Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Record-high greenhouse gas emissions are set to exhaust the planet’s “carbon budget” within three years, passing another ominous milestone that would minimise the chance of limiting warming to 1.5C, scientists have said. The carbon budget … Read more
Last year an Israeli telecoms executive working in Europe had a call from an old friend back in Tel Aviv: could he help design a phone that looked like a cheap Android but could transmit encrypted data that mimicked social media traffic? Around the same time, a reservist working at an Israeli health start-up got … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a fine view of Ely Cathedral across fields from outside the Cambridgeshire factory of the UK’s leading surgical robotics company. Inside the spotless building, 13,000 parts are assembled into each Versius system used … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two companies backed by Bill Gates and Sam Altman have raised more than $1bn amid a surge in investor optimism that nuclear energy will help power the artificial intelligence revolution. TerraPower, a private company founded … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is nearing a $9.3bn debt and equity deal, as investors looked past the billionaire’s spat with President Donald Trump that had complicated the capital raising efforts. Investors have placed … Read more
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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. US defence tech group Anduril will team up with Germany’s Rheinmetall to develop drones for Europe, as American companies seek to use their technological expertise to secure a share of rising defence spending in the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Netflix has struck a landmark deal to show linear TV for the first time with French TV network TF1, as traditional broadcasters struggle with changing viewing habits and fierce competition from streaming giants. TF1 will … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has accused Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta of trying to poach his developers with the promise of $100mn sign-on bonuses and even higher compensation, as the social media platform races to catch … Read more
Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI