Mistral AI was hailed as a potential global leader in the technology. But it has lost ground to US rivals — and now China’s emerging star

Billionaire investor says US stocks are in ‘very similar’ position as lead-up to internet bust at turn of millennium

Companies are looking into the ways in which AI can reduce humanity’s impact on areas such as agriculture, healthcare and environmental conservation

Breakthrough suggests artificial intelligence’s appetite for energy may not be as insatiable as previously thought

Chinese tech champion Huawei has emerged as Nvidia’s primary competitor in China for inference chips. The Financial Times has previously reported that it has been working with AI companies, including DeepSeek, to adapt models trained on Nvidia GPUs to run inference on its Ascend chips.

Part of seizing the benefits of AI and digital government more broadly is transparency about what you’re doing, why you’re doing it and what is working and isn’t. And one of the unalloyed positives about digital government in the UK has been the capacity to not only publish data on the outcomes of government efforts but also to show its working.

SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25bn into OpenAI, in a deal which would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a massive new artificial intelligence infrastructure project.

When you buy a company’s stock, you buy its future earnings. It’s still amazing how much can be taken on trust.

Chinese artificial intelligence group’s use of ‘reinforcement learning’ and ‘small language models’ leads to breakthroughs

DeepSeek’s announcement that it has built competitive AI using many fewer resources than big US rivals stunned the markets this week. Chipmakers and power companies plunged in value, and Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI,

Sonja Hutson Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, January 28th. And this is your FT News Briefing. US tech stocks took a nosedive after a Chinese AI company stunned the industry. Plus, Starbucks wants to brew up more business, so now you got to pay to be there. I’m Sonja Hutson, and here’s the news you need to start your day.

Virgin Money’s AI-powered chatbot has reprimanded a customer who used the word “virgin”, underlining the pitfalls of rolling out external artificial intelligence tools.