Mark Cuban Tears Into Trump's Credit Card Plan, Which Some Say Could Hurt Small Businesses

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, shares top stories in the Unlock the Editor’s Digest, including the UN’s COP29 climate summit facing collapse as small island nations walked out over inadequate funding offers. Germany accused Azerbaijan of supporting fossil fuel producers' attempts to manipulate the talks, while criticism was also directed at the EU's negotiating tactics. The finance talks, among several discussions at the event, were stalled as tensions rose over climate finance and transitioning...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award, recommends all six shortlisted titles for 2024, but cannot reveal her favorite as the winner is yet to be decided. Notable books include Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, Patriot by Alexei Navalny, and The Normalization of the Radical Right by Vicente Valentim. Stay tuned for the final decision and more recommendations from various FT writers and critics. Full Article

Entrepreneur contributors express their own opinions, highlighting the negative impact of AI on productivity, with 77% of employees reporting that AI actually hinders their efficiency due to the time spent revising AI-generated content. Despite AI's initial time-saving benefits, the need for extensive tweaking and fixing ultimately leads to increased time consumption and cognitive overload, distracting from important tasks. A solution is presented in a video demonstrating three simple steps to effectively utilize AI and save...

Donald Trump has chosen Scott Bessent, a major financial backer, to be his US Treasury secretary for his second term, tasked with overseeing economic pledges like tax cuts and maintaining stability. Bessent, a hedge fund manager, aims to blend free-market conservatism with Trump's populism, defending tariff threats as negotiation tools. With Senate confirmation required, Bessent's appointment signals Trump's focus on economic policy and government spending cuts. Full Article

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos engaged in a public disagreement on Musk's platform X regarding comments Bezos allegedly made about President-elect Donald Trump, which Bezos denies. Musk claimed Bezos told people to sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock because Trump would lose, prompting Bezos to deny the accusation. Despite being two of the richest individuals globally, the rivalry between Musk's SpaceX and Bezos' Blue Origin continues, with past disagreements over space exploration and engineering details....