Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta has agreed to buy the output of a nuclear plant in Illinois for two decades, marking its first deal of this kind as it seeks to shore up electricity to power its artificial intelligence … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US property and casualty insurers nearly doubled their earnings between 2023 and last year despite costly extreme-weather events, according to research that highlights the pay-off from several years of rising customer prices. A survey of … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Cyber Policy Center. She is the author of ‘The Tech Coup’ OpenAI has a new pitch for the world’s governments: … Read more
Bombers that Russia may never rebuild. A fleet so mauled it may force Moscow to rethink how it raids Ukraine. Deep strikes on Russian soil that expose the price of a long war — even against a weaker foe. As the toll of Ukraine’s weekend drone raid becomes clear from satellite imagery and expert assessments, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese tech companies designing their own advanced chips for manufacturing in Taiwan are set to be the hardest hit by new US restrictions on software tools. Smartphone maker Xiaomi is first in line to be … Read more
‘Godfather’ of AI Yoshua Bengio says latest models lie to users
The indie director: Scout Dixon West @scoutdixonwest, 144.3k followers There’s a cinematic moodiness to Scout Dixon West’s Instagram feed that makes sense on discovering she’s a scriptwriter and a former model, one who can still work the camera with a smoulder that matches her eponymous perfume brand. Growing up in northern California, Dixon West, 28, … Read more
Big Four firms race to develop audits for AI products
The thousands gathering at Walmart’s employee jamboree this week will celebrate record-breaking revenue, newly opened stores and a market-beating stock price. One thing that is not expanding at Walmart is the number of employees. Walmart, the largest US private sector employer, counted 2,165,465 staff worldwide as of the end of last year. That was almost … Read more
