As jubilant Syrians celebrated the fall of dictator Bashar al-Assad this week, dire warnings proliferated across Arabic social media: that this joyful moment could lead to a bleak future. That the end of the Assad dynasty came at the hands of an armed Islamist group with former links to al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, deepened alarm
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is reckoning with an unpredictable force that threatens his ambition of transforming the start-up into a trillion-dollar company: Elon Musk. Since Donald Trump was elected president in November, executives at the ChatGPT-maker have been preparing to deal with the incoming US administration — a process complicated by Musk’s emergence as a pivotal
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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 drivel that flows through the average journalist’s inbox each week is a wonder to behold. Last week though, among the usual alerts about obscure middle managers moving to unremarkable jobs in companies you’ve never
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Timon Schneider | SOPA Images | AP Company: Markel Group (MKL) Business: Markel Group is a holding company comprised of different businesses and investments. Its segments include Specialty Insurance, Investing and Markel Ventures. The Specialty Insurance segment includes the company’s insurance and reinsurance capacities within its underwriting operations, as well as insurance-linked securities and all
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Every New Year’s Day, Emma Bisley starts asking herself the same question: who is going to win Christmas this year? Since 2023, the cherubic 34-year-old has been head of campaigns for Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain. She thinks about winning Christmas the same way the Grinch thinks about stealing it, which is to say nearly
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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. We often talk about the housing affordability crisis and the associated economic challenges facing young adults as if they were the same in every developed western country. Insufficient housebuilding has sent rents and prices soaring,
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