Darie Nani
Editor-in-Chief·Founder, Sovereign Magazine
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Artificial IntelligenceThomson Reuters Bet $40 Million That 175 Years of Legal Data Beats Renting a Frontier Model
The final training run cost about $450,000; the harder question is whether owning the model still buys an edge, or whether the advantage moved to whoever runs the data best.
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MarketsAI Spending Reaches the Scale of Global Oil and Gas for the First Time in 2026
As the money pouring into data centers matches what the world spends pumping oil, financiers are racing to turn raw computing power into something traders can price and hedge.
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BusinessThe Post Office Has Begun Replacing Horizon, Starting With a £141m Deal for New Branch Tills
The new contract covers the counter software postmasters use every day, while the accounting system that generated the scandal’s false shortfalls sits in a separate contract still being built.
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FinTechCanada's Big Banks Are Handing Small-Business Payments to US Owners
The $2 billion CAD sale of Moneris to a private-equity firm leaves the country's smallest merchants to work out who processes their payments, at what price, and under whose jurisdiction their data sits.
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BusinessAnthropic Prepares Supervoting Shares to Lock In Founder Control Before an IPO
The plan would hand extra votes to a founding group whose economic stake is small, with chief executive Dario Amodei reported to own only about 2 percent of the company.
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Science & TechA Tenth of Your Proteins Is Enough for the Immune System to Learn Not to Attack You
Cold Spring Harbor researchers put hard numbers on immune self-tolerance, borrowing a machine-learning idea to explain how sampling so little still removes about 90 percent of the T cells that could turn on the body.
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Green TechA $3.5 Billion Battery Plant Built for EVs Will Open Making Grid and Data-Center Batteries Instead
General Motors has sold its half of the New Carlisle, Indiana factory to partner Samsung SDI, ending a joint venture set up at the height of the electric-vehicle boom; neither company disclosed the price.
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Science & TechChinese Robotaxis Expand Through the Middle East and Europe, but Not America
Uber, which shut its own self-driving division in 2020, has become the app through which China’s leading autonomous-vehicle companies reach riders abroad.
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MarketsInvestors Put $1 Billion Behind Cheap, Mass-Produced Hypersonic Weapons
The four-year-old startup Castelion, founded by former SpaceX executives, now carries a $13 billion valuation as the Pentagon scrambles to close a hypersonic gap that China and Russia opened years ago.
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MarketsUS 'Functional Unemployment' Rose for a Fourth Month Even as the Official Jobless Rate Fell
A broader measure that counts Americans in involuntary part-time work or earning below a living wage reached 24.9 percent in July, while labor-force participation kept sliding.
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Artificial Intelligence, StartupsFilesystem Startup Space Raises $2.4 Million From a16z Speedrun to Stream Cloud Files to Apps and AI Agents
Founded by the team behind creator tools Kortex and Eden, Space sends applications only the exact byte ranges they ask for, so terabytes of footage, models or code open on a full laptop without a single download.
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Artificial IntelligenceAnyone Waiting for the AI Bubble to Burst Might Be Disappointed
Anthropic has told investors its revenue run rate reached about $65 billion in July, 65 times where it stood eighteen months ago, alongside the company's first quarter of positive adjusted operating income.
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Artificial IntelligenceAI Running a San Francisco Store Fires a Human Worker for the First Time
Its first recommendation was a formal warning; the decision to dismiss came only after a staffer said the employee seemed like the wrong fit.
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Career InsightsOnly 71% of U.S. Workers Are Reskilling for AI, Even as Most Call It Essential
A survey of more than 15,000 U.S. workers documents the divide, while separate wage research finds a credential pays far more when it is matched to the job a worker is targeting.
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MarketsPersistent Bids 81 Euros a Share for Nagarro, More Than Double the Market Price
The Indian software firm is paying a rich premium to a slumping share price, though against what analysts already thought Nagarro was worth the number looks far more modest.
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Science & TechGlobalstar Begins Replacing the Satellite Network Behind the iPhone's Emergency SOS
The first eight of seventeen replacement satellites reached orbit this weekend, even as the network they extend is being folded into Amazon's satellite business.
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Science & Tech, Artificial IntelligenceRiemann Computing Launches LonScript, a Scientific Computing Language It Says Runs 1,434 Times Faster Than Python
Founder Andrew Kamal spent more than a decade with NumPy, Wolfram, and MATLAB before designing a hardware-oriented language for mathematicians and physicists; the Michigan company is raising up to $1.25 million on Wefunder as it brings LonScript to market.
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Artificial IntelligenceChatGPT Can Now Watch and Remember How You Work Across Your Mac
The new Computer History feature is off by default, limited to paying tiers, and unavailable at launch in the UK and the European Economic Area.
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LegalJudge Orders Google to Ease Installation of Rival Android App Stores
The order is the latest enforcement turn in Epic Games' antitrust case, pressing Google to lower the barriers that still stand between Android users and competing storefronts.
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BusinessGenZone Launches Platform Combining Dubai Company Formation and US LLC Setup Under One Login
GenZone has unified its two core services under a single login: Dubai company formation with relocation and tax positioning, and US LLC setup with banking access for non-residents. Backed by 1,400+ companies formed and 3,000+ clients served, the platform is led by Canadian co-founders Kevin McKenzie and Shayan Nasiri.
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Artificial IntelligenceApple Proposes Paying Publishers Each Time Siri Uses Their News
The company has floated a nine-figure budget and a usage-based payment structure that breaks from the flat fees that have defined AI content deals, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
Grok 4.6 Rejoins the AI Frontier at a Fraction of Rivals' Cost
Artificial Analysis, an independent AI evaluation firm, ranks xAI's new model just behind Anthropic's Claude, at more than 60% below its closest rivals on price.
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Artificial IntelligenceMembers
US Intelligence Tech Chief Wants 'Birth Certificates' to Identify AI Agents
Doug Cossa, the intelligence community's chief information officer, says autonomous software agents now cut against the Zero Trust security model designed to control people and devices.
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Science & TechResearchers Ran a Fake Crypto Startup to Hire North Korean IT Workers and Watch Them Work
Security researchers who hired the operatives on purpose watched them forge US identities with AI and lean on ChatGPT for the coding they were being paid to do.
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