Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world President Donald Trump has decided to let Nvidia export its H200 chip to China, in a move that has sparked concern among some security officials and lawmakers over access to advanced technology used … Read more
Sensing that the chance to seal a blockbuster deal was slipping away, Paramount chief David Ellison made a last-ditch personal appeal on Thursday afternoon to his Warner Bros Discovery counterpart David Zaslav. “Daivd [sic], I appreciate you’re underwater today so I wanted to send you a quick text,” he wrote. “Know despite the noise of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Senior figures in the UK military have called on Sir Keir Starmer to solidify his ambitions to raise defence spending, amid concerns that his cash-strapped government is deferring tough choices on funding the armed forces. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. According to Apple Music’s replay service, in November I listened to Emma Rawicz’s new album Inkyra for 16 hours, Steve Reich’s Runner for 10 hours, and the soundtrack to K-Pop Demon Hunters for five hours. … Read more
It was a brief mention in a lecture of the discrimination faced by female members of the Uyghur minority in China’s western region of Xinjiang. But for Sarah Liu, it provoked an incident that made her concerned about the threat to academic freedom from Chinese state influence on British campuses. After the lecture, she was … 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 Tony Blair has been dropped from consideration for Donald Trump’s “board of peace” in Gaza, following objections from several Arab and Muslim states, said people familiar with the matter. The former UK prime … Read more
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Google’s secret weapon in the artificial intelligence race is a chip that has helped the search group’s models leap ahead of OpenAI, prompting tech investors to reassess a new threat to Nvidia’s dominance. The Big Tech group’s “tensor processing unit” has been central to efforts to boost the performance of Google’s new Gemini 3 AI … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paramount has launched a $108bn hostile bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery, in an attempt to outmanoeuvre Netflix after the streaming giant won an auction for the prized media company last week. The all-cash offer … 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 said he will this week announce an executive order that establishes a single federal rule for regulating artificial intelligence, as the president seeks to maintain US dominance in the technology. “I … Read more