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ToplineJensen Huang’s estimated net worth nearly reached $200 billion Friday, rising alongside Nvidia’s stock one day after the company announced it will acquire artificial intelligence model hub Hugging Face.Nvidia announced the Hugging Face acquisition Thursday.Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsHuang’s estimated net worth rose 1.1% to the $199 billion mark, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires list.Huang’s wealth is linked to his roughly 3% stake in Nvidia, which agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.The jump brought Huang to the No. 8 spot on the real-time list, just behind Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison ($201.2 billion).Nvidia shares traded…

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is broadly known as ASCII smuggling. It gained attention two years ago as a means of making a class of AI attack known as prompt injections more stealthy. Malicious instructions embedded in emails or other untrusted content to be processed by an LLM aren’t written in ordinary text. Instead, they’re rendered by a special range of Unicode tags. For example, the tag point…

China’s decision to grant duty-free access to its vast market to 53 African countries has opened a new front in the continent’s long-running struggle to break out of the commodity trap. For Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation, the opportunity comes with a sharper political question: can Abuja convert preferential access to one of the world’s biggest consumer markets into factories, jobs, technology and value-added exports, or will the country remain largely a supplier of raw materials to Chinese industry? That question took centre stage in Abuja at an international seminar on China’s zero-tariff treatment for African countries,…

The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Faith Birol, says Nigeria’s investment in its energy sector could double within five years as an associate member. He told Reuters on Thursday in Abuja that Nigeria’s admission as an associate member of the Paris-based agency could attract foreign investment into the country. Nigeria was admitted as the 14th associate member of the IEA in July after the US, Germany, Italy and other member states unanimously voted in its favour. With this, Nigeria became the first member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to join the IEA. Mr Birol said…

Ryan O’HanlonSep 4, 2026, 07:42 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Multiple AuthorsHere’s a dirty little secret: Not every team in the Premier League has the same amount of money.Manchester City just broke the English transfer record to acquire Enzo Fernández for €145 million from Chelsea. Meanwhile, Brentford made €206 million during the entirety of the most-recently-accounted-for financial year.Especially with the advent of the league’s new squad cost ratio (SCR) rules, which essentially limit clubs to spending 85% of their football-related revenue and net transfer…

Having started as a child actor – first appearing on screen aged seven – Richard O’Sullivan, who has died aged 82, went on to a major TV career playing still relatively youthful characters, representative of the social and sexual freedoms that grew from the liberations of the 1960s.Between 1972 and 81, he appeared in more than 100 episodes of peak-time ITV comedies as funny, frisky men in their 20s and 30s. The first of these was Dr Lawrence Bingham in the hospital sitcom Doctor in Charge, radiating a cheeky charm that led to his career-defining casting as Robin Tripp in…

Chart your course through a fun, active or productive day, and you’ll often find cause to carry things. Backpacks are arguably the best people-powered way to do it, used by pretty much everyone from Napoleonic soldiers and Ötzi the Iceman to ultra-marathoner Courtney Dauwalter, as well as innumerable workers, students and travellers.The best backpack to choose depends on which elements of your own world you wish to carry, and where you’re planning to take them. You can choose between smart-looking options suitable for work and travel, hiking-focused day packs and trail packs designed for outdoor itineraries, and versatile backpacks with…

Jurors tell judge with ‘heavy heart’ they cannot reach unanimous verdictThis is the note the judge read out from the jury, informing him for the third time that it could not reach a verdict: double quotation markIt is with a heavy heart that we report we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to. Asked for their positions by the judge, the prosecution agreed it should go to a mistrial, while the defence argued for the jury to be sent back to deliberate further.ShareUpdated at 18.37 CESTKey eventsEdward HelmoreIf you’re just joining us, the judge…

Dangote Refinery will open the order book for its initial public offering to retail investors on 14 September, effectively kickstarting the $1.5 billion public share sale, said to be the continent’s biggest ever, Reuters reported Friday, citing two sources who have close knowledge of the move. Pricing will commence at any moment now at N525 per share ($0.40), with 4.1 billion shares up for subscription, the report added, noting that the sources spoke on the understanding that their identities will not be disclosed. The crude processing plant, which holds the distinction of being the world’s largest single-train refinery, will have…

By Elizabeth Adegbesan Credit to the private sector declined month-on-month (MoM) by 15.3 percent to N33.9 trillion in July 2026 from N40.03 trillion in June 2026. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, disclosed this in its Money and Credit Statistics Data for the review period. Breakdown of the data also shows that credit to government declined slightly by 0.18 percent MoM to N83.4 trillion in July 2026 from N83.25 trillion in June 2026. This resulted in a net domestic credit of N117.4 trillion in July 2026, representing a 4.3 percent MoM decline from N123.9 trillion in June 2026. Despite the…