Bank of England says updated imagery will celebrate native wildlife while bolstering anti-counterfeit features Puffins, dolphins and bumblebees are among the wildlife that could feature on new banknotes in the UK as the Bank of England announces its shortlist. There has been controversy over the decision, with figures including Nigel Farage criticising the Bank for, he claimed, wanting to replace Winston Churchill with a beaver. The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, said it was “a silly thing to do”, and Reform UK’s Farage called it “absolutely crackers”. In the end, no beaver appeared on the shortlist. Mammal options include bottlenose dolphins and red foxes. Continue reading...

The Oranje had high hopes but a spate of injuries has tempered expectations This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. Continue reading...

A Virgin Media O2 report suggests an average of 36% of time spent on phones is without a clear purpose.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after Jensen Huang's (Nvidia's CEO) GTC Taipei keynote at Computex reframed how large and how long the AI chip cycle will run.

Palantir’s $445 Million NHS Deal Under Fire From UK Lawmakers Bloomberg.com

British members of parliament are calling on the government to end a major deal with Palantir Technologies Inc. and disclose more details of a military contract with the company, as UK political tension involving the controversial data firm ramps up. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee issued a report on digital services in the public sector, singling out Palantir as the most concerning tech provider. The parliamentarians recommended breaking a £330 million ($445 million) National Health Service contract with the US company, arguing that the UK was at risk of becoming overly dependent on it. The report also described Palantir’s political positions — its US military work as well as comments from its chief executive officer and Peter Thiel , its billionaire co-founder — as a “clear mismatch” with British values. The government now has two months to review the report and provide its response. “Palantir represents an unacceptable point of weakness in our digital infrastructure,” Chi Onwurah, a member of Parliament for the Labour Party who chairs the committee, said in an interview. “We’ve got a key supplier with a political agenda of its own, which is clearly saying that it’s on the side of the American state.” Palantir’s data analysis products are used by the US military and intelligence agencies, and the company has won several contracts under Donald Trump’s second administration with defense, policing and immigration agencies. But officials in Europe have expressed concern about the privacy implications of the company’s products and are increasingly worried about an excessive reliance on Silicon Valley. Onwurah also wrote in the report that Palantir CEO Alex Karp ’s recent manifesto “makes explicitly political arguments” that the UK may not endorse. Still, Palantir has made a concerted push into the UK. Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited its offices on a recent trip to Washington. The company has also hired a former aide to Reform UK head Nigel Farage ,...

England head coach Charlotte Edwards praises Heather Knight's resilience after the former captain's timely return to form before the T20 World Cup.

China’s domestically made regional jet, the C909, has struggled to compete with market leaders Airbus and Boeing since it launched a decade ago. But there is one place where it is thriving: the far-western Chinese region of Xinjiang. Chinese airlines have rolled out C909s in Xinjiang at a rapid clip over the past few years. The first C909 touched down in the region as recently as June 2023. Now, there are 30 of them being used on more than 120 routes in the remote territory, according to state...

Asking for a Trend Host Josh Lipton shares the top stories for Wednesday, June 3, including from Macy's (M), Five Below (FIVE), Petco (WOOF), and Broadcom (AVGO) CrowdStrike (CRWD), as well as ADP's May employment estimate.

Taiwan’s central bank is extending its reach ever deeper into foreign-exchange markets, seeking to ensure currency stability as the artificial intelligence boom intensifies a divide between the island’s tech sector and the rest of the economy . The monetary authority known as the Central Bank of the Republic of China, or CBC, has been on a mission to stamp out volatility since a surge in the Taiwan dollar erupted almost from nowhere last year, sparking the most violent swings since the 1980s. It has been instructing exporters to sell US dollars at times of currency weakness while guiding life insurers to buy the greenback when the Taiwan dollar strengthens, according to a dozen traders, regulators and economists interviewed by Bloomberg. It also keeps close tabs on trading activity via dedicated phone lines and has sometimes even sought to influence market hours and media reports on the subject, the people said. The urgency behind the CBC’s hands-on currency management stems from its economic dilemma. While the island’s tech sector thrives on global AI demand, industrial manufacturers are feeling the squeeze, needing a weaker currency to remain competitive against regional rivals. But the CBC also faces criticism that the Taiwan dollar is undervalued, occasionally drawing the ire of the US Treasury Department. As Taiwan’s booming economy fuels a surging trade surplus, the central bank must tread carefully to avoid drawing further unwanted scrutiny from Washington. And the stakes have never been higher for the CBC, also nicknamed “Lao Da,” or the “Big Boss,” by foreign-exchange traders due to its presence in the market. Not only does the domestic economy depend on its policy balancing act, but so do billions of dollars of global money invested in the local stock market, and even more Taiwanese funds parked in financial assets abroad. Adding to the complexity is the geopolitical standing of the island as it faces scrutiny from both US President Donald Trump and his Ch...

Explore the exciting world of Globant (NYSE: GLOB) with our contributing expert analysts in this Motley Fool Scoreboard episode. Check out the video below to gain valuable insights into market trends and potential investment opportunities! *Stock prices used were the prices of April 8, 2026. The video was published on June 9, 2026. Continue reading

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格隆汇6月3日｜国际要闻： 1、美股三大股指小幅收涨，迈威尔科技大涨超32%，中概指数涨1.83% 2、大撤退！外资抛售印度股票，持仓跌至十年新低 3、Strategy首露卖单引发恐慌，比特币跌破7万美元关键心理大关 4、韩股收盘再创历史新高，年内累涨108.85%，市值升至全球第6 5、英伟达Spectrum-X以太网硅光技术现已全面量产 较传统收发器的网络能效提升5倍 6、英伟达与微软达成合作：推出统一技术栈 用于部署Agentic AI 7、IBM计划在未来五年向量子计算领域投资超过100亿美元 目标2029年实现全球首台大规模容错量子计算机 8、SpaceX拟于下周进行IPO，寻求约1.75万亿美元估值 9、特斯拉中国5月销量85982辆 同比增长39.4% 环比增长8% 10、欧洲央行：黄金替代美债成全球官方储备第一大资产 11、美国开始囤铜 大量精炼铜或流入美国 12、伊媒：霍尔木兹海峡通行许可已开放申请 13、特朗普：“美伊几日前已停止对话”是假新闻 双方对话一直在持续 大中华区要闻： 1、国务院提出大食物开发、“人工智能+”农业等重大工程，加快农业农村现代化 2、5月A股新开户276.53万户，同比增77.8%，环比增11% 3、我国光通信技术实现重要突破！全球首条三波段超低损多芯光缆线路正式开通 4、中国培育钻石成AI热潮中的意外赢家 5、多只纳指相关ETF公告明天停牌1小时 6、全国骑行用户破1.3亿 折叠自行车需求旺盛订单排至10月 7、台股收盘再创历史新高，年内累涨57.29%稳居全球第二，市值位居全球第五 8、老虎国际：6月12日起 暂停存量投资者账户在中国境内所有品种的新开仓、加仓交易 9、老虎称内地客户持有约59亿美元资产 占第一季度净营收的20%-25% 10、新易盛：预计公司硅光方案产品的占比将持续提升 11、腾讯云：下调DeepSeek-V4系列模型价格 最高降幅97.5% 12、多只牛股发布风险提示 13、港股首钢朗泽上市，A股永大股份申购 14、腾讯大涨超10%，南下资金逆势净卖出21亿港元 15、公告精选︱呈和科技：拟投资不超13亿元建设高频高速电子材料及高端助剂项目；金房能源：未涉及液冷、电力供应相关业务

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The Teralynx launch gives Marvell a product-level AI networking catalyst, with custom silicon revenue now central to whether data center growth can support the stock’s higher expectations.

Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL), provides data infrastructure semiconductor solutions from data center core to network edge. The stock closed at $290.79, up 32.52%, after endorsements from Nvidia’s CEO and Marvell’s new AI-focused Teralynx T100 switch left investors watching how

美国国务院发言人Tommy Pigott在X平台发文表示，以色列和黎巴嫩的代表周二在国务院举行第四轮会谈后，“政治和安全领域继续取得进展”。 Pigott表示：“新一轮会谈定于明天举行”。 责任编辑：李桐

Palantir's $369 Billion Valuation Requires Unprecedented Federal Market Share (PLTR) Seeking Alpha

hapabapa/iStock Editorial via Getty Images I have been writing about structural flaws in AI bull theses. Nvidia at $5 trillion needs a power grid that doesn’t exist. SpaceX, at $1.75 trillion, has a lack of shareholder input and is bailing out xAI. Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PLTR ) at $369 billion needs something even harder to find. It needs to become a line item in the federal budget. The Reverse-DCF Nobody Wants To Run PLTR closed at $160.65 on June 1, 2026. Market capitalization stood at roughly $369 billion. Reverse-DCF the equity value with a 10% cost of equity and a 3% terminal growth rate. The math is straightforward and unforgiving. $369B x (10%-3%) = $25.8 billion of steady-state free cash flow per year. Now translate $25.8 billion of free cash flow required at various margin profiles: At a 30% FCF margin: $86 billion of revenue. At a 25% FCF margin: $103 billion of revenue. At a 20% FCF margin: $129 billion of revenue. Palantir’s TTM revenue is $5.2 billion. So the implied growth multiple to justify the current price is somewhere between 17x and 25x. That alone should give you pause. The harder question is: 17x to 25x growth from what base, into which buyers? The Federal Budget Arithmetic Per Palantir’s Q1 2026 10-Q , the revenue mix breaks out as: US Gov’t: $687 million (42%). Int’l Gov’t: $172 million (10%). US Commercial: $595 million (36%). Int’l Commercial: $179 million (11%). The government is 53% of the business. Hold that mix constant at maturity, and the $103 billion margin scenario requires $55 billion in government revenue. $44 billion of that in US government revenue (at the current 80/20 US-to-international gov split). Now look at what the US Government actually spends on IT. Per the DoW FY 2026 IT and Cyberspace Activities budget overview, the entire Department of War’s IT budget is $66.1 billion. Total federal IT spending across all agencies is approximately $136 billion, although OMB sunsetted itdashboard.gov in April 2026, so the offici...

Microsoft's Build developer conference kicked off today , and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft's opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. There's Microsoft Scout , an OpenClaw-based "Autopilot" agent that can hook into Microsoft 365 data to perform tasks for users; several new AI models ; an expanded preview of " Codename MDASH ," which is a "multi-model agentic scanning system" meant to detect and fix software vulnerabilities. A few of those announcements stood out to us as particularly interesting, either for esoteric technical reasons or because they seem like they may have some utility for those who aren't spending their every waking moment using generative AI tools. (Microsoft's recent efforts to make its flagship operating system faster, more reliable, more useful, and less annoying didn't really come up, but there have been plenty of other announcements on that front lately .) On the hardware front, we didn't get any updates for existing Surface devices (not counting yesterday's Surface Laptop Ultra announcement), but we did get something new: the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is "a compact developer PC" built around Nvidia's new RTX Spark chip with up to 128GB of built-in memory. Read full article Comments

The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections Now that attention within the AI revolution has one again firmly turned toward the cost-benefit equation (i..e., ROI) of tokens (see " From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag ") in particular, and the trillions behind the AI spending rollout in general, and we say once again because every few months we get some iteration of the following report from Goldman published almost two years ago today... ... we have more bad news: according to a global survey by Bain, cost savings from automation are broadly falling short of projections. Which means that those expecting big savings from their investments in artificial intelligence, which is most companies, will be disappointed. The missed targets “should be making executives uncomfortable,” since many of them are approving increased spending for artificial intelligence on the basis of expected savings , the consulting firm said in a report shared exclusively with Bloomberg News . The problem is there are little actual savings to speak of. The survey, completed in April, was based on responses from executives at 951 companies with more than $100 million in revenue, across nine sectors: retail, technology, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, consumer products, energy, financial services, telecom/media/entertainment and insurance. It found that among companies measuring their AI cost savings, the largest share (40%) realized reductions of 10% or less . Predictably, most had been expecting to see far more meaningful improvement, especially since they spent far more than that on the new technology. Here’s the part that Bain found the most troubling: 44% of large companies that are funding their next wave of AI spending are basing those investments on the last round of savings - savings that haven’t yet materialized. “The prior wave underdelivered. The savings pool is smaller than assumed,” Bain warned....

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当地时间6月2日，联合国人权理事会特别报告员和独立专家发表声明，指出美国对古巴革命领袖劳尔·卡斯特罗的指控违反了《联合国宪章》和国际法，并滥用司法程序作为胁迫手段。声明敦促美国政府立即停止对古巴的威胁并撤销单方面强制措施；强调任何国家都不应承认这些措施，并呼吁联合国安理会和大会紧急处理针对古巴的威胁，将其视为影响国际和平与安全的问题。（央视新闻）

鉴于中东地区持续动荡，以及由此导致的全球利率飙升，中国国债的投资吸引力正在提升。《日本经济新闻》2日报道称，中国丰富的能源储备、较低的通胀率和可预测的货币政策，使中国国债成为多元化投资的理想选择。 “今年以来，我们增加了中国国债的持有量。这是因为与其他国家相比，中国今后的货币政策和经济形势更容易预测，而且在价格方面非常有吸引力。”在日本资产管理公司Asset Management One负责全球债券投资的基金经理田中光表示。 《日本经济新闻》称，自美以伊冲突爆发以来，中国 10 年期国债收益率下行、价格走高，而美日德10年期国债收益率同步上行、债券价格走低。据分析，这是因为中国对中东紧张局势导致的油价上涨具有较强的抵御能力。根据国际能源署（IEA）的数据，中国对石油的依赖程度不到其能源消耗的20%。这意味着，与石油依赖程度接近40%的日本和韩国相比，油价上涨对中国的通胀压力相对较小。(环球网)