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Why CATLs sodium-ion breakthrough could be a game changer for Chinas EV market
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) has deployed the world’s first sodium-ion batteries in passenger cars, as it aims to stay ahead in China’s fiercely competitive electric vehicle (EV) market amid price volatility in traditional lithium-ion batteries. The company’s new Naxtra battery will be installed in China Changan Automobile Group EVs this week for winter testing in…
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Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs | TechCrunch
Anthropic and OpenAI may be rivals, but their presidents Daniela Amodei and Gregory Brockman have one thing in common: they are both Stripe alumni. With former employees who went on to create dozens of startups, the fintech company has become one of the most prolific “founder factories” — and the money is following. The latest…
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Has Russia agreed to a US-enforced ceasefire plan for Ukraine?
The US signaled its support for NATO troops in Ukraine last month after Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, praised the principle ofsecurity guaranteesfor the first time shortly after France and the UK committed to deploying troops there in the event of aceasefire. This sequence was analyzed in detailhere. A recentFinancial Timesreport, published…
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Sony Pictures Fiscal Q3 Revenue Down 12 Percent; Music and Games Divisions See Gains
Sony Pictures Entertainment’s operating income for its fiscal third quarter (ending December 31, 2025) was down 11 percent to $197 million from $223 million in dollar terms for the comparable period a year before, with Q3 sales down 12 percent to $2.295 billion from $2.619 billion. SPE comprises the motion pictures division, television productions and…
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Why US-Bangladesh rushed through a pre-election trade deal
On February 9, just 72 hours before a transformative general election in Bangladesh, a high-level delegation from Dhaka will gather in Washington to finalize a trade agreement that could fundamentally reshape the country’s economic trajectory. While domestic critics have characterized the timing as a calculated move by the interim administration to secure international legitimacy on…
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Rounded up and executed: gunmen kill nearly 200 in Nigeria attacks
Nearly 200 people have been killed by armed men in separate attacks in remote villages in central and northern Nigeria, a local lawmaker, residents and police said on Wednesday, as security forces searched for survivors and chased the attackers. In central Kwara state, gunmen attacked the Woro community on Tuesday leaving at least 170 people…
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Rising food bank use in Guernsey a sad picture of our community
He added: “Making certain services free to access, even if they’re paid for elsewhere, adjusting benefit rates so that at least you ensure the lowest income households are adequately protected, or otherwise you’re looking at, sort of, trying to control costs in other ways such as rent control.”
