Elon Musk’s X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift after sexually explicit images of the pop star created using artificial intelligence spread widely on the platform. The incident is the latest example of how social media groups are scrambling to tackle so-called deepfakes: realistic images and audio, generated using AI, that can be abused to portray
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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. China has moved to officially limit short selling after informal efforts failed to stop a worsening stock market sell-off. Investors who buy shares will not be allowed to lend them out for short selling within
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government could kick off a sale of NatWest shares to the public as early as the middle of this year, once a permanent chief executive has been installed at the bank. Government insiders
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chair of Rockefeller International Joe Biden’s record low popularity ratings get a lot of attention, yet leaders across the developed world are in a similar predicament to the US president — they have
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kemi Badenoch has said she ousted the chair of the Post Office because she felt he was unable to deliver the scale of change needed in the aftermath of the Horizon IT scandal. The UK
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the FT’s architecture critic When he left school, Norman Foster worked in the Treasurer’s Office at Manchester Town Hall. He credits the vast Victorian building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cathie Wood has said her tech-focused Ark stock market fund “paid its dues” with two years of steep declines, before roaring back last year with one of the industry’s best performances. Wood’s $8bn Ark Innovation
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Housebuilders are overwhelmingly backing the Labour party to win the next UK election, as government concessions to anti-development MPs and the rapid turnover of housing ministers have alienated the industry. Some 70 per cent of
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Construction on the Kremlin’s long-planned mega-pipeline connecting Russia’s western gasfields with China is expected to be delayed, the prime minister of Mongolia has warned, in a blow to Moscow’s plans to secure a new market
Building the world’s biggest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, demanded a factory of equal stature. But the double-decker airliner was a commercial failure and the 50-hectare Jean-Luc Lagardère centre in the French city of Toulouse produced the last of the model in 2021. Three years on, a facility with a central hangar that can shelter
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was easy to poke fun at crypto back in late 2022. The market had tanked by about two-thirds in the space of a year; many of the industry’s biggest companies and coins had collapsed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 1970, a story with disturbing implications for business travellers appeared on page 36 of the Financial Times. It was about what the newspaper called “the so-called jet lag”, and it revealed that an
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chair of the Post Office has quit its board as the UK government said it was seeking “new leadership” for the state-owned business at the centre of the Horizon scandal. Henry Staunton, who has
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US-China relations myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US and China will hold counter-narcotics talks in Beijing next week, after US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi met in Bangkok in an effort to further stabilise relations.
In its politically incendiary but legally nuanced hearing on Friday, the UN’s highest court made one thing clear: Israel’s battle with Hamas will ultimately be judged against the international norms of how war ought to be waged. That, legal experts said, was in itself to be celebrated: the restoration of the primacy of international humanitarian
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Several countries including the UK, Italy and Finland have joined the US in suspending their funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees after allegations that its staff may have taken part in Hamas’s
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rally in US chip stocks that has seen Nvidia and AMD more than double in value over the past year is under pressure after warnings that the artificial intelligence boom is masking a broader
Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, grabbed headlines last year when she unleashed a sprawling 98-page indictment accusing Trump and 18 others of seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Now, Willis is back in the spotlight — but this time it is a less welcome one. Michael Roman, a former Trump campaign official
The UK is proposing a five-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas, as western allies that have backed the Jewish state push for a permanent ceasefire and a political process that sets a pathway for the establishment of a Palestinian state. The initiative, which foreign secretary Lord David Cameron discussed with Israeli
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 former investment banker and author of ‘Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon’ JPMorgan Chase announced recently that the bank, under its gifted chief executive Jamie Dimon, had
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even as politicians gouge each other’s eyes out they all agree on the importance of education. Likewise in the corporate and investing world: I bet you’ve never met anyone who says governance doesn’t matter. Is
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