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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.

              Email Richard Waters @RichardWaters  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
              • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
                Business InsightIntel Corp
                Intel’s long-shot turnaround hits a critical stage

                Chipmaker is trying to pull off one of the most complex revivals in tech history

                Intel chief Pat Gelsinger speaking in Taipei in June
              • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
                Business InsightOracle Corp
                $200bn man: Ellison’s wealth rebounds as Oracle joins AI boom

                Database software maker has undergone an unlikely Wall Street renaissance

                Larry Ellison speaks at a conference in San Francisco
              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                FT Swamp Notes
                Talk of a coming crackdown on social media companies is overblown Premium content

                Brazil’s X ban and Telegram founder’s arrest are exceptions, not the rule

                The X account of Elon Musk in seen blocked on a mobile screen in this illustration after Brazil’s telecommunications regulator suspended access to Elon Musk’s X
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                AI start-up hopes contrast with pullback in hype for listed stocks

                Volatility looks like becoming the new reality in the sector on public markets

                OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever
              • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
                Business InsightNvidia
                Nvidia faces looming test on use of chips

                When AI models go into widespread use in applications for consumers and businesses, demand may change

                Nvidia’s logo
              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
                Microsoft Corp
                Microsoft plans Windows security overhaul after CrowdStrike outage

                Tech giant to host September summit for cyber security companies to discuss improving software resilience

                A passenger at the Delhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, looks up at multiple malfunctioning information screens displaying Windows recovery messages and one working flight information screen.
              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                We are a long way from truly open-source AI

                If users cannot see the underlying data on models they are not free to reproduce it

                A hand holding a smartphone displaying an enrollment page for the Llama 3 program. The screen shows the text Llama 3, with a green ‘Enroll’ button below. The background features a blurred graduation cap icon
              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                News in-depthMichael Lynch
                Mike Lynch’s journey from tech founder to long legal battle

                The outsider entrepreneur was celebrating a courtroom victory when the yacht he was on sank

                Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy Corporation, is seen in St James Square, Westminster, London, UK. He is wearing a dark blazer and white shirt, looking to the side with a neutral expression. The background is a plain wall with soft lighting.
              • Friday, 16 August, 2024
                ReviewNon-Fiction
                Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King — what is the truth about Bill Gates?

                Anupreeta Das investigates the power of Microsoft co-founder to shape our world — and asks: is it effective and accountable?

                Bill Gates speaks to an audience via a TV screen mounted on a wall of framed pictures
              • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                Google’s antitrust defeat could shape AI markets

                Court ruling on search could prevent companies from dominating newer markets

                Google’s Gemini logo on a phone
              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
                Intel Corp
                Intel shares fall 26% on plans to cut 15,000 jobs

                US chipmaker says it will also reduce capital spending as turnaround strategy hits another setback

              • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                Media groups seek a new profit model with AI

                Industry seeks to avoid painful experience with online gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook

                The OpenAI website ChatGPT
              • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                AI is approaching an open-source inflection point

                Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s a convert to the cause of openness

                Mark Zuckerberg
              • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
                Business InsightVenture capital investment
                Venture capital has an exit problem

                A big overhang of ageing — and unsold — private tech companies has developed

                The Wiz logo on a smartphone
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                FT Swamp Notes
                Threat of AI earthquake creates growing political rift in Silicon Valley Premium content

                There’s a growing fear over excessive regulation and overconcentration of corporate power

                Elon Musk
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                AI bubble set to inflate further

                It will take time for the technology to be put to productive use by customers

                Nvidia chief Jensen Huang giving a keynote address in Las Vegas last month
              • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial intelligence
                The cloud over cloud companies

                The sector has been left behind in the euphoria over artificial intelligence sweeping through the stock market

                Salesforce logo on building
              • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
                Business InsightEU tech regulation
                Big Tech investors should be paying more attention to EU’s regulatory strikes

                Latest actions target some of the core practices that have helped the biggest companies consolidate their power

                Margrethe Vestager
              • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
                Business InsightArtificial 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
                Business InsightStreaming 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
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