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    Richard Waters

    West Coast editor

    Richard Waters is the FT’s west coast editor, based in San Francisco. He leads a team of writers focused on tech in Silicon Valley. He also writes widely about the tech industry, and the uses - and impact - of technology. Current areas of interest include artificial intelligence, and the growing power of the leading US tech platforms.

    His previous positions at the FT include various finance beats in London, New York bureau chief, and technology media and telecoms editor, also based in New York.

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    • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
      Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
      Nvidia tide is lifting the tech sector

      Chipmaker is the main winner but other companies are seeing big gains from the AI boom

      Jensen Huang
    • Friday, 14 June, 2024
      Technology sector
      Even Apple cannot explain why we need AI in our lives

      A souped-up Siri and personalised emojis are coming but the most important question remains unanswered

      Apple CEO Tim Cook in light blue polo shirt clasps his hands in front of his chest as he address the audience
    • Friday, 7 June, 2024
      Michael Lynch
      How Mike Lynch walked free after his decade-long US legal saga

      Prosecutors struggled to connect Autonomy founder to alleged fraud while he made his case to the jury

      A montage of Mike Lynch and the logos of HP, Autonomy and the seal of the US District Court in California
    • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
      Michael Lynch
      Former Autonomy chief Mike Lynch acquitted in US fraud trial

      UK tech entrepreneur had been extradited to face criminal case over $11bn sale to HP in 2011

      Mike Lynch
    • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
      Inside BusinessStreaming services
      The next phase of the streaming wars

      Rising subscription prices are likely to lead to a rebundling of services

      Spotify app on a phone
    • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
      Special ReportAI for Schools
      How will AI be regulated?

      The EU’s new AI Act is the first to make companies liable for the effects of large, general-purpose AI systems, but critics say regulators should only step in if needed

    • Monday, 3 June, 2024
      The Big Read
      The transformative potential of computerised brain implants

      Radical advances in neurotechnology are helping disabled people walk and could provide the link between human and artificial intelligence

      Montage of images of a scan of a persons head in profile, with a surgeon’s gloved hands holding one of the implants and microchip circuit lines running in front of and behind both pictures
    • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
      Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
      AI’s biggest promise for consumers remains just that — a promise

      An arm’s race is in full swing in the personal computing and smartphone worlds but fundamental problems are unresolved

      Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
    • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
      News in-depthQuantum technologies
      Quantum computing breakthroughs draw investment back to sector

      Australia’s $620mn deal with US start-up signals new hope for building commercially viable quantum computer

      IBM chief Arvind Krishna shows US President Joe Biden a quantum computer at the company’s factory in New York in October 2022
    • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
      Inside BusinessCloud computing
      Cloud busting: the disruptive potential impact of AI on computing platforms

      Industry sees a rebound but new technology will change competitive dynamics in the long term

      People walking past an Amazon Web Services logo
    • Friday, 26 April, 2024
      Big Tech
      Microsoft and Alphabet enjoy AI-powered gains from cloud divisions

      Combined market value of the two tech giants rose by more than $250bn after revenue growth beat expectations

      Microsoft and Alphabet each reported double-digit revenue growth in their first-quarter results
    • Friday, 26 April, 2024
      Alphabet Inc
      Alphabet surges past $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

      Shares of Google’s parent company jump after first-quarter earnings beat expectations and $70bn stock buyback

      Google logo
    • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
      Inside BusinessMeta Platforms
      Meta’s gamble on chatbots opens new wave of tech competition

      Zuckerberg’s AI plans may have knocked its stock market value, but he hopes his next venture will have dramatic impact

      Hand reaches out to shake robot’s hand in front of a Meta AI logo
    • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
      Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
      Question of pay-off from AI hangs over Big Tech earnings

      The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient

      Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia logos - montage
    • Friday, 5 April, 2024
      The Big Read
      How Google lost ground in the AI race

      The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame

    • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
      Inside BusinessIntel Corp
      Intel’s turnaround looks set to be a long haul for investors

      Attempt to claw back a lead in global chip manufacturing was never going to be easy

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    • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
      Google LLC
      Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model

      Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall

      Montage of Google logo and hands on a laptop
    • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
      Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
      AI boom broadens out across Wall Street

      Reflected glory of chipmaker Nvidia has caused other stocks to surge

      Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang
    • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
      Inside BusinessNvidia
      Nvidia’s lightning speed in driving change

      CEO Jensen Huang has ambitious plans for ‘full-stack computing’

      Jensen Huang
    • Monday, 18 March, 2024
      Michael Lynch
      Autonomy founder Mike Lynch called ‘driving force’ of ‘massive fraud’ in US trial

      UK tech entrepreneur finally faces a US jury after years of legal wrangling

      Mike Lynch
    • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
      Michael Lynch
      Mike Lynch goes on trial in US over Silicon Valley’s ‘largest fraud’

      Autonomy founder faces charges of falsifying accounts before HP bought his software company in 2011

      Mike Lynch
    • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
      Inside BusinessEU tech regulation
      The EU’s giant experiment in tech micromanagement

      New Digital Markets Act will be a test case for how far regulators can dictate design of products and services

      Margrethe Vestager talks to media
    • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
      The Big Read
      Will Big Tech agree to play by Europe’s rules?

      This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some

      FT montage of the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager surrounded by Big Tech logos
    • Friday, 1 March, 2024
      Inside BusinessApple Inc
      Apple faces the most disruptive threat it has seen in the iPhone era

      The company has strengths in AI but ground to make up as rivals Google and Microsoft move fast

      Tim Cook waves while on stage
    • Friday, 1 March, 2024
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Burn Book — a love-hate report from the tech front line

      Journalist Kara Swisher’s breezy, score-settling memoir canters through a career covering Silicon Valley and its moguls

      A woman in dark glasses appears to tickle the chin of a bison head on a wall. The bison wears a Facebook cap
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