Chancellor Rachel Reeves aims to inject ‘fresh thinking’ into department with round of appointments

Pornhub loses more than 1mn visitors in two weeks after Online Safety Act comes into force

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says meeting will be ‘listening exercise’ for US president

OpenAI in talks to invest in brain implant start-up that would compete with Musk’s company

US vice-president will not hold talks with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch due to ‘conflicting schedules’

President slams Goldman Sachs as he hails data as evidence his policies are working

Sudden advance beyond Ukrainian frontline in Donetsk region comes ahead of Trump-Putin summit in Alaska

With US checks and balances on the retreat, it is unwise to be an optimist

Officials asked to draw up proposals for second bill that would include scaling back judicial reviews for major works

Value is less than 1% of Chinese property developer’s total holdings at time of collapse

Ahead of Friday’s meeting, Putin knows that Trump is desperate for a deal on Ukraine

Alibaba and ByteDance among companies who have received questions from regulators

Billionaire accuses tech group of unfairly favouring rival OpenAI

Steady wage growth highlights challenge facing Bank of England

British ex-minister denies having passport ahead of corruption trial in Dhaka

Japanese and Australian equities hit record highs after Donald Trump signs executive order to continue talks for 90 days

Two of the world’s largest countries are at odds over the fate of one man: Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro. Can the rift be mended?

Even LLMs are starting to show this worrying human tendency

Russian leader’s technique is to lie and play for time, warns former French president François Hollande

FT radar analysis reveals historic scale of rearmament, stretching over 7mn sq metres of new development

Recent breakthroughs have revived confidence about creating full-scale quantum systems by end of the decade

Prolonged slump in retail spending and sluggish office demand put Europe’s largest lender on notice

Lip-Bu Tan to offer ‘suggestions’ on how government can work with group as it struggles with chip manufacturing

US leader postpones new tariffs on world’s biggest exporter for another 90 days