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Financial Times · 05/07/2026 00:04 EDT

A monthly series that examines how the legal ecosystem uses new technologies to serve fast-changing business needs. First burst for 2026: the mid-career switch from law firm to legal-tech start-up Read more ›

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Ex-directors allege fraud at Tether-backed crypto group Northern Data

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Financial Times · 07/23/2024 13:27 EDT

Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe’s biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre-builder Read more ›

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Meta warns EU regulatory efforts risk bloc missing out on AI advances

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Financial Times · 07/23/2024 11:00 EDT

Comments come after privacy watchdog asks Facebook owner to pause training of future AI models on region’s data Read more ›

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Insurers’ losses from global IT outage could reach billions

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Financial Times · 07/23/2024 07:51 EDT

Disruption to companies’ systems estimated to be most significant loss event since NotPetya malware attacks of 2017 Read more ›

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The quiet rise of Nick Pickles: the Yorkshireman gaining power at Elon Musk’s X

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Financial Times · 07/23/2024 00:00 EDT

Ex-music photographer promoted as right-hand man to X chief Linda Yaccarino tasked with fighting company’s political battles Read more ›

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Billionaire founder of Kakao arrested in K-pop stock manipulation case

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 23:25 EDT

South Korean internet company chief in custody over bidding battle with agency behind BTS Read more ›

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Wiz and Google call off $23bn acquisition talks

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 22:35 EDT

Parent company Alphabet had been in talks to buy the Israeli cybersecurity company Read more ›

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Google abandons plan to remove cookies from Chrome browser

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 20:04 EDT

Tech giant backtracks on four-year effort to improve online privacy after advertiser and regulator opposition Read more ›

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AI start-up Cohere raises $500mn as it seeks to take on OpenAI

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 14:54 EDT

Funding round values Canadian group launched by Google alumni at $5.5bn Read more ›

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Amazon buys Hammer horror home Bray Film Studios in UK production push

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 05:24 EDT

US tech giant’s Prime Video unit acquires stages and workshops where productions such as ‘Dracula’ were made Read more ›

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Netflix faces tough battle in advertising wars

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 04:35 EDT

Customers will have less tolerance for ads, and for being asked to pay more to stay ad-free Read more ›

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Joe Biden drops out of US presidential race

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Financial Times · 07/22/2024 00:00 EDT

The president announced his decision on Sunday, throwing the White House race into turmoil Read more ›

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Japan’s copyright rules draw AI groups — and alarm from creators

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Financial Times 3 place · 07/21/2024 19:01 EDT

Critics want changes to local laws that allow widespread use of copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models Read more ›

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LinkedIn turns to AI and games to build ‘daily habit’ among users

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Financial Times · 07/21/2024 06:00 EDT

Professional networking site seeks to broaden its platform to tackle slowing revenue growth Read more ›

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Google co-founder backs biotech studying psychedelic African shrub

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Financial Times 2 place · 07/21/2024 00:00 EDT

Sergey Brin’s non-profit funds research into using hallucinogen for mental health treatment Read more ›

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Global IT outage could take weeks to resolve, experts warn

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Financial Times 2 place · 07/20/2024 12:57 EDT

Botched update by security software maker CrowdStrike has left companies struggling to recover Read more ›

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Global IT outage could take weeks to resolve, experts warn

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Financial Times 1 place · 07/20/2024 06:00 EDT

Botched update by security software maker CrowdStrike has left companies struggling to recover Read more ›

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Companies around the world hit by Microsoft outage

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Financial Times 3 place · 07/19/2024 13:50 EDT

Financial services groups, airlines and media sites among those affected Read more ›

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Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?

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Financial Times 3 place · 07/19/2024 13:46 EDT

Some of America’s wealthiest tech investors have come out for Trump. But most Big Tech leaders are staying silent, for now Read more ›

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Digital paralysis shows the dangers of e-globalisation

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Financial Times · 07/19/2024 11:44 EDT

Rather than anything more malicious, the trigger for the cyber failure seems to have been a prosaic software update Read more ›

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What caused the huge global IT outage?

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Financial Times · 07/19/2024 09:50 EDT

Minor update sparks havoc among businesses that use equipment running Windows Read more ›

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