Hints and tips:
...But shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has already ruled out using PFIs....
...The World of Work UK retail bellwether John Lewis said it would publish job interview questions online to make the process less daunting for applicants....
...Henry Farrell, professor at Johns Hopkins, explains why we are not all programmable zombies....
...If you want to know more, South Asia bureau chief editor John Reed picks out five books to understand India today....
...“Accelerated computing and generative AI have hit the tipping point,” said Nvidia’s founder and chief executive Jensen Huang. “Demand is surging worldwide across companies, industries and nations.”...
...Forget boomers vs millennials, the next conflict is millennials vs each other as a chunk of the cohort benefit from inherited family wealth, writes chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...Retail correspondent Laura Onita assesses how John Lewis and Marks and Spencer are faring in the battle for affluent English shoppers....
...Need to know: UK and Europe economy Former British prime ministers Sir John Major and Gordon Brown launched a report from the Institute for Government think-tank calling for reform of the machinery of state...
...John Kerry is to remain involved in raising finance for the clean energy transition after stepping aside as the top US climate official, to be replaced by another White House veteran John Podesta....
...Need to know: Global economy Departing US climate envoy John Kerry accused asset managers of “turning away from science” after several of the world’s biggest investors retreated from an industry group formed...
...Innovation editor John Thornhill discusses the study of babies’ extraordinary processing powers to develop artificial intelligence models....
...The age-old relationship between economic sentiment and a government’s popularity has disappeared in the US, but remains as strong ever in western Europe, says chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...The bigger picture on world trade, writes FT columnist Rana Foroohar, is that the hopes of economist John Maynard Keynes, who in 1944 foresaw a system that would “target persistent imbalances between surplus...
...Innovation editor John Thornhill considers how far AI’s transformation of scientific discovery has bolstered the case for optimism....
...West coast editor Richard Waters says it has brought to an end the halo effect from its partnership with Microsoft that has benefited both companies, while innovation editor John Thornhill says that at the...
...John Burn-Murdoch delves into the data around generative AI and the use of tools such as ChatGPT and what it means for white-collar workers....
...Need to know: Global economy The UK AI summit was a worthy affair, writes innovation editor John Thornhill, but ultimately it’s the US, as the world’s technological hegemon, that will write the rules of...
...Innovation editor John Thornhill says it’s time to get serious about the dangers of quantum computing as we approach “Q-day” — the moment a quantum computer might crack the RSA cryptosystem, widely used...
...Chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch charts how slowing economic growth many be shaping attitudes that cut across political divides....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Conferences: Nvidia chief Jensen Huang gives the keynote speech at the chipmaker’s annual developer conference in Silicon Valley....
...Energy transition is the “new industrial revolution”, says US climate envoy John Kerry in the latest instalment of our Climate Exchange series....
...Chief executive Jensen Huang said Nvidia’s Blackwell graphics processing units would hugely increase the computing power driving large language models. Here’s more on what Huang said. 4....
...Zooming out from today’s data, the UK economy’s long-term problem is that it is too London-centric, argues chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch....
...Chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch illustrates how new infrastructure projects are much more costly in the UK and US than elsewhere....
...john.gapper@ft.com...
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