Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Maisie McInnes, from the northern English city of Hull, started selling used clothes online to help save for a deposit on a house. She began by listing old items from her own wardrobe, but now … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Entering the job market can feel daunting, particularly when there’s a lot of news around about how artificial intelligence is going to disrupt the workplace. The launch of ChatGPT three years ago triggered a whirlwind … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian brainrot memes — surreal artificial intelligence-generated creatures with flamboyant Italian-sounding names that have gone viral on TikTok — are just the latest internet craze popularising AI-generated content. Italian brainrot content is very obviously fake. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is extremely popular today, but the technology has existed for decades — the term goes all the way back to the 1950s. There have been huge advances recently, though, and these … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eurostar plans to launch new services from London to Frankfurt and Geneva to meet rising business demand for greener travel, as it faces the long-term prospect of competition on its cross-channel services. The rail group … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US prosecutors have charged a cryptocurrency entrepreneur with sanctions evasion and export control violations, alleging he laundered more than $500mn and helped Russians acquire sensitive US technology. Iurii Gugnin, founder of crypto payments company Evita, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. BlackRock asked a US judge on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led states claiming asset managers conspired to suppress coal production, calling it an “unprecedented” case that could upend how the … 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 annual recurring revenue has almost doubled to $10bn, on the back of surging demand for its artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The company’s ARR — a measure of expected revenue from subscriptions over a year … Read more
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a chess-playing automaton dubbed the Mechanical Turk mesmerised Europe’s ruling classes. For the best part of a century, the Turk toured the continent’s palaces and salons, checkmating a roster of illustrious opponents that included Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. Two centuries before IBM’s Deep Blue bested Garry Kasparov across … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world A top White House official has said US President Donald Trump would ease restrictions on selling chips to China if Beijing agreed to speed up the export of rare earths, as the two … Read more