Press Digest: Financial Times - May 29

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29/05/2026 03:33

May 29 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
     
Headlines
Disney says US regulator aims to ‘suppress speech’ with licence review
Anthropic finalises $65 billion funding deal to surpass OpenAI’s valuation
Chevron CEO warns oil prices to jump over the summer as supplies dwindle
Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores
Overview
Disney  DIS.N accused the  Federal Communications Commission of using an unprecedented licence review to intimidate broadcasters and silence “disfavoured editorial voices”, as the company adopts a more confrontational stance towards the Trump administration.
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a funding round that will nearly triple the start-up’s valuation and see it leapfrog arch-rival OpenAI as the most valuable AI lab.
Chevron  CVX.N CEO Mike Wirth has warned that oil prices are likely to rise over the next two months as crude inventories continue to decline due to the Iran war.
Amazon  AMZN.O has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees’ use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores by engaging in unnecessary activity that increased the company’s computing costs.
     

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