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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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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    AI boom catapults Nvidia into tech’s big league

    The chip designer’s bumper earnings have made it one of the world’s most valuable companies. How long can it last?

    Jensen Huang, Nvidia log
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessNvidia
    Nvidia share price juggernaut will not be stopped easily

    After rising five-fold in little more than a year, the stock continues to be propelled by the AI boom

    Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Musk’s Neuralink hype irks rivals yet shines a light on brain implants

    Competitors shrug at the billionaire’s claims but acknowledge that the attention has helped to propel the field closer to reality

    Montage of Elon Musk and logos of Precision Neuroscience and Synchron
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Big tech continues to rock

    Magnificent Seven tech stocks had a big week after reporting quarterly earnings

  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessElon Musk
    The Elon Musk pay dilemma

    Every tech company with a founder at the helm faces the ‘how much’ question — but there are many ways to answer

    Elon Musk and Tesla logo
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Inside BusinessApple Inc
    Apple’s slow-burn approach to products

    Vision Pro launch will be first gadget from the perfectionists at Cupertino since the company’s watch nine years ago

    A woman wearing the Apple Vision Pro
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Inside BusinessTechnology sector
    Hard times for the software sector

    While Big Tech continues to rebound, smaller firms have seen growth fizzle

    Jeff Lawson, Founder, CEO, & Chairman of Communications software provider Twilio Inc., rings the opening bell to celebrate his company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Companies
    Business trends, people to watch and risks on the horizon in 2024

    AI is the big tech story, luxury is losing some of its sparkle and more private equity firms may head for the public markets

    Montage of a Panthère de Cartier watch, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, a Louis Vuitton shopping bag, a Ukrainian soldier preparing drone equipment, and Carlyle Group chief executive Harvey Schwartz
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    The Big Read
    The AI revolution’s first year: has anything changed?

    The launch of ChatGPT was heralded as the dawn of a new age. But companies are wondering how useful generative AI really is

    Circuits in the shape of a human brain are surrounded by the logos of Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Microsoft
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Inside BusinessMedia
    Media and tech war over generative AI reaches new level

    The New York Times’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft shows the stakes raised by artificial intelligence

  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Inside BusinessTechnology sector
    Apple Watch battle heralds further patent wrangles

    As mobile computing invades markets such as healthcare, intellectual property moats will be tested

    Apple Watch Series 9 signage
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Inside BusinessUS & Canadian companies
    Google pins its hopes on Gemini to leapfrog GPT-4

    Top-of-the-range Ultra is the search group’s best weapon in the race to turn generative AI into a useful everyday tool

    This week’s release of Gemini, a family of large language models, will give Google a stronger platform to fight back against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Microsoft
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Quantum technologies
    IBM claims quantum computing research milestone

    Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation

    Dario Gil, IBM’s head of research
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Google LLC
    Google agrees to pay C$100mn a year for news in Canada

    Pact ends stand-off with government that led search giant to threaten to cut links to articles from its services

    A sign outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    OpenAI
    OpenAI’s business ambitions need a rethink

    The new board needs to make sense of a company that was at risk of biting off more than it can chew

    OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    The Big Read
    OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley

    The tech industry is divided over how best to develop AI, and whether it’s possible to balance safety with the pursuit of profits

  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    News in-depthMicrosoft Corp
    OpenAI turmoil exposes threat to Microsoft’s investment

    Satya Nadella’s bet on AI start-up destabilised by shock sacking of Sam Altman

    Sam Altman, left, and Satya Nadella
  • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
    OpenAI
    OpenAI directors in talks with Altman on rejoining board

    Effort to unify generative artificial intelligence group follows pressure from staff and investors

    Sam Altman
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    News in-depthOpenAI
    ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: how OpenAI’s dramatic weekend unfolded

    Internal debate about ChatGPT maker’s mission exploded into view during wild few days of corporate drama

    Sam Altman
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Space industry
    Elon Musk’s Starship rocket reaches space for the first time

    Ship and main booster lost minutes into flight after topping 100km atmospheric limit

  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    News in-depthOpenAI
    OpenAI schism leads to Sam Altman’s ousting — and an opening to rivals

    Sudden and dramatic departure of chief executive who had become the face of generative AI will create new tech alliances

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    FT Swamp Notes
    Who wins in the battle between nation states and Big Tech? Premium content

    We need to discuss what AI means for the concentration of wealth and power

    Joe Biden addresses leaders during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Week in San Francisco
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Inside BusinessDriverless vehicles
    Cruise’s driverless car accident underlines the risks of AI

    Disastrous incident could weaken trust in the technology of autonomous vehicles and provoke regulatory intervention

    A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    News in-depthGoogle LLC
    Google’s Epic legal battle opens up on another front

    Maker of ‘Fortnite’ is suing the search giant, which is also defending itself against a DoJ antitrust case

    A screengrab from ‘Fortnite’
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Inside BusinessSemiconductors
    Chip wars are coming to PCs

    A spate of new products are about to hit the market with Intel facing increasing competition

    Screen grab taken from Apple website showing the new MacBook Pro that has an M3 chip
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