FT News Briefing

Sweden set to join the Nato club

Sweden is set to become a Nato member, the UK Financial Conduct Authority is planning to name firms under investigation at a much earlier stage, and Microsoft has struck a deal with a French artificial intelligence start-up to broaden its involvement in the industry beyond OpenAI. Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://on.ft.com/3UUEy2x" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sweden overcomes final hurdle to join Nato in historic shift</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3OUaqk0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FCA plans to name firms under investigation in UK deterrence drive</a><a href="https://on.ft.com/3UOZ70l" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI</a> The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ac0d8ea0-6f68-4bef-803a-b95a7eb737b3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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