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Brazil's supreme court has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro for plotting a coup d'état, conservative activist Charlie Kirk's killing led to calls on the right for retribution, and US inflation data confirm the Fed's dual-mandate conundrum. Plus, shares in bitcoin-hoarding companies have tumbled in recent weeks as investors grow increasingly concerned about an overcrowded market.Mentioned in this podcast:Brazil's supreme court finds former leader Jair Bolsonaro guilty of plotting coupCharlie Kirk's shooting leads to calls for retributionCharlie Kirk's killing and the ‘despicable violence' of US politicsUS inflation rises to 2.9% in AugustShares in bitcoin hoarders sink as ‘crypto treasury' mania soursToday's FT News Briefing was produced by Katya Kumkova, Sonja Hutson, and Victoria Craig. Additional help from Kent Militzer and Michael Lello. The FT's acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The French government is on the brink of another collapse, and Japan's prime minister quits after just a year in office. Plus, China may open its domestic bond market to Russian companies for the first time since 2022, and US economic data is complicating the Federal Reserve's upcoming decision on interest rates.Mentioned in this podcast:French PM François Bayrou on the brink in crucial confidence voteJapan's prime minister quits to make way for new leaderChina paves way for renminbi fundraising by Russian energy giants US adds just 22,000 jobs in August as labour market sputtersClick here to access virtual sessions from the FT Weekend Festival Today's FT News Briefing was produced by Ethan Plotkin, Victoria Craig, Katya Kumkova, Sonja Hutson, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Peter Barber and Alex Higgins. The FT's acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
US President Donald Trump's nominee to join the Federal Reserve has vowed to uphold central bank independence, bond traders are banking on revenue from Trump's tariffs to bolster US public finances, and Nasdaq is trying to combat a number of suspected “pump and dump” scams. Plus, the “Amazon of Africa”, Jumia, is still trying to prove that it can be a profitable business after six years on the public market. Mentioned in this podcast:Stephen Miran vows to uphold Fed independence but says Donald Trump ‘entitled' to a view on monetary policyBond investors count on Trump tariff revenues to rein in US debtNasdaq to tighten rules on small-cap stocks after suspected ‘pump and dump' scams Is there a future for the ‘Amazon of Africa'?Sign up for the FT Weekend Festival at ft.com/festival and use the promo code “FTPodcasts” for 10 per cent off.Today's FT News Briefing was produced by Victoria Craig, Katya Kumkova, Sonja Hutson, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Alex Higgins, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The FT's acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lloyds Banking Group will put thousands of its staff at risk of dismissal, and Indonesians are angered over the widening inequality in their country. Plus, MEPs in the European parliament are unhappy with the EU-US trade deal, and the FT's John Foley explains what artificial intelligence has to do with the outcome of Google's antitrust case. Mentioned in this podcast:Thousands of Lloyds staff face axe in performance overhaul European parliamentarians attack EU-US trade deal and demand changesGoogle shares jump after judge refrains from ordering break-upIndonesian rage over MPs ‘opulent lifestyle' reflects deep economic discontentGoogle dodges a bulletToday's FT News Briefing was produced by Fiona Symon, Katya Kumkova, Victoria Craig, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Blake Maples, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The FT's acting co-head of audio is Topher Forhecz. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The US Congress has passed the GENIUS Act — the first federal bill aimed at regulating stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to the value of the US dollar. Also on the programme: the US Federal Reserve weighs inflation risks and Trump's tariff threats The BBC's Victoria Craig speaks to Boston Fed President Susan Collins. And Uber invests $300 million in Lucid Motors, with plans to launch its own fleet of self-driving robotaxis.
A preliminary report into the Air India crash last month has found that fuel supplies to the engines were cut shortly after take-off causing them to lose thrust. The report also found no mechanical issues with the plane or its engines, bringing renewed focus on to the actions of the two pilots, as two fuel switches on the plane appear to have been switched off manually.Presenter, Victoria Craig, speaks to the BBC's India business correspondent, Archana Shukla, to get the latest.Also on the programme: President Trump and the First Lady Melania Trump visited central Texas today to survey where flash floods killed 120 people last weekend. How might disasters like this be avoided in the future?Joining Victoria to discuss business stories from around the world are Andy Uhler, Energy Journalism Fellow at University of Texas at Austin and Amita Arudpragasam, writer and policy analyst based in Sri Lanka.
Plus: Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification for adult content online. And, New York orders local governments to report cyberattacks within 72 hours. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A battery that lasts 50% longer, charges faster, and has a near-zero risk of fire…say it ain't so! WSJ columnist and co-host of the Bold Names podcast, Christopher Mims, says it might actually come to market sooner rather than later thanks to one company's advancements. Plus: Hackers are targeting the tech-support workers we've come to rely on. WSJ reporter Robert McMillan tells us about a newer strategy criminals are deploying to get access to our sensitive information. And how you can protect yourself. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: A longtime Elon Musk aide exits Tesla. And, Mark Zuckerberg poaches three researchers from OpenAI to join Meta's superintelligence efforts. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: A plan to let you bet on SpaceX. And the Genius Act could spell trouble for Tether in the U.S. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elon Musk's Tesla has officially launched its self-driving taxi service in Texas. It's taking on industry leader Waymo, but there are plenty of hurdles on the road to expansion for both companies. WSJ reporters Becky Peterson and Katherine Blunt give us a state-of-the-industry assessment. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: AI startup Abridge valued at $5.3-billion. And, the UK's competition regulator sets out proposals to reign in Google search. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sometimes the past offers a glimpse of the future. At least that's what a pair of business partners are hoping when it comes to launching their next-generation Internet forum, a reboot of early internet aggregator Digg. Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, discuss their plans on stage with WSJ deputy tech and media editor Wilson Rothman at the WSJ's Future of Everything event. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: German auto-parts company Continental pushes into semiconductors. And the world's biggest digital camera releases its first photos of deep space. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: U.S. considers ending some export waivers for U.S. technology in China. And, the European Commission scrutinizes Elon Musk's X after xAI's acquisition. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: More than $90 million is drained from Iran's biggest crypto exchange. And, Texas Instruments to invest $60 billion in made-in-America production. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Robinhood unveils new features to woo traders. And Oracle unveils initiative to help small tech companies sell to the Pentagon. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Southwest Airlines adds pilot alerts to increase runway safety. And, crypto tycoon Justin Sun takes Tron Group public via reverse merger. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Congress weighs crackdown on mortgage lenders' spam calls. And, Brookfield strikes deal to buy internet-service provider Hotwire. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: BioNTech to buy CureVac to develop cancer treatments. And JetZero says it will start building its futuristic planes for commercial use. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: China puts limits on rare-earths export licenses. And Switch 2 becomes Nintendo's fastest-selling console. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Uber and Wayve announce self-driving car trials on London's public roads. And, U.S. agencies tracked Elon Musk's foreign visitors. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apple hyped its latest software updates at day one of its Worldwide Developers Conference in California. But WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen says the announcements didn't quite deliver on lofty expectations for AI upgrades. Plus, phishing scams are nothing new, but packaging them up as a subscription-based DIY hacking kit is. WSJ cybersecurity reporter Angus Loten tells us why it's now a lucrative business. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Warner Bros. Discovery splits into two companies, separating HBO Max from its cable channels. And Qualcomm reaches a $2.4 billion deal for UK-listed Alphawave IP. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: President Trump plans to extend the TikTok deadline for a third time as he puts China trade talks back on the books. And the Winklevoss twins crypto exchange, Gemini, files to go public. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Senate Republicans try to shield NASA programs slated for funding cuts. And Circle shares pop post-IPO. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: TSMC sees limited impact of Trump's tariffs. And, Victoria's Secret delays earnings release due to an information-security incident. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's tech billionaire Elon Musk's first official week following his stint in the Trump administration. WSJ columnist Tim Higgins and WSJ reporter Becky Peterson assess the record of the Department of Government Efficiency that Musk created and look ahead to the challenges he faces as he returns focus to his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Chinese tech stocks falter on pessimism over U.S.-China trade progress. And Ray-Ban maker pushes into medical AI with Optegra deal. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jobs that allow employees to work from home have allowed for more flexibility. But in the quest to achieve a better work-life balance, we've helped open the door for hackers looking to capitalize on America's workforce. Bob McMillan covers computer security, hackers, and privacy for the Wall Street Journal. He joins host Victoria Craig to discuss how laptop farms have allowed North Korean scammers to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars to the sanctioned country. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Costco and Gap see different impacts of tariffs on their businesses. Shares of Ulta Beauty rally after the cosmetics retailer raises its annual outlook. And an experimental lung-disease treatment by Sanofi and Regeneron delivers mixed results. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Meta teams up with former VR chief for high-tech military headsets. And United Airlines CEO encourages travelers to book flights at Newark. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: GM's CEO Mary Barra still sees an all-EV future. And Telegram looks to raise $1.5 million in a new bond offering. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Tesla's EU sales halved in April. And President Trump's media company plans to raise $2.5 billion to buy bitcoin. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Austin, Texas became a tech-hub darling about five years ago. But WSJ CIO Journal reporter Isabelle Bousquette reports on exclusive data that show the city is losing talent now to their coastal counterparts San Francisco and New York. Then, sifting through streaming platforms can be an overwhelming experience for viewers. But bundles and tiered subscription offerings have helped the entertainment companies turn a profit. WSJ media reporter Isabella Simonetti has those details. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When you find out that sensitive personal information is being bought and sold on the dark web, what should you do? WSJ personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen explains how to know it's happened and what you can do to protect yourself afterward.Then, OpenAI's co-founder Sam Altman is joining forces with Apple's chief architect of the iPhone to create what they hope will take artificial intelligence off screens and into the next generation of tech devices. WSJ reporter Keach Hagey has the details. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Strava reaches $2.2-billion valuation. And Hinge Health makes its NYSE debut. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: An outage on the Bloomberg terminal that disrupted some government-bond trading has been resolved. And, a planned OpenAI data center gets a fresh injection of funding. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Tesla's CFO is the highest paid in modern recordkeeping. Meanwhile, Honda plans to scale back its electric-vehicle investment. And Google unveils new “AI Mode” search to take on AI chatbots. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Students and teachers are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to outsmart each other. WSJ family and tech columnist Julie Jargon explains how one group is using AI to expose cheating while the other is leveraging it to prove they didn't. Then we head to two neighboring West Virginia towns where residents are pushing back on a plan to build one of the world's biggest data centers. WSJ reporter Kris Maher explains why constructing a new AI hub is so controversial there. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: China's Xiaomi plans $7 billion investment in chip design. And 23andMe will live on after $256 million Regeneron buyout. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sore necks, dirty looks, and a lighter wallet. The early buyers of Apple's Vision Pro headsets tell WSJ's Joseph Pisani why they regret being a first adopter of a once-promising device. Then, WSJ tech and crypto-policy reporter Amrith Ramkumar has an exclusive look at a letter Democratic Senators wrote to ask for answers about the Trump administration's interactions with Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: OpenAI launches new coding agent, Codex. Epic Games' and Apple's long-running feud continues with dispute over ‘Fortnite' update. And Microsoft proposes Teams changes to avoid EU fines. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apple wants to make iPhones more accessible to people with disabilities. Digital-health reporter Rolfe Winkler takes us into the world of brain computer interfaces. Plus, reporter Amrith Ramkumar talks about the revocation of the AI Diffusion Rule and how companies are reacting. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: The Trump Administration says the EU's digital services rules are a threat to basic rights and U.S. business. And, Coinbase says tens of thousands of users might have been affected by cybercriminal theft. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Temu resumes shipping direct-from-China products. And HBO Max is back. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Plus: Microsoft slashes jobs as it streamlines management ranks. And ESPN takes the wraps off a new streaming service. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
P.M. Edition for May 9. In a social-media post, President Trump said lowering tariffs on Chinese goods to 80% “seems right.” Meanwhile, Beijing moved to enforce restrictions on exports of rare-earth metals before this weekend's talks in Switzerland. But when it comes to the future of electric motors, that might not matter; WSJ tech columnist Christopher Mims tells us about one startup that's using iron and steel instead. Plus, Newark Liberty International Airport suffers its second tech outage in two weeks. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
P.M. Edition for May 8. Who is Robert Francis Prevost, the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff? WSJ reporter Drew Hinshaw answers that question from Vatican City. Plus: the U.S. agrees to a new trade deal with the U.K.—while the European Union draws up a list of American tariff targets. WSJ's Kim Mackrael has the details from Brussels. And, the Federal Aviation Administration could modernize the nation's air-traffic control system in the next few years, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says Congress needs to front the funding. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
P.M. Edition for May 7. Despite political pressure from President Trump, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady today. WSJ chief economics commentator Greg Ip explains how tariff uncertainty factored into their decision. And Disney seeks a foothold in the Middle East with an upcoming theme park in Abu Dhabi. WSJ entertainment reporter Ben Fritz has details on the company's ambitions. Plus, investigations reporter Katherine Long tells us what U.S. spy agencies are after in Greenland. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices