When US-based law firm Orrick wanted to improve its UK company incorporation process in 2022, it tasked a team of lawyers with streamlining the process. Orrick Labs, a venture that works on legal tech solutions for clients, developed a digital form that simplifies its UK incorporation process. As part of Orrick’s strategy to train young … Read more
Pitching for legal business as a law firm once meant gaining an understanding of the client’s needs and demonstrating how the firm might meet them. At Ashurst, however, a recent request for proposal came with a new demand: that the firm show how it would combine generative artificial intelligence with human expertise to handle the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For over a decade, the US has been waging its chip cold war with a familiar arsenal. Blacklists, export controls and extraterritorial rules — all staples of Washington’s well-worn playbook — were meant to deny … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The UK is to purchase 12 US-made F-35 stealth fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons, in a sweeping overhaul of the country’s defence strategy. Under the plans, Britain will join Nato’s airborne … Read more
Rising aviation emissions risk jeopardising the UK’s climate targets, independent government advisers have warned, with flights now contributing more greenhouse gas than the entire electricity supply sector. In its annual assessment of the UK’s progress on its net zero emissions goals, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said emissions from flights jumped by 9 per cent … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Shares of glucose-monitoring company DexCom jumped nearly 10 per cent Tuesday afternoon after US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr lauded medical “wearables” and said he would like all Americans to be using the technology … Read more
The chief executive of a start-up that forced OpenAI and former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive to pull down marketing materials about their $6.4bn AI device venture has accused them of trying to “bury” his firm after discussing a potential collaboration. iyO founder and former Google executive Jason Rugolo told the Financial Times he … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Innovation leads, and regulation follows. Even so, the UK competition watchdog’s efforts to rein in Google are out by a country mile. While there are potential dangers to the search giant’s dominance, including large language … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France’s consumer affairs and fraud investigators have ordered Tesla to stop “deceptive” claims over the level of autonomy of its cars or face thousands of euros in fines, in the latest blow to Elon Musk’s … Read more
In the fourth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman ask if advances in artificial intelligence will reshape the working world as we know it. Or are we hearing an old familiar story that has been told many times before? Paul … Read more