xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, making the new model generally available as the Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and inside the company’s iOS and Android apps, according to the …
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Firebird, a U.S.-based AI cloud company, opened the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia on August 8, 2026: a facility in Hrazdan built on NVIDIA ( NVDA ) accelerated computing and Dell …
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software for turning raw material into finished presentations, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the …
Firebird opened its first AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, on August 8, 2026, and used the ceremony to lay out the rest of the map: a second market in Kazakhstan with 125 megawatts of secured capacity, …
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‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
W hen Carmen Aguilar García began investigating the involvement of private equity firms in England’s childcare sector with her fellow data journalists three years ago, she didn’t imagine her efforts …
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Merck takes Austria’s Keytruda price transparency battle to top court as journalists fight for information
A battle over whether the public has the right to know how much Austria’s public hospitals pay for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda is heading to the Constitutional Court. Pharmaceutical giant …
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International Finance Corporation watchdog in turmoil following scathing report on microfinance in Cambodia
Over nearly three decades, the organization tasked with watching the World Bank Group’s private investment arm has handled a multitude of complaints against projects financed by the institution, …
For more than 30 years, the unemployed ex-wife and ambitious son of Italian drug trafficker Giacomo Tamburello relied on an international network of bankers, lawyers and brokers to amass a $230 …
Swedbank has agreed to pay a $50 million fine to New York’s state financial regulator to settle a money laundering case tied to the Panama Papers. The Swedish group reached the settlement with the New …
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Canadian intelligence flags crypto-to-cash services as ‘knowingly facilitating money laundering,’ document shows
As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency to …
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Inside the Matrix: How models, influencers and engagement quotas power the Social Discovery Group’s dating machine and global profits
M aria trusted that she had stumbled onto a second chance at love. From her home in Nicosia, Cyprus, she spent nearly two years on a dating platform exchanging photos, voice messages, letters and …
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Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact.
Recent moves by cryptocurrency exchange HTX could soften the blow of new sanctions on the firm, experts warn, including a European Union ban on transactions. One of the world’s largest crypto …
The United Nations paid roughly $10 million last year to companies formerly linked to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to an ICIJ analysis of recently released U.N. data. The …
Cancer drugs in India are getting new safety features to improve tracing and curb the spread of counterfeits. Manufacturers of all cancer drugs sold in India have until July 2027 to add a QR code or …
T ether, which mints the world’s most widely used crypto token, is likely one of the most valuable private companies on earth, with an estimated value of $200 billion, exceeding the total share value …
This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here . Every Friday evening, the brochure says, players can compete to win cash prizes in …
Picture: Enzozo/Shutterstock A proposed UK law is being drafted to stop companies deploying AI bots from using deceptive tactics to scrape websites. The Automated Online Software (Access and …
21 June, 2022 – Heatwave in London, a man exhausted by heat at the Granary Square in Kings Cross. Picture: Shutterstock/I Wei Huang A group of leading climate scientists have written to broadcast …
Pictured (left to right) on Press Gazette News Yacht at Cannes on 23 June: Mark Howard, COO, Time; Imogen Fox, global chief advertising officer, The Guardian; Isabel Perry, global EVP of strategy, …
The Stack announces its acquisition of Tom Krzit’s Runtime. Picture: The Stack UK-based B2B publisher The Stack has almost tripled its newsletter audience after buying US tech title Runtime. The …
Qasim Akhtar playing Zeedan Nazir on Coronation Street. Picture: Youtube/Coronation Street The Sun has agreed to pay “substantial” libel damages to actor Qasim Akhtar after falsely linking him to …
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News diary 29 June – 5 July: Andy Burnham to set out economic vision, Wimbledon, Tour de France
Wimbledon in July 2025. Picture: Ceri Breeze / Shutterstock.com This week Andy Burnham is expected to deliver the first of a series of interventions next week as part of his pitch to replace Keir …
Between February 2022 and September 2025, Bellingcat staff and volunteers collected, geolocated, and shared more than 2,500 incidents of civilian harm following Russia’s full-scale invasion of …
Law enforcement associations, anti-corruption advocates and a major banking group are warning that a new bill aimed at regulating the United States’ cryptocurrency industry could leave big gaps in …
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Cyprus anti-corruption watchdog refers former president to prosecutors for alleged ‘abuse of power’
Cyprus’ anti-corruption authority has found “potential acts of corruption” and “abuse of power” by former President Nicos Anastasiades during his 10 years in office, referring possible criminal …