Actualités technologiques et économiques

Also in today’s newsletter: UK weighs EU options and luxury retailers looted

Tokyo asks US to help convince Beijing to ease chokehold on yttrium and avert manufacturing shutdown

Peter and John Weinberg are grandsons of the legendary Sidney Weinberg and their respective roles have been in the spotlight

Authorities are working to stop stolen goods being resold online through platforms such as Vinted, Amazon and eBay

The US tech giant calling time on its Nscale deal exposes faultlines running through this fast-growing area of the AI sector

Liberty Global and Telefónica argue that BT’s acquisition of TalkTalk has materially changed competition in the UK market

Smith & Nephew is trying to fight back against Stryker’s innovation in orthopaedics with a new artificial joint

Volumes of credit default swaps linked to big tech groups soar as investors seek protection against boom unravelling

Legal chief Kent Walker says AI prices dropping at ‘astonishing rate’ and creating opportunities for European businesses

Countries from Canada to Argentina have seen surge in investment and production as buyers rush to replace supply lost to Hormuz disruption

Demand from wealthy travellers leaving kingdom pushes up prices more than 50%, brokers say

Prospective clients who flocked to the Burj Khalifa were promised double-digit returns but thousands are now facing losses

A shortage of places to park the world’s growing fleet of luxury vessels is driving up prices — and turning marinas into a hot new asset class for investors

Credit default swaps are becoming a bellwether hedge for AI sentiment

Elice shares sink in Seoul, adding to rising concern about AI valuations

Residents in remote region of Shaoguan hope country’s AI infrastructure push will deliver boom that has long eluded them

AI start-up looks for more computing power from UK data centre group

US judge rules Abdulrahman Alfozan should not be released on bail after US government argued he had ‘considerable support from a foreign government’

AI infrastructure designs may now need to incorporate blast-resistant concrete, jamming gear and missile-defence systems

Join us for a live Ask an Expert Q&A with Richard Waters, the FT’s tech writer at large, and George Hammond, the FT’s venture capital correspondent, at 8am (PDT)/4pm (BST) on Thursday October 22