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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.SpaceX has hit out at the EU’s plan to restrict access to its satellite spectrum, saying the move risks poorer connectivity in Ukraine where its Starlink service has been critical to communications since Russia’s full-scale invasion.In a document shared with European officials and seen by the FT, SpaceX said: “The proposal creates a significant likelihood that Europeans will be left without direct-to-device satellite services or that new European operations will create global interference problems, including to emergency services like those in Ukraine.”The…

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Fomer US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama arrive at the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.Kent Nishimura | Afp | Getty ImagesFormer President Barack Obama opened his long-awaited presidential center in Chicago on Thursday, drawing a who’s who of former presidents, dignitaries, celebrities and musical performers to an invite-only dedication ceremony on the city’s South Side.The Obama Presidential Center, a $850 million campus more than a decade in the making, officially opens to the public Friday. Thursday’s ceremony featured guests such as Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Stephen Colbert and Tom Hanks, with performances from…

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Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the surface. As part of this, officials said work would be paused on the Lunar Gateway planned to orbit the Moon. Of the two elements that were furthest along, NASA also revealed that one of them—the  Power and Propulsion Element—would be repurposed to serve as a core module for a nuclear-electric propulsion demonstration in deep space. Less was said about the fate of the other major…

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Next week’s inflation data just got even more important after the latest Federal Reserve meeting. Next Thursday’s release of the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge follows this week’s FOMC meeting that marked a sea change for the central bank. After new chairman Kevin Warsh signaled a more hawkish direction than investors were anticipating from the Trump appointee — the former Morgan Stanley banker famously said “inflation is a choice” — stocks pulled back, the bond market came under pressure and short-term yields pushed higher. On Wednesday, the yield on the 2-year Treasury — sensitive to short-term Fed policy — spiked more…

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A Waymo autonomous taxi outside the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWaymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis in the U.S. to fix software issues after some cars drove into freeway construction zones, according to notices filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.The voluntary recall, the Alphabet-owned company’s second in just over a month, followed 13 known incidents where Waymo robotaxis drove into construction zones on freeways in Phoenix, or entered freeway lanes with active construction in the San Francisco area, the filings published Thursday said. Waymo’s…

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United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives a statement as he arrives for a NATO Defence Ministers meeting on June 18, 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. Omar Havana | Getty ImagesDefense Secretary ​Pete Hegseth announced a Pentagon-led review of American forces in Europe on Thursday, and criticized some NATO allies over defense spending and reluctance to participate in the Iran war. “It’s a ​review that some countries ‌will ⁠fail, and others will pass with flying colors,” Hegseth ​told ​NATO ⁠defense ministers in Brussels, Reuters reported. Hegseth added that the six-month review is designed to “ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly”…

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