Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost everything is being repackaged as a subscription-based service these days. It is not just streaming services or magazines. From razor blades to clothes and imperfect produce, more and more companies are turning one-off sales … Read more
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Sam Altman’s escape from the Silicon Valley pack is a sprawling farm at the end of a road that snakes through the vine-swept hills in Napa Valley. I spot the 40-year-old with slightly tousled hair in the open-plan kitchen of the wide bay-windowed house, and I step right in. His bemused look tells me that … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK retailers are likely to face steeper rises for their cyber insurance after damaging attacks on Marks and Spencer, Harrods and the Co-op, adding further pain to a sector that is already seeing premiums rise. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Substack has added more than 1mn subscribers since Donald Trump’s triumph in the US election last November, as the online platform benefits from the shift towards creator-led journalism. Substack, a platform for writers and other … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 30 years, Google has gone from not-yet-existent to part of the furniture. To flaunt this fact, parent company Alphabet recently did something that’s typically the preserve of businesses that expect to be around for … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial & markets regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US regulators are calling on the world’s financial rulemakers to downgrade a flagship project to tackle the risks of climate change in the latest sign of America’s retreat from environmental causes since Donald … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Scientists have used artificial intelligence analysis of the faces of cancer patients to predict survival outcomes and in some cases outperform clinicians’ short-term life expectancy forecasts. The researchers used a deep learning algorithm to measure … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By 2035, almost a third of China’s population will be over the age of 60. A shrinking young workforce poses a policy challenge for the country, particularly for traditional growth engines such as manufacturing. Yet … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. India said it had “neutralised” Pakistani drone and missile attacks on military targets in the north and west of the country on Thursday, in skirmishes that pushed the nuclear-armed neighbours closer to war. “Pakistan attempted … Read more