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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. Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind and chief executive of artificial intelligence start-up Inflection, to run a new consumer AI unit. Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in London in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, will on Tuesday set out new rules pledging that a Labour government would aim to borrow only to invest as part of an agenda to inject greater “stability” into policymaking.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jeremy Hunt has hinted that the UK government may hold the next general election in October, which would give the ruling Conservative party less than seven months to turn around its dire position in the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Donald Trump, still no more than a candidate for the US presidency, may soon hand his friend, Vladimir Putin, victory over Ukraine. This would be incredible if one were not used to such

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google DeepMind has developed a prototype artificial intelligence football tactician in collaboration with Premier League club Liverpool, in the latest push to use the technology to master the ebb and flow of big-money sports. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Israel would launch a ground assault on Rafah, despite pressure from the US not to carry out a major operation in the Gazan city where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has said in a long tirade on social media that he might need to sell his assets to postpone enforcement of a $464mn fraud judgment, after his lawyers declared they could not find

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK tax authority has been condemned for a “misguided” decision to slash the number of its public helplines, with warnings that millions of taxpayers could face “long waiting times and lots of hassle”. HM

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Conservative party has been fined almost £11,000 by the UK electoral watchdog after it failed to report accurately non-cash donations from a donor for three years.  Donations in the form of a seconded employee

This article is an on-site version of our Chris Giles on Central Banks newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Tuesday Today, Japan ended an eight-year period of negative interest rates after gaining confidence that the country has defeated deflation for good. More on that below. Similar fireworks

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s investment banks have cut bonuses for a second straight year following a prolonged slump in dealmaking and listings that is now finally showing signs of ending.      Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas have

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Urban Development Corporations. The Regional Development Agencies. The Local Enterprise Partnerships. Then, in the last decade, as merciful relief from this grinding, almost Soviet language: the “Northern Powerhouse”. Whatever they called it, every British

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Central bankers are increasingly confident that inflation can be vanquished without driving up unemployment sharply, as economists forecast “immaculate disinflation”. Analysts polled by Consensus Economics see inflation easing from multi-decade highs to about 2 per

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Unilever is to split off its ice cream business and cut 7,500 jobs as the consumer goods group steps up efforts to improve its performance. The company said on Tuesday that the ice cream division,

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 —

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

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz plans to vote for Donald Trump, saying his assessment that President Joe Biden’s “mental condition is really scary” outweighed his concern over the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Pay rises in Clayton County, home to Atlanta’s vast airport and highways carrying cargo to and from the state’s bustling ports, were the best in the US over the past year. Yet Sam Day, an insurance adviser who works in the county’s Southlake Mall, said she was in a “really scary spot”, as the soaring

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A second successive jump in the UK minimum wage will keep the Bank of England on high alert for signs of pay growth feeding inflation, even as broader price pressures in the economy start to

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

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