Reform UK leader has registered wide range of financial interests on top of his Commons salary since July 2024

• Cameo, speeches, pushing gold bullion: how Farage has made millions since becoming an MP

Nigel Farage’s income since he was elected as an MP has now reached £2m on top of his parliamentary salary, analysis of the register of MPs has shown.

Farage’s earning power sets him alongside a small number of MPs who have been able to leverage their status for external income alongside their day jobs – drawing comparisons to Boris Johnson, who made about £5m on top of his MP’s salary in the six months after he resigned as prime minister.

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おまんじゅう・おむすび・おこわ。
Manju, onigiri e okowa fatti a mano in un piccolo negozio che sembra rimasto fermo nel tempo.
Niente confezioni perfette, niente marketing elegante.
Solo vetrine quasi vuote, fogli scritti a mano e qualcuno che continua a preparare cibo come ha sempre fatto.

おまんじゅう・おむすび・おこわ。
時間が止まったような小さな店。
きれいな包装も、おしゃれな宣伝もない。
手書きの紙と少ない商品、それでも今も変わらず手作りを続けている。

おまんじゅう・おむすび・おこわ。
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No perfect packaging, no polished marketing.
Just half-empty displays, handwritten notes, and someone still preparing food the same way as always.

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De grote afwezige tijdens een hoorzitting van het Europees Parlement over AI-bedrijf Anthropic, vanwege grote zorgen over zijn model Mythos, was Anthropic zelf. Europa kan het AI-model niet zelf testen.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world's oceans -- a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and speed up deployments of wave-riding "nodes" designed to generate electrical power, according to a May 4 press release. Instead of sending renewable energy to a land-based data center, the floating nodes would directly power onboard AI chips and transmit inference tokens representing the AI models' outputs to customers worldwide via satellite link.

Each node resembles a huge steel sphere bobbing on the water with a tube-like structure extending vertically down beneath the surface. The wave motions drive water upward through the tube into a pressurized reservoir, where it can be released to spin a turbine generator that produces renewable energy for the AI chips on board. Panthalassa claims the node's AI chips would also get cooled using the surrounding water, which could offer another advantage over traditional data centers. "Ocean-based compute might offer a massive cooling advantage because the ambient temperature is so low," Lee said. "Land-based data centers use a lot of electricity and fresh water for cooling."

The newest node prototype, called Ocean-3, is scheduled for testing in the northern Pacific Ocean later in 2026. The latest version reaches about 85 meters in length and would stand nearly as tall as London's Big Ben or New York City's Flatiron Building, according to the Financial Times. Panthalassa has already tested several earlier prototypes of the wave energy converter technology, including the Ocean-1 in 2021 and the Ocean-2 that underwent a three-week sea trial off the coast of Washington state in February 2024. The company's CEO and co-founder, Garth Sheldon-Coulson, said in a CBS interview that he hopes to eventually deploy thousands of the nodes.

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