Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has restricted the use of its controversial AI image generator Grok to paying subscribers, following a growing outcry over its use to spread sexualised deepfakes of women and children. The … Read more
Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink. This new … Read more
Developer activity on the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen to its lowest level in years, as a governance dispute and a prolonged price decline weigh on the project’s ecosystem. Data from market intelligence firm Santiment shared in a Thursday X post shows that developer activity tied to Zcash dropped to its weakest level since November … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: One of this year’s crop of shortlisted projects in the Short Film category has been exclusively released on Disney+ in Europe. The Pearl Comb is now on the Disney platform and the streaming release comes as double Academy Award nominee Miranda Richardson and Oscar-nominated producer David Lancaster have become exec producers on the gothic … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chris Rokos paid himself almost half a billion pounds last year as his macro hedge fund soared in a highly volatile period for markets. Rokos Capital Management paid £477mn in profits to its highest-paid partner … Read more
Social media service X has stopped its AI chatbot Grok from generating images for most users amid a furious backlash over sexualized pictures of women and children. Many users have created sexual and/or violent deepfake imagery by prompting Grok Imagine, particularly asking it to remove clothing from images of clothed people. X users attempting to … Read more
A newly disclosed software flaw in the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon could allow malicious validators to disrupt parts of the network’s consensus process, potentially slowing block production during key periods, according to developers. The vulnerability affects Babylon’s block signature scheme, known as the BLS vote extension, which is used to prove that validators have agreed … Read more
It’s no secret that the new year is synonymous with reinvention. Change is not just encouraged, it’s so deeply drilled into us that it can feel as if everyone has become brainwashed overnight. The colleague who was mainlining tequila shots at the office Christmas party has taken up Acroyoga. That younger relative who spent New … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close to $95,000, only for it to test the $90,000 footing again. The movement follows weeks of choppy trading, failed breakout attempts, and a Fear & Greed Index reading of 28, firmly in “Fear” territory. … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pharmaceuticals sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US pharmaceutical group Merck is in talks to buy Revolution Medicines, a cancer drugmaker with a market capitalisation of more than $20bn in what would be the latest big deal in the red-hot biotechnology sector. … Read more