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Thursday, 21 September, 2023

US-China trade dispute
Tech remains central in ‘hot peace’ between China and US
Despite the shouty rhetoric, economic symbiosis remains strong, benefiting consumers on both sides
Tuesday, 19 September, 2023

Technology
Can AI help us speak to animals?
Microphones and machine learning are being deployed to understand the non-human world
Saturday, 16 September, 2023

ObituaryKaren Bakker
Karen Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023
Her boundary-pushing work on how animals communicate was just one part of her considerable legacy
Thursday, 14 September, 2023

Technology
Clean data must be as much of a right as clean water
Buried deep in the privacy policies of car companies is their practice of collection, using and selling your very personal information
Thursday, 14 September, 2023

ReviewFT Books Essay
AI and the next great tech shift
From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution
Thursday, 7 September, 2023

Education
‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality
Experiments in virtual teaching could turn a digital divide into an educational one
Thursday, 31 August, 2023

Virtual and Augmented Reality
What happens when AI passes through the ‘uncanny valley’?
Robots are close to being so convincing that we can’t tell them apart from humans — and that could be a problem
Friday, 25 August, 2023

Technology sector
High hopes over Arm’s relisting may clash with reality
The languishing IPO market awaits the outcome of the British chip designer’s flotation
Thursday, 17 August, 2023

Artificial intelligence
The sceptical case on generative AI
Hype is huge around the technology, but some uncomfortable truths are also being raised
Thursday, 10 August, 2023

Technology
How ‘creative insecurity’ is stimulating Ukrainian innovation
Russia’s target has had to rapidly develop its own defence capabilities, often by adapting civilian technologies for military use
Thursday, 3 August, 2023

UK business
You don’t become a science superpower without taking care of the basics
Britain’s ambition to lead technological transformation is hobbled by inertia in both the public and private sectors
Tuesday, 18 July, 2023

ReviewBiography and memoir
Osip Mandelstam — a Russian poet who could not be silent
Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy
Thursday, 13 July, 2023

Artificial intelligence
Should the AI doctor see you now?
Healthcare needs a productivity revolution but not at the expense of patient privacy and safety
Thursday, 6 July, 2023

Tech start-ups
European tech investors need to up their ambitions
It is currently safer and cheaper for fund managers wanting tech exposure to buy publicly traded companies on Nasdaq
Tuesday, 4 July, 2023

ReviewHistory books
France on Trial by Julian Jackson — Marshal Pétain in the dock
A masterful account of the 1945 treason case that forced a reckoning with four years of Nazi collaboration
Thursday, 22 June, 2023

Artificial intelligence
Why we should worry about the technological pessimists
Futurists tend to overemphasise the speed of adoption and underemphasise the scope for adaptation
Monday, 19 June, 2023

Summer Books 2023
Best summer books of 2023: Technology
John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads
Thursday, 15 June, 2023

Technology sector
Generative AI is disrupting its own investment case
The very pace of transformative technology makes it tougher for start-ups — and for existing investment portfolios
Thursday, 8 June, 2023

Cyber Security
A global satellite blackout is a real threat — can hackers help?
Lines between military, civilian and commercial communications have blurred, creating vulnerabilities
Tuesday, 6 June, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction
The Everything Blueprint — how British chip company Arm became a global powerhouse
James Ashton’s corporate drama of the extraordinary impact of the ‘Switzerland of semiconductors’ that’s more valued by foreign investors
Thursday, 1 June, 2023

Artificial intelligence
Beware ‘death by GPT syndrome’
Generative AI has uses for the legal and health professions but is also a trap for the unwary
Thursday, 25 May, 2023

Technology sector
Regulating artificial intelligence is a 4D challenge
Experts warn of existential threats that require a global competition for good ideas
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Entrepreneurship
Europe needs to ‘Frankenstein’ its start-up sector
Germany is an example of a country with entrepreneurial potential, but it lacks domestic funding
Thursday, 11 May, 2023

Artificial intelligence
The likely winners of the generative AI gold rush
Small, specialist models that are cheap to train and fast to run may win out over the broader Big Tech offerings
Thursday, 4 May, 2023

Technology
How technology reinvented chess as a global social network
The sport has become more accessible in the internet age