Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has put a $175bn price tag on the development of a “Golden Dome” missile defence shield, promising the project would be “operational” by the end of his term. The so-called Golden … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a research scientist and climate lead at open-source AI platform Hugging Face With every query, image generation and chatbot conversation, the energy that is being consumed by artificial intelligence models is rising. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A fifth of Shell’s shareholders have cast doubt on its strategy to become the world’s biggest supplier and trader of gas and LNG, questioning whether it makes sense from an economic or climate perspective. Wael … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investment banking is a people business. Clients pay generous fees in the hope of getting smart advice from analytical thinkers; relationships are managed deftly by silver-tongued advisers. An experiment by UBS raises the question of … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Visual and data journalism myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China could be on its way to becoming the world’s first major “electrostate”, with its electrification rate climbing to 30 per cent, ahead of the EU and US where electricity as a final … Read more
Feng Ji is the founder and CEO of Baiont, a top-performing quant fund in China that uses artificial intelligence to develop trading strategies. He argues quant trading is fundamentally a computer science task and predicts that quant fund managers failing to embrace AI will not last another three years. In this conversation with the Financial … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome to FirstFT Asia. On today’s agenda: Nvidia announces major new investment in Taiwan The Trump Organization … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Graham Robinson, a top biotech and technology lawyer, is set to depart Skadden Arps for Kirkland & Ellis, as the jockeying for talent among Big Law firms continues to heat up despite a slowdown in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Autonomous cars that are trained to respond more like humans to danger will cause fewer injuries during road accidents, according to a study that shows how driverless vehicles might be made safer. Vulnerable groups such … Read more