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• May 23 2026
  IPOs

  SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs set to test limits of AI boom

  Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei battle over who can command Wall Street’s deepest pools of capital

  
• May 23 2026
  Mergers & Acquisitions

  The Big Read. How AI has changed M&A

  Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine

  
• May 23 2026
  US companies

  Lex. Get ready to take sides in Big Tech’s giant IPO bake-off

  With SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic targeting the same market, investors must decide what qualities they prize most

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• May 23 2026
  Artificial intelligence

  The new Luddite movement

  If governments don’t slow AI down, voters — like their predecessors — might take matters into their own hands

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• May 23 2026
  The Weekend Essay

  The new arms race in computing power

  Military capability depends increasingly on data centres. Now governments outpaced in AI are looking to experimental technologies

  
• May 23 2026
  Music

  Classical music has survived for centuries. Will AI kill it?

  Composers have always experimented with new technology — but the latest advances threaten ‘skill death’ in this centuries-old art form

  
• May 22 2026
  US immigration

  Trump administration to make foreigners leave US to apply for green cards

  Move to tighten permanent residency requirements could have significant implications for businesses

  
• May 22 2026
  IPOs

  The FT View. To infinity and beyond, with the SpaceX IPO

  Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI’s potential — with caveats

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• May 22 2026
  Military technology

  How the British army simulated World War 3 in Charing Cross Tube station

  Elsewhere commuters boarded trains, unaware of the exercise unfolding nearby

  
• May 22 2026
  Global Economy

  Investing in the era of scarcity

  Markets have yet to register the new fashion among governments for hoarding and huddling

  Gillian Tett

  
• May 22 2026
  Cyber Security

  Crypto industry braces for quantum computing threat

  Threat to code that underpins bitcoin has moved ‘from theoretical to credible’, industry figures warn

  
• May 21 2026
  Driverless vehicles

  TfL voices concern over robotaxis as ministers invite bids

  Officials say more work is needed to show self-driving vehicles will bring ‘net benefit on safety’

  
• May 21 2026
  Streaming services

  Spotify targets high-spending superfans with AI-generated music

  Streamer and Universal Music Group strike licensing deal for a paid add-on tool within Spotify’s app

  
• May 21 2026
  Batteries

  Swiss giant battery developer taps UK tech to feed AI power boom

  World’s largest vanadium flow battery project selects Invinity Energy Systems to meet data centre energy demands

  
• May 21 2026
  Post Office Ltd

  Post Office replaces Fujitsu after Horizon scandal

  Accenture and OneView Commerce win £500mn contracts to run and create alternative to notorious IT system

  
• May 21 2026
  Metropolitan Police Service UK

  London mayor blocks the Met’s £50mn Palantir deal

  Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime identifies ‘clear and serious’ breaches of procurement rules

  
• May 21 2026
  SpaceX

  Lex. How to make sense of SpaceX’s nonsensical valuation

  The market has never before had to price a stock so speculative yet so large

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• May 21 2026
  Quantum technologies

  US quantum investment includes groups tied to Trump administration

  Beneficiaries of $2bn push include start-up backed by firm linked to Trump family and another taken public by Pentagon official

  
• May 21 2026
  The AI Shift

  Can AI make the public sector more efficient?

  Productivity gains may be cancelled out by the public’s own use of the technology when interacting with authorities

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• May 21 2026
  Global Economy

  Generating tax revenues in an automated world

  If AI destroys job markets, governments will need to make up the resulting shortfall in labour income tax receipts

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• May 21 2026
  #techAsia

  SpaceX’s China-less IPO and other astronomical figures

  The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

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• May 21 2026
  Big Tech

  Big Tech software era is over, says top investor James Anderson

  Former Baillie Gifford fund manager says spoils of AI war will flow to hardware suppliers

  
• May 21 2026
  Military technology

  The new art of war is just as bloody as the old

  Armed drones and AI have transformed the frontline into treacherous kill zones comparable to the first world war

  Sylvie Kauffmann

  
• May 21 2026
  Telecoms

  The benefits of an investment bubble

  UK telecoms sector shows how splurge of money can destroy shareholder value but deliver consumer gains

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• May 21 2026
  South Korean business & finance

  Samsung reaches last-minute deal to avert strike over AI riches

  Work stoppage had threatened to disrupt Korean economy and global artificial intelligence boom