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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. Apathy and anticlimax are what a central bank aspires to when the time comes for a momentous policy decision. By this measure, the Bank of Japan’s return to positive interest rates was a triumph —
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Cynicism about artificial intelligence is here, but it is unevenly distributed. There is not enough scepticism about the technology’s applicability in a variety of fields in the business world, and too little awareness of how
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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 Bank of Japan has raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, becoming the world’s last central bank to end negative rates as the country puts decades of deflation behind it. Following a
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Nvidia has unveiled its latest artificial intelligence chips, which the company claims are far more powerful than its existing market-leading hardware, as it sets its sights on extending its domination of the burgeoning industry. Chief executive Jensen Huang said on Monday that Nvidia’s new Blackwell graphics processing units will massively increase the computing power driving
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One-year-old healthcare start-up Hippocratic AI has gained a $500mn valuation following a funding round, as Silicon Valley investors seek to cash in on promising new applications built using generative artificial intelligence. The Palo Alto, California-based
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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. So much for “levelling up”. In 2019 the Conservative party stormed to an election victory partly on the promise to boost Britain’s “left behind” regions and nations. Nearly five years later, the government has little
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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. Reckitt’s chief executive has vowed to overturn the damaging verdict of a jury in the US that the company’s Enfamil baby formula caused the death of a premature infant, insisting that the products are safe to
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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. “Who’s the fucking superpower here,” said Bill Clinton, after his first meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. The former US President was outraged by the new Israeli prime minister’s hectoring arrogance. Almost 30 years later,
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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 director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute Nippon Steel and US Steel reached a deal in December for the Japanese steelmaker to acquire its iconic US competitor. The acquisition
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