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When Val Vavilov co-founded his Bitcoin mining company, Bitfury, in 2011, the original cryptocurrency was worth less than $30, a sliver of its roughly $91,000 price today. Since then, Bitfury's mining ventures spun off into two Nasdaq listed companies whose combined worth tops $9 billion, while also launching two companies that offer AI infrastructure. Bitfury's next step? It wants to use its money to invest in the next crop of ethical tech innovators.

"As Wire 3 strengthens its presence in Lake County, six communities are now on the cusp of transformation, thanks to the deployment of our future-proof network," said Jai Ramachandran, Chief Executive Officer of Wire 3. "Our local teams are proud to be building efficient, reliable, and resilient infrastructure to keep our neighbors connected, and support the growth of local businesses."

In fact, some companies have already garnered impressive traction in key markets around the world, with regulators seeming to be intrigued by the innovative technology these companies are putting forward. With these aircraft resembling a mix of airplane and helicopter technology, the idea is that urban transport between key areas (say, a large urban center and an airport) could be much quicker and more efficient in the air than on the roads.

When Trump returned to office in January 2025, his first foreign trip was to Riyadh, where he announced a $600 billion (517 billion) Saudi investment in the US. This time around in Washington, both sides are likely to discuss artificial intelligence, investment, and collaboration on defense, security, and nuclear issues, given the fragile security situation in the Middle East.

The Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) has published a report [PDF] titled "The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel" that attempts to distill the forecasts of knowledgeable folk - mainly men - in industry, academia, and policy about the capabilities, adoption, and impact of AI in the years ahead. The research project, led by Ezra Karger, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggests that few AI experts believe "superintelligence" as outlined by the likes of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will arrive anytime soon.

The company just announced a $100 million investment round led by The Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the development arm of Afreximbank. The raise marks Africa's largest-ever EV mobility investment and cements Spiro as the continent's most aggressive electric motorbike company. Spiro says it plans to deploy more than 100,000 electric bikes across Africa by the end of 2025, a 400% year-over-year jump that underscores its ambition to dominate a category long considered too fragmented to scale.

Lehane told the audience: No we are going to be in Australia, one way or the other. Lehane said countries generally chose one of two positions when it came to copyright restrictions and AI. One was to take a US-style fair use approach to copyright, allowing for the development of frontier (highly advanced, large-scale) AI, while the other was to maintain a historic position on copyright, limiting AI's scope.

Bristol-born billionaire Steve Lansdown has been majority shareholder of his hometown club since 1996 but admitted in 2021 he was searching for additional investment, which could mean a full takeover. "Yes, we had conversations with him [Alalshikh] and we are up for investment but it has to be the right investment," Rawcliffe told a fans' forum, external on Wednesday. He added there had been overseas interest from both "US and Middle East-based backers" and reiterated the Lansdown family had a desire to sell the club.

The BCC's budget submission focuses on policies to encourage investment, strengthen the workforce, support exports and develop infrastructure. The BCCs top four recommendations are for the Chancellor not to make more taxes on business, alongside reforming business rates and the axing of the windfall tax on oil and gas Labour should prioritise infrastructure investment and approval, including more rail projects, alongside a new runway at Heathrow and continued support for Gatwick and Luton.

"The only thing growing under Labour is the unemployment queue and the national debt. "The Conservatives left office with unemployment at near record lows and the fastest-growing economy in the G7. In just over a year, Labour has killed growth and crushed jobs and livelihoods, with families paying the price. "Keir Starmer has no backbone and is too weak to stand up to his own backbenchers to cut welfare and get people back into work.

In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking." The problem? Human hands are incredibly sophisticated, packed with about 17,000 specialized touch receptors that no robot comes close to matching. While machine learning transformed speech recognition and image processing, those breakthroughs built on decades of existing technology for capturing the right data. "We don't have such a tradition for touch data," Brooks points out.

Palantir plans to make the UK its European HQ for defense. The move will create up to 350 new jobs, an official announcement stated. The data analytics company, founded with cash from the CIA-backed investment fund In-Q-Tel, has attracted controversy by providing digital profiling tools for the CIA and US immigration agency ICE. None of that was about to stop the UK from diving into bed with Palantir, though.

This partnership is a major vote of confidence in UK leadership in defence, data and AI technology and as an ideal location for companies to invest and expand. By harnessing the power of AI, we will boost the effectiveness of our armed forces, ensuring they have the tools they need to keep the British people safe. The work will unlock billions of pounds of investment into UK innovation, creating hundreds of skilled UK jobs and making defence the leading edge of innovation in Nato.

A growing number of the world's richest entrepreneurs are using their wealth to fight aging. They're taking supplements, abiding by fitness routines, and investing millions into research. BI rounded up a list of 8 entrepreneurs actively seeking the fountain of youth. These days, a big topic at the diplomatic round table is apparently living for over a century.

SAN JOSE A Bay Area investor has bought an empty former Safeway store in a deal that could breathe new life into a downtown San Jose site that has been vacant for six years. Babu Paturi, who is based at a residence in San Jose, paid $2 million in an all-cash deal to buy the site at 100 South Second St., according to documents filed on Sept. 8 with the Santa Clara County Recorder's Office. Paturi is the manager of at least one LLC, state and county public documents show.

Despite the significant achievements and astounding talent in the world's most popular female sports leagues, professional women's sports often receive less attention and resources than men's. From media coverage and salaries to sponsorship opportunities and promotional campaigns, female athletes are given short shrift. Though they get but a fraction of the resources and opportunities that their male counterparts receive, these ladies nonetheless give it their all, playing with spirit and passion.

The reduction to 15% from the previous 25% was agreed between the two sides on July 22. "Tariff negotiations between Japan and the United States was the top priority for the government and we have put all our effort into achieving an agreement in a best possible way as soon as possible," Ishiba said Friday. "The way it was achieved ... is just excellent."

CityFibre credits Mesch as having been the driving force behind its emergence as "the UK's leading digital infrastructure challenger" and "transforming" the sector with "innovative products, competitive economics" and "exceptional" service to become a real competitor to market leaders Openreach and Virgin Media O2.

It doesn't hurt that, at the end of 2022, a U.S. Department of Energy lab announced that it had produced a controlled fusion reaction that produced more power than the lasers had imparted to the fuel pellet. The experiment had crossed what's known as scientific breakeven, and while it's still a long ways from commercial breakeven, where the reaction produces more than the entire facility consumes, it was a long-awaited step that proved the underlying science was sound.

Krafton plans to invest upwards of $50 million (roughly Rs. 441.1 crore) annually in India.