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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 9h
Nike revenue in China has fallen 29 per cent since 2021, as the world's largest sports brand loses out to local rivals. "The [Chinese] consumer has potentially the highest expectations in the world,” said a Nike executive. "Our brand hasnt kept pace." Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/gPPFsgB
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 10h
"Epic fail": one economist's verdict on Australia’s bid to tax nicotine into extinction. As prices have risen, so too has a vast black market in illegal cigarettes — and the crime networks that supply them. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/YM2QrIi Take the #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/7cnVBtZ
Two charts show Australia’s tobacco market shifting towards illicit products. Since 2018, legal tobacco consumption has fallen sharply while illicit cigarettes have surged. Meanwhile, legal tobacco prices have climbed to more than 2.5 times 2016 levels, while illicit cigarette prices have stayed roughly flat.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 12h
... and to explore electoral reform. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/TCvRtnA
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 12h
... to reopen the debate around Brexit ...
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 12h
In a far-reaching and risky speech to the Labour party conference yesterday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to scrap the pensions triple lock ...
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 28/09/2026
For decades, London property seemed like a one-way bet. No longer. This is how London became the property market’s black sheep ... Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/r0eTvmr
Line chart showing London property prices significantly underperforming the rest of the UK since 2016. By 2026, London’s index was around 110, while regional indices ranged from roughly 125 to 160.Bar chart comparing 10-year changes in prime residential house prices across global cities to the first half of 2026. Tokyo rose more than 150%, while London was the weakest performer, with prices falling about 15%.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 28/09/2026
AI hyperscalers are on a record-breaking hunt for cash — changing the way the world borrows money and how companies and governments issue debt. "The numbers are just absolutely enormous," said one investment officer. "It's transformational.” Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/YU1zLw3
Stacked bar chart showing hyperscaler debt issuance rising sharply, from about $20bn in 2024 to $120bn in 2025 and $230bn in 2026. Dollar-denominated debt dominates, while issuance is increasingly spread across euros, Canadian and Australian dollars, sterling, Swiss francs and yen
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 28/09/2026
Are you the go-to tech support for older family members? Do endless apps send you doolally too? Claer Barrett laments the widening digital divide as businesses risk leaving customers behind. Read the story in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/uTGCAx1 Then take today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/cgEExFZ
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 25/09/2026
Bombastic, sharp-suited, with the body of a pro athlete . . . meet Hasan Piker, the US left’s answer to Joe Rogan. For Republicans, he's one of the most dangerous men in the country. So much so that they tried to bring down with an underwear pic... Read the interview on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Th6USNo
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Then tell us what you think in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/61loh3D
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 24/09/2026
The west does not have a leadership problem; the problem is with us, argues Janan Ganesh. Read his column in today's FT Edit 👉 ft.trib.al/JrtUINh
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Chinese cars are taking over Britain's roads. Their share of the UK's new car market has doubled over the past year as customers are lured by their advanced software and relatively cheap price tag. Chinese cars “sell themselves”, says one dealer. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/BTyhIAB
Six charts show the rapid expansion of Chinese car brands’ UK dealership networks from July 2024 to July 2026. BYD and Omoda Jaecoo have the largest networks, reaching roughly 140 dealerships, while Leapmotor and newer entrants Chery, Changan and Geely have also expanded quickly.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Donald Trump has “checked out” and, bored of the business of governing, the US president is now singularly obsessed with building monuments to himself, argues Edward Luce. Read today's column from @edwardluce.bsky.social in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/FybYK2B
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Private equity is built on a clear deal with institutional investors: lock up your money in exchange for above-market returns as soon as practically possible. For the past four years, fund managers have been struggling to deliver on that promise... Read the story in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/Hd0GiR3
Bar chart showing annual payouts as a share of net asset value from 2001 to 2025. Payouts fell sharply during the financial crisis, then recovered above the 26% average. Since interest rates began rising in 2022, payouts have remained depressed, at around 13–18%.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
Staff at the world's leading AI companies and institutions are being signed off work or quitting because of the mental strain of working on systems that are "out of control" and "causing real damage". Read the FT exclusive in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/fi7m6RB
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 21/09/2026
Anthropic made its first dollar of revenue just three years ago with a product that has a not-insignificant chance of destroying the world, not to mention its own business model. And yet, a $2tn market valuation might just be underselling it ... Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/5EbvBpo
Line chart showing planned chatbot use from January to August 2026. Claude leads throughout, ending at about 35%. Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini rise to roughly 18% and 15%, while ChatGPT remains around 10%. Grok is the only chatbot with a negative score, ending near -6%.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 21/09/2026
Wiith Brent crude soaring to almost $110 a barel last week, the number of countries offering support to protect consumers from "politically toxic" fuel prices has almost doubled over the past four months, according to FT analysis. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/0tY7sb2
Chart showing the number of countries introducing emergency consumer support measures in response to the 2026 energy crisis. By September 9, 57 had lowered energy taxes, 42 offered other consumer support, 38 introduced fuel subsidies and 23 imposed fuel price caps, all increases since April 29.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
Jasaun Knight is one of just 200 people who has been implanted with a brain-computer interface. The device, which detects neural activity and translates it into digital commands, could fundamentally reshape the relationship between human and machine. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/KN1edzd
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
Tell us what you think in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/mRPUNwP
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
AI weapons systems are transforming warfare in ways so unpredictable that even their creators are struggling to grasp the consequences. Who — or what — is to blame when things go wrong? And what happens when humans become the bottleneck? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/FlF7xyM
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
The Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously for a quarter point rise to a range of 3.75 to 4 per cent in a bid to stop price rises triggered by the Middle East conflict and the scramble for AI parts from turning into an inflation crisis. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ZB1IQ3D
Line charts show US Federal Reserve officials raising their median 2026 core inflation forecast from 2% in September 2024 to about 3.7% in September 2026. Expected real GDP growth rises to roughly 2.3%, while the unemployment forecast remains broadly stable at just above 4%.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
The president lashed out on Truth Social, posting: “LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST!” But he later decided to back Warsh and blame a "hostile" board for the decision.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17/09/2026
The Federal Reserve yesterday raised rates for the first time since 2023 to curb inflation sweeping the US as chair Kevin Warsh — Donald Trump's own pick for the role — defied the president’s calls for low borrowing costs. Trump was quick to respond ... 👇
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 16/09/2026
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Fusion start-ups are attracting vast investment with promises of abundant, cheap and clean energy. But there's a catch: no fusion experiment has yet produced more electricity than it consumes. ... Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/yUZtNXY Take today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/EtNbksz
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 16/09/2026
As the debate over AI safety rages, Martin Wolf assesses the ways in which the technology could play out — from life goes on to outright calamity. By all means, hope for the best. But would it not be prudent, he argues, to prepare for the worst? Read Martin Wolf on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/OHue6Ix
Line chart illustrating three possible paths for US GDP per capita as AI develops. From roughly $40,000 today, AI could modestly boost long-term growth, trigger explosive growth that ends scarcity, or cause a catastrophic collapse associated with human extinction.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 16/09/2026
America’s ultra-rich are overwhelmingly backing Donald Trump’s Republicans in this year’s midterms, with 16 of the country’s 20 biggest donors ploughing the best part of $1bn into the campaign. These elites “have an outsized effect”, said an analyst. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/obGUcrq
Bar chart showing the biggest US political donors in the 2025-26 election cycle. George Soros leads with $102mn supporting Democrats, while most other top donors shown support Republicans. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz gave $96.2mn, Jeff Yass $91.3mn and Elon Musk $90.5mn.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 15/09/2026
Hong Kong's restaurants are now open to pets, marking the end of a decades-old prohibition. The Pearl of the Orient may have gone to the dogs, but where do you stand? Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/juTsShZ Then take today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/JKOZK8B
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 15/09/2026
A boat party off Abu Dhabi, USB sticks loaded with crypto, three supertankers sitting empty: Poland’s largest energy group thought it had spotted a lucrative opening in Venezuelan oil. Instead, it lost $230mn. How did it all go so wrong? Read our FT investigation on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/0rs77vZ
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 15/09/2026
Andy Burnham declared last year that he wanted Britain to “get beyond being in hock to the bond markets”. But now those markets have suffered a global sell-off — and Britain's new prime minister may have to increase taxes just to stand still. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/7kXQ1no
Line chart showing the UK 10-year government bond yield from 2019 to 2026, against the range for other G7 economies. UK yields have risen sharply from near zero in 2020, reaching about 5.7% in 2026 — above the rest of the G7.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 15/09/2026
The 10-year US Treasury yield hit 5 per cent yesterday, as the world’s most watched financial marker moves towards levels not seen since the lead-up to the global financial crisis. "This is a moment to pay attention to," said a Wall Street strategist. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/xGZefru
Line chart showing the 10-year US Treasury yield from 2007 to 2026. Yields fell from around 5% before the financial crisis to below 1% in 2020, then climbed sharply. By 2026, the benchmark yield has returned to 5%, its highest level in roughly two decades.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 14/09/2026
If Pokémon 1.0 was packs of cards, traded in the playground, then Pokémon 2.0 is a different ball game. Nowadays, cards sell for seven figures, collectors treat them as an asset class and fortunes are made on fantasy creatures dreamt up for children. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/uTsLm4U
Line chart showing monthly sales of individual Pokémon cards on eBay, in millions of dollars. Sales hover around $10mn–$15mn through 2023–24, then climb sharply during 2025 and 2026, reaching nearly $120mn by Q3 2026. Source: GemRate.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 14/09/2026
The solar revolution — made possible by cheap Chinese panels — is transforming energy, economies and lives in the developing and industrialised world alike. But such a massive, ungovernable influx of energy carries significant risks, too ... Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/EhTO8yz
Two charts show solar’s rapid rise and plunging costs. Installed solar capacity climbs sharply from 2014 to 2025, led increasingly by China and the rest of Asia-Pacific. Meanwhile, inflation-adjusted solar-module prices collapse from nearly $40 per watt in 1980 to well below $1 today.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 10/09/2026
The New York Jets are arguably the least successful US sports team of the past 15 years. But there’s a certain kind of pleasure in backing the underdog, writes Joshua Franklin. Do you agree? Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/tMtuxE8 Then take today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/roHnoBH
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 10/09/2026
“Win-win”: deployed as promise and solution in work, life and geopolitics. But with a US president who deals exclusively in winners and losers, is the phrase still up to the job? Or do we accept the era of win-lose is upon us? Read the column in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/4t8vtTc
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 10/09/2026
Tech investors are pouring money into ever wilder ideas, as AI promises to make moonshots a reality. “You used to be able to say, this one goes in the too-hard bucket," says a VC partner. "I don’t think you have that option any more.” Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/i98L0iO
Stacked area chart showing the share of VC funding going to selected “moonshot” sectors from 2010 to 2026. The share rises sharply to more than 8 per cent in 2026, led by space, batteries, humanoid robots, vertical take-off aircraft and brain-computer interfaces.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 09/09/2026
Europe has long struggled with the smuggling of counterfeit cigarettes from outside the bloc. Now, illicit factories like this one are popping up across the continent as rising tobacco taxes make local production far more profitable. Read the story in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/jayf5uw
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 09/09/2026
Meta has launched its new personal AI agent for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook that promises to organise your life based on your social media activity. But does anyone actually want it to? Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/dc0Dag0 Then take today's poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/po7S9VL
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 08/09/2026
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading in the office, blurring the boundaries between roles and allowing workers to wear, well, all the hats, argues Sarah O’Connor. Read @sarahoconnorft.ft.com in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/VgKh2D2 Then take today's poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/DE7QcYn
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 08/09/2026
A punishing combination of record debt and high borrowing costs has pushed the world's annual interest bill to more than $2tn, eating up tax revenues, destabilising governments — and creating a "doom loop" that some fear may be hard to break. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/vJh1NFE
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two days ago local elections in Saxony-Anhalt delivered a victory for the Alternative for Germany party. It is rare for provincial politics to make waves. But this is of global significance, argues Gideon Rachman, and here's why. Read @gideonrachman.bsky.social in #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/CH3v6iq
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 07/09/2026
Ebola is ripping through the Democratic Republic of Congo in what may be the worst outbreak in history. But health workers on the frontline face not only disease and death, but violence, threats and the distrust of their own communities. Read the dispatch on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/yGZwM5D
Line chart comparing Ebola outbreaks by cases reported over time. The 2026 outbreak in DR Congo rises dramatically faster than previous outbreaks, exceeding 6,000 cases within 110 days, compared with fewer than 1,000 in West Africa in 2014 and roughly 350 in DR Congo in 2018.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 07/09/2026
Some CEOs do things by the book, others are a bit more . . . colourful. Columnist Pilita Clark knows which she prefers. Read @pilitaclark.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/fPtOrlP Then have your say in today's poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/k1dCpPT
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 07/09/2026
Apple's CEO of one week, John Ternus, will unveil his first new product on Wednesday: a foldable iPhone. Can Apple succeed where so many others have failed? And will anyone actually buy a $2,000 phone? Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/bT0dnO7
Bar chart showing annual growth in foldable phone sales. Growth surged by more than 700% in 2020 and about 300% in 2021, before slowing sharply. IDC forecasts relatively modest annual growth through 2030.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 04/09/2026
Is a university degree still worth it? There are signs the knowledge-work boom is over — at least, the 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 knowledge-work boom — and the skills that will be rewarded may look very different very soon. Read @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/MITbB0C Take our poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/Wwma8SA
Line chart showing annual growth in the US college wage premium, graduate supply and implied demand since the early 1980s. Demand for graduate workers has recently fallen below zero for the first time, while the wage premium has also declined sharply despite continued growth in graduate supply.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 03/09/2026
The public reputation of the big AI companies is an "absolute dumpster fire". Can they ever put it right? If so, how? Robert Armstrong has some ideas, starting with: don't be a cult. Read @robarmstrong.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 Fixing the AI industry’s PR problem ft.trib.al/1PExID3
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 03/09/2026
𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬 ➕ 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 🔧 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 A merged company could have the scale and product diversity to compete with US rivals on electrification, automation, digitalisation and powering data centres.
Collage combining Siemens humanoid robotics, Schneider Electric equipment and an aircraft engine, representing a potential European industrial megamerger.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 03/09/2026
𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐢 ➕ 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 💊 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 In a sector dominated by the US, this merger could dramatically strengthen drug pipelines and create opportunities for new treatments.
Collage combining Sanofi and Bayer imagery, including medicines and pharmaceutical production.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 03/09/2026
𝐀𝐒𝐌𝐋 ➕ 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 💻 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 ASML is Europe’s most valuable company and a crucial supplier to the global semiconductor industry. A merger with French AI start-up Mistral could create a true European AI competitor to US Big Tech and Chinese upstarts.
Collage combining ASML semiconductor technology with stylised graphics representing a potential European tech megamerger.
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