"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently" Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

A big development: HMEL, the Mittal joint venture that owns the refinery has responded to our story - and disclosed that it is pulling out of buying Russian crude.

the latest by me and Polina Ivanova:

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

Asked whether the FT’s calculations on his family’s profits were broadly accurate, Eric Trump said the true figure was “probably more”. www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

🚨 New article by @chriscook.news

As Trump pressures the Department of Justice to target his opponents, my colleagues @chriscook.news, Paul Caruana Galizia and I dug deep into a DoJ unit - the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York - which had been known for its independence. Full story: on.ft.com/42VG5IK

We should give Jim Ratcliffe another knighthood for contribution to gaiety of the nation.

What is Russia's spy ship Yantar and why has it been loitering in British waters? The FT investigates the threat to undersea cables & the work of Moscow's secret deep-sea research unit, GUGI, as an agent of sabotage. With @chriscook.news Daria Mosolova & David Djambazov www.ft.com/content/0b35...

The undersea war is a major problem for the UK and Ireland, and one both countries will need to take seriously

@davidgerard.co.uk given that your allegations were wrong, can you please delete your posts about us, which are still online for some reason and free for other people to see and share.

This is wrong. a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning. b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.

A cool use of AI in newsgathering, this. US companies are talking more and more about the risks rather than the benefits of AI in their SEC filings (while still being super-optimistic in earnings calls). By @melissahei.bsky.social @chriscook.news & @claradoodle.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/e93e...

By me, @christopherjm.ft.com and the irreplaceable @yoruk.bsky.social

A Chinese cargo ship visited the occupied port of Sevastopol in Crimea, under sanctions since 2014 — faking its route and making an unprecedented series of stops by a major foreign vessel to one of the Ukrainian ports seized by Russia. w/ @chriscook.news @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3Ibs2b9

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the best social media is the same as it was 25 years ago: football team (and other hobby) forums, where most discussions are civil, not obligatorily political and where you won’t encounter fans of other teams / interests so you won’t get piled on over small things.

did she go for “Saxon” forefathers rather than the usual “Anglo-Saxon”, because it was those bastard East Angles in Cambridgeshire who kicked her out?

really clever to pair this neat story about a terrible product which is a parable for the world today with ads which are more than a full phone screen in length that you have to tap and which continuously crash my browser

Black applicants are more than twice as likely to be denied a US mortgage as white counterparts declaring the same incomes, according to a Financial Times analysis of public data. on.ft.com/460f1ZD

Martha Mills was one of my favourite people. She should have had her 18th birthday today. Her parents have campaigned tirelessly to improve healthcare so that others won’t experience what they did. They are heroes.

our latest: black borrowers are twice as likely to be rejected for a US mortgage as white borrowers - even after you account for income, location etc etc. www.ft.com/content/217c...

My one modest bit of expertise on this story: it is fairly normal for families who have a young adult with learning disabilities (even those of fairly normal means) to be advised to move assets into trust for them -- and it's a use of trusts that's pretty close to the ideal

Our new game puts readers in charge of a fictional Premier League club, tasked with balancing the books & delivering on the pitch We’ve looked at how people have been getting on and guess what? Perhaps running a PL club is harder than it looks on.ft.com/3HM8iur Check out the game if you haven’t👇

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It’s A-level results day, so good luck to the education correspondents who have been asked to make something out of the UCAS numbers and tenuous claims by exam board chiefs about how they think [youth trend A] has been inspiring [exam choice B]

This piece on the massive scale of European rearmament based on satellite images is so good that some readers think we’re doing the GRU’s work for it. on.ft.com/46OwOFn

We wanted to know if the money that the EU has put into rearmament is turning into production capacity — and the answer is: yes. Industry is rearming.

the way they fire off fireworks and silver foil around trophy winners makes me think the FA is worried about protecting the team from guided missiles

🚨 New article: Trump readies fresh US sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet

🚨 New article: Captain of convenience: how one man left a global trail of false flags

🚨 New article: Thousands of company directors leave UK after Labour’s tax changes

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

it's 1688 all over again

I remain amazed that playing music / videos on public transport without headphones doesn’t already get you sent to Belmarsh.

🚨 New article: Russia runs low on Soviet-era arms as North Korea fills gap

Logistics data shows Russia has depleted its once-vast stockpiles during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with shipments from military storage facilities to the front line now back down to pre-2022 levels. https://on.ft.com/3IOaL7N

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising. Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him. My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal www.ft.com/content/4d61...

Who built a system where someone can export a list of Taliban murder targets into excel on a computer with internet access.

someone from Thames Water being quizzed by the "EFRA" committee is excellent nominative determinism.

it’s a real shame that Trump didn’t fully embrace the Spirit of Chelsea by taking part in the pre-season warm-up trophy celebration in full Chelsea kit, including shin-pads.

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

Is Europe prepared for war? A detailed and comprehensive look by my @financialtimes.com colleagues. ig.ft.com/russia-easte...

In Russia, the coins stabilise you. on.ft.com/43XnOvI

The A7A5 token, billed as the first stablecoin pegged to the rouble, was launched in February by a fugitive Moldovan oligarch and a Russian defence sector bank. www.ft.com/content/1c71...

David Frost objecting to the name “UK” and preferring “Great Britain” is a funny coda to the career of a man repeatedly accused of not understanding Norn Ireland.

GPS has become critical infrastructure with both military and civil applications. What happens when it's a casualty of war? @claradoodle.bsky.social, Aditi Bhandari and I took a visual look at the rising anxieties for the shipping industry in the Straight of Hormuz: