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Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years
BP has announced it is selling off the majority of its corporate venture portfolio to Nordic private equity firm Verdane, effectively closing BP Ventures after nearly 20 years. The move follows the oil giant’s earlier pivot away from clean energy this year and marks a further retreat from its efforts to diversify into climate and…
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Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?
Donald Trump earned at least $2.2bn in personal income last year, with $1.4bn of that coming from his crypto ventures, according to a Guardian analysis. The scale of this dwarfs historical presidential corruption scandals, such as the 1920s Teapot Dome affair, and has focused attention on Justin Sun, a Chinese crypto billionaire widely seen as…
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Carly Rae Jepsen – “After All”
Carly Rae Jepsen has released “After All”, a new song serving as another preview of her forthcoming double album Day And Night, out on 18 September on Interscope. The 24-track record is split into two distinct halves, day and night, with the new song coming from the daytime side, following on from lead single “On…
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BBC Inside Science
BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science tackles the challenge of detecting nuclear weapons hidden in Earth orbit, a concern that resurfaced after a satellite passing through the Van Allen belt raised suspicions it might be carrying a warhead. Such a device detonating in orbit could destroy much of the world’s satellite infrastructure, and while the 1967…
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Todd Blanche roasts Adam Schiff in heated hearing: ‘You’re a lawyer, you know the rules’
Todd Blanche denied allegations of ethics violations from Sen. Adam Schiff, accusing the senator of lying about his recusal decisions and key facts.
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Fetterman’s explosive red line to Democrats: Abandon Israel and I’m gone, defiant senator vows in ominous warning
Democratic Senator John Fetterman has issued a blunt warning to his own party, declaring that if Democrats abandon support for Israel, he will leave the party. The statement, made amid ongoing internal Democratic tensions over the Israel-Gaza conflict, underscores a widening rift between pro-Israel moderates and a growing progressive wing pushing for a tougher US…
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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s “world model” startup AMI Labs, has publicly rejected the terms “AGI” and “superintelligence,” arguing they lack meaningful definitions and are simply industry buzzwords that keep shifting. His comments, made in a TechCrunch interview while attending a machine learning conference in Seoul, stand out against a wider AI industry trend…
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‘Status Summit’ Aims to Deliver More Content From Oliver Darcy’s ‘Status’ Media Newsletter
The status of “Status” is multimedia. The buzzy media-industry newsletter that journalist and entrepreneur Oliver Darcy founded in 2024, is moving into live events. A “Status Summit” is planned for Wednesday, September 9, at The Times Center in New York City, convening what is expected to be a crowd of influential executives, journalists, creators, and…
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Baltimore Sun owner threatens MD Gov Wes Moore with lawsuit over what he calls a defamatory Epstein link
David Smith, the owner of The Baltimore Sun, has threatened to sue Maryland Governor Wes Moore over remarks Smith says falsely linked him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The dispute is significant because it pits a sitting state governor, seen as a rising Democratic figure with potential national ambitions, against the ownership of a…