Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Friedrich Merz era got off to a shaky start. After years of infighting and drift in Berlin, the chancellor’s arrival was supposed to be a new beginning for Germany and for Europe, both yearning … 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 Britain has been in dealmaking mood this week. On Thursday, it announced an agreement that reduces prospective duties on its auto, steel and aluminium exports to the US, making it the first nation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They consume vast tracts of content, cost a packet to train and graft well past normal office hours. Junior lawyers have much in common with generative artificial intelligence. Galling, then, for the former to face … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When I heard last week’s news that Warren Buffett had decided to step down from his mighty Berkshire Hathaway empire, at the age of 94, it reminded me of something that has bothered me for … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It can be hard to train a chatbot. Last month, OpenAI rolled back an update to ChatGPT because its “default personality” was too sycophantic. (Maybe the company’s training data was taken from transcripts of US … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution It has been a disorienting week for Germans. The 80th anniversary of the second world war’s end has generated a new … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “How much legal structure will this deal have?” a trade lawyer at a prominent firm asked me yesterday, gesturing at the detritus of a meeting on the conference table in front of him. “About 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 a senior fellow at King’s College London On May 7, Indian jets targeted several sites deep inside Pakistan, killing 31 people according to Islamabad. The attack was expected, especially given that India’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. St James’s Place is the sort of company that defies the idea of efficient markets. Why are people so keen to pay a premium to invest their money when they can often achieve similar results … Read more
