Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is trailing in the space race behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which completed 170 launches last year — many multiples more than Blue Origin. “It burns Jeff up that we’re so behind,” said an employee. But can he ever catch up? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Gx9RnvC

Martin Sandbu | Britain’s return to the EU is only a matter of time ft.trib.al/MwgwXcm #FTEdit

What Andy Burnham could mean for your money ft.trib.al/k0b4ye6 #FTEdit

Trump settles for a truce of convenience with Iran ft.trib.al/TgUt4Mo #FTEdit

In defence of the perfectly ordinary restaurant ft.trib.al/tsk6cB1 #FTEdit

Jay Rayner | Little Baobab, London: ‘A place you want to be’ — restaurant review ft.trib.al/OjNnfhG #FTEdit

Lunch with the FT | Axa chief Thomas Buberl: ‘We need to adjust our definition of war’ ft.trib.al/MbpvIqw #FTEdit

‘Rivals’ may be racy — but ITV’s real-life franchise wars were stranger still ft.trib.al/Zl1HSYO #FTEdit

The Weekend Essay | Why Ebola came back — and a warning for the next pandemic ft.trib.al/dLlfjeE #FTEdit

American Narco: The Miami football player who fell foul of Pablo Escobar ft.trib.al/N961u1w #FTEdit

Is privacy the latest luxury? ft.trib.al/tI9wcoL #FTEdit

The Big Read | AI is revolutionising the stock market ft.trib.al/04vMwcF #FTEdit

Undercover Economist | How did air conditioning become a heated debate? ft.trib.al/UJrpqxu #FTEdit

I’ve seen the future of London hotels — and it’s tiny ft.trib.al/ms6b5fg #FTEdit

The world’s best language school: the football pitch ft.trib.al/7P3ooL4 #FTEdit

The business model of white victimhood ft.trib.al/4otjkCx #FTEdit

Swiss voters weigh world’s first population cap ft.trib.al/IlN15Wm #fFTEdit

The Big Read | The quantum computing revolution is closer than you think ft.trib.al/Q3e4DTc #FTEdit

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI ft.trib.al/C8IvrUz #FTEdit

The Iranian missile cities the US couldn’t destroy ft.trib.al/JeXDFRP #FTEdit

How to deal with a nightmare diner ft.trib.al/m1k9QgM #FTEdit

Back to yours? The singleton’s bedroom is not what it used to be ft.trib.al/30Mm711 #FTEdit

Alphaville | Companies would like you to know they are doing things on purpose ft.trib.al/mscIcXe #FTEdit

Can Brazilian football reclaim its aura? ft.trib.al/ZhEIowU #FTEdit

The Big Read | ‘We’re back in the Stone Age’: Russia’s spies turn off the internet ft.trib.al/eFQA2N6 #FTEdit

We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates ft.trib.al/DsAVxNc #FTEdit

How SpaceX could pull millions of savers into Musk’s orbit ft.trib.al/X2H9FU3 #FTEdit

FT exclusive | EU countries weigh ‘tearing apart’ bloc’s diplomatic service ft.trib.al/K1DxeTW #FTEdit

Jpegs transformed the art market — was it for the better? ft.trib.al/NKcHzfk #FTEdit

Simon Kuper’s cup: Who will be world champion? ft.trib.al/O4UC8Sg #FTEdit

Do black holes do more than devour matter? ft.trib.al/70uqJnH #FTEdit

‘You can’t fly planes that are empty’: Airlines draw up cuts for ‘ugly’ winter ft.trib.al/CKGSChm #FTEdit

The Big Read | Can Germany make its trains run on time? ft.trib.al/BaZNFa0 #FTEdit

AI is definitely dangerous and we should certainly try to regulate it ... even if those attempts will most likely fail. Read Martin Wolf's column in today's #FTEdit 👉 Why the world must agree to regulate AI ft.trib.al/UyQGZED

The unlikely corporate winners of AI ft.trib.al/IId9qLH #FTEdit

The US and Iran exchanged fire early on Wednesday after the downing of an American helicopter, in the biggest flare-up since the warring parties agreed to a ceasefire in April. Why do the countries hate each other so much? @johnreedwrites.ft.com takes us back to the beginning. #FTExplains #FTEdit

Wall Street is close to ending more than two decades of declining equity supply as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI's mega-IPOs offer up a flood of new shares. But, without the tailwind of shrinking supply, will the market rally finally run out of steam? Read the story 👉 ft.trib.al/Kj71Znu

Barack Obama’s presidential library, an $850mn monolith in Chicago’s South Side, is nearing completion. But what does this monument to the great communicator communicate? Arguably, not entirely what its architects intended... Read @edwinheathcote.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/DQQxGh4

Stephen Bush | Why the film industry needs franchises like Star Wars ft.trib.al/rxjqRPg #FTEdit

Fifa faces empty seats as 180,000 World Cup tickets hit resale market ft.trib.al/KpMR0fM #FTEdit

Trump and Netanyahu clash over diverging goals in Middle East war ft.trib.al/MWxnqUX #FTEdit

The Big Read | Will Trump abandon Taiwan? ft.trib.al/VjYgEhf #FTEdit

We need to learn how to argue with AI ft.trib.al/AmCpo6N #FTEdit

Up to $1tn of SpaceX’s IPO value rests on Elon Musk htting multiple moonshots, including reaching Mars with reusable rockets and putting data centres into orbit. "You’re paying for a possible but not nearly entirely likely scenario," said one analyst. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/JsaeSPl

OpenAI files to go public in blockbuster Wall Street listing ft.trib.al/r3MJjb6 #FTEdit

Jemima Kelly | We are optimising ourselves to death ft.trib.al/w5T4pHC #FTEdit

We should be getting better at AI by now ft.trib.al/6fGPJ0g #FTEdit

Gates to face Congress as Epstein ties haunt $89bn foundation ft.trib.al/jLkvgFL #FTEdit

FT exclusive | New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare ft.trib.al/jfVn38p #FTEdit

Over the past decade American money and business acumen has reshaped global football in its image. Now some fear the sport is losing its way in pursuit of profit and that outside money is distorting the game’s balance of power. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/tvLlyCt