Powerful AI tools are burning through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs

FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict

Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses

Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses

Radioactive ores have become a proliferation risk in the land that supplied material for second world war atomic bombs

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

The world’s richest man is shooting for Mars. Ordinary investors may have no choice but to come along for the ride

Despite $17bn in pledges, organisation is stuck in limbo with no money flowing to projects in Gaza

A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper

Passage for vessels is designed to show Iran’s dominance over waterway and limit diplomatic isolation, analysts suspect

[FREE TO READ] Five and 15-minute contracts have surged in popularity as cryptocurrencies have fallen from recent peaks

[FREE TO READ] Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

Drones are reshaping the frontline with Russia — and the future of warfare

[FREE TO READ] Moscow’s energy revenues fell by a fifth in 2025 compared with previous year

ICE could become the largest enforcement agency in the US, but critics say its behaviour is increasingly lawless

The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year

The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year

[FREE TO READ] Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm

[FREE TO READ] Small, often invisible barriers to trade affect products from businesses across Europe, including a fluffy Ikea pachyderm

Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

[FREE TO READ] Fiscal systems designed around income and consumption struggle to capture wealth, and billionaires are highly mobile