Financial Times - Technology

Sleepy European telcos turn to data centre craze

With data centres, companies in the sector may finally be on to happier hunting grounds

Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning is Jaws if the shark just ate everyone and kept swimming

Follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ covers how the company was exposed for profiting from misinformation and doing users harm — but falls frustratingly flat

The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did much to advance

AI agents could cost banks $500bn — by winning savers better rates

Brussels looks to capture Big Tech through tax on large corporations

European Commission considers a broad levy on all large companies to avoid singling out US digital services groups

Russian hostile activity costs UK up to £2.5bn a year, report warns

Labour MP Graeme Downie’s research highlights lack of consistent framework for measuring economic impact of Moscow-backed hybrid warfare

Anduril plans shipyard to manufacture parts for US Navy’s top submarines

Palmer Luckey’s defence tech start-up to invest $3.7bn as Trump attempts to reduce dependence on leading ‘prime’ contractors

Silicon Valley’s acqui-hire ruse may have passed its prime

Nvidia’s raid on a rival’s top talent has raised hackles among employees not invited to the party

Palmer Luckey’s Erebor surges to more than $7bn in deposits since launch

Start-up bank for technology industry seeks to fill the void left by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Andrew Garfield is a strangely likeable Sam Altman in OpenAI origin story Artificial

Luca Guadagnino’s film of start-up fervour and betrayal charts the technology’s evolution from impressive to disturbing

FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the shortlist

Contenders include titles on weight-loss drugs, AI weaponry and forecasting

We should call time on the ‘end times’

Narratives of looming apocalypse are a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with our politics

Asos customers report notification warning of ‘hack’

Shares in FTSE 250 retailer fall more than 10% following reports from mobile users

NextEra’s $67bn Dominion takeover faces political backlash in Virginia

Rising power bills and concerns about monopoly power prompt officials to intervene in deal

Britain has turned digital ID into a growth industry

Start-ups such as Yoti and Luciditi are meeting demand for age and identity verification as the government retreats

Wall Street banks launch record $60bn chip deal for Broadcom and Anthropic

Syndication of the massive financing package tests lending appetite amid growing concerns over mounting AI debt

Nvidia’s $20bn licensing deal with Groq faces lawsuit from jilted engineers

Employees of start-up say they were short-changed when the chip titan left them out of the ‘acqui-hire’ transaction

The dangerous myth behind AI agent hacks

These are not simply cyber security flaws but problems with the way that models are trained