Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was once a vocal critic of Donald Trump. But that changed during last year’s election campaign. Now, he has instructed the newspaper he owns, The Washington Post, to shift its editorial line to be more in line with the president. So what provoked Bezos’s political change of heart? Murad Ahmed and … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Europe Express newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday and fortnightly on Saturday morning. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Can the EU really claim to have a single market? Our correspondents … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s competition regulator is proposing to loosen Google’s control of its search engine in the first application of Britain’s tough new digital market rules. The Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday that Google … Read more
The struggle to get inside how AI models really work
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US House of Representatives has warned staff members not to use Meta’s messaging platform WhatsApp due to privacy concerns. The warning marks a blow to WhatsApp, whose $1.8tn parent Meta has long … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities will turn the spotlight on to the tools of war — and particularly those with a high-tech bent. Investors are getting on board: a €600mn investment in Germany’s Helsing announced … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati has raised $2bn for her new artificial intelligence start-up, in a deal which values the mysterious six-month-old company at $10bn. The deal, which closed recently, according to multiple … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A few months ago we marvelled at how the AI bacchanal had enticed venture capitalists into moving from backing pre-revenue companies to pre-product companies like Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence. Oh how sweetly innocent we were … Read more
