The Iberian blackout is a wake-up call

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackouts are common in parts of the developing world where grids are often inadequate. But, earlier this week, Europe experienced one of its worst ever power outages in Spain and Portugal, stretching from around midday … Read more

Why the dollar doom is overdone

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is president and chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research When the US stock market was hitting new record highs last year, led by the Magnificent Seven group of technology companies, the financial media … Read more

The diverging future of AI

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Does the future belong to a handful of all-powerful, wide-ranging artificial intelligence agents that navigate the world on our behalf — successors to the ChatGPTs, Claudes and Groks that seek to handle almost any task … Read more

Palantir has become an unlikely cheerleader for Trump

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is a fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the Cyber Policy Center. She is the author of ‘The Tech Coup’ Palantir chief executive Alex Karp self-identifies on … Read more

Half an Elon Musk is still better than none

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The board of Tesla is not looking to replace Elon Musk as chief executive. It said so on Thursday, in response to a Wall Street Journal article that had stated otherwise. The point is moot, … Read more