Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporter Will Wade digs into a milestone achieved by an American nuclear startup. The Trump administration has been hailing the “rebirth of America’s nuclear industry” after a reactor startup reached a key milestone . Antares Nuclear Inc. is developing the new and unproven technology for small nuclear power plants, which co...
Welcome to our guide to the commodities driving the global economy. Today, reporter Will Wade digs into a milestone achieved by an American nuclear startup. The Trump administration has been hailing the “rebirth of America’s nuclear industry” after a reactor startup reached a key milestone . Antares Nuclear Inc. is developing the new and unproven technology for small nuclear power plants, which could be used much more widely than traditional large-scale facilities. They are of particular interest to power-hungry AI data centers. Last week, Antares achieved a self-sustaining fission reaction known as “ zero-power fueled criticality .” It shows the company’s design can produce a steady release of energy — enough for a single LED light bulb for now. But it will be quite some time before this tiny flow of energy can be scaled up to fulfill the US Department of Energy’s boast of a “nuclear renaissance.” “It’s different from proving commercial viability,” says Chris Gadomski, chief nuclear analyst at BloombergNEF. “They’re not going to be creating power tomorrow.” The US nuclear industry has been stagnating for decades. The country has added just three traditional reactors this century. No new commercial-scale projects are under construction today despite great interest from President Donald Trump and several states. The US hasn’t managed to commercialize the small modular reactors, or SMRs, that have tantalized hyperscalers with their potential to provide clean round-the-clock power for AI data centers. No such power plants are installed in the country today. In this context, Antares has taken an unequivocally important step for US efforts to revive its nuclear industry. It is the first company to achieve criticality under an Energy Department program initiated last year after Trump returned to the White House. The goal is to get two more firms to achieve the same thing with their SMR designs by July 4. Oklo Inc., a next-gen nuclear company that includes OpenAI’s Chief E...
英伟达持续布局医疗领域,此番携手面向医生打造 AI 病历记录应用的初创企业Abridge,联合训练一款医疗专用人工智能模型。两家企业表示,该模型专为临床沟通场景打造,将独家应用于阿布里奇的平台,优化临床决策支持、医疗文书记录等工作。英伟达同时也是阿布里奇的投资方。英伟达医疗健康副总裁金伯利 鲍威尔介绍,这款医疗模型将基于英伟达Nemotron 系列开源模型进行训练。开源模型通常允许用户免费下载和二...
英伟达持续布局医疗领域,此番携手面向医生打造 AI 病历记录应用的初创企业Abridge,联合训练一款医疗专用人工智能模型。两家企业表示,该模型专为临床沟通场景打造,将独家应用于阿布里奇的平台,优化临床决策支持、医疗文书记录等工作。英伟达同时也是阿布里奇的投资方。英伟达医疗健康副总裁金伯利 鲍威尔介绍,这款医疗模型将基于英伟达Nemotron 系列开源模型进行训练。开源模型通常允许用户免费下载和二次修改;而完全开源的模型,还会向使用者开放全部训练数据与代码。鲍威尔表示:“如今我们有机会在模型研发早期,就融入临床专业知识,对现有模型进行针对性优化。”这家初创企业联合创始人兼首席执行官希夫 拉奥博士表示,双方合作期间,阿布里奇将利用脱敏临床数据,对Nemotron系列模型开展进一步训练与定制优化。拉奥称:“通用模型性能强劲,但临床专业能力仍需专项训练、针对性打磨,并结合真实应用场景完成效果评估。这也是我们团队与内摩创团队现阶段的主要试验与工作内容。”(新浪财经)
A Small Win For Free Speech In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , South Wales Police has shelved plans to record instances of "anti-Muslim hostility" that strayed beyond what officers considered "legitimate" discussion of Islam. The force paused the policy after the Free Speech Union threatened judicial review and Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho referred it to the Equality and ...
A Small Win For Free Speech In UK Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity , South Wales Police has shelved plans to record instances of "anti-Muslim hostility" that strayed beyond what officers considered "legitimate" discussion of Islam. The force paused the policy after the Free Speech Union threatened judicial review and Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho referred it to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Critics had warned the guidance functioned as a de facto blasphemy law in a country that scrapped such statutes 18 years ago. The climbdown represents a tangible check on efforts to police speech through vague, subjective rules that empower authorities to decide what counts as acceptable criticism of one religion. ?? FSU Victory!! The Free Speech Union has just heard from South Wales Police that it has withdrawn its guidance on "anti-Muslim hostility". The force had effectively adopted its own Islamic blasphemy law, instructing officers to record any conversation that went beyond... pic.twitter.com/aEHeGGuxr5 - The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) June 9, 2026 Earlier this month, South Wales Police directed staff to log comments about Islam that exceeded the force's view of legitimate discourse. Anything beyond that line risked classification as an anti-social behaviour incident - the rebranded term for non-crime hate incidents. Those records could then appear in enhanced DBS checks, affecting employment prospects for teachers, carers and others in regulated roles. The approach effectively "gold-plated" the UK government's March definition of anti-Muslim hostility. While ministers included explicit free speech safeguards stating the definition was not meant to inhibit criticism of Islam or Islamic practices, South Wales Police added its own subjective layer. Officers gained discretion to judge speech on the spot. Free Speech Union General Secretary Lord Young highlighted the danger at the time: "Our concern is that police forces and other public bod...
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after a dreadful day on Wall Street, when all the major indices traded lower, and we saw the same pattern that has developed over the last week. The “Buy the Dip” traders come in, briefly get an uptick, and a move higher, and the sellers swarm in to ... Here Are Thursday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Callaway Golf, Chewy, CME Group,...
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading higher after a dreadful day on Wall Street, when all the major indices traded lower, and we saw the same pattern that has developed over the last week. The “Buy the Dip” traders come in, briefly get an uptick, and a move higher, and the sellers swarm in to ... Here Are Thursday’s Best Wall Street Analyst Research Calls: Callaway Golf, Chewy, CME Group, Danaher, General Dynamics, Intel, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Toast, and More
Apollo Global Management Inc. is assessing every new investment opportunity in the software industry for AI disruption risk, as asset managers try to quell investor concerns that rapid advances in the technology could make businesses obsolete. Rob Bittencourt , head of thematic investing at the firm, said the firm developed a new framework for assessing risk last year, dividing software into 12 to...
Apollo Global Management Inc. is assessing every new investment opportunity in the software industry for AI disruption risk, as asset managers try to quell investor concerns that rapid advances in the technology could make businesses obsolete. Rob Bittencourt , head of thematic investing at the firm, said the firm developed a new framework for assessing risk last year, dividing software into 12 to 14 categories, and ranking them by susceptibility to AI disruption. “We also went through our existing portfolio and overlaid that framework on top of our existing portfolio last year to determine where we might want to move on and minimize our risk,” Bittencourt said on a Bloomberg Intelligence podcast released Thursday. Apollo’s move follows similar efforts by other asset managers to quantify and cut AI-related risk after investor concerns about heavy exposure to software companies dragged shares lower and fueled outflows from the $1.8 trillion private credit industry. Ares Management Corp. in April said it hired an outside consultant to examine software-oriented investments in its largest publicly traded private credit fund. Blackstone Inc. and Blue Owl Capital Inc. conducted internal evaluations of their investments. Bittencourt, who described advances in AI as “probably the most profound platform shift that the industry has ever faced,” said that businesses with workflows easily managed by AI are most at risk. He pointed to data visualization as an example. Apollo also screened businesses that are protected from the threat of AI. Healthcare, for example, is heavily regulated, making it harder for businesses in that industry to adopt AI, Bittencourt said. He said Apollo’s framework also took into account companies’ management and spending on research and development, and the firm looked for managers with “strategic urgency to adapt.” “Are they acting and articulating a strategic vision that has enough urgency that reflects the pace of change that’s occurring in the und...
Bespin Global US, a leading cloud managed services and solutions provider, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Bespin Global US at #396 on the 2026 CRN Solution Provider 500 list.
Bespin Global US, a leading cloud managed services and solutions provider, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Bespin Global US at #396 on the 2026 CRN Solution Provider 500 list.
The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang met Trump ally Steve Daines and other US lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday. In those talks, KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun outlined the party’s position on defence and energy, saying her party did not oppose American arms sales to the island, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News. Her meetings on Wednesday also included talks with Republican repr...
The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang met Trump ally Steve Daines and other US lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday. In those talks, KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun outlined the party’s position on defence and energy, saying her party did not oppose American arms sales to the island, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News. Her meetings on Wednesday also included talks with Republican representatives John Rose and Chuck Fleischmann, and Democratic Representative Thomas Suozzi. According...
Anduril Industries Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Schimpf says the company would "absolutely" consider building its next weapons manufacturing hub outside the US. Speaking to Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at Founders Forum in the UK, Schimpf adds "there's a lot of manufacturing talent that exists" across Europe. (Source: Bloomberg)
Anduril Industries Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Schimpf says the company would "absolutely" consider building its next weapons manufacturing hub outside the US. Speaking to Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at Founders Forum in the UK, Schimpf adds "there's a lot of manufacturing talent that exists" across Europe. (Source: Bloomberg)
Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will lead the new company, which aims to serve as a single provider for hyperscaler data center, power, and connectivity needs
Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will lead the new company, which aims to serve as a single provider for hyperscaler data center, power, and connectivity needs
The relentless desire to jazz things up is to blame for the disappearance of fond favourites. But there’s always pleasure to be found in old-school cakes Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I got into a small and pointless argument with a friend recently when she announced that a certain bakery chain (expanding across England with astonishing speed) was the only place in her London ...
The relentless desire to jazz things up is to blame for the disappearance of fond favourites. But there’s always pleasure to be found in old-school cakes Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast I got into a small and pointless argument with a friend recently when she announced that a certain bakery chain (expanding across England with astonishing speed) was the only place in her London neighbourhood where she could buy scones . Surely not, I said. Then I thought about where, if I wasn’t going to make my own (pictured top), I’d find them near my own home, and realised she may have a point. (FYI, fellow N1 folks, Quince Bakery always has them on the counter.) A few days later, I was asked to go on BBC Radio 4 to comment on the decision by Somerset’s Burns the Bread to stop selling iced buns, which naturally made me desperately crave an iced bun. But were there any to be found near me? No. Thankfully, I’ve since realised you can get an excellent example for just £1.60* at Raabs the Bakers on Essex Road in London. But, before this turns into a food guide to my neighbourhood, may I point you in the direction of Ruby Tandoh’s lemon zest-spiked recipe , or Helen Goh’s strawberry finger buns should you also suddenly have a craving for soft, pillowy dough with a crackly smear of sugar on top. Both would be just as good not jazzed up. Continue reading...
With its initial public offering (IPO) just days away, SpaceX recently disclosed a landmark cloud deal with Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google. SpaceX will provide Google with access to a large AI data center built around high-performance GPUs from Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) . Given that SpaceX's core business has long revolved around rockets, satellites, and interplanetary ambitions, th...
With its initial public offering (IPO) just days away, SpaceX recently disclosed a landmark cloud deal with Alphabet 's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google. SpaceX will provide Google with access to a large AI data center built around high-performance GPUs from Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) . Given that SpaceX's core business has long revolved around rockets, satellites, and interplanetary ambitions, the new partnership with Google signals an aggressive expansion into the data center and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure arena. Curiously, the deal arrives at a critical juncture: As SpaceX prepares to go public on Friday, investors are demanding proof that the company can generate recurring revenue beyond launch contracts and Starlink subscriptions. Continue reading
Technology-focused Francisco Partners collected more than $18 billion for two private equity funds, capturing its biggest-ever haul despite a challenging time for buyouts. The firm is expected to announce the final close of its flagship fund and a smaller vehicle in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The flagship Francisco Partners VIII LP exceeded its $14 billion targ...
Technology-focused Francisco Partners collected more than $18 billion for two private equity funds, capturing its biggest-ever haul despite a challenging time for buyouts. The firm is expected to announce the final close of its flagship fund and a smaller vehicle in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. The flagship Francisco Partners VIII LP exceeded its $14 billion target, while Agility Fund IV LP surpassed its $4 billion goal, the people said, asking not to be identified because the details are private. Investors in the latest funds include the Nebraska Investment Council , Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System . Francisco Partners raised roughly $17 billion for the prior iterations of the two funds in 2022. A spokesperson for the San Francisco-based firm declined to comment on the fundraising. The rise of artificial intelligence has pressured private equity in recent months, as investors grow wary over the industry’s exposure to firms that are susceptible to AI disruption such as software companies. Prior to the AI boom, private equity firms loaded up on software bets as more companies relied on the cloud and software-as-a-service providers. But the rollout of new AI tools this year has threatened to replace those software services, stoking a market sell-off dubbed the SaaSpocalypse. The panic in the public markets has made it harder to exit private technology bets: The value of such deals plunged 70% in the first quarter , according to Bain & Co., battering an industry that had already been grappling with a years-long deal lull triggered by higher interest rates. In a February interview with Pitchbook on the software selloff, Francisco Partners co-founder Dipanjan Deb said AI will disrupt some parts of the industry but potentially boost other areas. “We have to figure out the implications of this technology for everything else in the ecosystem, and what is likely to get s...
Magellan Aerospace ( MAL:CA ) received approval for its renewal of a normal course issuer bid, allowing the company to repurchase up to ~2.85M common shares over the next 12 months. The program will run from June 15, 2026, to June 14, 2027, and represents up to 5% of the company’s outstanding shares as of June 1, 2026. The company stated the program gives it flexibility to purchase shares in the o...
Magellan Aerospace ( MAL:CA ) received approval for its renewal of a normal course issuer bid, allowing the company to repurchase up to ~2.85M common shares over the next 12 months. The program will run from June 15, 2026, to June 14, 2027, and represents up to 5% of the company’s outstanding shares as of June 1, 2026. The company stated the program gives it flexibility to purchase shares in the open market when it believes the stock price does not reflect underlying value. On its previous buyback program, the company repurchased 59,526 shares at a volume-weighted average price of $15.65, out of a prior authorization for 2.85M shares. More on Magellan Aerospace Magellan Aerospace Corporation (MAL:CA) Shareholder/Analyst Call Prepared Remarks Transcript Magellan Aerospace: Strong Buy As Margins Expand And Valuation Gap Persists Magellan Aerospace GAAP EPS of $0.29, revenue of $285.1M Historical earnings data for Magellan Aerospace Dividend scorecard for Magellan Aerospace