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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.

Email Richard Waters @RichardWaters  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • 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
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Inside BusinessArtificial intelligence
    AI boom broadens out across Wall Street

    Reflected glory of chipmaker Nvidia has caused other stocks to surge

    Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Inside BusinessNvidia
    Nvidia’s lightning speed in driving change

    CEO Jensen Huang has ambitious plans for ‘full-stack computing’

    Jensen Huang
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    Autonomy founder Mike Lynch called ‘driving force’ of ‘massive fraud’ in US trial

    UK tech entrepreneur finally faces a US jury after years of legal wrangling

    Mike Lynch
  • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
    Michael Lynch
    Mike Lynch goes on trial in US over Silicon Valley’s ‘largest fraud’

    Autonomy founder faces charges of falsifying accounts before HP bought his software company in 2011

    Mike Lynch
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Inside BusinessEU tech regulation
    The EU’s giant experiment in tech micromanagement

    New Digital Markets Act will be a test case for how far regulators can dictate design of products and services

    Margrethe Vestager talks to media
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    The Big Read
    Will Big Tech agree to play by Europe’s rules?

    This week is the deadline for large online platforms to comply with new EU regulations on competition. Too little too late, say some

    FT montage of the EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager surrounded by Big Tech logos
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Inside BusinessApple Inc
    Apple faces the most disruptive threat it has seen in the iPhone era

    The company has strengths in AI but ground to make up as rivals Google and Microsoft move fast

    Tim Cook waves while on stage
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Burn Book — a love-hate report from the tech front line

    Journalist Kara Swisher’s breezy, score-settling memoir canters through a career covering Silicon Valley and its moguls

    A woman in dark glasses appears to tickle the chin of a bison head on a wall. The bison wears a Facebook cap
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    AI boom catapults Nvidia into tech’s big league

    The chip designer’s bumper earnings have made it one of the world’s most valuable companies. How long can it last?

    Jensen Huang, Nvidia log
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessNvidia
    Nvidia share price juggernaut will not be stopped easily

    After rising five-fold in little more than a year, the stock continues to be propelled by the AI boom

    Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    News in-depthElon Musk
    Musk’s Neuralink hype irks rivals yet shines a light on brain implants

    Competitors shrug at the billionaire’s claims but acknowledge that the attention has helped to propel the field closer to reality

    Montage of Elon Musk and logos of Precision Neuroscience and Synchron
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Big tech continues to rock

    Magnificent Seven tech stocks had a big week after reporting quarterly earnings

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