Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities will turn the spotlight on to the tools of war — and particularly those with a high-tech bent. Investors are getting on board: a €600mn investment in Germany’s Helsing announced … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati has raised $2bn for her new artificial intelligence start-up, in a deal which values the mysterious six-month-old company at $10bn. The deal, which closed recently, according to multiple … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few months ago we marvelled at how the AI bacchanal had enticed venture capitalists into moving from backing pre-revenue companies to pre-product companies like Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence. Oh how sweetly innocent we were … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tennis has long been associated with affluence and exclusivity. But this reputation is looking increasingly outdated, with barriers to entry falling as the sport’s infrastructure develops. Now software engineers and entrepreneurs are making the game … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ‘Craziest flics’, ‘best drip’ and ‘best kicks’. This is French Open coverage — TikTok style. These social media posts (covering pictures, style and shoes at the Grand Slam tennis tournament) produced by media group Overtime … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Revolut’s chief executive Nik Storonsky is in line for a multibillion-dollar windfall if he steers the fintech’s valuation to about $150bn, under a long-standing Elon Musk-style pay package. Storonsky, who founded the $45bn start-up in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the second weekend of May, Donald Trump sacked the head of the US Copyright Office. On the previous Friday, the office had released “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training”. For the … Read more
The Trump Organization’s bid to enter the smartphone industry with a ‘Made in America’ device and mobile plan has seen it partner with a small network registered at a luxury apartment in the beachfront Trump Tower Miami. The business led by the US president’s sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump has tapped Liberty Mobile … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK is to invest more than £500mn in emerging technology based on quantum physics that experts say has the potential to transform economic and national security. The government’s support will be welcomed following questions … Read more
