Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rain or shine, at 5.30am Clair Heaviside leaves her Peak District home, dons a head torch and gloves and runs the equivalent of a half marathon to her office in Manchester. The founder and creative…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On the edge of a man-made peninsula at Rotterdam port, engineers have started work on Europe’s most ambitious attempt at capturing and storing the carbon dioxide emissions behind climate change. After significant delays, drilling started…
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Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond is looking to take on TikTok as chair of a social media start-up that claims to be worth more than $3bn, despite revenue of only $36mn and less than $1mn in cash on hand last year. The new direction for the financier comes after video platform Triller agreed an all-share…
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Growing older is often presented as a choice. Cosmetic treatments, so-called anti-ageing products and their close relations — “age defying”, “age perfect”, “slow age” formulas and so on — tend to frame evidence of the passing of time as problems to be fixed. Not much has changed since Susan Sontag nailed women’s anxieties about ageing…
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Visitors to Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates’ famous artificial ski slope last week found it dark and deserted. Even though the shopping centre itself was filled with the usual tourists, the silent snow dome suggested all was not well, after a deluge in the metropolis disrupted the power to chill the slope. Several days after…
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Microsoft and Google’s owner Alphabet have quashed investor scepticism around the vast sums spent on developing artificial intelligence, after being boosted by rampant corporate demand for their cloud computing services. The combined market value of the two US tech giants rose by more than $250bn on Friday, a day after each reported double-digit revenue growth…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. James Cameron, who dreamt up the evil Skynet artificial intelligence network in his 1984 film The Terminator, says an advanced AI system could one day do his job. “If you have an artificial general intelligence…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Another light of the London Stock Exchange firmament is going out. Darktrace has accepted a £4.3bn offer from US private equity investor Thoma Bravo. That the UK market’s lone cyber security name is leaving will,…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of The Lex Newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Wednesday and Friday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all…
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