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Eric Schmidt

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    War in the age of AI demands new weaponry

    We must develop now what we need to be ready to fight in the future

    Roadrunner drone produced by Anduril
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    UK Government
    Sunak puts Jamie Dimon and Eric Schmidt forward for UK honours

    JPMorgan boss would ‘be a strong candidate for knighthood’, says Conservative minister

    Jamie Dimon, left, and Eric Schmidt
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    Medical science
    Griffin and Schmidt invest $10mn each in UK genetics database

    UK Biobank’s records of 500,000 people promise breakthroughs in diseases and ageing

    Biobank data storage facility in Stockport
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Schmidt: We need an AI equivalent of the IPCC

    An International Panel on AI Safety could offer an objective body to help shape protocols and norms

    Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive, left, and Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Inflection and DeepMind
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Beatrice Hodgkin
    The Burning Man rumour mill is as wild as the festival 

    Life on the playa is the ultimate shedding of normcore

    Revellers crowd around a golden octopus-like edifice that is spouting flames
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian push to lure western attendees to St Petersburg forum stalls

    Named participants including Eric Schmidt say they have no plans to join Putin’s flagship summit

    A screen shows a speech by Vladimir Putin at last year’s economic forum in St Petersburg
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
    FT MagazineGillian Tett
    Why Eric Schmidt believes bioscience will change the world

    The former Google CEO is convinced AI and geopolitics will accelerate a post-internet revolution

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    Eric Schmidt creates $125mn fund for ‘hard problems’ in AI research

    Former Google chief wants latest philanthropic project to solve difficult tech issues such as bias, harm and geopolitical conflict

    Eric Schmidt speaks at an event in 2019
  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
    News in-depthDigital health
    Trove of unique health data sets could help AI predict medical conditions earlier

    Nightingale Open Science data show what actually happened to patients rather than relying on doctor’s notes

    Ziad Obermeyer
  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Edward Luce
    US and China must heed Kissinger’s stark warnings

    Cold war strategist says artificial intelligence poses far greater challenge than nuclear weapons

    Henry Kissinger visits the Summer Palace in Beijing during a visit in 1971
  • Sunday, 18 July, 2021
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    US needs Japan and Korea to counter China tech, says Google ex-CEO

    Eric Schmidt urges co-operation in AI, chips, quantum computing and synthetic biology

    Eric Schmidt
  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    5G networks
    Flawed approach to 5G threatens US’s digital future

    Former Google chief warns that recent $81bn spectrum auction could hobble American innovation

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    #techFT
    Tech to reshape post-Covid cities

    Bitcoin halvening, Carta plans Nasdaq rival, Reply All Storm Protection

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Philanthropy
    Eric Schmidt puts up $5m a year for ‘junior’ Rhodes scholarships

    Former Google chief seeks to help mentor young students from lower-income countries

    Eric Schmidt, Technical Advisor, Alphabet Inc. speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    Ex-Google chief warns of need for AI co-operation with China

    Eric Schmidt says US innovation will be hurt if it chooses to disengage from Beijing on tech

    Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., speaks on stage at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, June 15, 2017. Outgoing chief executive officer of Publicis Group SA Maurice Levy expects hundreds of millions of euros of investments to be made linked to this week's VivaTechnology conference, up from at least 100 million euros raised during and following the first edition a year ago. Photographer: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2019
    Former Google chief Eric Schmidt steps down from Alphabet board

    Board reshuffle comes after company issues disappointing earnings report

    Eric Schmidt, Technical Advisor, Alphabet Inc. speaks at the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., April 29, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
  • Tuesday, 27 November, 2018
    Innovation
    Our narrow view of entrepreneurs squanders talent

    To make the greatest progress, we must empower scientists, teachers and civil servants

    Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet Inc., speaks during the Google Inc. Cloud Next '17 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The Cloud Next conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 11 October, 2018
    Gillian Tett
    Investors must heed warnings about a splintering of the internet

    The risk is of a digital-era version of the Iron Curtain between the US and China

  • Friday, 2 February, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Alphabet worries investors with rise in Google costs

    Jump in payments of more than 33% outstrips 24% rise in revenue

    FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a product event in San Francisco. Pichai has declared artificial intelligence more important to humanity than fire or electricity. And yet the search giant is increasingly having to deal with messy people problems: from the need for human checkers to catch rogue YouTube posters and Russian bots to its efforts to house its burgeoning workforce in pricey Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
  • Friday, 22 December, 2017
    LexUS & Canadian companies
    Eric Schmidt/Alphabet: from A to B list Premium content

    Executive chairman’s exit may reflect the shifting political backdrop

    FILE PHOTO: Eric Schmidt, chairman of Alphabet Inc., speaks during the SALT conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. May 17, 2017.  REUTERS/Richard Brian/File Photo
  • Friday, 22 December, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    Eric Schmidt steps down as Alphabet chairman

    Move ends 17-year triumvirate with Page and Brin that drove Google growth

    FILE PHOTO: Alphabet's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt looks on during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2017
    Technology sector
    Eric Schmidt to step down as Alphabet board chairman
  • Friday, 17 November, 2017
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    From the clay tablet to predictive text: how tech shapes literature

    An age of innovation is focusing minds on past media revolutions. Could ours be the most far-reaching yet?

    New Corner, 2011 (detail). (Installation view, Jenny Holzer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2011. Text: Arno, 1996)
  • Tuesday, 17 October, 2017
    US & Canadian companies
    Alphabet to build futuristic city in Toronto

    Plans for technology-enabled environment raise privacy concerns

    People take photographs of the Toronto skyline and waterfront before Alphabet Inc, the owner of Google, announced the project "Sidewalk Toronto", that will develop an area of Toronto's waterfront using new technologies to develop high-tech urban areas in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 17, 2017.    REUTERS/Mark Blinch
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2017
    FT AlphavilleAlexandra Scaggs
    The problem with networking, New America edition
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