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
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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
The surge in energy demand across the vast Asia-Pacific region, both in the advanced and developing economies it covers, was relentless over the past year and made it more difficult to demonstrate climate leadership. The availability of renewable energy sources expanded rapidly, helped by the supply of solar and wind energy equipment from China, but … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Renewable energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. An “industrial sunbelt” made up of countries around the globe from India to Mexico is tipped to overtake the US and Europe for green-powered industry, according to research on the investment pipeline by a business … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration has reversed its opposition to a $5bn offshore wind farm to protect jobs, but also as part of a political deal over a long-stalled gas pipeline, according to the boss … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis opened the door to a shift in policy that could see the country develop nuclear energy for the first time as part of its energy transition strategy. Mitsotakis said Greece … Read more