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Smile, you’re on camera: when the boss wants to read your mood

Patent records show how many companies are interested in trying to record how people feel

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Technology Sector

Why must a socialist also be woke?

If the left could separate economics from culture, capitalism would have more to fear

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Us Politics & Policy

British skies are growing too hot for swifts

Warmer summers are attracting more migratory birds but the nests are emptying before their time

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Environment

Europe’s carbon mechanism is a tariff by another name

The EU has denounced US duties while imposing its own protectionist measures dressed up as climate policy

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Eu Trade

The Big Read. China’s great jobs squeeze

As construction slumps and manufacturing automates, 53mn Chinese now work for low wages in food delivery and ride-hailing

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Gig Economy

How to stop global warming

The answer is obvious to all except the real climate change zealots: the anti-net zero movement

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Climate Change

The FT View. Arday case poses awkward questions for Cambridge

For Britain’s elite universities, governance issues add to funding woes

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Uk Universities

Will failure in Iran reshape how the US fights?

Veterans and voters have punished past administrations for costly wars, but these days many Americans don’t seem to care

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Us Politics & Policy

For prisons to work, we need to look at what is happening inside them

The row over early releases ignores the fact that many will soon return without proper educational funding

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Uk Prisons

Humans cannot remain passengers in the back of the AGI car

A sense of fatalistic inevitability about the technology’s evolution is triggering something close to despair

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Artificial Intelligence

For prisons to work, we need to look at what is happening inside them

The row over early releases ignores the fact that many will soon return without proper educational funding

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Uk Prisons

The Big Read. The AI threat to India’s IT jobs machine

The country has bet big on tech services but disruption is coming

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Artificial Intelligence

Why the BoE needs more parliamentary attention

Further scrutiny and accountability would strengthen independence

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Bank Of England

Does Africa have too few people?

What some see as an alarming population explosion could be just what the continent needs

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Demographics And Population

Maga ignores the many meanings of Mount Rushmore

South Dakota’s Black Hills are central to Lakota Nation cosmology and identity

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Us Politics & Policy

The FT View. Ukraine needs more help in the battle of the sky

Kyiv is short of interceptors to withstand Russia’s ballistic missile attacks

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War In Ukraine

The ICC is all the women of Afghanistan have left

Trump’s vow to dismantle the international court will inaugurate a new era of impunity

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International Criminal Court

Wildfire smoke threatens to cloud the ‘Pure Michigan’ brand

The blue skies of the American Midwest are likely to be hit by fleeting but powerfully unhealthy air every summer

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Michigan

Trump and the failure of the Fafo doctrine

The president’s flawed decision-making is finally catching up with him

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Donald Trump

The Big Read. How the UAE won over Washington

The Gulf state has deployed a mixture of cash and charm to become one of America’s most important Middle East allies

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Middle Eastern Politics & Society

New York is having a summer for the ages

No matter the scene — start-ups to restaurants, real estate and even politics — the city has never felt buzzier

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New York City

Britain needs to redefine what it considers cutting-edge

Burnham should promote a broader conception of advanced manufacturing that goes beyond frontier technologies

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Innovation

America’s hidden M&A boom

It’s lurking in one of the US’s top exports: higher education

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Us Universities

The FT View. US social security could soon be insolvent

But will Congress have the courage to save it?

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Us Politics & Policy

Holding public servants to account is harder than it seems

A new law imposing a duty of candour seeks to force officials to tell the truth. But will it work?

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Uk Politics

Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on

Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

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Managing Yourself

The Bayeux Tapestry loan is a model for the Parthenon Marbles

Burnham has a chance to create a legislative carve-out that speeds the process of returning the artefacts to Greece

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Uk Foreign Policy

How to fix Britain’s housing crisis

We need to find ways to lift the financial and resource constraints on new homebuilding

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Uk Housebuilding

The Big Read. America’s new oligarchy

Under Trump an ultra-wealthy clique has infiltrated government, raising concerns about democratic integrity

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Us Politics & Policy

The FT View. The shrinking space for democracy in Africa

Authoritarians are gaining ground in an era of more transactional diplomacy

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African Politics

The FT View. Taming AI’s wild frontier

The most advanced systems are evolving faster than efforts to keep them safe

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Artificial Intelligence

Jeanine Pirro, Trump’s legal crusader goes off script

The US attorney’s relationship with the president is on thin ice after her office rejected claims of vandalism at the Reflecting Pool

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Person In The News

To fix education, fix the economy first

Weak educational outcomes often owe more to economic performance than education policy

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Education

The Big Read. ‘It’s now or never.’ Is the EU serious about letting in new members?

Candidate countries hope for progress after years of inaction, but some in Brussels are still uncertain about enlargement

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Eu Foreign Policy

Yen intervention illustrates the dangers of monetary experiments

Tokyo and Washington’s desire to maintain stability may be creating long-term danger

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Currencies

Congress should hold Trump’s feet to the fire on chips

The US urgently needs to broaden its export control regime if it’s serious about winning the AI race

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Semiconductors

Today’s retro revival is more than a longing for the past

Gen Z’s nostalgia for a world they never experienced is a quiet revolt against dominant narratives about the future

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Technology

Europe must create an AI money-mobilisation machine

Talented researchers and entrepreneurs have built a dynamic start-up ecosystem that deserves to be magnified

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Artificial Intelligence

Both Trump and young Americans are warming to China

The president and Gen Z voters are far more open to a co-operative relationship with Beijing than hawks in Congress

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Us Foreign Policy

The good, the bad and the green of Badenoch

The Tory leader’s stance on climate exposes her greatest strength and weaknesses

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Uk Politics

The Big Read. Inside Intel: how America’s chip champion came back from the brink

The group’s shares have quadrupled, but it has yet to prove itself a serious manufacturing competitor to Taiwan’s TSMC

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Semiconductors

Stop assuming GDP is an indicator of prosperity

Billboard-worthy rates of economic growth mask high levels of wealth and income inequality

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Global Economic Growth

Who needs consultants in the age of AI?

Getting a company to implement recommended changes is a contact sport that only humans can play

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Accounting & Consulting Services

The FT View. How to solve Britain’s prisons crisis

It will require changes to sentencing as well as building more capacity

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Uk Prisons

Europe must do more to harness its AI ambitions

The US and China use the technology as an instrument of state power, while the EU is still considering its course

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European Union

The bureaucratic misery of India’s voter revision

Millions of Indians have been forced into the near-impossible task of trying to prove they are who they say they are

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Indian Politics & Policy

Europe and the eternal north-south rift

On defence, the two sides of the continent increasingly inhabit different worlds

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Geopolitics

The global green transition won’t be driven by self-interest alone

States must actively tilt the playing field on renewable energy too

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Renewable Energy

The Big Read. From ‘Top Gun’ to Ghost Bats: the future of aerial combat

Piloted fighter jets may act more as mission commanders, supported by autonomous ‘collaborative combat aircraft’

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Aerospace & Defence

The ethical perils of gene therapy

A case in China shows the dangers associated with this groundbreaking treatment

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Genomics