Since taking over as Hongkong Land’s chief executive, Smith has embarked on a pivot to double down on commercial properties and fund management, while shedding its less lucrative residential businesses.
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Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
This deal is another sign the Mavs are moving on from the Luka trade, shedding payroll, and tanking the rest of the season to land a high pick in the 2026 NBA draft.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Feb. 2026
One is that OpenAI’s board has apparently abandoned its mission of safety.
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Alnoor Ebrahim,
The Conversation,
13 Feb. 2026
The tech mogul, who helped found OpenAI, sued Altman and the company in 2024, accusing them of abandoning the firm’s founding values and manipulating him into investing in the ChatGPT maker.
Fedorov, the new defense minister, acknowledges the scale of the problem, telling the Ukrainian parliament some 2 million people are ignoring their call-up papers, while 200,000 others have deserted.
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Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
About a third of Californians live in what’s called the wildland-urban-interface, where human settlements overlap with wildlife habitat like forests, mountain foothills or desert open space, Crowfoot said.
While Streeting was on-message with the rest of the Cabinet in supporting Starmer after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for the prime minister to resign, the secretary reportedly spoke with Sarwar in the days leading up to the call for Starmer to resign.
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Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Feb. 2026
Laporta resigned from his role on Monday morning — at least temporarily.
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Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Born rich, yet sought a life of poverty Born into a merchant family in the Umbrian town of Assisi, in present-day Italy, around 1181, Francis famously renounced his family’s wealth.
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Vanessa Corcoran,
The Conversation,
2 Feb. 2026
Through the request, Franyelis renounced her claim to seek asylum in the United States and asked Reingold to let her self-deport.
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