Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The food pill, which provides a full meal in a capsule, has long been a staple of science fiction. Now, mass producers of food for thought have an equivalent: myriad tiny gobbets of thought leadership, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU is launching a new age verification app in July, establishing a tool that will potentially allow for tighter enforcement of rules requiring online platforms to protect minors online. The app, a precursor to … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. My first inkling of the damaging cyber attack on Marks and Spencer was when I entered a store at the Easter weekend and was told that contactless payments were not working. It threatened to ruin the … Read more
One thing to start: Tim Leissner, the disgraced former Goldman Sachs banker at the heart of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, has been sentenced to two years in prison, ending one of the most infamous prosecutions in Wall Street’s history. And another thing: Wall Street is warning that a little-publicised provision in Donald Trump’s budget bill … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Pirated streaming of sports and premium TV is costing broadcasters and sports bodies billions of dollars a year, constituting “industrial scale theft of video services”, according to media analysts at Enders. Enders found that pirated feeds … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s biggest technology companies have begun the long and difficult process of switching their development of artificial intelligence to homegrown chips, as they contend with a dwindling stockpile of Nvidia processors and tightening US export … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The German government is drawing up plans for a 10 per cent tax on global internet giants such as Meta and Google in a move that could further fuel transatlantic trade tensions. Germany’s federal commissioner … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Will Elon Musk start filling out a time sheet? The world’s richest man is under pressure to act more like a regular chief executive at his electric-car maker, Tesla. He is even making some gestures … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon, marking the first time the news giant will allow its stories to train a tech company’s artificial intelligence models. The deal allows … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The launch of Stargate, an apparent $500bn project to build data centres in the US, was hailed by President Donald Trump in January as “the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history”. An “immediate” … Read more