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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A three-way split among Bank of England policymakers took investors by surprise on Thursday, denting expectations that the upheaval in global trade would lead the central bank to speed up the pace of interest rate cuts in the months to come. But the BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee had a clear message for markets: despite the potential for tariffs to hit global growth, the BoE’s focus is on the domestic economy. “That is ultimately what matters for UK inflation and monetary policy,” the BoE governor…
Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week after the company launched its commercial self-driving truck service in Texas. Anderson held the chief product officer position at Aurora. The resignation was posted in a regulatory filing along with the company’s first-quarter earnings report. His resignation will go into effect June 1. He will leave the board August 31. The company said in the filing that his resignation from the board “did not result from any disagreement with the Company concerning any matter relating to its operations, policies, or practices.…
وعلى ستاد الجيش المصري بمدينة الإسكندرية، تقدم المصري بهدف مباغت حمل توقيع صلاح محسن في الدقيقة السادسة، لكن إمام عاشور منح التعادل للأهلي في الدقيقة 35. وأضاف طاهر محمد طاهر الهدف الثاني للأهلي في الدقيقة الثالثة من الوقت المحتسب بدلا من الضائع للشوط الأول، بعد لحظات من إلغاء الحكم أحمد الغندور، الذي أدار اللقاء، هدفا للفلسطيني وسام أبوعلي بداعي التسلل في قرار مثير للجدل، بعد مراجعة تقنية حكم الفيديو المساعد (فار). وتواصلت هيمنة الأهلي على مجريات المباراة في الشوط الثاني، حيث أضاف أبوعلي الهدف الثالث للأهلي في الدقيقة 58، بينما أحرز إمام عاشور الهدف الرابع للفريق الأحمر وهدفه الشخصي الثاني…
Kendra AndrewsKevin PeltonCloseKevin PeltonESPN Senior Writer Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE systemMay 8, 2025, 07:30 AM ETSAN FRANCISCO — Kate Martin turned toward the crowd at Chase Center on Tuesday night and waved her hands up and down, bringing the Golden State Valkyries fans to their feet and eliciting a thunderous cheer that bounced around the 18,000-seat arena.Ever since the WNBA announced 19 months ago that an expansion team was coming to the Bay Area, there has been a buzz around the city — whether it was fans…
OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research, the company’s tool that searches across the web and other sources to compile thorough research reports on a topic. Now, ChatGPT deep research can link to GitHub (in beta), allowing developers to ask questions about a codebase and engineering documents. The connector will be available for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users over the next few days, with Enterprise and Edu support coming soon, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. OpenAI’s…
The leader of a Bulgarian spy ring helped Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek organise an airlift of 200 personnel from Kabul for the CIA during the military retreat from Afghanistan in 2021, a court in London has heard.The claim was made at the Old Bailey on Thursday by lawyers representing Orlin Roussev, the kingpin of a UK-based group accused of conducting espionage activities for Russia on an “industrial scale”. Roussev, who located Bulgarian pilots for the flights, should be given credit for an operation to save American lives, lawyers argued. He appeared at a sentencing hearing alongside Biser Dzhambazov, an associate,…
Elon Musk’s Starlink has received anticipated state approval in India, opening the door to enter the world’s second-biggest internet market after China — over three years after SpaceX’s previous attempt to launch its satellite-based broadband in the country eventually failed. On Wednesday, India’s Department of Telecommunications gave its nod to Starlink to start working toward its compliance in the South Asian nation, a senior official confirmed to TechCrunch. Starlink will now have to submit documentation showing it complies with the licensing requirements. Earlier this week, New Delhi published its rules (PDF) for Global Mobile Personal Communication by Satellite (GMPCS) operators to…
NEW YORK — Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the women’s national team.The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position Thursday, and it marks a major change in the way the organization creates its roster and coaching staff.”I played for USA Basketball for so long and always really enjoyed my time with them,” Bird told The Associated Press. “I love representing my country. I love being competitive on that stage. To have that opportunity to do it in a different role is exciting.”Editor’s PicksBefore the change, a committee made…
Instagram Threads will begin testing video ads, Meta announced on Thursday. The test, which will make Threads look more like its competitor X, is an expansion of Threads’ advertising initiatives, which began last month with the opening up of ads to global advertisers. The news was announced at Meta’s presentation at the IAB NewFronts, where a number of social media companies pitch themselves to advertisers. On Threads, Meta says a “small number” of advertisers will test 19:9 or 1:1 video ad creatives that will appear in between pieces of organic content in the Threads feed. The company didn’t share other…
The leaders of the US and the UK hailed the trade pact signed between the two sides on Thursday as “historic”, but experts warned it still leaves the UK facing higher tariffs on exports to the US than before Donald Trump took office.While the 10 per cent worldwide tariff imposed by Trump in April remains in place, the UK won significant concessions on steel and auto tariffs that Trump had increased by an extra 25 per cent in February and March.In return, the UK granted the US greater access for beef, ethanol and industrial products, raising concerns that the UK…