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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, 10 January, 2025
    Business InsightSocial Media
    The uncomfortable truth about social media networks

    It may be impossible to run an uncensored network while presenting an environment where anyone can feel safe

    Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta Platforms
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Business InsightSpace industry
    Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit

    Though the Amazon founder has ground to make up, he is unlikely to be short of customers for his space project

    Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch system
  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Companies
    Business trends, risks and companies to watch in 2025

    Will private credit reap benefits from deregulation, can the tech bubble keep inflating and will EV sales start to rise again?

    A collage features a model in a neon green outfit from the Gucci Spring Summer 2025 show, solar panels symbolising renewable energy, the Medline Industries logo, Elon Musk,  Donald Trump and an Xpeng electric vehicle. The number "2025" is prominently displayed in the centre.
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Business InsightArtificial intelligence
    Four AI predictions for 2025

    While the momentum behind the development of large models might fade, there will be other advances

    Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, during a keynote address at an event in Las Vegas
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Business InsightVenture capital investment
    Big bets on AI point to venture capital industry’s shift

    The strategy of focusing money on larger deals comes at time of extreme indigestion for start-up investors

    The Databricks logo is seen on a smartphone
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Technology sector
    Race is on to beat Musk to develop thought-controlled devices

    Precision Neuroscience, maker of a ‘brain-computer interface’, has raised more than $100mn in latest investment round

    The Layer 7 Cortical Interface is a scalable brain-computer interface that uses a cranial micro-slit technique
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump may not spare Big Tech after all Premium content

    It’s likely some companies are in for a bumpy ride despite Elon Musk’s influence in the White House

    Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance attending a football game
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The AI agents are coming

    A new layer of digital plumbing between apps could bring important changes to how people use technology

    Customers walk past an Apple logo in an Apple store
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthQuantum technologies
    Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers

    Research from Google on ‘error correction’ could help create a working full-scale system this decade

    Visitors take a tour of Google’s Quantum Computing Lab in Goleta, California
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Business InsightIntel Corp
    Will Washington need to step up to support Intel?

    Exit of CEO Pat Gelsinger maybe a sign of a shift in attitude by the company’s board to a huge strategic overhaul

    Pat Gelsinger
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    InterviewAmazon Web Services
    AWS is betting on generative AI as it goes head-to-head with Microsoft

    CEO Matt Garman says technology can be deployed in business applications and fuel new demand for cloud services

    Matt Garman, AWS chief executive
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Business InsightGoogle LLC
    Google vs the DoJ fight will be decided by a political call

    How the new Trump administration acts on the case will be a key test of its attitude to Big Tech

    The Google Chrome application on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Business InsightApple Inc
    Apple prepares for fresh AI assault on the smart home

    A new hub to manage people’s lives would be a big bet — but it’s not clear what it can bring to the business

    The Apple Siri AI icon is displayed on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Business InsightTechnology sector
    Big Tech’s shift on Trump

    Outrage over his 2016 election victory has given way to wariness but also anticipation of opportunities

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right, jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on October 5 during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    News in-depthBig Tech
    Wall Street frets over Big Tech’s $200bn AI spending splurge

    The four biggest US internet groups this week showed glimpses of benefits but warned of increased spending

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Intel Corp
    Intel takes $18.7bn in restructuring and impairment charges

    Smaller than expected sales decline boosts shares as chipmaker tries to recover from misjudging demand

    People walk outside Intel’s offices
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Business InsightGoogle LLC
    Google is winning the AI search wars

    But rival products from Apple and OpenAI will continue to attract users

    The Google DeepMind website on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft Cloud revenue rises on AI boom but softer outlook weighs on shares

    Warnings of slowing Azure growth and rising data centre costs damp initial optimism on tech giant’s quarterly earnings

    Microsoft signage in New York
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Business InsightSemiconductors
    The mystifying, acrimonious battle between Arm and Qualcomm

    A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership

    Montage of Arm and Qualcomm logos, on a background filled with grids of semiconductors
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Business InsightTechnology sector
    The tech sector should brace for further turbulence

    Whatever the long term shifts that are making its products more central to everyday life, chips remain highly cyclical 

    The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo at the company’s campus in Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Meta under fire for ‘polluting’ open-source

    Open Source Initiative chief criticises tech group for using the term to describe its Llama models

    A person wearing a plaid jacket types on a white laptop. The background is red with a dotted pattern, featuring the logos of the Open Source Initiative and Meta.
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How a break-up of Google could transform tech

    The Department of Justice’s proposal to shake up the company is a seminal moment for the industry. If it prevails in court, AI start-ups could benefit

    Montage image of a judge’s gavel smashing the Google logo
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Business InsightOpenAI
    OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck

    Latest funding round has boosted the company’s valuation to $150bn, but it faces formidable challenges

    A montage of Sam Altman and the logo of OpenAI
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Business InsightPalantir Technologies Inc
    Palantir defies the doubters on Wall Street

    Software company famous for its work with intelligence agencies rides the AI boom to the S&P 500

    Palantir chief executive Alex Karp
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Move over copilots: meet the next generation of AI-powered assistants

    Microsoft, Salesforce and Workday latest to centre their plans on ‘AI agents’ as technology advances

    A hand holding a smartphone, with a glowing projection above it displaying the logos of three companies: Salesforce, Microsoft Copilot and Workday
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