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Anime lessons in the limits of AI

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan has a safety deposit box problem. It is just not clear whose problem it is, exactly. For decades, safety deposit boxes have been where Japanese customers stashed hard cash, jewels, housing deeds and whatever … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump once said that tariff was the most beautiful word. After the markets closed on Wednesday, he declared “liberation day” in its honour. To America’s trading partners, April 2 will mark the … 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

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and an FT contributing editor For a brief few weeks in December and January, Lebanon and Syria were in a bubble of euphoria. In December, … Read more

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world One conservative television empire is — unsurprisingly — thriving in the age of President Donald Trump. Can a second find similar success? Hoping to replicate, if not challenge, Fox Corporation, Newsmax went public … Read more

Lessons from Russia, Turkey and India for Trump’s America

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard being everyone’s favourite. Raspberry Pi is both last year’s UK initial public offering success story and the poster child for British start-ups. And that is on top of its day job making … 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 official statistics are doubly disconcerting. They currently convey a subdued economy, and may also be unreliable. Britain’s policymakers have had to make do with provisional jobs data for over 18 months while the … Read more

A bombshell judgment on Marine Le Pen