Tokyo looks to protect service staff from customers who are not so cool
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Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs and delay 777x jet as revenues fall short
Boeing will cut about 17,000 jobs and delay the first delivery of its 777X jet, in the plane maker’s latest effort to overcome its growing financial woes.
How artificial intelligence won the Nobel Prizes
The chemistry Nobel, which Hassabis shared with his colleague John Jumper and US biochemist David Baker, was won for ...
Letter: Your restaurant critic never fails to move me
This week as I read his article (“The cult of St John”, FT Globetrotter, September 28), with all the details of the two people (restaurateur Trevor Gulliver and chef Fergus Henderson) behind the St ...
Letter: Taylor Swift concerts are 21st-century version of Veblen goods
From Ira Sohn, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, US ...
Letter: Whether UK power plants are saved is up to the locals
A few years ago, I was sleeping on a train from Sheffield to London when I suddenly awoke as we passed by the imposing cooling towers of the now decommissioned Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power ...
DP World shelves £1bn UK investment pledge ahead of summit
DP World has shelved an announcement of a £1bn cash injection into its main London port on the eve of the UK’s international investment summit, triggering a row between ministers over who was to blame ...
AI is coming for wealth management
Active wealth management tries to understand how to fit a vast array of products to changing life needs and circumstances. Providing tailored advice is expensive though. One of the biggest ...
Transcript: 100 days of Labour — Starmer’s stuttering start
This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘100 days of Labour — Starmer’s stuttering start’ Lucy Fisher Labour reaches a major milestone this week, 100 days. One word to sum it ...
How a break-up of Google could transform tech
The Department of Justice’s proposal to shake up the company is a seminal moment for the industry. If it prevails in court, AI start-ups could benefit ...
Stockpickers: Pub groups prosper despite multiple challenges
The death knell for the British pub has been sounded many times. Pub numbers have dwindled from around 75,000 at the start of the 1970s to 45,000 now. Myriad pressures are behind the closures, ...
For Canada’s TD Bank, the US has become more rags than riches
TD Bank’s asset cap differs from Wells Fargo’s in one major way. It applies only to TD’s two US retail banking subsidiaries, rather than the entire company. Those assets — at about $434bn — account ...