agency is seeking €1bn to develop a new satellite network providing military-grade intelligence to the EU as it prepares to push for the biggest budget in its 50-year history. Josef Aschbacher, the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Mattel and OpenAI intend to make artificial intelligence part of children’s playtime with a partnership between the Barbie-maker and the tech group behind ChatGPT. The two companies on Thursday said they had formed a “strategic … Read more
SAP quietly steals a march on Silicon Valley’s A-list
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese carmaker Xpeng says it has developed chips for autonomous driving that are more powerful than Nvidia’s products and it expects Volkswagen and other auto rivals to be customers. He Xiaopeng, Xpeng’s co-founder and chief … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the trickiest challenges for any honest investor is trying to work out whether they are lucky or smart. Is their successful trading strategy the equivalent of a coin toss coming up heads five … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Huawei’s founder said the US was exaggerating the Chinese chipmaker’s capabilities and played down his company’s technology amid trade talks between Beijing and Washington that include discussions of export controls. In a rare interview with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A supercomputer at Edinburgh university is set to receive £750mn as part of Wednesday’s spending review, reversing a contentious decision to suspend funding made in the early days of Sir Keir Starmer’s government. The decision … Read more
Hello everyone! This is Lauly, sending my greetings from summery Taipei. It’s been a very fruitful few weeks for me. Although I caught a bad cold during the annual Computex trade fair in mid-May, I was able to talk to numerous suppliers about their latest AI server solutions, from advanced liquid cooling systems and power … Read more