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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. British Jews are “fearful” and UK society is showing a lack of “moral clarity” about the importance of Jewish lives in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel last month, the deputy prime minister has

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Palestinian officials in Hamas-controlled Gaza accused Israel of launching an air strike on a refugee camp in the besieged strip that they said killed dozens of people, as the US and Israel rejected calls from

This summer, as investor Nathaniel Brooks Horwitz and writer Sam Koppelman sought millions of dollars for their new start-up Hunterbrook, the pitch was simple: a venture that would combine a newsroom and a hedge fund.  The two 27-year-olds envisioned hiring reporters in far-flung corners of the world that had been neglected by legacy media outlets

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI has released its first AI model, as the tech billionaire looks to take on OpenAI, Google and Meta with a sassy chatbot that is tightly integrated with X, formerly

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ken Griffin, the founder and chief executive of $62bn US hedge fund Citadel, has warned regulators that they should focus their attention on banks rather than his industry if they want to reduce risks in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet look set to ramp up capital spending, as the world’s biggest cloud computing groups build up capacity to serve the growth of generative artificial intelligence. The Big Tech groups,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Within days of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale assault on Ukraine, western capitals acted with remarkable determination in blocking Russia’s access to more than $300bn of foreign exchange reserves. In the 20 months since, however, the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chief executive Wael Sawan plans to make Shell “leaner” and more selective about how it invests in the energy transition as he defended a shift in focus that has led several senior executives to leave

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine running a company that consistently attracts smart, skilled staff willing to work harder and longer for 15 per cent less than what they could earn doing the same job elsewhere. I’m talking about lawyers,

When the heads of cabinets of the EU’s 27 commissioners huddled in the Belgian countryside in late August for their back-to-work retreat, all were invited to talk about what they thought should be the priority for the autumn. The standout theme was clear, and unexpected. “People mentioned ongoing support for Ukraine, but it wasn’t top

From a hotel lobby in Pittsburgh, Miracle Jones had a warning for Joe Biden: the US president’s staunch backing for Israel in its war against Hamas is eroding support on the left and hurting his re-election chances in 2024. “The White House has lost a lot of people,” said Jones, a 35-year-old progressive political activist

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The jumbo scallops from the northern Japanese fishing town of Betsukai, on the island of Hokkaido, have a reputation for being among the most delicious on the planet, a cherished ingredient on a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Turkey’s main opposition party has ousted its longtime leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu following his comprehensive loss against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a presidential election earlier this year.  Members of the Republican People’s party (CHP) voted early

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ursula von der Leyen made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Saturday in a show of support for the country at a time when western diplomatic focus is shifting to the Israel-Hamas conflict and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway continued to sell off stakes in publicly traded companies, shedding more than $5bn of exposure to US and foreign stocks in the third quarter as the firm struggled to find appealing