Finance

Trump set to refocus attention on economy after turbulent start to year

Secretary of state Marco Rubio delivered a classified briefing on the administration’s Iran plans to congressional leaders on Tuesday, hours ahead of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Democrats left the meeting calling for clarity on Trump’s war aims. “The president made the representation that Iran’s nuclear programme was completely and totally obliterated last … Read more

Tech News

Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers

Wayve’s self-driving tech has attracted a diverse set of investors in the company’s latest $1.2 billion funding round, including three automakers, top venture and institutional firms, and returning backers Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber.  Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the U.K. startup, which is now valued at $8.6 billion. The funding round illustrates the … Read more

Movie news

Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies

But there are two categories of nonprofessionals whose place in the history of the art strikes me as particularly exalted. The first is directors who act, whether in their own films or those of others. I don’t mean performers who go on to direct themselves, such as Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati, Orson Welles, John Cassavetes, … Read more

Tech News

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs. … Read more

Tech News

Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.8B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers

Wayve’s self-driving tech has attracted a diverse set of investors in the company’s latest $1.2 billion funding round, including three automakers, top venture and institutional firms, and returning backers Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber.  Everyone, it seems, wants a piece of the U.K. startup, which is now valued at $8.6 billion. The funding round illustrates the … Read more

Cryptocurrency

Bitwise Acquires $2.2B Crypto Staking Firm Chorus One

Crypto asset manager Bitwise has acquired the staking services company Chorus One, which oversees more than $2.2 billion in staked assets and could help Bitwise expand its portfolio of crypto staking products. Bitwise said on Tuesday that 50 of Chorus One’s employees will join Bitwise Onchain Solutions, where several billion dollars’ worth of crypto assets … Read more

Finance

UK AI start-up Wayve raises $1.2bn from carmakers and Big Tech

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK self-driving start-up Wayve has raised $1.2bn in new funding from investors including automakers Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and Nissan, as it gears up to launch its first robotaxi service in London later this year. The deal … Read more

Outfit Ideas

Marques’Almeida Fall 2026 Ready-to-Wear Collection

The mid-10s has been back in a big way, especially the embellished denim, bomber jackets, and crayon color palettes of 2016. Design duo Marta Marques and Paulo Almeida were defining the era with their then-5-year-old London labelMarques’Almeida They had won the LVMH prize, were dressing Rihanna, and brought their spring 2017 collection to East London’s … Read more

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