FT News Briefing

Anthropic has unveiled its long-awaited listing prospectus, Israelis have begun voting in an election that many regard as the most important in the country’s near-80-year history, and Donald Trump Jr went on a hunting trip with a Kremlin-linked oligarch. Plus, European holidaymakers are flying to South America.

Mentioned in this podcast:
Anthropic begins countdown to IPO with prospectus filing
‘Bold but sane’: what we learnt from Anthropic’s 240,000-word IPO filing
Israelis go to the polls in historic election
Inside Donald Trump Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip with a Kremlin-linked oligarch
Iran war drives European holidaymakers towards South America

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The FT News Briefing is produced by Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Our editor is Marc Filippino. Our video producer is Zachary Alfred. Our show is mixed by Sam Giovinco and Alex Higgins. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello, Vanessa Brown, Peter Barber and David da Silva. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT’s global head of audio. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.

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The leftwinger’s victory comes after a loss in the first election round. Meanwhile, US voters are worried about corruption under the Trump administration a week ahead of the crucial midterm elections. Plus, a top Deloitte boss got a big pay bump last year as the consultancy cut jobs, Toyota is entering the humanoid robot race and Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to the country.

This episode updates and replaces an earlier version of the show with the results of the Brazil election.

Mentioned in this podcast:
How Lula turned his election fortunes around in three weeks
US voters worried about corruption under Trump — FT poll
Deloitte boss Houston gets 45% pay rise as firm cuts jobs
Toyota takes on Tesla and China in humanoid robot race
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado returns from exile

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The FT News Briefing is produced by Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Our editor is Marc Filippino. Our video producer is Zachary Alfred. Our show is mixed by Sam Giovinco and Alex Higgins. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello, Vanessa Brown, Peter Barber and David da Silva. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT’s global head of audio. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.
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Serbia’s former president Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat in the country’s parliamentary election on Sunday. Meanwhile, US voters are worried about corruption under the Trump administration a week ahead of the crucial midterm elections. Plus, a top Deloitte boss got a big pay bump last year as the consultancy cut jobs, Toyota is entering the humanoid robot race, and Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to the country.

Mentioned in this podcast:
Serbia’s ex-president Vučić concedes defeat to Student List in parliamentary poll
US voters worried about corruption under Trump — FT poll
Deloitte boss Houston gets 45% pay rise as firm cuts jobs
Toyota takes on Tesla and China in humanoid robot race
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado returns from exile

Want to get in touch? Email us at podcasts@ft.com

Note: The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts

The FT News Briefing is produced by Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Our editor is Marc Filippino. Our video producer is Zachary Alfred. Our show is mixed by Sam Giovinco and Alex Higgins. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello, Vanessa Brown, Peter Barber and David da Silva. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT’s global head of audio. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
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The FT sat down with more than a dozen voters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, ahead of next week’s midterm elections. The roundtable discussion showed that some are staunch supporters of President Donald Trump and some feel a bit more on the fence. But it seems almost all of them feel unsure about the direction of the nation. The FT’s Washington bureau chief James Politi tells Sonja Hutson what he learned from the talks.

Listen to all episodes of The Bethlehem Project here.
‘I still do generally support him’: US voters weigh in on Donald Trump and the midterms

The Bethlehem Project is hosted and produced by Sonja Hutson and edited by Marc Filippino. This episode was mixed by Sam Giovinco. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. The FT’s global head of audio is Flo Phillips. Special thanks to Pierre Nicholson.

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As Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections, FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America's place in the world. In the second of a six-part series of interviews with leading historians and political analysts, Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Anne Applebaum about the global stakes of November’s elections. They discuss the parallels between Trump’s America and other authoritarian regimes and what the US’s changing role means for Europe and Ukraine. Even if Trump suffers a political setback, can the US ever regain the trust of its allies?

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