Shipping groups clash over regulatory cost of using LNG to power vessels

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mitsui OSK Lines, the world’s second-largest shipowner, has struck back against calls by its rival AP Møller-Maersk to place a higher regulatory cost on the use of liquefied natural gas to power ships than zero-carbon … Read more

Samsung boosts profits as customers stockpile chips ahead of US tariffs

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Customers stockpiling chips and bringing forward smartphone purchases ahead of US tariffs and export controls have boosted quarterly profits at Samsung Electronics. Shares in the world’s largest memory chipmaker jumped 2.1 per cent on Tuesday … Read more

How do we really feel about robots?

For more than 100 years, writers, artists and filmmakers have sketched out their visions of the household robot, a supposedly inevitable culmination of human technological advancement. One day, these multitasking machines will, we’re told, perform tedious tasks efficiently and without complaint, respond courteously to requests and remain unobtrusively compliant and meek. In The Automatic Maid-Of-All-Work (1893), … Read more

India’s tech stocks take a beating

This article is an on-site version of the India Business Briefing newsletter. To receive it in your inbox regularly, sign up if you’re a premium subscriber, or upgrade your subscription here. Good morning. Stock markets around the world are still struggling to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Indian markets are also waiting for … Read more