Financial Times

BP investors push for clarity over ousting of chair - Financial Times

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A person close to Manifold previously suggested that BP company secretary Ben Mathews, one of the longest-standing senior figures at the oil major, had been ...



Dutch supercar brand Spyker wins crypto backing in latest revival bid

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WhiteBit and Spyker did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but a person familiar with the matter said Nosov has taken a stake worth several ...



Blackstone looks to sell $2bn of stakes in private investment funds

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... a person familiar with the deal said. The surge in CFO issuance hadprompted investors to be more selective, and recent deals have taken longer to garner ...



New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare

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During December 2025 protests in Iran, the regime installed new video cameras to monitor the crowds, said a person familiar with the situation. Israel was ...



Middle East conflict: Iran and Israel call halt to military operations

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A person briefed on the matter said that Israel had also decided to halt its attacks on Iran. They did not comment on whether this was the result of a ...



Chips, ships and guns: South Korea booms on AI race and global ...

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... asked to remain anonymous. “Our production capacity is running at nearly 100 per cent or more. We are truly very busy.” 2025. Header logo. South Korea's ...



Raiding infrastructure budgets to fund defence stores up trouble

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... people briefed on the matter © via Reuters. Raiding infrastructure budgets to fund defence stores up trouble on x (opens in a new window) · Raiding ...



Apollo and Blackstone raise $35bn in chip financing deal for Anthropic

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... people briefed on the matter. Apollo and Blackstone structured the loan across three tranches, with interest payments on the two senior segments backstopped ...



Will America's evangelicals stick with Donald Trump?

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“I pray for Adam every day, and so does my wife,” said one evangelical pastor in rural Pennsylvania, who declined to give his name for fear of upsetting his ...



Zelenskyy used Abramovich to send message to Putin about peace ...

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“I don't think anything substantial will happen until the end of summer,” said a person close to Zelenskyy, adding that Washington was focused on Iran and ...



Ministers told to cut budgets to fund boost to UK defence spending

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... people briefed on the matter. But departments being targeted to make bigger cuts to their expenditure include Ed Miliband's energy and net zero department ...



Crisis engulfs one of world's biggest free school meals programmes

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The school ended up distributing the food to the neighbourhood, said the teacher, who declined to be named for fear of retaliation. “It's wasteful. In the ...



What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI

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... a person familiar with the matter. However, some White House officials and OpenAI rivals including Anthropic were caught by surprise by Trump's Friday ...



Inside the CBS mutiny against Bari Weiss and David Ellison

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CBS executives met Pelley the following day in an effort to find a path forward, according to a person familiar with the matter. At the start of the meeting ...



Donald Trump says US may take equity stakes in AI companies

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... a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Recommended. Artificial intelligence · Americans lead AI data centre backlash, global poll finds · A group of ...



Rolls-Royce under fire for outsourcing parts of UK nuclear project to ...

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A person close to Forgemasters said it was a “perverse outcome” that the UK government should invest over £500mn in saving the strategically important ...



Anthropic's relentless race to the top - Financial Times

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And that's a pretty scary potential world,” a person close to the process said. Before that world came to pass, the Amodeis said they wanted to “essentially ...



Anthropic assists NSA's use of Mythos for cyber attacks

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“The best way to build a good defence is to build a good attack,” said a person close to Anthropic, who argued that adversaries are probably building their ...



UK government urges companies to share data about AI effects on ...

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... according to a person close to the company. Ministers will say the AI Economics Institute, a government research body, will make Britain the “first country ...



Andrew Left's fraud conviction leaves Wall Street asking

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... asked to remain anonymous. “So many short reports are anonymous these days, no one wants to put their name on anything,” they said. “There's zero ...



Can't afford a Klimt? Now you can bet on it - Financial Times

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A venture capital investor who has been looking into the auctions predictions area, and asked to remain anonymous, notes that such a situation played out ...



UK Treasury set to take control of fighter jet spending after defence ...

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The person claimed there was “fundamental disagreement” about the fighter jet programme between the prime minister and Reeves, although a person close to the ...



What happens when heat pump installations go wrong

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Another embattled heat pump owner, who declined to be identified except as a tech founder with a PhD in physics, takes issue with training, adding that he ...



Sea of tents in the heart of Beirut lays bare scale of Lebanon's crisis

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A resident of another Beirut school shelter, who asked not to be named, has already spent two years away from her border village of Markaba, one of dozens that ...



Castlelake to hunt partner on easyJet bid to navigate EU ownership ...

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So far, IAG and Air France-KLM have not been approached by Castlelake or its representatives seeking a deal, according to people with knowledge of the matter.



Starmer and top ministers used disappearing messages in ...

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A person briefed on the matter said that Starmer and Mandelson had not spoken “extensively”, stressing that it was not the case that “thousands of messages ...



Keir Starmer uses disappearing messages, admits Downing Street

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A person briefed on the matter said that Starmer and Mandelson had not spoken “extensively”, emphasising that it was not the case that “thousands of ...



Most activist investors are not really activist investors - Financial Times

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The activist is supportive of the company and believes its stock is undervalued by the public markets, according to a person familiar with the situation.



Uber faces Prosus challenge in Delivery Hero pursuit

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... a person familiar with the matter. The Amsterdam-based group could also seek to vote against any Uber takeover attempt, according to the person. Prosus had ...



Patrick Drahi's indebted US cable group escalates fight with creditors

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A person familiar with the negotiations said the hope was that Monday's transactions had pushed creditors towards a debt-for-equity swap at a price below ...



Durex sales hit by China's condom crackdown - Financial Times

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A person close to Reckitt said the tighter marketing rules had weighed on growth but did not indicate a structural deterioration in demand. “Algorithms have ...



India's Narendra Modi drops eviction bombshell on colonial-era elite ...

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One government official, speaking off the record, confirmed that the club's reputation for dissent had made it a target. “The government doesn't think that ...



Iranian dissident news network received £650mn of debt relief

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... a person with direct knowledge of its operations. Iran International's parent company, Volant Media UK, has lost more than £410mn in the past five years and ...



Oil falls as Iranian state television reports details of peace proposal

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Tasnim, a semi-official news agency affiliated to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, quoted a person close to the negotiations as saying they were positive and ...



Samsung workers set for $400,000 bonus after deal to share AI profits

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Workers in its DX division, which makes smartphones, televisions and other gadgets, will only receive about Won6mn in bonuses, according to a person close to ...



Donald Trump says rising economic costs will not force him into Iran ...

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Tasnim, a semi-official news agency affiliated to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, quoted a person close to the negotiations as saying the talks in Doha were ...



BP chair's departure turns spotlight on Meg O'Neill to deliver swift ...

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The executive, who did not want to be named, said a new chair should be empowered to rebuild the board with professionals who know their role is to advise ...



BP removes chair Albert Manifold after claims of bullying

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A person close to Manifold said he had been challenging excessive spending within BP and believes that had made him unpopular. They added he had not been ...



Duke of Norfolk to host Reform UK donors as Farage seeks to widen ...

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... people briefed on the matter. Fitzalan-Howard, a crossbench peer with no party affiliation, was one of two people to win a concession this month to keep his ...



UK defence secretary's plane has GPS jammed near Russian border

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The plane involved, a Dassault Falcon 900LX, is the same one used by King Charles, according to a person familiar with the matter. The incident on Thursday ...



AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes

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Meta declined to comment. A person close to the company said it assesses its open-source models' capabilities before releasing them, according to its Advanced ...



Uber weighs higher bid for Delivery Hero after €11.5bn offer rebuffed

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The Uber board held a meeting in which it discussed the status of its takeover bid, according to three people familiar with the matter. Uber approached one ...



The new arms race in computing power - Financial Times

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“[Google's acquisition of] DeepMind was a huge blow to British AI,” says one expert who asked to remain anonymous. “Yes, they are still in London. But we ...



Delivery Hero reveals Uber takeover bid at €10bn valuation

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... people familiar with the matter. He floated a price of about €33 per share but was rebuffed, they added. In a statement released after the FT report was ...



Uber and DoorDash sound out investors for Delivery Hero bid

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... people familiar with the matter. Several investors have indicated they would seek a price above €40 per share, which would be a 19 per cent premium on ...



Ex-WHSmith high street chain 'almost completely broken', says new ...

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A person close to WHSmith said that all prospective buyers of the high street business had access to all relevant information before doing the deal. The ...



Regional mediators travel to Tehran in push for US-Iran deal

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A Qatari delegation was also holding talks in Tehran, a person briefed on the matter said. The mediators are seeking to get the parties to agree to end the ...



Reform UK by-election candidate accused of offensive social media ...

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... people briefed on the matter. The Suffolk seat could see a by-election in the coming months as the current MP Patrick Spencer faces a trial over allegations ...



Pakistan army chief visits Tehran in push for US-Iran deal

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A Qatari delegation was also holding talks in Tehran, a person briefed on the matter said. The mediators are seeking to get the parties to agree to end the ...



Greens consider helping Labour's Andy Burnham in Makerfield by ...

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... people briefed on the matter. The by-election is scheduled for June 18. One of the people said there was a feeling in the party that it was a missed ...

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