Tremendous piece from @claradoodle.bsky.social in FT Wealth: why have rich lists (a device to sell newspapers) become so important to politicians, activists et al? www.ft.com/content/2680...

New ↪️ ✨ : Allbirds recently pivoted its business from shoes to AI servers. Its share price spiked 860% but has plunged back down. That's a pattern repeated across many recent AI rebrands as former cancer drug and goldmining cos add buzzy AI-related terms to their names, I found

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Welcome to the era of AI slop on social media! 41% of long posts on LinkedIn were flagged for AI, 31% on Medium, and 29% on X/Twitter. I think people will be looking more and more for authentic, original voices on social media.

We're hiring in my team at @financialtimes.com - please do reach out if you have any questions. Whilst this is currently a contract role we have every hope of extending. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

I'm not sure we've done a good job explaining the "journalism" part of data journalism: data2story.github.io

New 🦾: Did Anthropic talk its way into an AI export ban? I found the company talked about risk, regulation and restrictions eight times more than its rival OpenAI this year… adding weight to critics’ claims they have “doom-mongered” about their latest Mythos model

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

New ⚒️: The AI boom is lifting the fortunes of hundreds of formerly drab industrial, utility and mining companies as investors turn to the “picks and shovels” needed to build and power vast data centres.

huh, I've been using Gemini for transcripts for ages but this is my first time realising it actually censors them

‘SpaceX has said it is seeking to raise as much as $86bn at a valuation of $1.78tn, as Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and AI group prepares for the world’s biggest initial public offering.’ www.ft.com/content/9528...

🚀 Elon Musk has shifted focus from SpaceX to UK politics, amplifying far-right voices to his 240mn followers. We found a third of Musk's recent posts focused on the UK, a 10-year high, raising concern about his political influence ahead of a critical by-election. as.ft.com/r/b1cb096a-e...

The impact of the USAID shutdown on Africa, as seen from space and on the ground. M. Nicolini and I study the effects of the aid cuts by linking GODAD data on USAID projects to satellite-based measures of economic activity and IPC food insecurity indicators. 👉 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/11

Forget Wordle. Play small caged mammal on the run. www.ft.com/content/dad4...

A SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...

This summer, children age 5-15 will be able to pilot oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz for free

The 1920s version of your favourite restaurant being called a “hidden gem” on TikTok?

With Keir Starmer's premiership hanging in the balance, @amyborrett.ft.com has put together the definitive set of charts to summarise his tumultuous tenure A few 👇👇and more 👉https://as.ft.com/r/41e56e14-02de-400a-96bd-38a0a4b6efc6

Just when you thought there was no possible way to do a fresh data angle on the Eurovision... Love this look at the lyrics by @puntofisso.bsky.social puntofisso.net/eurovision/

as a data journalist I am obliged to argue for a synthesis. a third way. We can create a world where both stories and spreadsheets support each other to thrive. A world where we don't judge a spreadsheet by its file extension but by the content of its cells

New: Oil prices are spiralling & consumers are cutting back... But the world's biggest companies have added more than $5.4tn in value since the start of the war on Iran. I took a deep dive - w/the help of our expert companies reporters - into how the AI boom is hiding wider hits to big business.

Super interesting deep dive into the economics of touring as an indie band open.substack.com/pub/loscampe...

New: Companies are warning that soaring oil and gas prices following the Iran war are forcing them to put up prices. At least 10% of S&P500 companies — including P&G, Kimberley Clark and United Airlines — used their Q1 earnings call to signal price rises, our analysis found. @chriscook.news

Got my first election chart crime today

Most Reform-leaning councillor names: - Barry - Thomas - Adrian Most Labour: - Angela - Laura - Dave Most Conservative: - Roger - Phil - Nick Most Lib Dem: - Tim - Sam - Richard Most Green: - Jonathan - Ben - Kate

At least $106bn worth of deals struck in North America and Europe that hinge on commitments from the Gulf are yet to be completed, as regional investors review their portfolios and deployment strategies after the war in Iran New story with @sdbernard.bsky.social & FT ME team

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Really important Big Read this on what is just straightforwardly a misselling scandal taking place in plain sight in my view:

For my first post for @alphaville.ft.com, I ran the (hypothetical) numbers on the Green Party's new policy of a 10:1 pay ratio at UK companies. Including house style massive clickable scatter charts 📈 www.ft.com/content/2b9e...

Love this

Choose wisely. www.ft.com/content/dddf...

Honestly more surprised at how much golf Obama squeezed in

My friend who runs an award-winning bookshop has probed the question: readers prefer paperback novels. So why are there so many goddamn hardback releases?

New: US business adoption of Anthropic’s products is closing in on OpenAI even after the Pentagon branded it a supply chain risk in Feb, Ramp data shows

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

This was an interesting breakdown of Claude Code’s leak, and I’m still loling at the “sentiment analysis“ code. If you want Claude to know you’re mad, you better say “wtf,“ “shit,“ “fuck,” “horrible,“ “awful,“ or “terrible.” Don‘t try to get fancy with “atrocious“ or “balls.”

New 📈👩‍💼The gender pay gap at large UK firms has narrowed for the sixth consecutive year to a record low of 8.2%* — but remains stubbornly high in the professional, finance and insurance sectors

Ouch. Jet fuel. www.ft.com/content/7181...

🔋⚡ spiralling fuel prices and looming energy shortages are forcing governments to take drastic measures to conserve supplies. Lots of charts in this @financialtimes.com piece about the global wave of energy rationing as.ft.com/r/a26a41a9-6...

Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "we might see is that people still identify with being on the right or left, but being more willing to switch within those sides.” #greens

The Bank of England was a real outlier with its comms this week, far more hawkish than peers Language analysis shows a sharp shift in tone from the UK central bank this week as.ft.com/r/41e01e51-9...

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

New 📝📈: From next year, large employers in the EU will have to report on their gender pay gap. But will this help to close it? I looked at the evidence from countries -- including the UK -- that have already tried it. www.ft.com/content/9ffe...

New 📊: Should we be worried about another gas crisis in Europe? Prices are up 70% to their highest level since 2023 this week while a particularly cold winter has depleted reserves.

Natgas... "In sheer volume, this could be worse than 2022" www.ft.com/content/78fb... But... zoom out

New 🏭: The price of natural gas in Europe has surged almost 80% since Friday after Iranian strikes on the world's second-largest exporter Qatar and the effective closure of key shipping routes... But zooming out, we're still a long way from the 2022 price crisis