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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A long line of prestigious speakers, ranging from Sir Winston Churchill to Dame Iris Murdoch, has delivered the annual Romanes lecture at the University of Oxford, starting with William Gladstone in 1892.  But rarely, if

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has the right to strike “Russian military targets outside Ukraine” in line with international law, the Nato secretary-general has said for the first time since the start of the full-scale war nearly two

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global stock markets rallied on Thursday as chipmaker Nvidia’s bumper overnight results boosted technology groups and pushed indices in Japan and Europe to all-time highs. Nvidia surged more than 14 per cent in pre-market trading after

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Google has temporarily stopped its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini, from generating images of people, as a backlash erupted over its depiction of different ethnicities and genders. Gemini creates realistic images based on users’ descriptions

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you put together Anna Funder’s recent book on George Orwell with Jennifer Burns’ biography of Milton Friedman, an oddly similar story emerges. Both men, especially Friedman, co-created their most famous works with their wives.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. Labour avoided what would have been another damaging,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Drugmaker Indivior said it was aiming to move its primary listing from London to New York and had begun canvassing shareholder support for the switch, in the latest blow to the UK market. The move

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is preparing to hold meetings with party leaders as he faces calls for his resignation over chaotic scenes in the chamber on Wednesday night during

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. It’s Kate Duguid in New York; thanks for having me back to guest host Unhedged while Rob is off. It’s never a good idea to be the follow-up act

In late 1989, no person better symbolised Japan’s postwar rise to economic superpower than Akio Morita, Sony’s co-founder, who stunned the world with a $3bn acquisition of Columbia Pictures. That same year, an unauthorised English translation of an explosive essay he co-authored, titled “The Japan That Can Say No”, went viral among America’s elite. Citing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once more, a senior US official is in the Middle East pushing for a deal to halt the war in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. This time it is

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Volkswagen decided more than a decade ago to build a plant in China’s Xinjiang region with Chinese partner, SAIC, the aim was not primarily to sell cars to the local market. It was also

Natalia Arno was fully inside the hotel room before she noticed the smell. It was sickly sweet, like a cheap perfume at the drug store, only more nauseating. It was May 2 2023, and Arno had arrived in Prague the night before, on part of a European tour. The Russian activist and non-profit director had

Steering the UK economy out of the inflationary storm would always require unusual finesse, but the task would be easier if the Bank of England governor had an unemployment number he could trust. The problem, highlighted by Andrew Bailey in a recent hearing, stems from deeply flawed labour market data from the Office for National

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Japan’s stock market has climbed past its all-time closing high, exceeding the record level struck during the country’s late-1980s asset bubble after a 34-year wait. The Nikkei 225 index of the biggest Japanese

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Go for it! Just a few more steps! Breathe in a bit, the suit still fits! The reason the Japanese word “gambatte!” (and the very slightly more brusque “gambare!”) is so tricky to translate lies

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two of Goldman Sachs’ top investment bankers have threatened to quit after being excluded from a new operating committee established under chief executive David Solomon, according to people familiar with the matter.  Mark Sorrell, the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a rival claims that they need $7tn to keep up, you know you’re in a good position. Nvidia’s command over chips tailored for artificial intelligence led OpenAI’s Sam Altman to set a wild goal

United Airlines is the first US airline to resume flights to Israel, after they were suspended from the route following the outbreak of war in October last year. The Chicago carrier said it would resume flights between Newark, New Jersey, and Tel Aviv on March 2, with nonstop service beginning four days later. United stopped

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday refused to repeat the litany of accusations levelled by Kemi Badenoch, his business secretary, against the man she fired as chair of the Post Office. Then again, few British politicians would have used the eviscerating words aimed by Badenoch at Henry Staunton, whom she accused of spreading “a series