Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. TotalEnergies defended its strategy of labelling natural gas as a transition fuel in promotional material as part of its rebranding, in a landmark trial over the claim that the French oil and gas group had … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A bitter fight over alleged corporate espionage involving two of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups took a new twist on Tuesday, after $12bn HR software company Deel claimed arch-rival Rippling had directed one of its employees … 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 The American oil industry has allied with the green energy lobby to ask Republican senators not to axe Joe Biden-era tax credits for clean hydrogen, warning their repeal would enable China to dominate … 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. Mass surveillance. Pandemic tracking. Predictive policing. Insurrection detection. Drug testing. Political lobbying. AI deployment. NHS restructuring. Employee snooping. Vaccine rollouts. Spac investment. Referencing Tolkien. It’s hard to avoid priors with Palantir. To do no more … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Given that Google attracts more than 136bn visits a month — as much as the next 12 most popular websites combined — it is easy to see how a US federal judge concluded last year … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Long queues and midnight store openings have marked the global launch of Nintendo’s Switch 2, a long-awaited console upgrade that analysts see as a catalyst for the next wave of video game industry growth. More … Read more
Hello everyone, this is Cissy from Hong Kong. This week, the Hong Kong police are on high alert again as Wednesday marked the 36th anniversary of Beijing’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital. Although public mourning over the tragedy has diminished since the implementation of the National … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If your Netflix queue has started featuring more anime titles lately, it is no coincidence. Japanese animation movies and television series, aimed at adults as well as children, are moving from niche to mainstream. This … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A core tenet of showbiz — and capitalism — is to always leave them wanting more. Tech executives are now promising not just more, but everything. A rallying cry heard across Silicon Valley is that … Read more