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Nvidia links with Wall Street firms for $500bn AI financing deal
Nvidia has struck agreements with six major Wall Street firms to raise more than $500bn (£370bn) in capital to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, underlining how the AI boom is drawing in institutional investors as governments, companies and startups race to build datacentres. Chief executive Jensen Huang said Nvidia has the option to backstop up to…
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Heritage Monday at the Locarno Film Festival Sees a Future in the Past
At the Locarno Film Festival’s industry programme, this year’s Heritage Monday panel tackled how to draw younger audiences to older, classic films, amid growing interest in restoration and retrospective programming. Panellists including Leslie Vuchot (Timeless Cinema), Amy Homma (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal Filminstitut) and Eddie Muller (Film Noir Foundation) argued…
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Turkey’s parliament approves a pardon-like bill for thousands of PKK militants
Turkey’s parliament approved legislation that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants in a bid to advance the government’s peace initiative with their insurgent group.
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Trump pivots back to sanctions for Iran as other strategies to end his war fizzle
The shift comes as U.S. stockpiles of key weapons have dwindled and as stop-start talks seem again to have stalled. But Trump insists the pressure can lead to a breakthrough.
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Trump says it would be ‘terrible mistake’ to remove Infantino
US President Donald Trump has publicly backed Fifa president Gianni Infantino, warning it would be a “terrible mistake” to remove him from his role. The intervention comes after Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation issued a joint open letter accusing Infantino of breaking trust “through deception” over his now-abandoned Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal,…
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‘We run a lunch club – but we need people to feed’ – BBC
This is a redirect loop through Google’s consent page — I can’t retrieve the actual BBC article content this way, and I don’t have web search access granted. I’ll need to work from the headline alone, as the last summary did. SUMMARY: The available material does not include the actual BBC article — only Google’s…
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They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry
Hundreds of residents in nine housing association blocks on the Devons Road estate in Tower Hamlets, east London, have been left without a reliable water supply since Christmas Day last year, with taps frequently running dry for much of the day. The prolonged disruption, which landlord Poplar Harca has been slow to resolve, has left…
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Pentagon renames base for Lindsey Graham as Derby County takeover collapses and Tupac murder trial opens
Also: Democratic strategist Paul Begala slams socialists amid primary wins, Apple orders Cuarón thriller Ascension with Caitriona Balfe, Garth Brooks adds Chicago tour dates, and Sheffielders push ahead with a park nature project.
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Téa Leoni & Tim Daly Say “We Don’t Need An Intimacy Coordinator” On ‘Newlyweds’; Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Her NSFW Title On NBC Comedy
Actors Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, who married earlier this year, are playing an on-screen married couple in the new NBC multi-camera comedy Newlyweds, marking a reunion after previously portraying spouses in the 2014 CBS drama Madam Secretary. Speaking at an NBCUniversal event ahead of the show’s autumn debut, the pair said the casting was…
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One Nation politicians their backs during Acknowledgement of Country as Parliament returns
One Nation politicians turned their backs during the Acknowledgement of Country as the Australian Parliament resumed sitting, a gesture of protest the minor party has used before against the practice. The move reignited debate over the ceremony, which recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as traditional custodians of the land, with critics branding the…