Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Digitising health and adult social care services will cost the UK government £21bn over the next five years, according to research that underscores the significant investment needed to modernise the NHS. The estimate by the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. London-based games developer Tripledot Studios is acquiring AppLovin’s games business for $800mn, in a deal that will vault the creator of Woodoku and Solitaire.com into the rankings of the world’s largest independent mobile games companies. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US commerce department has scrapped a rule put in place by the Biden administration that limited exports of artificial intelligence chips, arguing it was full of red tape that made it “unenforceable”, a US … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Shares in Google’s parent Alphabet fell by as much as 9 per cent on Wednesday after a top Apple executive said the iPhone maker was “looking at” introducing alternative search engines for its web browser … Read more
Jesse Levinson, co-founder and chief product officer of Amazon-owned robotaxi start-up Zoox, and his team are betting that the vehicles’ pod-shaped design will be the preferred shape of future autonomous transportation. The company is testing its technology on roads across six US cities with plans to launch commercially this year in Las Vegas, followed by … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Uber’s shares fell on Wednesday after it posted slightly weaker than expected gross bookings for the first quarter, raising fears of slowing US consumer demand amid growing economic uncertainty under President Donald Trump. The ride-hailing … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Foxconn has made a landmark entry into the car industry after the Taiwanese iPhone supplier struck a deal to manufacture electric vehicles for Mitsubishi Motors of Japan. According to a memorandum of understanding between the … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. OpenAI plans to expand Stargate, its $500bn US data centre project, by investing more overseas to promote the development of “democratic artificial intelligence”, though the group revealed few details of how the project would be … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A barrage of storms left UK home insurers facing claims for £226mn of weather-related damage in the first quarter of this year, a record high since the data began to be tracked in 2017. Property … Read more