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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Peter Harf, chair and managing partner of Europe’s JAB Holdings, is retiring after more than 40 years, as the investment group...

The rapid global evolution of AI—from OpenAI’s release of GPT-4.5 to China’s development of models like DeepSeek, Baichuan, and others (China's "AI Tigers”)—highlights a critical challenge for U.S. AI policy. With China’s AI industry valued at $70 billion by...

It’s telling that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration wants to fire bureaucrats. In its view, bureaucrats stand for everything that’s wrong with the United States: overregulation, inefficiency and even the nation’s deficit, since they draw...

As the Trump administration seeks to shrink the federal workforce, slash nonmilitary spending and curb opposition to its policies, it is taking steps beyond the firing and furloughing of thousands of government workers.The government is...

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Spain was hit by a huge power cut on Monday that affected most of the country, halting trains, disrupting flights and...

Horror movies are often one-week wonders at the box office, but Ryan Coogler’s“Sinners” is defying the odds and proving to be true event cinema.In its second weekend in theaters, “Sinners” earned $45 million in ticket sales from theaters in the U.S....

Shifting production to the US would therefore require years if not decades of coordinated investment in automation, tools, infrastructure and training. Incentivising foreign component manufacturers to build facilities in the US would also be a challenge.“If you’re a Chinese...

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins was sworn in last week and will preside over a newly constituted SEC after a flood of departures due to DOGE. The rule-making agenda is likely to see significant shifts, experts said, but Atkins is...

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the UK employment myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The UK risks creating a “lost generation” unless ministers take immediate action to stop young people drifting away from the workplace,...

Michael Montgomery used to check the balance on his retirement account once a week and smile. But lately, not wanting to get upset and question if he could retire in a few years, there was only one solution.“I’m not...