Darie Nani
Editor-in-Chief·Founder, Sovereign Magazine
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MarketsLegal Sports Betting Stops Growing as Bettors Move to Prediction Markets
The first flat season since 2018 has the sportsbook industry pointing at Kalshi and Polymarket, while courts split over whether those venues are gambling at all.
·4 min read
MarketsA $4.4 Billion Deal Is the Latest Bet on Powering AI Data Centres
The purchase folds EPC Power into a Flex division already headed for a spin-off, and the grid queues and equipment backlogs that hold data centres back lie well downstream of what it makes.
·6 min read
Startups, Science & TechRegulatory Affairs Veteran Brandy G. Robinson Named to Marquis Who's Who for Zebra MedNex, the AI EHR Platform Nominated for a 2026 Edison Award
The regulatory affairs and compliance professional, lecturer and novelist spent years keeping medical products compliant before a diagnosis of her own turned her into a founder. Her AI-infused EHR platform, a 2026 Edison Award nominee, puts clinical research and drug-safety checks inside the record doctors and patients already use.
·7 min read
PoliticsNine More Drugmakers Accept Most-Favored-Nation Pricing to Avoid a 100% Tariff
The commitments carry no publicly disclosed enforcement terms, and the tariff relief that drove companies to sign expires in January 2029.
·4 min read
BusinessGoPro Hands Control to an AI-Optics Maker Chasing Data-Center Demand
Starman Optical is paying GoPro shareholders $1.14 a share in cash and taking majority control, turning the struggling camera company into a debt-free, Nasdaq-listed home for its optical-transceiver business.
·4 min read
Artificial Intelligence, BusinessKosuke Shirako on Why Companies Using the Same AI Reach the Same Conclusions
Tokyo observation studio SHIRO & Co. launched its Kosuke Protocol on 25 August, a five-stage method for turning fragments observed across climate, markets and human behaviour into decisions its founder says shared AI models cannot produce.
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Business, StartupsClean Energy Platform Cloover Turns Its Financed Homes Into a Virtual Power Plant as Europe Ends Feed-in Tariffs
The Berlin company says it is profitable three years after launch at a revenue run rate above $350 million, and has added $100 million in financing capacity, taking the total past $1.3 billion behind a European Investment Fund guarantee.
·5 min read
FinanceNika Widanage on Why Cross-Border Tax Starts Before the Return
Her Melbourne firm, AIMS Australia Tax Accountants, advises expatriates, foreign residents, internationally mobile executives and high-net-worth private clients, whose Australian tax position can be materially affected by dates and decisions long before a return is lodged.
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FinTechSyria Processes Its First International Card Payment in More Than 15 Years
The transaction closes a gap opened by more than a decade of sanctions, but the merchant network behind it still reaches a sliver of a country of 23 million.
·4 min read
MarketsMembers
FDA Authorizes the JUUL2 Vaping System Four Years After Moving to Ban Juul
The clearance covers a redesigned system with optional built-in age verification, and it returns Juul to a legal market it no longer leads.
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Science & TechA Himalayan Glacier Collapse Kills Hundreds and Severs a Key China-Nepal Trade Route
More than 1,500 people remain missing on both sides of the border, and scientists are divided over what triggered the collapse.
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LifestyleMembers
GLP-1 Users Are Spending More on Fitness and Less on Snacks and Restaurants
The gap runs to nearly four to one by one survey's count, but the shift is concentrated among affluent users and may not outlast their prescriptions.
·1 min read
Green TechMembers
Federal Scientists Will Test Two Finalist Molecules to Replace the Tire Chemical Killing Salmon
Flexsys drew both candidates from outside the chemical family that produces 6PPD-quinone, the compound behind mass coho die-offs, though a substitute reaching tires broadly remains years away.
·1 min read
PoliticsCalifornia Lawmakers Pass a Bill Making Large Companies Swear Whether They Profited From Slavery
AB 2599 now sits on Governor Newsom's desk, and if he signs it, corporations above $100 million in revenue would have to file affidavits about their slavery-era ties and post them to a public database.
·4 min read
Artificial IntelligenceGeorgia's Giant OpenAI Data Center Comes With a Utility Pledge to Cut Home Bills
Everywhere else the AI boom has raised power bills, but Georgia is betting the opposite, projecting a $180-a-year saving on numbers no one outside the utility can yet check.
·5 min read
Artificial IntelligenceAn AI-Designed Antibody Matched Months of Lab Work in the First Blinded Test of Its Kind
Across the full contest, computational design did not clearly outdo the lab, and no AI-designed antibody has yet been approved.
·4 min read
Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Agentic AI Is Moving Enterprise Software to Pay-Per-Action Pricing, and Buyers Lack Cost Controls
Info-Tech Research Group warns that a single prompt can now trigger dozens of metered charges, and that the leverage to fix the bill disappears once the workflows are embedded.
·1 min read
Science & TechMembers
Arizona Becomes the First State to Put Birth Certificates on a Phone
LexisNexis and two state agencies built the credential on the same digital-wallet technology that has already carried driver's licenses into more than 20 states.
·1 min read
Artificial IntelligenceMembers
AI Now Steers About a Third of Shoppers, Often Toward Brands They Had Not Considered
Product discovery is moving inside the chatbot's answer, where most brands cannot see whether an AI is recommending them or why.
·1 min read
Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Clinical AI Reaches Patients Faster Than Anyone Tracks Its Mistakes
ECRI, a national patient-safety nonprofit, is building the first healthcare-specific system to log the errors AI tools make once they are inside real patient care.
·1 min read
Artificial Intelligence, Science & TechMembers
DeepSeek Is Becoming the AI of Choice for Cybercriminals
Security researchers tracing a live attack campaign found the open-weight model wired into an autonomous hacking tool, and warn that a system anyone can download and strip of its safety controls leaves no provider account to suspend.
·1 min read
Science & TechMembers
Scientists Can Now See What AI Models Learn From Raw DNA
A method called PISA traces a model's prediction at any single DNA base back to every other base behind it, exposing when the model has learned the quirks of an experiment instead of real biology.
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Startups, Science & TechDrone Defense Startup Mara Raises $7M Led by Khosla Ventures to Stop Cheap FPV Drones
The San Francisco company, founded in October 2024 by Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu, pairs a sensor unit with a 250-gram tube-launched interceptor and plans to have the Spike system with key customers by the end of 2026.
·6 min read
Artificial IntelligenceAmazon Moves to Automate the Delivery Station, the Last Human Corner of Its Network
The same internal plan behind the effort counts on avoiding more than 600,000 US hires by 2033.
·3 min read