Nineteen people injured in accident on French side of Channel Tunnel
Two airlifted to hospital after bus collides with train at Coquelles
Netflix replaces chief content officer in effort to arrest declining share price
Former Disney and Fox executive Peter Rice will replace Bela Bajaria, who worked at the company for nearly a decade
FirstFT: Inside India’s controversial electoral overhaul
Also in today’s newsletter: Zelenskyy defies Trump and AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’
Trump weighs easing restrictions on Russian and Iranian ‘shadow fleet’
A White House desperate to lower fuel costs ahead of US midterm elections could allow blacklisted vessels back into global trade
Farage accused of ‘protecting’ mayoral candidate who allegedly made racist comments
Senior aide to Reform UK leader pushed to have Chris Parry thrown out of the party, according to TV documentary
How India lost more than 100mn voters
Critics say ‘aggressive’ review wrongly deleted eligible voters, many of them Muslim, and may have benefited PM Modi’s party
777 Partners’ Josh Wander pleads guilty to fraud charges
Financier who tried to buy Everton FC changes plea on eve of trial
Treasuries rally as investors seek shelter from AI turbulence
Global chip stocks caught up in volatile trading amid fears over sustainability of AI boom
Harvard’s endowment returns surge on back of AI and SpaceX investments
Ivy League university’s fund gains 27.1%, boosting total assets to $68bn as private capital holdings rebound
Meta and Apple team up on AI model tailored for Mac computers
Partnership between Big Tech rivals offers ‘open’ system that users can download to their own devices
The AI boom stumbles
Should investors prepare for an AI bust? And if so, how?
Commercial goods blocked from entry into Gaza
Israelis and Palestinians trade blame for the cut-off of new goods from the devastated enclave
Fifa president Gianni Infantino apologises for failed investment plan
Global body for football proposes to increase payments to member associations and review its governance
Anthropic grants non-profit METR ‘employee-like’ access to monitor AI risks
CEO Dario Amodei has made bringing in external evaluators one of his main proposals to address safety concerns
Investors dump data centre bonds as AI borrowers face ‘Darwin moment’
Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and neocloud companies such as CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels
Healey signals tax raid on banks in UK Budget
Chancellor points to looming ‘decisions’ as financial services sector braces for higher levies
Bankers and advisers set for £334mn easyJet payout
Fees make Apollo’s £5.7bn takeover of airline one of the City’s most lucrative acquisitions this year
Criminals stole $90mn of crypto by hiding password readers in USB-like devices
Ledger said theft from its secure wallets was ‘one of the most sophisticated attacks’ the industry has seen
Trump cancels Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution after backlash
US president overrules decision to broadcast execution of former soldier who carried out Texas mass shooting in 2009
France and Germany to allow UK to join EU car policy if it aligns on China tariffs
Paris and Berlin near deal on bloc’s ‘Made in Europe’ subsidy programme and combustion engine phaseout
Risk of an AI crunch for stock markets is rising
The tremor seen this week could be a foretaste of things to come
Europe cannot rely on trade barriers to counter China
The EU’s hybrid car deal with Beijing eases tensions but only offers a brief respite
Six films to watch this week
Israeli operatives reveal Gaza assault secrets in ‘NAZA’; ‘Tenzing’ tells the story of the Everest climber; a scuba dive turns sour in ‘Whalefall’; ‘Case 137’ is a superior French police procedural; Aaron Sorkin posts a grim Facebook update in ‘The Social Reckoning’; Andrew Garfield leads the Peasa
What happens when AI can read our minds?
Brain-computer interfaces are already being used to treat Parkinson’s disease and allow paralysed patients to operate computers