Trump oil ally Harold Hamm to invest in Venezuela

Move by Continental Resources marks latest foray by a western oil producer into the country after US military seized president Nicolás Maduro

Britain’s unsustainable pensions lock

It would be better to link state retirement benefits to earnings growth

Turkish stocks slide in ‘fund run’ as investors withdraw $1bn

Index provider MSCI raises prospect of cutting Turkey from emerging market to frontier status amid accusations of ‘co-ordinated trading’ by fund managers

AI is creating ghostwriting jobs on LinkedIn

CEOs are looking for a more human touch

Traders expect Fed to raise interest rates for first time in 3 years

Kevin Warsh under pressure to tame stubbornly high inflation in move that could draw the ire of Donald Trump weeks out from US midterm elections

Resident Evil is a video game movie with the propulsive thrill of . . . a video game

‘Weapons’ director Zach Cregger strikes again with a lean reboot about a medical courier assailed by malign forces

The best theatre shows to see in London and beyond

The FT’s critics pick the biggest and best plays now on in the West End and elsewhere

Bach choir is a rare symbol of unity in a swing state

In small-city Pennsylvania, music brings people together from across the political divide

From Ralph Lauren to Coach: the major shows at New York Fashion Week

Amid some strong collections, a mix of prissiness and minimalism conveyed a rather disjointed view of American style

This is good for AI!!!! Aaargh!!!!

A brief survey of sell-side scribbling at the end of the world

Oura will struggle to justify pulse-racing $16bn valuation

The health technology company needs more than celebrity endorsements

Human brain tissue grown in mice for first time

New genetic engineering technique promises to aid quest for treatments for incurable neurological conditions

AI must not outrun safety controls, DeepMind co-founder warns

Shane Legg speaks to FT as new DeepMind Institute launches to explore implications of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown

UK inflation rose to 3.1% in August

Figure worsens squeeze on households ahead of BoE meeting

The EU should not increase resilience at the expense of trusted partners

Its Industrial Accelerator Act would threaten supply chain connections with the likes of Japan

Wave of murders spreads fear in Johannesburg

Deaths of eight women have led to a backlash against government’s response to endemic violence

Salary stand-off delays abolition of NHS quango

Health service leaders are urging ministers to set up a temporary body to resolve deadlock

Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever | The Story of Money

A mining and banking mastermind in the 15th century built a fortune estimated at $4tn today

Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors

What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind

Chinese oil prices hit record highs after attacks on Saudi pipeline

Beijing has cushioned global impact of Iran war by drawing down stocks but is now ‘coming off its crash diet’

The British right’s patriotism problem

Andy Burnham seems at ease in his country. Are his opponents?

Jeff Koons is blowing up Hublot

The artist’s Balloon Dog watches have the bow-wow factor

AI bosses’ safety push sparks rift inside OpenAI and Anthropic

Staff at the Silicon Valley companies are grappling with how to turn AI slowdown rhetoric into reality

Timeless Tintoretto — the Italian artist who brought Heaven down to Earth

Surveying the Venetian master, Paris’s Musée Jacquemart-André shows how he reinvented religious narrative as dynamic, earthly theatre