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      What Sunak’s net zero pivot means for UK climate goals and the next election

      PM is pushing back key green targets as he seeks to draw a sharp dividing line between the Tories and Labour

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      Brexit
      Can Starmer reset Britain’s Brexit deal?

      Experts say Labour leader has limited how far UK’s trading relationship with EU can be improved

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      Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

      An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

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      Oil
      Why oil is back to $90 a barrel

      Saudi Arabia and Russia have curtailed supplies in the face of record global demand

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    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
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      Secretive active ETFs lose out to their fully transparent rivals

      The portfolio-shielding models had a strong start when they were approved in 2019, but have failed to gain traction

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      US election 2024: Republican presidential candidates

      A rundown of the leading hopefuls and several long-shot contenders

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      ‘We haven’t seen the end of Covid’: surge in cases to test health systems

      As vaccines are tweaked while new sub-variants emerge, the virus cannot be treated yet as a seasonal bug

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    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      Renminbi
      Can China arrest the renminbi’s slide?

      Currency has fallen 5% this year but investors expect further declines

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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Fukushima nuclear accident
      How risky is Japan’s release of radioactive water from Fukushima?

      Planned discharge from stricken nuclear plant has sparked international controversy, but most experts say it is safe

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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Russian insurrection
      Russian insurrection: Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and the fallout

      A timeline of the Wagner militia’s uprising and what happened next

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      Why China remains hungry for AI chips despite US restrictions

      Nvidia’s processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives

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      The battery revolution

      This series examines the technology, corporate winners and losers, rivalries between battery systems and the future of recycliing

    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
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      Can Germany fix its economy?

      Ukraine war, higher rates and sluggish trade aggravate longstanding structural problems in EU powerhouse

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    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
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      Will the rest of the world feel China’s deflation pain?

      Falling prices will lower cost of imports but are unlikely to have a dramatic impact elsewhere

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      How big is the risk of nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant?

      Robust design and recent safety measures boost facility’s resilience despite seizure by Russia, experts say

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      What China’s economic measures mean in practice

      Details scant in politburo statement but markets welcome acknowledgment by Xi Jinping of growth headwinds

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      FT Guides
      Artificial intelligence in business: an explainer

      Training machines to carry out human tasks will bring more efficiencies, job losses and risks. Here, FT journalists explain the potential of generative and God-like AI and the likely impact on industry sectors, in Q&As and graphics Supported by Infosys

    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
      AI in investment and financial services

      Technology can improve customer service, ID checks and fraud prevention but concerns remain over decision making and impersonation

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      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
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      Machine learning works in the same way as human learning: repeating a process and making adjustments after mistakes, to gradually improve outcomes

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      FT GuidesArtificial intelligence in business: an explainer
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      In the short term, the technology threatens to make employees redundant; longer term, the danger is existential

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      AI in the music industry

      New tools can create compositions, clone voices and recommend songs to listeners — but can it match the human interaction with fans?

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