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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. To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a maker of chips that power artificial intelligence, everything looks like a “token”. That is the industry lingo for the units of information an AI model … Read more
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 our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters … Read more
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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. The writer is an English barrister and deputy chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom. He is lead counsel for Alaa Abd El-Fattah On Tuesday, the UN Working Group on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For years, Nigeria has been not so much a sleeping giant as a comatose one. Home to nearly one in five sub-Saharan Africans, its market of 230mn people should be an engine of continental growth. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wise, the London-listed fintech group, has taken some time to grow into its name. Since its 2021 direct listing, it has had a rollercoaster ride of interest rate shocks and regulatory mis-steps. But the company … 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 an adviser on Islamic finance, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and millennium fellow at the Atlantic Council The global sukuk market for Islamic finance faces a pivotal moment. A new framework from the … Read more
I first became suspicious of fee increases when the school bought a drone. This was one of the costs the headmaster used to justify an 8 per cent increase in a year when inflation was running at a quarter of that. In his letter to parents the head explained that a sophisticated drone was essential … 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 That was quite the shock. Wednesday’s ruling from the Court of International Trade saying Donald Trump had wrongly used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap tariffs at will on trading partners … Read more