Money Briefing: The global wave of energy rationing Strategic angle: Governments from Bangladesh to Zambia impose measures to cut fuel demand as Middle East conflict cuts off flows. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Money Briefing: Apple at 50: how Asia fuelled its rise to the top Strategic angle: Japanese industry and Chinese manufacturing prowess played roles in the tech giant’s success, with consequences for both Editorial Staff Apr 2
Money Briefing: How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column Strategic angle: A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: A Safety-Aware Role-Orchestrated Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Behavioral Health Communication Simulation Strategic angle: Innovative framework aims to enhance safety and functionality in behavioral health communication using multi-agent systems. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: Collaborative AI Agents and Critics for Fault Detection and Cause Analysis in Network Telemetry Strategic angle: New algorithms enhance collaborative control in multi-agent systems for improved fault detection. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: Decision-Centric Design for LLM Systems Strategic angle: Exploring the need for LLM systems to make control decisions beyond just generating outputs. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: How Emotion Shapes the Behavior of LLMs and Agents: A Mechanistic Study Strategic angle: Investigating the role of emotional signals in shaping the behavior of large language models. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: Human-in-the-Loop Control of Objective Drift in LLM-Assisted Computer Science Education Strategic angle: Exploring the integration of human oversight in AI-driven programming education to mitigate objective drift. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: Improvisational Games as a Benchmark for Social Intelligence of AI Agents Strategic angle: Exploring the reasoning capabilities of AI through the wordplay game Connections. Editorial Staff Apr 2
Tech Briefing: In harmony with gpt-oss Strategic angle: A reverse-engineering effort reveals challenges in reproducing OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b scores. Editorial Staff Apr 2