Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Trump Mobile has backed away from the claim that its golden smartphone will be “Made in the USA”, just a week after it was announced. The phone network launched by the Trump Organization … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple is changing its App Store policies in the EU in a last-minute attempt to avoid a series of escalating fines from Brussels. The $3tn iPhone maker will allow developers in the bloc to offer … 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 One of Elon Musk’s top lieutenants has left his job at Tesla amid plunging sales and a pivot to autonomous driving, artificial intelligence and robotics. Omead Afshar, who was promoted to run sales … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One of my relatives heard some strange stories when working on a healthcare helpline during the Covid pandemic. Her job was to help callers complete the rapid lateral flow tests used millions of times during … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is founder and director of the New Britain Project think-tank Of all the tremors unleashed by Donald Trump’s second term, one of the most quietly consequential is a reordering of the global innovation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A year ago, the generative AI mania sweeping through Silicon Valley and Wall Street faced a serious reality check. In a widely quoted note, Goldman Sachs’ head of equity research, Jim Covello, questioned whether the … Read more
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Hello, this is Kenji in Tokyo. Since Donald Trump began his second term as US president in January, most of us living in this part of the world have probably got into the habit of checking first thing in the morning what he said, wrote or did while Asia was sleeping. This may have already … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The BBC will charge US users for access to its journalism through a subscription fee for its overseas website to boost revenues ahead of crucial negotiations over funding. On Thursday, the UK licence fee funded … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taiwan has developed suicide drones equivalent to those at the heart of Ukraine’s defence against Russia, the clearest sign yet of progress in the country’s efforts to build up rapidly its autonomous weapons capabilities to … Read more