Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery start-up spun out of Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, has raised $600mn in its first external funding round, as investors bet on the potential for AI to “solve disease”. The … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Subscribers can sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get the newsletter delivered every weekday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Good morning and welcome back to FirstFT Asia. In today’s newsletter: Andreessen Horowitz could join US TikTok bid China’s latest … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s social media company X has asked the Supreme Court to shield its users from US law enforcement, intervening in a case that could force the federal government to produce a warrant to access … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in social media platform TikTok as part of an effort led by Donald Trump to wrest control of the popular video app from its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. London’s mayor has axed a cyber crime helpline for the victims of online abuse, triggering a backlash from campaigners who argue that women and girls will be left struggling to access vital support. The service, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Scientists are deploying artificial intelligence to significantly improve predictions about when and where destructive wildfires will ignite, helping to mitigate disasters such as the one that recently devastated Los Angeles. Experts at the European Centre … Read more
The chief executive of the world’s largest chipmaker has succeeded in getting President Donald Trump off his back this year but has yet to win over investors to his strategy for riding out the current trade storm. CC Wei of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced on March 3 a further $100bn investment in the US, … 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 pro-vice-chancellor for innovation at the University of Cambridge The Oxford-Cambridge Arc growth corridor, which will unlock over £78bn for the UK economy by 2035, is becoming something of an anchor project for … Read more
Britain’s flagship artificial intelligence agency will slash the number of projects it backs and prioritise work on defence, environment and health as it seeks to respond to technological advances and criticism of its record. The Alan Turing Institute — named after the pioneering British computer scientist — will shut or offload almost a quarter of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chinese artificial intelligence models had already been outpacing expectations — but they have now pushed the bar even higher. Two local tech groups have recently dropped significant updates. DeepSeek released a dramatically improved V3 model … Read more