Convenience store woman: Lady Gaga urges Japanese to work at FamilyMart
Chain taps pop star in bid to recruit staff amid labour shortages
Will Adani get an airline?
Also in this newsletter, insurance regulator proposes fees reforms
Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
OpenAI axes next model citing safety issues
AI lab will hold back GPT-6.1 Astra following mounting pressure over misbehaviour by its agents
Singapore’s bet on chipmaking
City-state’s economy is getting an AI uplift but costs and labour are constraints to its industrial growth
Trump renames AI ‘super intelligence’
‘It’s rebranded itself as super-duper intelligence’
Pope Leo criticises Nvidia’s Jensen Huang over AI safety
Rare intervention from head of Catholic Church comes as top executives are due to meet at White House on Tuesday
Letter: Investing for the future should not just be for the wealthy
From Matt Benchener, Chief Executive Officer, Hargreaves Lansdown, Bristol, UK
Letter: Britain ought to deepen its French nuclear ties
From Norman Dombey, Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Physics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Letter: When technology solves problems we don’t have
From Arina Machine, London N4, UK
Letter: Private equity’s patience must create value
From Steffen Pauls, Founder, Moonfare, Berlin, Germany
SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time despite engine failure
Milestone for Musk because the system is pivotal to winning more Nasa contracts and to transport humans to space
FT Crossword: Number 18,492
US Treasury threatens crackdown on Wall Street tax-avoidance strategies
Department limits use of ETFs to avoid taxable gains and says it could target other ‘potentially abusive’ tactics
AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s AI start-up for $8bn
World Labs was founded by Stanford University researcher to work on AI models that understand 3D environments
Bond sell-off deepens and oil rises as Iran-US deal hopes fade
Brent crude jumps and 10-year Treasury yield surpasses 5.2% as hopes for US-Iran agreement fade
Burnham vows to break with ‘politics as usual’ by tackling UK’s biggest issues
PM will unveil at Labour conference a ‘serious prospectus’ that aims to confront problems including social care crisis and youth unemployment
FirstFT: Seoul accuses Ukraine of violating secrecy agreement on North Korean soldiers
Also in today’s newsletter: Nvidia’s $150bn share buyback and Tata family scion hits back with plan to keep holding company private
HSBC moves to bolster Hang Seng by cleaning up balance sheet
$1.4bn sale of Hong Kong lender’s loan portfolio part of push to improve its capital efficiency
Erdoğan bids to contain fallout from Turkey’s $18bn stock market scandal
President says those ‘engaged in manipulative schemes’ will be held to account as deputy chair of governing party resigns
Software glitch will delay US approval of newest Boeing 737
Shares in aerospace group fall 6% on Monday to $184 as regulator airs concerns over automated navigation function
Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7
Opposition attacks Israeli premier ahead of election over leaks suggesting Egyptian and Emirati officials alerted him to Hamas threat
Fed exposed to security ‘deficiencies’, watchdog warns
US central bank remains target for country’s foreign adversaries
Five men arrested over alleged RAF Fairford terror plot released on bail
Police said suspects ‘remain under investigation as we explore multiple lines of enquiry’