Industrial Development Funding (IDF) and Oaktree have announced a $1.7bn investment to fund the deployment of Bloom Energy’s fuel-cell technology as part of Nebius’ AI cloud infrastructure development. The project aims to provide behind-the-meter power to Nebius to meet the increasing demand for computing required by its AI platform. Nebius has chosen Bloom Energy's fuel cell systems for their fast …

Most of West Africa's Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. The remaining rainforest is threatened by cocoa production. Mongabay visited Grand Gedeh, Liberia to investigate the issue. He met migrant cocoa workers, forest rangers and community landowners. He also met George, who works with the Wild. Chimpanzee Foundation to protect the area from …

Andy Burnham will become prime minister on Monday. He will be a pro-business leader and bring back Jonathan Reynolds as business secretary. Angela Rayner is being lined up by Burnham to become the new health secretary. Robert Jenrick's 2024 Conservative leadership campaign was warned about the source of a £37,500 donation.

Michael Whatley is a Republican candidate for Senate in the state of North Carolina. He claims that Roy Cooper let 4,200 criminals out of prison because he didn't want them to get COVID. Many of them went on to commit crimes. DeCarlos Brown Jr. killed his own daughter with fentanyl he got from a bottle while doing a fentanyl deal.

Next week's note will be delayed to Monday morning due to the annual Sonnenalp Golf Club Member Guest Tournament. Demand headwinds from immigration, fiscal restraint, tariffs, and energy shocks are fading. Inflation data suggests fiscal and monetary conditions are not supportive of a renewed inflation acceleration. September is a likely starting point for policy rebalancing.

Daria Kaleniuk is the Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center. She argues that the dismissal of Ukraine's reformist defense minister is the result of a struggle over the future direction of wartime governance. She highlights the role of civil society mobilisation, parliamentary oversight, legal constraints, and Ukraine's relationship with its international partners.

Palestine-Israel conflict has long been a geopolitical issue for Indonesia. Indonesia rejects colonialism and supports Palestinian sovereignty within the pre-1967 borders. However, support for Palestine in Indonesia is not monolithic along ideological lines. There is a wide gap between formal diplomacy and the emotional instincts of the public.

Abelardo De La Espriella has taken office in a few weeks. He has already made a positive impact on the economy, security and citizen perception. The first ministerial appointments have been people with in-depth knowledge of their sectors. The foreign agenda has been a first strategic front. The vice president went to Washington as the first diplomatic gesture. The relationship …

Alexander Tan is suing the city of L.A. because he refused to stop investigating a young woman's suspicious death. Amelia Salehpour, 18, died of an overdose in Van Nuys in 2023. Tan and his partner found evidence that she had been strangled. Tan claims the department retaliated by taking away resources from their investigation, “dismantling” their drug enforcement team, and …

Millions of Americans are under air quality alerts due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. The smoke is affecting the Midwest, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic. It comes one day before the FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey. President Donald Trump will call Canadian Prime Minister to discuss the issue.

U.S. and Iran exchange strikes aimed at infrastructure and military targets in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has suspended its commitments under the interim deal with the U.S., according to Iranian negotiator Kazem Gharibabadi. Kuwait suffered the most damage when Iran struck a water desalination plant and an oil facility. Iraq shot down attack drones over Irbil. Jordan's air defense …

Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is trying to debank illegal immigrants as an incentive for them to self-deport from the United States. Trump signed an executive order on May 19 that directed banks and federal regulators to increase scrutiny of accounts and credit applications involving immigrants without legal status or work authorization. Federal agencies have already begun acting on …