Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world 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’ Palantir chief executive Alex Karp self-identifies on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The board of Tesla is not looking to replace Elon Musk as chief executive. It said so on Thursday, in response to a Wall Street Journal article that had stated otherwise. The point is moot, … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, visiting professor of computer science at the Open University and author of ‘Picks and Shovels’ What’s a (former) trading partner to do? In Canada, Mexico … Read more
Hello everyone! This is Lauly, sending greetings from Taipei. Usually, people in Taiwan enjoy a four-day holiday at the beginning of April — Children’s Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day (a bit of an odd combination, I know). But this year was different, at least for people involved in the tech and media industries, thanks to Donald … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta will fight a group of US authors in court on Thursday in one of the first big legal tests of whether tech companies can use copyrighted material to train their powerful artificial intelligence models. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Norway’s giant $1.8tn oil fund expects to save a fifth of its annual trading costs by using artificial intelligence to trade less frequently and more efficiently, in a sign of how the technology could upend … Read more
One thing to start: Paramount is willing to strike a deal to resolve President Donald Trump’s $20bn lawsuit against CBS News, after the studio’s owner, Shari Redstone, grew “concerned” about the network’s balance in recent months. And another thing: Greensill Capital’s administrator has filed a lawsuit against its founder Lex Greensill and six other former … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sam Altman’s digital ID project Worldcoin has launched in the US, making its controversial iris-scanning technology and cryptocurrency token available in the country as Donald Trump’s administration embraces the digital asset sector. The group aims … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Despite recent volatility in Tesla’s share price, investor confidence in Elon Musk’s broader ambitions remains surprisingly resilient. Tesla continues to trade at valuation multiples not only well above legacy carmakers but also most of its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Samsung Electronics has warned that US tariffs will hit demand for its products as the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones presented a downbeat outlook for the year. The South Korean company said … Read more