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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isomorphic Labs, the drug discovery start-up spun out of Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence unit, has raised $600mn in its first external funding round, as investors bet on the potential for AI to “solve disease”. The…
Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. A Viral App Is Exposing the Limits of Tariffs DHgate shows an export machine both powerful and fragile. By Lizzi C. Lee, a fellow on Chinese economy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. An aerial view shows cargo containers stacked at…
<!–> Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard is listed as questionable for Game 2 of the Bucks‘ first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, another step forward for the seven-time All-NBA guard after missing the past month. The Bucks had announced Thursday that Lillard was off blood-thinning medication and cleared for full basketball activity after dealing…
<!–> Five players and two coaches were ejected from Sunday’s Detroit Pistons–Minnesota Timberwolves game after a fight spilled into the crowd at Target Center. Early in the second quarter, Timberwolves big Naz Reid was fouled by Pistons forward Ron Holland II as he drove to the rim and attempted a layup. Reid took exception to…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Battery maker Northvolt has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden, capping the downfall of a company once regarded as Europe’s best hope of competing in an industry dominated by China. The Swedish start-up, which has backers…
<!–> The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers face the Chicago Cubs. –> It’s the first of a two-game series and features five Japanese players. Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Roki Sasaki pitch for the Dodgers while…
In the final weeks of 2022, just as China was unwinding three years of pandemic controls, Jack Ma was at a low point. Alibaba, his colossal internet empire, was under assault from regulators and from rivals stealing market share in ecommerce and cloud computing. Its share price was down 80 per cent from its peak….
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Huawei has started the delivery of its advanced artificial intelligence chip “cluster” to Chinese clients who are increasing orders after being cut off from Nvidia’s semiconductors because of Washington’s export restrictions. The Shenzhen-based tech conglomerate…
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