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  • Deepfakes have played a starring role in the Gaza war, including manipulated videos featuring Jordan’s Queen Rania (middle left), and fashion model Bella Hadid (top right), along with repurposed battle footage from the Ukraine war (bottom left) and the video game Arma 3 (bottom right). Screenshots Clockwise from Top left: @GloOouD/X, VERIFY/YouTube, @AG_Journalist/X, @GloOouD/X, The Quint/YouTubeMagazine

    Deepfakes are another front in the Israel-Hamas war that risk unleashing even more violence and confusion in the future: ‘This is moving incredibly fast’

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  • A Rwandan soldier walks in front of a burned truck near PalmaFeatures

    The raid in Eastern Africa was one of the worst terror attacks of the century. Survivors say France’s biggest energy company left them to face it alone

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  • Is Saudi Arabia a repressive monarchy or a land of opportunity? It’s both. And that creates a conundrum for business and world leaders.<br /> Photo Illustration by Nicolas OrtegaMagazine

    Saudi Arabia has the most profitable company in the history of the world, with $3.2 trillion to invest by 2030. Who will say no to that tidal wave of cash?

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  • Diabetes drug OzempicMagazine

    Novo Nordisk developed Ozempic and started a weight-loss revolution. Its next moonshot is eliminating obesity altogether

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  • Ozempic is pictured in a pharmacy on April 13, 2023 in Niesky, Germany.Features

    The maker of Ozempic and Wegovy is researching groundbreaking new drugs to stop people from becoming obese in the first place

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  • Workers assemble electric vehicles at Tesla’s Giga Berlin complex in Grünheide, Germany. The factory and its 11,000 workers are on track to produce 250,000 Model Y SUVs in 2023.Magazine

    Have we reached peak Tesla?

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  • Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of KlarnaFeatures

    Sweden’s Klarna burned through $100 million a month to become a buy-now-pay-later giant in the U.S. Can ChatGPT help it turn a profit again?

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  • Linnea Kornehed Falck, deputy CEO of Einride, in her office in Stockholm.Environment

    The U.S.’s new rules on EVs are a boon for a startup in Sweden

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  • SHANGHAI, CHINA &#8211; AUGUST 31: A BYD Co. Seal electric sedan is displayed for sale at a BYD showroom on August 31, 2022 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)Magazine

    Look out, Tesla: China’s biggest electric-car maker wants to take on the world

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  • A rider on a public hire electric scooter, operated by Lime Technologies AB, in Paris

    The city that pioneered electric scooters will take them off the street—and big rental operators are crying foul

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  • Serhiy Zhuykov, CEO of BlackShield Capital GroupFeatures

    How CEOs and businesses in Ukraine have survived a devastating year of war with Russia

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  • Bernard Looney, chief executive officer of BPFeatures

    BP vowed to help set the oil and gas industry on a greener path. Many who bought in now feel betrayed

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  • Students protesting in Paris.Features

    In France, Gen Z is taking to the streets to defend their work-life balance. The fight for retirement starts at age 18

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  • 8353675 12.01.2023 A Russian T-72 tank moves to a firing position in the course of Russia&#8217;s military operation in Ukraine, at the unknown location. Alexander Galperin / Sputnik via APMagazine

    The Ukraine war made Telegram’s app more popular and important than ever. But making money is still a struggle

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  • WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JANUARY 24: The 2023 Doomsday Clock is displayed before a live-streamed event with members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. This year the Doomsday Clock is set at ninety seconds to Midnight (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

    The ‘Doomsday Clock’ just moved 90 seconds to midnight: Who sets it, and does anyone really care?

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