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Image credit: Getty Images WhatsApp has announced a new feature designed to help users quickly catch up on unread conversations. The tool, called Message Summaries, leverages Meta AI to provide concise overviews of unread messages—without compromising user privacy. Whether returning from a Wi-Fi-free flight or juggling multiple chats during a busy day, users can now rely on Message Summaries to get up to speed quickly. The summaries are generated privately using Meta’s Private Processing technology, which ensures that neither WhatsApp nor Meta can access message content or the summaries themselves. Read-WhatsApp rolls out new features for businesses: How to benefit…
CESAR CORRALESPrincipal dancer of the Royal BalletCesar Corrales wears a gold Alighieri necklace, gifted from his fiancée Francesca Hayward © Photographed for the FT by Kemka AjokuI wear jewellery from a religious perspective. I’m connected to Oshun, the orisha [deity] of love, beauty, fertility and rivers. Gold is sacred to Oshun, which originates from the Cuban religious practice Yoruba.Wearing jewellery is a form of protection for me. I never buy it myself, the things I wear are gifts either from my mother or from my fiancée Francesca [Hayward, also a principal of the Royal Ballet]. I style everything with my…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Sarah Smart, 52, wanted to live in Scotland when she left university because she had spent time scuba diving there and loved it. When she asked one of her tutors what she could do with her classics degree north of the border, he suggested she would make a “really good accountant”. At first horrified by the prospect, she soon realised that accountancy provided excellent business training and could enable her to work across the country. Smart, who will step down in July as…
Thirty-odd years ago, when I first entered the world of financial services, investment platforms were very much in their infancy. According to some definitions, they didn’t even exist. Today millions of individuals in the UK invest online. Some do so through platforms that allow them to work alongside their financial advisers, others through platforms that enable them to make their own decisions. Proving that success breeds competition, the marketplace is becoming ever more crowded. This ought to be good news for investors, who should benefit not only from sheer choice but from newcomers and incumbents constantly compelling each other to up their…
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Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has signed a Dhs752m ($205m) financing agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority (GCCIA) to support the expansion of the GCC power grid interconnection with the UAE’s national electricity network, state news agency WAM reported. The agreement, signed at ADFD’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, seeks to strengthen regional energy security and facilitate power exchange between the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states. The infrastructure project forms part of broader efforts to enhance regional energy resilience and enable wider economic and developmental integration, aligning with the UAE Energy Strategy 2050. The…
Up to 16mn people — a third of the working age population — say private medical insurance is essential, after NHS waiting lists for routine hospital treatment in England rose for the first time in seven months.The number of appointments for patients waiting for NHS treatment in England jumped to 7.42mn in March, up from 7.4mn in February — the first uptick in waiting times since August 2024.Despite the treatment backlog growing, millions are still holding back from buying private medical insurance (PMI), designed to cover the cost of private medical treatment, according to new analysis.Only 8 per cent of…
During his first stint as Germany’s minister of defence, Boris Pistorius had to battle to secure money for overhauling the country’s long-neglected armed forces. But after the new government this week granted him a staggering €650bn for the next five years, his main challenge will be spending it.Pistorius must grapple with a procurement bureaucracy that once took seven years to select a new main assault rifle and more than a decade to procure a helmet for helicopter pilots. He will have to oversee an enormous ramp-up by an arms industry already struggling with capacity. And billions must go towards tasks such…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Through the fog that has shrouded global markets during the second coming of US President Donald Trump, a form is starting to take shape. If you squint, you can just about make out an outline of how Europe can mount a challenge to the centrality of the dollar in global finance, and what reform of its disjointed government bond markets might look like.This will be a long, stuttering, at times exasperating process. It is Europe, after all. But the question of whether…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.PwC is planning to cut about 175 junior auditors in the UK and has told other staff that pay rises will be lower this year, as the Big Four firm grapples with tougher market conditions. PwC told some 270 audit associates last week that they were part of a compulsory redundancy round, according to people familiar with the matter, with one saying headcount in the division was too high partly because of a lack of junior staff leaving voluntarily. The cuts, which are…