Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK wage growth slowed at the end of 2025 as the jobless rate increased to 5.2 per cent, in the latest sign that the labour market was cooling. Annual growth in average weekly wages, excluding … Read more
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Brussels is planning to force electric-vehicle manufacturers benefiting from state support to ensure that at least 70 per cent of the components in their cars are made in the EU, as it seeks to protect … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker has stepped down as executive chair at Hyatt, after documents released by the US Department of Justice revealed the extent of his ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Hyatt said on … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe’s privacy watchdog has opened a “large-scale” inquiry into Elon Musk’s X over AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery, in the latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the social media site’s Grok chatbot. Ireland’s Data Protection … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BHP reported a near 30 per cent increase in first-half net profit as the world’s largest mining company by market capitalisation benefited from booming demand for copper. BHP said revenue in the six months to … Read more
Lauri Sulonen, head of financial planning at Finnish mobile gaming company Supercell, used to be sceptical about how much artificial intelligence would transform his job. “I thought there is so much context you need to know and people you need to talk to to get stuff done . . . that is hard for AI.” But when he assigned … Read more