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Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
Nvidia is working with major financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, Brookfield and KKR to arrange around $500 billion (£394 billion) in financing that would treat computing power, chiefly GPUs, as a new investable asset class. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has framed the chips as “revenue-generating,” “long-lived” and “fungible” assets akin to…
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BBC to show 38 live matches from Serie A
BBC Sport and BBC ALBA will broadcast 38 live Serie A matches this season, expanding the corporation’s European football coverage alongside its existing Bundesliga and La Liga highlights. The deal offers UK viewers regular access to top-flight Italian football, which features a strong contingent of British players across several clubs. BBC ALBA will show 19…
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RFK Jr.’s Son Conor Kennedy Put on Russia’s Most Wanted List
Conor Kennedy, son of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been added to Russia’s international wanted list over his 2022 decision to travel to Ukraine and fight alongside its International Legion against Russian forces. A Moscow court authorised his arrest in absentia on charges of mercenarism, meaning he could face imprisonment if he…
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Emily Watson Says Growing Up in a Religious Cult Almost Stopped Her From Starring in ‘Breaking the Waves’: ‘I Was Like a Piece of Wire That Had Been Unplugged’
Actor Emily Watson has revealed that growing up in the School of Philosophy and Economic Science, a London-based organisation she describes as a religious cult, nearly prevented her from taking the role that launched her career in Lars von Trier’s “Breaking the Waves”. Speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where she is jury president and…
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Leeds sign Elvedi from Borussia Monchengladbach
Leeds United have completed the £8.5m signing of Swiss international defender Nico Elvedi from Borussia Monchengladbach, reuniting him with manager Daniel Farke, who previously managed him at the Bundesliga club in 2022-23. The 29-year-old has signed a three-year deal at Elland Road, becoming Leeds’ fourth summer signing as they strengthen their squad ahead of the…
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Chulpan Khamatova To Lead Alexander Molochnikov’s ‘The Extremists’ From AR Content & Forma Pro Films
Actress Chulpan Khamatova has been cast to lead Alexander Molochnikov’s “The Extremists”, a feature-length expansion of his Oscar-shortlisted short film “Extremist”. The short followed a young Russian artist who secretly replaced supermarket food labels with pacifist messages, an act that led to her arrest and the threat of a decade-long prison sentence. Khamatova, once one…
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Catherine Zeta-Jones Thriller Series ‘Kill Jackie’ Sets October Release Date on Prime Video
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ new thriller series “Kill Jackie” has been given an October release date on Prime Video, with all eight episodes launching on 2 October in the UK, Ireland and several other territories, as well as on AMC+ in the US. The show, produced by Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures, is based on the novel…
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‘Minotaur’ Is A Live Oscar Contender For The Best International Film Category But For Which Country & How Does It Stack Up?
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes Grand Prix winner “Minotaur” is being widely tipped as a strong contender for the Academy Awards’ Best International Film category, though which country will submit it remains unsettled. The Russian-language drama appeared “provisionally” on Germany’s eleven-film longlist this week, reflecting the fact that it could equally be entered by France, with a…
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‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ Exec Sasha Bühler Exits International Film Role At Netflix
Sasha Bühler, one of Netflix’s leading international film executives, has left the streamer after nearly seven years, Deadline reports. She held the role of Director of Film for German-speaking Europe, having originally joined in 2019 to establish regional teams and set creative strategy across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the Nordics and Central and Eastern Europe,…