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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, June 18th, and this is your F.T.

Nees briefing. French business leaders are super worried about the country's upcoming elections

and Dubai is trying to get more rich people to cash in on its man-made islands.

Plus open AI is brushing up on its copy of how to win friends and influence people.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. French President Emmanuel Macron called parliamentary elections a little bit more than a week ago

after his centrist coalition got creamed in European elections.

Since the announcement, corporate bosses in France have been in a pickle.

You see, McCrone's Centrist Alliance has been pretty good to businesses, but now corporate leaders

are afraid they're going to lose, which means they have two options.

They can line up behind Marine the Pennz far right, or they can line up behind the far left.

And currently, corporate leaders are swinging right.

Senior executives told the F.T.

They see Le Penz party as the lesser of two evils.

They view it more as a blank slate that they can influence.

Corporate leaders are also worried about the far left's plans to increase taxes.

We'll start to get a clearer idea of where things may be headed after the first round

of voting come June 30th. Every company needs three things to succeed, a great product, great marketing, and a solid lobbying effort, maybe?

Tech Darling Open AI is testing out that formula.

The company has already built the industry standard AI Chatbot, chat gPT, and managed to reach millions

of users.

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