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- Paramount Seeks $1.88B Bond for Delayed Merger Costs
- Buss Family Sells Remaining Lakers Stake to Iger, Kushner
- Nigeria Inflation Falls to 15.43% in July 2026
- Canada Announces $70 Billion Clean Energy Deal for Churchill Falls
- ByteDance and MPA Agree on Stricter AI Copyright Safeguards
- Uber and Zipline partner to launch drone deliveries for Uber Eats, targeting one million daily flights by 2029
- HIVE Digital secures $350 million five-year GPU cloud contract
- UK inflation forecast to rise on energy bill hikes
- OpenAI signs Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing
- Bitmine adds 9,926 ETH, raising holdings to 4.8% of supply
- Austria fines Bitpanda €70,000 for MiCA compliance breaches
- AstraZeneca Discontinues Phase III Lung Cancer Trial
Buss Family Sells Remaining Lakers Stake to Iger, Kushner
The Buss family has agreed to sell its remaining 17.8 percent ownership stake in the Los Angeles Lakers to incoming owners Bob Iger and Josh Kushner, effectively ending the family's historic tenure with the franchise.
Nigeria Inflation Falls to 15.43% in July 2026
Nigeria's headline inflation rate fell to 15.43 percent in July 2026, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. The figure represents a decline from the 15.
Canada Announces $70 Billion Clean Energy Deal for Churchill Falls
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a nearly $70 billion investment in clean energy on Monday, August 17, 2026, in partnership with the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.
ByteDance and MPA Agree on Stricter AI Copyright Safeguards
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association announced on Monday, August 17, 2026, a formal agreement to implement stricter copyright safeguards across the Chinese technology company's generative artificial intelligence ...
Uber and Zipline partner to launch drone deliveries for Uber Eats, targeting one million daily flights by 2029
Uber Technologies announced a partnership with autonomous drone delivery company Zipline on Monday, August 17, 2026, in a major push to integrate aerial delivery into its Uber Eats platform.
HIVE Digital secures $350 million five-year GPU cloud contract
HIVE Digital Technologies announced on Monday, August 17, 2026, that its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing has secured a five-year, $350 million contract to provide GPU cloud services to an unnamed investment-gr...
UK inflation forecast to rise on energy bill hikes
UK inflation is forecast to have accelerated sharply in July, driven by a significant increase in household energy bills, with official figures expected to show the Consumer Prices Index rising to 2.
OpenAI signs Ohio data center lease with Nvidia backing
OpenAI has secured the largest data center project announced to date, signing a 20-year lease for an expansive facility in Ohio with Nvidia providing a financial backstop of up to $105 billion.
Bitmine adds 9,926 ETH, raising holdings to 4.8% of supply
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, a leading corporate holder of cryptocurrency, announced on Monday, August 17, 2026, that it has purchased an additional 9,926 Ethereum (ETH) over the past week, bringing its total holdings...
Austria fines Bitpanda €70,000 for MiCA compliance breaches
Austria's Financial Market Authority has fined the Vienna-based cryptocurrency platform Bitpanda 70,000 euros for multiple violations of the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation.
AstraZeneca Discontinues Phase III Lung Cancer Trial
AstraZeneca has discontinued its Phase III eVOLVELung02 clinical trial evaluating the experimental drug volrustomig combined with chemotherapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
