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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, 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
    Inside BusinessArtificial 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
    Inside BusinessArtificial 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
    Inside BusinessVenture 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
    Inside BusinessArtificial 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
    Inside BusinessArtificial 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
    Inside BusinessEU 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
    Inside BusinessArtificial 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
    Inside BusinessStreaming 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
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
    AI’s biggest promise for consumers remains just that — a promise

    An arm’s race is in full swing in the personal computing and smartphone worlds but fundamental problems are unresolved

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    News in-depthQuantum technologies
    Quantum computing breakthroughs draw investment back to sector

    Australia’s $620mn deal with US start-up signals new hope for building commercially viable quantum computer

    IBM chief Arvind Krishna shows US President Joe Biden a quantum computer at the company’s factory in New York in October 2022
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Inside BusinessCloud computing
    Cloud busting: the disruptive potential impact of AI on computing platforms

    Industry sees a rebound but new technology will change competitive dynamics in the long term

    People walking past an Amazon Web Services logo
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Big Tech
    Microsoft and Alphabet enjoy AI-powered gains from cloud divisions

    Combined market value of the two tech giants rose by more than $250bn after revenue growth beat expectations

    Microsoft and Alphabet each reported double-digit revenue growth in their first-quarter results
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Alphabet Inc
    Alphabet surges past $2tn valuation as it announces first dividend

    Shares of Google’s parent company jump after first-quarter earnings beat expectations and $70bn stock buyback

    Google logo
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessMeta Platforms
    Meta’s gamble on chatbots opens new wave of tech competition

    Zuckerberg’s AI plans may have knocked its stock market value, but he hopes his next venture will have dramatic impact

    Hand reaches out to shake robot’s hand in front of a Meta AI logo
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
    Question of pay-off from AI hangs over Big Tech earnings

    The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient

    Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Nvidia logos - montage
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Google lost ground in the AI race

    The Silicon Valley group has stumbled in the rollout of generative AI. Insiders say cultural and organisational issues are to blame

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Inside BusinessIntel Corp
    Intel’s turnaround looks set to be a long haul for investors

    Attempt to claw back a lead in global chip manufacturing was never going to be easy

    Intel signage
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Google LLC
    Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model

    Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall

    Montage of Google logo and hands on a laptop
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