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‘It’s only when you see 49-ton trucks in China running on batteries that you realize how serious electrification is’: Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on Europe’s incumbency problem

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The Pentagon and Britain are bracing for the power to go out. The ultrawealthy got there first, with backup generators, escape homes, and stockpiles

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Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges families to stockpile food and water

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‘It’s only when you see 49-ton trucks in China running on batteries that you realize how serious electrification is’: Octopus Energy CEO Greg Jackson on Europe’s incumbency problem

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The Pentagon and Britain are bracing for the power to go out. The ultrawealthy got there first, with backup generators, escape homes, and stockpiles

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Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges families to stockpile food and water
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Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” The Gen Z ex-founder has been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”

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Billionaire Mark Cuban started out selling trash bags. Now, he says Gen Z should stop chasing the perfect job and get working—even in fast food.

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