Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BP is shutting its low-carbon mobility team in the energy major’s latest retreat from its five-year-old attempt to diversify away from oil and gas. The unit was responsible for developing electric, hydrogen and other low-emission … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever has raised $2bn for his artificial intelligence start-up in a deal which values the year-old company at $32bn though it currently has no product. Sutskever, who left OpenAI last year after … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. True crime junkies have long been fans of podcasts. Most-listened rankings feature such grisly delights as Morbid, Small Town Murder and Bone Valley. But for producers, platforms and advertisers the genre has delivered its own … Read more
The crowd roars as Mario drifts around the final bend. The finish line is in sight. Then, out of nowhere, a red turtle shell speeds towards him and overturns his kart, allowing Yoshi to slip past and snatch the crown. This isn’t just Mario Kart, it’s the new Knockout Tour mode in the forthcoming Mario … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Legal and General is one of several shareholders planning to vote against the re-election of BP’s outgoing chair at its annual general meeting on Thursday, in a sign of growing discontent over the oil major’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Diplomats have passed a UN plan to charge ships at least $100 for every tonne of CO₂ they emit above a decarbonisation target, defying a threat from the US to retaliate against such a measure. … 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 a director and screenwriter In 2014, I directed the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of the Booker Prize. In 2023, I shot The Mirror … Read more
OpenAI has slashed the time and resources it spends on testing the safety of its powerful artificial intelligence models, raising concerns that its technology is being rushed out without sufficient safeguards. Staff and third-party groups have recently been given just days to conduct “evaluations”, the term given to tests for assessing models’ risks and performance, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world For a week, Silicon Valley’s bet on Donald Trump looked to be turning very bad, very quickly. The hit to complex electronics supply chains made Apple, Nvidia and Tesla among the biggest casualties … 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 a global economist and author of ‘The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism’ Technological leaps are rarely born in comfort. They are forged in conflict, competition and necessity. From nuclear energy … Read more