Trump to have White House dinner with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
First face-to-face meeting hints at rapprochement between US president and tech boss as fears over safety of AI become election issue
Letter: Dire warnings around SEC reporting rule change are overdone
From Paul S Atkins, Chairman, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, US
Letter: Oh for a Pevsner put-down of Trump’s triumphal arch
From Judith Martin, Winchester, Hampshire, UK
Letter: Seafarers share little of the shipowners’ good fortune
From JB Rae-Smith, Immediate Past President UK Chamber of Shipping; Director, John Swire & Sons, London SW1, UK
Letter: Switzerland’s wealth tax is nice earner for the cantons
From Hanspeter Jenni, Hombrechtikon, Switzerland
Letter: Miliband’s Israel speech: the Orthodox community view
From Donald Franklin, Rabbi Michael Pollak, Elkan Adler, Brian Berenblut, Trustees, Jewish Ethics Project, London NW11, UK
Letter: California grafting
From Andy and Barbara Serrano, Los Angeles, CA, US
Letter: One hospital’s attempts to harness the benefits of AI
From Dr Asif Ali, Consultant Physician, Milton Keynes University Hospital, Milton Keynes, UK
JCB’s Anthony Bamford names youngest child George as co-chair
Construction equipment billionaire’s heir steps up as family-owned digger maker reports drop in profits
Healey to promise ‘new age of industrialisation’ with £6bn Royal Navy plan
Chancellor will pledge that work on building three new floating docks on the Clyde in Scotland will be carried out by British firms
FT Crossword: Number 18,491
School economics class. Political Fix Podcast: Budget Blues
Fiscal policy
School politics class: Lobbyists move to Manchester for closer access to Number 10 North
Pressure groups
School sociology class: Feminism didn’t kill the male breadwinner model, the economy did
Social inequalities
School sociology class: London’s schools are running out of children
Education
UK to restart resettlement scheme, Mahmood to tell Labour conference
Home secretary to portray the initiative as an opportunity for ‘genuine refugees’ to live in Britain
Northern Ireland in tense stand-off as protests block Orange Order parade
March unable to proceed as police say they cannot facilitate Protestant route down largely Catholic road
FirstFT: Trump asked Xi if China wanted to buy American weapons, US ambassador says
Also in today’s newsletter: terrorism arrests made near RAF Fairford and Nicaragua hands Chinese miners rights to a tenth of its land
World’s worst-performing market slashes minimum price for stocks
Indonesia is trying to boost liquidity by allowing shares to trade at a tiny fraction of a US cent
Trump asked Xi if China wanted to buy American weapons, US envoy says
Administration denies delaying sale of a $14bn arms package to Taiwan to appease Beijing
‘Hope again’: Burnham returns to Labour conference to sell his vision
Party leader will rely on keynote speech in Liverpool to maintain momentum early in premiership
Burnham signals he will fight election on tax rises to fund social care reform
Prime minister says shake-up would be ‘hard’ to do in current parliament
Terrorism arrests made in ‘major incident’ near US air base in UK
President Donald Trump suggests US worked with UK to prevent an attack on air base used for US strikes on Iran
Burnham’s high-stakes speech unlikely to produce a Clause IV moment
UK prime minister addresses his party and the nation, Brazilian presidential elections get under way, US-Canada trade war intensifies