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Financial services firm Moody’s announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Cape Analytics, a geospatial AI startup, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which is expected to close in Q1, subject to customary closing conditions, will give Moody’s access to Cape’s geospatial AI analytics technology for insurance underwriting. With the tech, Moody’s plans to create a property database capable of delivering “address-specific” risk insights for its insurance clients, said Moody’s CEO Rob Fauber. “By combining our … risk models with Cape’s AI-powered property risk intelligence, we will provide our customers with the most advanced property risk analytics available…

The pound has dropped to its lowest value against the dollar since November 2023 while government borrowing costs have continued to rise.The pound fell to $1.21 on Monday while the rate at which the government can borrow money hit its highest level since 2008 by one measure.Borrowing costs for many countries are rising across the world, though some have said decisions made in the Budget have made the UK particularly vulnerable.The prime minister said he had “full confidence” in Chancellor Rachel Reeves, but the Conservatives said Reeves was “hanging on by her fingernails”.Governments generally borrow money by selling bonds to…

Factcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week – delivered via Mark Zuckerberg’s medium of choice, the awkward video message – that, starting in the US, Meta would abandon professional, third-party factchecking across its networks in favor of the user-powered “community notes” model used on X.“This is all intended to curry favor with Trump,” one factchecker wrote as soon as the news dropped, on the private WhatsApp channel where the community gathered to vent. Their public responses made the same point a little more diplomatically.If the incoming US president was the audience, though, a crucial…

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and completely independent, and we can only do this through the support of readers like you, so please show your support by becoming a subscriber.A super PAC affiliated with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) isn’t waiting for Trump to take office before they start hammering Republicans on the economy. The issue arm of the House Majority PAC, House Majority Forward is spending $10 million to hammer Republicans on their planned tax cuts for the rich.Axios reported:The campaign will include TV and digital ads to “hold Republicans accountable for refusing to lower costs,” according to a press release…

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or Hindu pitcher festival, begins Monday in the northern Indian city of Prayagraj.Officials expect at least 400 million people to visit Prayagraj over the next 45 days.Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the festival has become an integral part of advocacy of Hindu nationalism. The festival is expected to boost the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s record of promoting Hindu cultural symbols for its support base. Critics say the party’s philosophy is rooted in Hindu supremacy.Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday…

AFPUS President-elect Donald Trump has threatened that “all hell” will break loose if the hostages are not released before he takes officeThe outline of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal currently being discussed by Israel and Hamas at indirect talks in Doha has been on the table since May. So why is there fresh anticipation that it could work, after being frozen for eight months of the war?There are several things that have shifted – both politically and on the ground.The first is the election of Donald Trump as the next US president.He has threatened that “all hell” would…

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SummaryThe time is nearly 5am in Los Angeles, 8am in New York and 1pm in London. Here is the latest on the wildfires situation affecting LA. Firefighters are preparing for a return of dangerous winds that could again stoke the wildfires. The National Weather Service has issued a rare warning of a “particularly dangerous situation,” beginning overnight Monday into Tuesday. The service’s Ariel Cohen warned of the risk of “explosive fire growth as those winds pick back up”. At least 24 people have been killed and thousands of homes have been destroyed in the Los Angeles area. At least 16…

German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi has been released from prison in Iran, her daughter says.”It’s over. Nahid is free! After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother… was freed and is back in Germany,” Mariam Claren wrote on X.Taghavi, 70, was arrested in Tehran in October 2020 and sentenced to 10 years in prison the following August after being convicted of forming a group “with the purpose of disrupting national security” and “spreading propaganda against the system”.Amnesty International said the charges, which she denied, were apparently related to a social media account…

THE BOSSES of America’s trillion-dollar technology giants represent two CEO archetypes. First, the eccentric visionary founder: Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Elon Musk of Tesla and Jensen Huang of Nvidia are obsessed with their products; wield untrammelled power thanks to the strength of their will, the size of their shareholding, or both; and make questionable sartorial choices. Second, the caretaker: Tim Cook of Apple, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Andy Jassy of Amazon and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, Google’s corporate parent, are low-key, sensibly attired hired guns who mostly take great existing products and turn them into fabulous businesses.