Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world France’s establishment reacted with a mixture of resignation and muted scorn to president-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of real estate developer, pardoned felon and family connection Charles Kushner as US ambassador to France.  Kushner
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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. Syrian rebel fighters said they were pressing southward after taking over most of the country’s second city Aleppo, including its international airport, in a lightning assault that poses the biggest challenge in years to Bashar
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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Remember when crypto was so heavily and onerously regulated, so unnecessarily scrutinised by the authorities, that the whole market crashed in spectacular fashion as one tightly regulated crypto platform after another collapsed into
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OpenAI is betting on a suite of new AI products, building its own data centres and a crucial partnership with Apple to supercharge its next phase of growth, as it targets reaching 1 billion users over the coming year. The San Francisco-based group, whose popular ChatGPT chatbot has rocketed to 250mn weekly active users since
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor incorporates proven components. Courtesy: GE Verona GE Vernova is aiming to deploy small nuclear reactors across the developed world over the next decade, staking out a leadership position in a budding technology that could play a central role in meeting surging electricity demand and reducing carbon dioxide
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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. Rebel forces have swept into Syria’s second city Aleppo after mounting a lightning offensive that poses the biggest threat to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in the simmering years-long civil conflict.  Images circulated on Friday night on
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Walking briskly over the Pont Neuf towards the Louvre, as night fell over Paris, I began to see other people hurrying in the same direction, some holding long white candles. “Quick!” said a young woman to her children, “We’re going to miss her!” Word had spread a few days earlier that the 14th-century Virgin and
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. His art was the other interesting thing about him. Frank Auerbach, the painter who died on November 11, put blob of colour over encrusted blob of colour until his work was literally heavyweight. (A
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In 2024, artificial intelligence is consistently front-page news. From Nvidia hitting a trillion-dollar market cap to the growing energy usage of data centres, it is the most discussed technology of our time. And it is a technology that the US dominates, with three of the most valuable AI start-ups, Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI, based there.
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