Russian forces have stepped up ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv and other cities in recent weeks.
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HONGKONG (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Chinese startup Moonshot AI, die vrijdag zijn nieuwe AI-model Kimi K3 lanceerde, bereidt zich voor op een beursgang in Hongkong. Ingewijden zeggen tegen persbureau Bloomberg dat het bedrijf dat aan investeerders heeft laten weten. Het bedrijf wil daarmee de kans aangrijpen om de kapitaalmarkten aan te boren, nadat Kimi K3 de opvattingen in de sector over de groeiende capaciteiten van China op zijn kop heeft gezet en techaandelen wereldwijd liet dalen.
De bronnen melden dat Moonshot het aandeelhoudersvoorstel officieel aan zijn investeerders heeft voorgelegd, waarin het bedrijf goedkeuring van zijn financiers vraagt. De stap kan erop wijzen dat een beursgang al binnen een half jaar kan plaatsvinden. Moonshot is volgens hen bezig met het afronden van een financieringsronde die de startup op meer dan 30 miljard dollar kan waarderen, ongeveer 26,2 miljard euro.
Fifa deal with prediction market company under fire
Balogun reprieve showed ‘rules bend under pressure’
Fifa has been accused of providing an “open door to fraud” and allowing political influence to cast doubt on the integrity of the World Cup in a stinging rebuke by the Council of Europe’s secretary general.
In an open letter published to coincide with Sunday’s final, Alain Berset also called for a new integrity framework to be built before the 2030 tournament, which is mainly being staged in Europe, and warned that Fifa was embroiled in a crisis involving money and power.
Continue reading...The soul-rockers achieved worldwide success before surprising everyone by deciding to quit while they were ahead. Now they’re back with a new album railing against the state of contemporary America
In the autumn of 2024, Alabama Shakes showed no sign of ending their indefinite hiatus – and nobody was asking them to. Seven years had passed since the blues-soul-rock band, who exploded out of Athens, Alabama in 2009, had last shared a stage. Their transatlantic Top 10 2012 debut Boys & Girls announced them; the million-selling 2015 follow-up Sound & Color went to No 1 in the US and won them four Grammys. Their fanbase included Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant and Barack Obama. But by 2017 they were physically and creatively spent, and they stopped. Then, in December 2024, with almost no warning, they played their first show in more than seven years.
“We had a friend in Tuscaloosa who had a brewery, but it wasn’t doing so well after Covid,” explains singer Brittany Howard. “He called me and said he was going to do a fundraiser and asked if I’d like to perform. I said, ‘For sure.’” But then she started reminiscing, remembering how that particular friend had been a huge help to the band, not just her personally. She felt the band owed him something, collectively. “So I called the fellas,” she smiles. “‘Do y’all wanna perform at this thing – like, all of us, together?’ And they instantly said yes.”
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