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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is splintering into competing US and Chinese ecosystems. The Mate 70 smartphone set to be released on Tuesday will feature HarmonyOS Next, which Huawei hopes to establish as a third major mobile operating system alongside Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.It is the latest demonstration that US sanctions designed to enfeeble the…
The incoming Trump administration’s vow to dismantle the leftwing “censorship cartel” has thrown a shadow over the cottage industry of academics, non-profits and researchers that sprang up to combat a tide of digital misinformation — and threatens to disrupt the Big Tech companies behind the world’s most popular platforms. Researchers fear Donald Trump will make good on his past promises to crack down further on the misinformation field in the US for alleged “election interference”. Among those threats, he has said he would seek to curb funds to any universities found to have engaged in censorship activities “such as flagging social media…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Meta’s Threads is losing ground to social media start-up Bluesky in capitalising on the exodus of users from Elon Musk’s X following Donald Trump’s election. Since election day, app usage of Bluesky in the US and UK skyrocketed by almost 300 per cent to 3.5mn daily users, according to data from research group Similarweb. The site was boosted as academics, journalists and left-leaning politicians abandoned X, whose billionaire owner is a prominent supporter of the president-elect.Some content could not load. Check your…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.At the start of the 1960s, when most computers occupied an entire room, the world’s programmers could barely fill a baseball stadium. Only a few thousand specialists could wrangle arcane coding languages such as Fortran and Cobol, and the unwieldy mainframes they ran on. By the mid-1970s, there were millions of programmers. Computing’s first step into the mainstream was driven by the work of Thomas Kurtz, who died this month at the age of 96, and his fellow Dartmouth College professor John…
A decade after Lee Jae-yong took the helm at Samsung, the tech giant’s third-generation corporate heir is undergoing the most severe test yet of his business mettle.The South Korean billionaire heads a conglomerate grappling with problems in its vast semiconductor business, where it has fallen behind in the AI chip race and is poised to launch a management shake-up.Meanwhile it is dealing with discontent from employees — with Samsung Electronics’ labour union in July going on its first ever strike in a dispute over pay and conditions — and investors, with its shares down more than 30 per cent this year…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Amazon has invested another $4bn in artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the company to $8bn, as Big Tech’s race to dominate the generative AI sector intensifies. Amazon invested an initial $1.25bn in September last year, and increased that to $4bn at the end of March.Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, said its AI software Claude had had “a year of breakout growth”. “Our collaboration with Amazon has been instrumental in bringing Claude’s capabilities to millions of…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldThe writer is co-founder of LinkedIn, co-founder at Inflection AI and a partner at Greylock As the US prepares for a shift in leadership that will massively impact how America does business, there are many reasons for optimism. Once again, Donald Trump will be inheriting a strong Democrat-engineered economy. During Joe Biden’s presidency, full-time employment has surged. GDP growth has been robust. Average hourly earnings are on an upward trajectory. The Chips Act is also set to have a sweeping impact.…
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersGood morning. The race for secretary of the Treasury is hot. Prediction markets are still favouring Scott Bessent, but three dark horses have emerged: Apollo CEO Marc Rowan, former Fed member Kevin Warsh and Senator Bill Hagerty. Who do you like? Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and aiden.reiter@ft.com.Unhedged will be off next week for some much needed post-election, pre-Trump administration vacation. We will be back in your inboxes on…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldMicrosoft’s president has called on Donald Trump to “push harder” against cyber attacks from Russia, China and Iran amid a wave of state-sponsored hacks targeting US government officials and election campaigns. Brad Smith, who is also the Big Tech company’s vice chair and top legal officer, told the Financial Times that cyber security “deserves to be a more prominent issue of international relations” and appealed to the US president-elect to send a “strong message”. “I hope that the Trump administration…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The idea of carving up Google is back on the agenda. But if US antitrust cops really believe a break-up of parent company Alphabet is the answer, they might be asking the wrong question.The Department of Justice on Wednesday told a court that Google ought to be forced to split off its internet browser, Chrome, to help allay harms caused by the Silicon Valley giant’s internet search monopoly. It also wants Google to share search data with rivals, stop paying device-makers to…
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