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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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Do you fancy becoming immortal? Me neither. Silicon Valley titans who lust after “escape velocity from death” leave me cold. But most of us would love to stay younger for longer — preferably without Botox.…
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Renewable energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. G7 countries are set to agree a global target this weekend to increase electricity storage capacity sixfold from 2022 to 2030, as countries grapple with how to keep the lights on while shifting to intermittent…
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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. Artificial intelligence helped boost Microsoft’s cloud sales past analysts’ forecasts, as demand for the high-profile technology challenges the company’s capacity to keep up with its rivals. The Seattle-based group, which has become a bellwether for…
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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, it’s fair to say, is unlucky. The above screenshot is from the FCA’s short position disclosure list (XLS download). The fund, Cadian Capital Management, is a New York long/short TMT equity hedge fund. The…
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So effective is Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ blockbuster cystic fibrosis (CF) drug, Trikafta, that studies project it could extend the lives of some young patients by up to 45 years. As such, it is not cheap: in the US, it costs $300,000 per patient, per year. But given the transformative nature of the treatment for a disease…
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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. When the Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and Germany was damaged by mysterious explosions in 2022, the resulting leaks of methane were so big they could be seen from space. And, for one company,…
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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. Companies are lobbying for credits for the reduction of plastic pollution to be allowed in the first legally binding UN plastics treaty, despite concerns by environmental groups that it will fund solutions such as the…
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