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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.

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  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    The AI agents are coming

    A new layer of digital plumbing between apps could bring important changes to how people use technology

    Customers walk past an Apple logo in an Apple store
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthQuantum technologies
    Scientific breakthrough gives new hope to building quantum computers

    Research from Google on ‘error correction’ could help create a working full-scale system this decade

    Visitors take a tour of Google’s Quantum Computing Lab in Goleta, California
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Business InsightIntel Corp
    Will Washington need to step up to support Intel?

    Exit of CEO Pat Gelsinger maybe a sign of a shift in attitude by the company’s board to a huge strategic overhaul

    Pat Gelsinger
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    InterviewAmazon Web Services
    AWS is betting on generative AI as it goes head-to-head with Microsoft

    CEO Matt Garman says technology can be deployed in business applications and fuel new demand for cloud services

    Matt Garman, AWS chief executive
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Business InsightGoogle LLC
    Google vs the DoJ fight will be decided by a political call

    How the new Trump administration acts on the case will be a key test of its attitude to Big Tech

    The Google Chrome application on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Business InsightApple Inc
    Apple prepares for fresh AI assault on the smart home

    A new hub to manage people’s lives would be a big bet — but it’s not clear what it can bring to the business

    The Apple Siri AI icon is displayed on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Business InsightTechnology sector
    Big Tech’s shift on Trump

    Outrage over his 2016 election victory has given way to wariness but also anticipation of opportunities

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right, jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on October 5 during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    News in-depthBig Tech
    Wall Street frets over Big Tech’s $200bn AI spending splurge

    The four biggest US internet groups this week showed glimpses of benefits but warned of increased spending

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Intel Corp
    Intel takes $18.7bn in restructuring and impairment charges

    Smaller than expected sales decline boosts shares as chipmaker tries to recover from misjudging demand

    People walk outside Intel’s offices
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Business InsightGoogle LLC
    Google is winning the AI search wars

    But rival products from Apple and OpenAI will continue to attract users

    The Google DeepMind website on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft Cloud revenue rises on AI boom but softer outlook weighs on shares

    Warnings of slowing Azure growth and rising data centre costs damp initial optimism on tech giant’s quarterly earnings

    Microsoft signage in New York
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    Business InsightSemiconductors
    The mystifying, acrimonious battle between Arm and Qualcomm

    A licensing dispute clouds an important chip industry partnership

    Montage of Arm and Qualcomm logos, on a background filled with grids of semiconductors
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Business InsightTechnology sector
    The tech sector should brace for further turbulence

    Whatever the long term shifts that are making its products more central to everyday life, chips remain highly cyclical 

    The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo at the company’s campus in Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Meta under fire for ‘polluting’ open-source

    Open Source Initiative chief criticises tech group for using the term to describe its Llama models

    A person wearing a plaid jacket types on a white laptop. The background is red with a dotted pattern, featuring the logos of the Open Source Initiative and Meta.
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How a break-up of Google could transform tech

    The Department of Justice’s proposal to shake up the company is a seminal moment for the industry. If it prevails in court, AI start-ups could benefit

    Montage image of a judge’s gavel smashing the Google logo
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Business InsightOpenAI
    OpenAI feels competitors breathing down its neck

    Latest funding round has boosted the company’s valuation to $150bn, but it faces formidable challenges

    A montage of Sam Altman and the logo of OpenAI
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Business InsightPalantir Technologies Inc
    Palantir defies the doubters on Wall Street

    Software company famous for its work with intelligence agencies rides the AI boom to the S&P 500

    Palantir chief executive Alex Karp
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Move over copilots: meet the next generation of AI-powered assistants

    Microsoft, Salesforce and Workday latest to centre their plans on ‘AI agents’ as technology advances

    A hand holding a smartphone, with a glowing projection above it displaying the logos of three companies: Salesforce, Microsoft Copilot and Workday
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Business InsightIntel Corp
    Intel’s long-shot turnaround hits a critical stage

    Chipmaker is trying to pull off one of the most complex revivals in tech history

    Intel chief Pat Gelsinger speaking in Taipei in June
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Business InsightOracle Corp
    $200bn man: Ellison’s wealth rebounds as Oracle joins AI boom

    Database software maker has undergone an unlikely Wall Street renaissance

    Larry Ellison speaks at a conference in San Francisco
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Talk of a coming crackdown on social media companies is overblown Premium content

    Brazil’s X ban and Telegram founder’s arrest are exceptions, not the rule

    The X account of Elon Musk in seen blocked on a mobile screen in this illustration after Brazil’s telecommunications regulator suspended access to Elon Musk’s X
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Business InsightArtificial intelligence
    AI start-up hopes contrast with pullback in hype for listed stocks

    Volatility looks like becoming the new reality in the sector on public markets

    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Business InsightNvidia
    Nvidia faces looming test on use of chips

    When AI models go into widespread use in applications for consumers and businesses, demand may change

    Nvidia’s logo
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Microsoft Corp
    Microsoft plans Windows security overhaul after CrowdStrike outage

    Tech giant to host September summit for cyber security companies to discuss improving software resilience

    A passenger at the Delhi International Airport in New Delhi, India, looks up at multiple malfunctioning information screens displaying Windows recovery messages and one working flight information screen.
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Business InsightArtificial intelligence
    We are a long way from truly open-source AI

    If users cannot see the underlying data on models they are not free to reproduce it

    A hand holding a smartphone displaying an enrollment page for the Llama 3 program. The screen shows the text Llama 3, with a green ‘Enroll’ button below. The background features a blurred graduation cap icon
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