Nato leaders are expected to make a one-year, €40bn pledge of support for Ukraine this week, as the alliance’s most important members are engulfed in domestic political turmoil that limits their capacity to commit more long-term resources to Ukraine in its defence against Russia. The summit starting on Tuesday in Washington comes on the heels…
In a secret brick workshop on the outskirts of a frontline town in eastern Ukraine, soldiers Bohdan and Vlad are hard at work making killer drones. The small factory has a 3D printer to make the components needed to turn technology designed for fun or aerial photography into a deadly weapon. The use of unmanned…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer has won a huge parliamentary majority on strikingly thin support. Labour won only 34 per cent of the vote. The shift in support for the Conservatives since its big victory in 2019…
Prominent House Democrats joined calls for Joe Biden to drop out of the election race over the weekend, even as the president stepped up campaigning to convince voters and his own party that he was fit for office. Biden made two campaign stops on Sunday in Pennsylvania, a state he almost certainly needs to win…
Ray Kurzweil says it will happen 20 years from now. The inventor and futurist has often said that humanity will experience the Singularlity — merging with artificial intelligence — very soon. Related: Analyst resets Nvidia stock price target after trillion-dollar Q2 He made that claim in his 2005 book “The Singularity is Near,” and he repeated it in the follow-up…
Videos of planes that don’t crash don’t make the news or go viral. But the ones that crash get so much attention that it makes it feel like something that’s incredibly rare happens all the time. Being afraid of your plane crashing is statistically a waste of brainpower because your odds of that happening are…
Ambitious futurists like Elon Musk predict that in the near future, traffic accidents and infractions will be a thing of the past thanks to robotaxis and autonomous cars. However, the present day is not the future. Many of cars out on the roads of the United States are still operated by humans with flesh and blood,…
Since the days of Liberace’s Las Vegas residencies, which began in 1944, the Las Vegas Strip has been the world’s top entertainment destination. The Strip’s entertainment has evolved over the years from the early years of hosting Nat “King” Cole and Ella Fitzgerald in the 1950’s, Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the 1960’s…
President Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate with former president Donald Trump reignited grave concerns about his age and sparked panic among Democrats. Calls for him to drop out of the White House race swiftly followed. Some lawmakers in Biden’s party are anxious for him to be replaced. Donors are hunting for alternative candidates. Biden’s…
The stock market looks great overall, maybe too great. Thanks to frenzied investors who crave all things tech, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq Composite and the Nasdaq-100 indexes all closed the week at record highs. Apple (AAPL) , Amazon.com (AMZN) , Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) , Facebook parent Meta Platforms (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) also hit…