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Brussels open to telecoms mergers to support investment

...Brussels has signalled it is open to European telecoms mergers to help fund the rollout of 5G and update ageing networks, in what is likely to be seen as a softening of approach after regulators quashed...

February 14, 2024

Robert Shrimsley

Big-government Tories have left Labour an open goal

...What is not possible is to see them as the actions of a government which believes the state has got too large....

March 20, 2024

FT Live

Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?

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Instant InsightPeter Spiegel

Coalition government, American style

...The dysfunction in the majority party in the US House of Representatives was as clear as Saturday’s final vote on $60bn in military aid for Ukraine: of the 218 Republicans in the House, most (112) voted...

April 20, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Split in Israel’s war leadership breaks into the open

...A sharp divide in Israel’s war leadership has broken into the open after former military chief Gadi Eisenkot called for elections within months and said the government was not being truthful with the public...

January 19, 2024

News updates from April 8: Millions watch solar eclipse; Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence in 2025

European stocks steady at the open

...Contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite were also close to flat ahead of the New York trading session....

April 8, 2024

Chris Giles

An optimist’s guide to the next Labour government

...Few dissent from the view that a Labour government would soon be overwhelmed by economic forces....

April 25, 2024

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TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

News in-depthScottish National Party

Humza Yousaf’s leadership of the Scottish government is on the line

...provided the government with a working majority in parliament....

April 25, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: is it safe to sext?

...The fourth rule is related to the third, and I cannot overstress this one. You need to be above embarrassment if the pics leak....

April 19, 2024

The Art Market

Controversial AI photo comes to the market

...London’s Alison Jacques opens a show next month of work from the collection of the British art critic and curator Guy Brett....

April 25, 2024

LexArtificial intelligence

How ‘open’ is generative AI really? Not very Premium

...Musk has since released the model behind his AI chatbot Grok as open source. Other notable open source AI models include Meta’s Llama, which was released to the public after it was leaked online....

April 17, 2024

Brexit

Will the UK’s rejection of EU overtures on youth mobility last?

...Despite the UK’s rejection of the outline offer, EU officials have insisted they are still open to negotiation....

April 23, 2024

Indian election

India’s six-week election opens as Modi seeks third term

...“This government which has been running the country so far is working OK,” he added, “but now is the time to bring a change because the government is not treating everyone equally.”...

April 19, 2024

Gideon Rachman

The Biden dilemma on Israel

...And yet, on the other side of the ledger, Israel remains an old ally of the US and the most open society in the Middle East....

April 15, 2024

Body Shop International PLC

The Body Shop creditors face uncertainty over almost £50mn

...shops open....

April 5, 2024

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The pursuit of happiness

...An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

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The surprise winner of the US-China chip wars

...Plus, tension between Beijing and Washington over access to technology has prompted many companies to open factories in south-east Asia....

March 13, 2024

Elisabeth Braw

What Norway’s Home Guard can teach us about preparing for emergencies

...The Home Guard’s members are ordinary citizens who protect the homeland when the government needs them. Most of the 4,000 were assigned one-week turns protecting the energy installations....

April 21, 2024

UK politics

Sunak vows ‘more to come’ on pre-election tax cuts

...Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, has promised there is “more to come” on pre-election tax cuts, as the government left open the possibility of two further fiscal events between now and polling day....

January 19, 2024

Janan Ganesh

Britain will dislike the Labour government in no time

...Are we living through a historic turn in the national consensus towards bigger government? Is this what 1979 was for the market?...

April 2, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

ReviewGaming

Open Roads game review — absorbing story of family secrets

...Early in Open Roads, 16-year-old Tess is exchanging texts with her father, who divorced her mother and left the family some time ago....

April 3, 2024

Mark Samuels

Britain must act or lose the global medicines competition

...Between £80bn and £98bn in savings are at stake for the NHS over the next five years. Failure of the next government to take this opportunity would be negligent....

April 9, 2024

Letter

Letter: Microsoft AI deal shows the value of open source

...I believe most of the innovation around developing AI models will be driven by open source in the future....

March 22, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

The delicate balance in policing extremism

...In striking the difficult balance between freedom and safety, governments should err on the side of free expression and the right to dissent....

March 14, 2024

Inside Politics

Ex-prime ministers are measured against those who come before or after them

...his government lacks direction or purpose....

April 19, 2024

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