There are some pretty gigantic non-negotiables for an orchestral musician. You have to be able to perform the right notes in the right order, with a combination of technical expertise, artistry, skill and understanding that demands years, decades and lifetimes of devotion. But there is one figure on the orchestral concert platform who is both…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple projected weaker than expected revenue for the three months to September, reflecting pressure on tech supply chains from the AI infrastructure boom, as Tim Cook marked his last earnings report as chief executive. Kevan…
The issue follows a separate incident on 24 July in which the PlayStation Network also suffered an outage for several hours. Both incidents have created unease about a so-called digital-only future in games and the questions over game ownership and licensing that come with it. In June, Rockstar Games announced that physical copies of GTA…
Monday.com, the Tel Aviv-based work management software company known for its colorful, customizable project-tracking boards, this week became the latest tech company to cite AI as a factor in job cuts. On Wednesday, the company said in an SEC filing that it will lay off about 20% of its workforce, or just over 600 employees,…
Donald Trump says the US will launch an investigation into the European Union and threatened a fresh tariff over fines handed to some of the biggest American tech companies. It comes days after the European Commission fined Google €890m ($1bn) for operating in a way that squeezed out competitors to its services. In a post…
There is no “strong independent evidence” that a monitoring system used widely in mental health wards has improved patient safety, an inquiry has heard. The Lampard Inquiry is examining the deaths of more than 2,000 mental health patients in Essex over a 24-year period. The inquiry had previously heard “grave concerns” expressed about the widespread…
The AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan, will be given a seat at the top table of government but the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has been scrapped. DSIT was created by the Conservative Sunak government in 2023 – its responsibilities will now be split between other government departments. It means there is no longer…
The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the biggest perpetrators of sextortion and most likely to spread misinformation, she says. Odgers is not recommending this as a policy for governments to adopt:…
The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with…
RSM UK’s tech senior analyst James Bull noted that the four largest US tech firms are expected to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on data centres and AI equipment in 2026. “That level of demand for memory chips has created a shortage the supply chain cannot keep pace with,” he said. With big tech…
