SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence ...

The solution seems simple: playing “Ain’t No Pleasing You” by Chas & Dave on continuous repeat. Those who appreciate background noise, while contemplating a purchase, can enjoy a ditty from the ...

Household water bills in England and Wales are expected to rise by an average of 26 per cent to £603 this year, marking the biggest annual increase since privatisation 36 years ago.

UK car production peaked at more than 1.6mn before the Brexit vote in 2016 and British plants are now capable of producing 1.1mn vehicles annually after the closure of Honda’s Swindon plant and JLR ...

Sentiment towards office buildings has been hit as landlords face big bills to upgrade old buildings, and by uncertainty over future demand. Analysts have also warned that the broader recovery could ...

Shoplifting in the UK hit a record £2.2bn last year, alongside surging crime levels and rising violence and abuse against staff, industry data showed. Theft reached an all-time high with more than ...

German companies, particularly the carmakers, face huge market pressure in China. For years derided as producing cheap, clunky cars, Chinese manufacturers — admittedly heavily supported by the state — ...

Politics aside, we may very well look back on this period as a watershed moment not just for crypto, but for the future of business as a whole. At its core, tokenisation is a facilitator for openness ...

But the reason I read the FT is due primarily to the fact that the FT is quite often the only paper of weight that states the facts as they are. Not as some might wish them to be.

Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s Labour prime minister and, in particular, his chancellor Rachel Reeves talk a lot about the need to “hard wire growth”, but in the last Budget, Reeves did quite the ...

Chile’s congress has approved a landmark reform to its private pension system whose meagre payouts fuelled disruptive mass demonstrations six years ago that roiled the politics of the prosperous South ...

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor. The San Francisco-based ...