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Central Asian AI Film 'Kök Börü' Debuts at SIGGRAPH, Showcasing Higgsfield's Hybrid Pipeline
The short film, made by a ten-person team in two weeks, puts Higgsfield's model of AI-assisted animation in front of the...
Ferro-Alloy Resources Names New CEO, Raises £5.7m and Sets Sights on Yttrium
The Kazakhstan-focused miner is replacing its CEO, raising funds to meet near-term debt, and weighing yttrium extraction...
Why Cutting Staff in a Crisis Can Cost More Than Keeping Them
An investor argues that owners should judge layoffs by company value, not quarterly profit — and explains when cutting s...
WestJet Flight Attendants Strike Over Pay, Forcing Hundreds of Flight Cancellations
WestJet has canceled 309 flights after 4,400 flight attendants walked out over pay, renewing a Canadian battle over how ...
Why Sustainable Food Is Becoming a Stand-Alone Investment Theme
Food security and climate pressure are turning sustainable agriculture into an investment theme spanning alternative pro...
Why Detroit and Windsor Are Getting a Second Bridge for a $126 Billion Trade Route
The €4 billion Gordie Howe Bridge opens on 27 July, giving Detroit and Windsor a second crossing on a border that carrie...
France's June Heatwave Brought a Mortality Spike Not Seen Since 2003
Official Insee data show France's June heatwave pushed monthly deaths up 10.6% year on year, with a daily peak of 2,935 ...
What to Watch as 30 CAC 40 Companies Report Half-Year Results This Week
Three-quarters of France's flagship index publish interim results in a single week, with investors parsing guidance upgr...
Poland's Euro Debate Heats Up as the 'Optimal Currency Area' Refrain Gets Scrutiny
Poland's eurozone debate is reviving, and an influential argument against entry — that Poland is no 'optimal currency ar...
Why Top Performers Quit Isn't in Any Report: The Quiet Signals Leaders Miss
A resignation is rarely about the money. The real loss happens months earlier, when a valued employee stops believing th...
EU Opens €30 Billion AI Megafactory Tender to Close the Gap on US and China
Brussels will back seven AI supercomputing centres worth €30 billion, betting on European models — but will still depend...
EU Naval Force Boards Sanctioned Russian 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker Off Sicily
Italy-led EUNAVFOR MED Irini inspected the sanctioned tanker Toa Payoh west of Sicily — the second shadow-fleet boarding...
FIFA Scraps Plan to Sell World Cup Stakes to Private Investors After Uproar
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has dropped the FIFA Forward Enterprise plan to sell World Cup commercial rights to priv...
How 20 Rabbits Released in 1859 Became a Continent-Scale Ecological Disaster
One settler's hunting hobby triggered one of the fastest mammal invasions ever recorded—and left Australia with some of ...
Novi Sad Canopy Collapse: Ten Questions the Trial Must Answer
A Serbian court is still preparing to hear the Novi Sad station canopy collapse that killed 16. Ten key questions show w...
Europe's Heatwave Is Costing France Nuclear Power and Draining Norway's Hydro Reserves
Summer heat has cut French nuclear output by 3.7 TWh and left Norwegian reservoirs at a 20-year low, raising the risk of...
EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...
Angola Aims to Attract Better Investment, Not Just More Investment
AIPEX's Arlindo Rangel says Angola now measures success by implemented projects, jobs and exports — and is leaning on ar...
Angola Reassures: Kwanza in SADC Payment System Won't Drain Forex Reserves
The BNA says adding the kwanza as a settlement currency to the SADC-RTGS will not dent international reserves and should...
Brazil's Workers' Party Makes Lula's Fourth-Term Bid Official, Setting Up Bolsonaro Showdown
The PT formalized Lula and Alckmin as its ticket for October, with the 80-year-old incumbent leading a polarized race ag...
Heat Waves Are Starting to Reshape Where Spaniards Buy Homes
A fifth of Spaniards say extreme heat has already pushed them to move or look elsewhere, as thermal comfort joins price ...
Airbus Spain Faces Indefinite Strike From 24 August After Workers Reject Pay Deal
CGT, UGT and UTIL filed an indefinite strike notice covering all Airbus Spanish centers after workers rejected a 5%/5% p...
Avançsa Puts €4M into Open Cosmos as Catalonia Deepens Its Space Industry Bet
Catalonia's Avançsa is lending €4 million to satellite maker Open Cosmos, adding to €31 million from ICF funds and cemen...
Euribor Explained: The Benchmark Behind Spain's Variable-Rate Mortgages
An explainer on the Euribor: how the eurozone interbank benchmark is calculated daily, which tenors matter, and why Span...
Chasing the Coco de Mer: A Pilgrimage to Praslin for the World's Largest Seed
A travel writer's quest for a certified coco de mer nut leads to Praslin, where the world's largest seed grows with a my...
CJP Core Members to Meet August 5 to Chart Future Course After NEET Protests
Cockroach Janta Party core members gather in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on August 5 to set a future agenda after protests...
Greece Sets Minimum €132/Tonne Fee for Solar Panel Recycling
Greece's recycling agency set a minimum €132-per-tonne fee (plus VAT) for photovoltaic panel waste, unlocking funding to...
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The source item carried no editorial content, only a cookie-consent notice, so NewsFormal is filing no story rather than...
Five Wild Joe Scarbo Builds: Baja Touareg, Ken Block's 911 and a 600kg V8
The engineer behind the Defender Trophy Truck has more in his past than Land Rover: a Baja-class Touareg, Ken Block's Pi...
Louis-Marie Piron, Veteran of 50 Years in Real Estate, Headlines Forbes Luxembourg Event
Forbes Luxembourg's Talk B17 series welcomes Louis-Marie Piron, the builder behind a 50-year construction and real estat...