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Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

Balmer Absorption in Iron Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Karen M. Leighly, Sarah C. Gallagher, Hyunseop Choi, Donald M. Terndrup, Julianna R. Voelker, Gordon T. Richards, Leah K. Morabito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07611

Balmer Absorption in Iron Low-Ionization Broad Absorption Line Quasars
While C IV is the most common absorption line in Broad Absorption Line Quasar spectra, Balmer absorption lines are among the rarest. We present analysis of Balmer absorption in a sample of fourteen iron low-ionization BAL quasars (FeLoBALQs); eight are new identifications. We measured velocity offset, width, and apparent optical depth. The partial covering ubiquitous in BAL quasar spectra alters the measured Balmer optical depth ratios; taking that into account, we estimated the true H(n= 2) co…

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…

San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.

Europe’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…

New Czech PM Babiš is poised to aggravate Brussels’ populist headache
Andrej Babiš could find common cause with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico on several issues.

Why do companies hire billionaire CEOs anyway? Wouldn't they be better off hiring someone more aligned with the average product/service user? Someone who can push the company forward and not upset everyone aside from investors and shareholders?

Betaal jij meer of minder belasting dan Elon Musk?
https://maps.greenpeace.org/gpafrica/billionaire-taxometer/

The Billionaire Taxometer
Can you beat Musk at his own game?

Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/anthropic-…

Anthropic plans to open India office, eyes tie-up with billionaire Ambani | TechCrunch
Anthropic's next big bet is India — one of its fastest-growing markets worldwide.

Farage insists Thai-based crypto billionaire wants nothing in return for £9m donation to Reform UK
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in
– one month after receiving a record donation for the party
https://www…

Nigel Farage insists Thai-based crypto billionaire wants nothing in return for £9m donation to Reform UK
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in – one month after receiving a record donation for the party

Filing: Musk and X agree to settle a lawsuit by Twitter's ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and others over $128M in unpaid severance (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/796239/elon-musk-x-128-milli…

Elon Musk will settle $128 million Twitter execs lawsuit
Elon Musk has agreed to settle with Twitter’s former top executives, after they sued the billionaire over more than $128 million in unpaid severance.