Press Digest: Financial Times - April 17
17/04/2026 02:29
The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines - Netflix founder Reed Hastings to step down from board - Anthropic in talks to give US government access to its Mythos model - Reeves vows to cut link between gas and electricity prices in UK - Schroders shareholders approve 9.9 billion pounds sale to Nuveen - Getty must sell Shutterstock editorial business, says UK antitrust watchdog Overview - Reed Hastings, Netflix's NFLX.O chair, will step down from the company he co-founded in 1997 and built from a DVD-by-mail service into a $450 billion streaming giant. - Anthropic is in discussions with the U.S. government about granting access to its new Mythos model to agencies including the Treasury despite federal lawsuits over whether the AI lab is a national security threat. - British finance minister Rachel Reeves has said she wants to cut the link between electricity and gas prices in the UK as the government seeks to reduce its exposure to volatile fossil-fuel costs. - Schroders' SDR.L shareholders have voted almost unanimously in favour of its takeover by U.S. asset manager Nuveen, clearing the way for the 9.9 billion pounds deal to complete later this year. - Getty Images GETY.N has been told to sell the editorial business of Shutterstock SSTK.N by the British competition watchdog in order to secure approval for the $3.7 billion merger of the two U.S.-listed photo agencies. (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom) ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))