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Congratulations to the FT for its instant audio version of articles — a perfect use of artificial intelligence, now copied by The Wall Street Journal. However, I don’t think it yet deserves the title of generative AI. The lady is not learning her contextual pronunciations and acronyms — emmen for mn (millions), live (as in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European scientists have set a record for the amount of energy generated from nuclear fusion, another sign of progress in a decades-long effort to produce power by harnessing the reaction that powers the sun. Researchers

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Michael Matheson has resigned as Scotland’s health secretary in a bid to close down a row over an £11,000 data roaming bill that his children helped run up on his work tablet device while on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s “irresponsible” management is threatening European production of the metal as concerns mount over the viability of several of his plants, a powerful bloc of trade unions has warned. Two big union

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kenya is preparing to sell US dollar debt, capitalising on a thaw in markets to refinance a $2bn bond repayment later this year that had threatened to strain the finances of east Africa’s largest economy

It has been almost a quarter of a century since the US Supreme Court in effect decided the 2000 presidential election in Bush vs Gore, calling off a recount of votes in Florida in a move that ultimately cemented the win for George W Bush. Now the country’s highest court is preparing to wade directly

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What do fashion people eat? I don’t mean at parties or events. I’m talking about behind the scenes on editorial and commercial shoots, where models, stylists, photographer and crew each have their own requirements.  “Food is

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ministers should bring back incentives for purchasing electric cars to arrest falling sales growth and prevent the UK from entering the “slow lane” on tackling climate change, an influential group of peers warned on Tuesday.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tech giant Amazon has struck a deal with the UK’s largest publisher Reach over obtaining customer data to target online advertising, as the media industry scrambles to respond to Google’s move to axe “cookies”. In

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Max Hill KC, the former director of public prosecutions for England and Wales, has joined US law firm King & Spalding in London, adding to a growing number of ex-state prosecutors to have moved into

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Read all our psychology class picks. Specification: Click the link below to read the article

Katie Martin’s Long View (January 27) describes how Goldman Sachs’s chief US equity strategist asked a group of fund managers if they knew the origins of the “Magnificent Seven” term to describe top tech stocks. But did David Kostin — a film buff apparently — also know The Magnificent Seven film was itself based on

Like all drummers, Steve Reich sometimes feels the urge to tap out a beat on a table-top. But Reich is also a composer — many believe him to be the greatest composer alive — with a vast mental library of songs that he may, at some point during a conversation, suddenly start to sing, hum

After Taiwan’s presidential election last month, China was quick to rebuke the countries that congratulated the winner, Lai Ching-te, who Beijing has labelled a separatist. But it reserved its strongest condemnation for the Philippines, admonishing the country “not to play with fire” and its president to “read more books” to understand the dispute over Taiwan

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Bank of England said it required “more evidence” that inflation is falling before implementing interest rate cuts as it held borrowing costs at 5.25 per cent. At Thursday’s meeting of the Monetary Policy

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Oil & Gas industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This article is an on-site version of our Energy Source newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday Hello from Houston. Big Oil kicked off earnings

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If it isn’t actually unethical for a reviewer to visit a restaurant predisposed to love it, it’s at least bad practice. But there are some things that just can’t be avoided. Jamie Oliver has been

This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘Germans push back against extremist AfD’ [MUSIC PLAYING] Gideon RachmanHello and welcome to the Rachman Review. I’m Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times. This week’s podcast is about Germany and its far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland. The AfD have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Matrimony is in the spotlight in Northanger Abbey, Zoe Cooper’s crisp, affectionate take on Jane Austen’s early novel. Young Catherine Morland, a devotee of popular Gothic romances, abandons the confines of her parents’ modest northern

Global diesel prices have hit a near three-month high as traders fear Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea will raise costs for consumers and disrupt crucial supplies from Asia to Europe. Gasoil futures, the global benchmark, have risen 15 per cent from mid-December, to $845 a metric tonne, reflecting investors’ growing concerns that