More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, U.N. says

More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year, the United Nations reported Friday. Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of … Read more

Blavity CEO Morgan DeBaun leads one of the largest Black tech conferences and creates a space for startup founders

Good morning! e.l.f. Beauty is accused of inflating revenue, Trump has a new pick for attorney general, and Fortune’s Sheryl Estrada writes about Blavity and its annual AfroTech conference. — Entrepreneurial motivation. After graduating from Washington University, Morgan DeBaun moved from St. Louis to the Bay area to work for the software company Intuit. But … Read more

Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner

Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models. Anthropic also says it’s working with Annapurna Labs, AWS’ chipmaking division, to develop future generations of Trainium accelerators, AWS’ custom-built chips … Read more

What do we know about Russia’s new ballistic missile, Oreshnik? | Russia-Ukraine war News

President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia tested a hypersonic intermediate-range missile in an assault on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The Kremlin said the attack was in response to Ukraine’s recent use of US- and UK-supplied missiles to target Russian territory. Joe Biden, the outgoing US president, and his administration only recently gave … Read more

Did whistleblowers set off the $250 million Adani bribery allegations?

Two whistleblower complaints lodged at Azure Power Global in May and September 2022 triggered a two-year U.S. investigation, culminating in the indictment of Gautam Adani and seven others in a $250 million bribery scheme. The allegations, involving improper payments to Indian government officials, have rattled markets and raised serious questions about corporate governance at the … Read more