Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving car company, is in talks with investors for a funding round that would value the company at more than $100bn as it gears up to deploy in more big cities. The … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Trump administration has expanded its ban on entry into the US to people holding passports issued by the Palestinian Authority, Syria and six other countries, citing national security and public safety concerns. … Read more
Some of Wall Street’s biggest rainmakers are vying for a windfall as the Paramount-Netflix bidding war for Warner Bros Discovery reaches a climax, capping a blockbuster year for mergers and acquisitions. Centerview’s Blair Effron, Evercore co-founder Roger Altman and recently appointed Moelis chief executive Navid Mahmoodzadegan are among the bankers advising on one of the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warner Bros Discovery is planning to recommend to its shareholders as soon as Wednesday that they reject Paramount’s $108bn hostile bid, with the Hollywood group scrutinising assurances that Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison will backstop the … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality”; JD Vance has been a “conspiracy theorist for a decade”; Elon Musk is an “odd, odd duck”. And the internal divisions were “huge” over Washington’s so-called liberation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK is set to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange scheme, in the latest move by Sir Keir Starmer’s government to try to forge closer relations with the bloc. An agreement under which Britain … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is president of France China’s trade surplus with the rest of the world now stands at a whopping $1tn. Its surplus with the EU has almost doubled to €300bn in 10 years. The combination … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Citadel’s chief executive Ken Griffin has called for Donald Trump to create “distance” between the Federal Reserve and the White House, highlighting investor angst that the US president will pick a close ally … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Legislation paving the way for the biggest overhaul of workers’ rights in Britain in a generation is set to become law after clearing its final hurdle in the House of Lords. The Employment Rights bill … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. OpenAI has hired former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead the start-up’s work building “democratic” artificial intelligence for the world. The architect of the former Conservative government’s austerity programme is set to play a key … Read more