Have we got news for you: CNN’s “Have I Got News For You” hosts Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black have all been tapped to host the upcoming Sports, News and Documentary Emmy ceremonies — but individually, on different nights, next month.
Wood will host the 47th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on Tuesday, May 26, followed by Ruffin hosting the news categories of the 47th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday, May 27. Rounding it up, Black will host the documentary categories of the News & Documentary Emmys on Thursday, May 28.
All three events will take place at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the hosts on Tuesday, as well as recipients for this year’s lifetime achievement honors at all three ceremonies.
At the Sports Emmys, former ESPN president/CEO and former NFL Network president/CEO Steve Bornstein will receive the lifetime achievement award. During the News Emmys, ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent and “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz will receive the honor. And at the Documentary Emmys, film/TV edtior and documentary producer/director (“Four Little Girls,” “When The Levees Broke”) Sam Pollard will be given lifetime achievement honors.
At ESPN, Bornstein launched ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, ESPN Radio and ESPN.com. He was also behind the ESPYs and the X-Games before moving to the NFL. He’s now president of the North American division of Genius Sports. Raddatz has covered the State Depaertment, the White House and international wars, has moderated two election debates and is the author of “The Hero Next Door: Stories of Patriotism and Purpose” and “The Long Road Home—A Story of War and Family.” Pollard received an Oscar nom for “Four Little Girls” and a Peabody and three Emmys for “When The Levees Broke.” Most recently, he was an EP on Netflix’s “Katrina: Come Hell and High Water” and EP on the Oscar-nominated “The Perfect Neighbor.”
Wood is host of CNN’s “Have I Got News For You,” based on the long-running UK series; the American adaptation premiered on CNN in September 2024 and launched its fourth season in January. Ruffin and Black are team captains on the show, which airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET on CNN and streams the next day on CNN.com, CNN apps and HBO Max.
Alex Rodriguez, Tom Brady, Jason Kelce, Richard Sherman, J.J. Watt and Charles Barkley are among the on-screen sports talent landing nominations for the 47th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. The full list of nominees is led by ESPN, which earned 62 nominations (bolstered by programs including “E60”), and can be found here.
National Geographic‘s “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller” continues to dominate the News & Documentary Emmy nominations — earning 25 nods this year, followed by PBS’ “Frontline” series, which earned 19 nods. Nat Geo led the pack with 51 nods; see the full list here.
Turkish production powerhouse OGM Pictures has forged a strategic partnership with prominent Spanish outfit Grupo Ganga that is behind Spain’s longest-running prime-time TV series “Remember When.”
Under their deal, the two companies will collaborate to develop scripted projects in Turkey and Spain, “with an initial focus on building a slate of series to be coproduced for linear broadcasters and global streaming platforms,” they said in a statement.
For OGM – which has gained prominence since launching in 2019 thanks to a production portfolio comprising popular Netflix series “The Gift,” “The Taylor,” and “Paper Lives” – the agreement with Grupo Ganga follows the recent launch of an international arm called OGM Pictures that aims to bolster the company’s global ambitions through strategic alliances.
In January OGM hired as its head of international production long-time YellowBird executive Berna Levin whose producing credits include “The Playlist,” “Young Wallander,” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”
Last year OGM Pictures partnered with Fremantle-owned companies Wildside and The Apartment, and Italian indie Fandango, to produce a Turkish adaptation of Italy’s globally well-received Elena Ferrante adaptation series “My Brilliant Friend,” that is currently in advanced script stage.
The partnership between these two outfits from Turkey and Spain, which are both big players on the global TV market, will involve “both the adaptation of existing formats from each company’s catalogue and the creation of original content tailored for international audiences,” the statement said.
“The collaboration is rooted in a shared ambition to blend distinct narrative sensibilities and production approaches, creating stories that feel both locally authentic and internationally scalable,” it added.
“Bringing together different storytelling traditions creates new opportunities for layered and compelling narratives. Our collaboration with Grupo Ganga reflects our ambition to develop stories that can travel across borders while staying authentic to their roots,” said OGM Pictures chief executive Onur Güvenatam in the statement.
Commented Miguel Angel Bernardeau, founder and general manager of Grupo Ganga: “This union is not just an addition of teams; it is the multiplication of our creative capacity. By joining forces with OGM Pictures, we are in a privileged position to tackle larger-scale projects and international complexity.”
Besides its record-breaking “Remember When,” Grupo Ganga is behind hit procedurals and dramas such as “UCO,” “Desaparecida,” and “HIT.”
Pictured above: Onur Güvenatam (left) and Miguel Angel Bernardeau (right)
Scammers in the cryptocurrency sector are coming up with new methods every day. This time, they tried to exploit the tension in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Reuters, scammers are targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz and demanding transit fees in fake Bitcoin (BTC) and $USDT.
Scammers posing as Iranian officials are demanding transit fees in cryptocurrency from ships near the Strait of Hormuz, claiming it will ensure their safe passage through the strait.
The warning came from MARISKS, a Greece-based maritime risk management firm. MARISKS warned that some scammers are impersonating Iranian officials and demanding payment in Bitcoin and Tether ($USDT) under the guise of “safe transit authorization.”
According to MARISKS, hundreds of ships and approximately 20,000 seafarers are stranded in the Gulf, and at least one ship may have been targeted by this scam.
Meanwhile, according to the latest developments, Iran announced last Friday that it had temporarily lifted its blockade of the strait. However, after the US continued its blockade of Iranian ports, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Currently, the strait is under blockade, and hundreds of ships and approximately 20,000 crew members are stranded. The US-Iran temporary ceasefire agreement expires on April 23. US President Donald Trump says that the US will not lift the blockade of Iranian ports until an agreement is reached with Iran. Meanwhile, a second round of talks between the two countries is expected to take place.
United States President Donald Trump has said a nuclear agreement currently being negotiated with Iran will be “far better” than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which he withdrew from in 2018 during his first term in office.
The original 2015 accord took roughly two years of negotiations to reach and involved hundreds of specialists across technical and legal fields, including multiple US experts. Under it, Iran agreed to restrict the enrichment of uranium and to subject itself to inspections in exchange for the relaxation of sanctions.
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But Trump took the US out of that pact, calling it the “worst deal ever”. Before the initial US-Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February, the US had made new demands – including additional restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the restriction of its ballistic missiles programme and an end to its support for regional armed groups, primarily in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.
Trump’s latest remarks come amid growing uncertainty about whether a second round of talks will proceed in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, as a two-week ceasefire between the US-Israel and Iran approaches the end in just a day.
So, what was the JCPOA, and how did it compare to Trump’s new demands?
What was the JCPOA?
On July 14, 2015, Iran reached an agreement with the European Union and six major powers – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the US, and Germany – under which these states would roll back international economic sanctions and allow Iran greater participation in the global economy.
In return, Tehran committed to limiting activities that could be used to produce a nuclear weapon.
These included reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium by about 98 percent, to less than 300kg (660lb), and capping uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent – far below weapons-grade of 90 percent, but high enough for civilian purposes such as power generation.
Before the JCPOA, Iran operated roughly 20,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges. Under the deal, that number was cut to a maximum of 6,104, and only older-generation machines confined to two facilities, which were subject to international monitoring.
Centrifuges are machines which spin to increase the concentration of the uranium-235 isotope – enrichment – in uranium, a key step towards potential bomb-making.
The deal also redesigned Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor to prevent plutonium production and introduced one of the most intrusive inspection regimes ever implemented by the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In exchange, Iran received relief from international sanctions which had severely damaged its economy. Billions of dollars in frozen assets were released, and restrictions on oil exports and banking were eased.
The deal came to halt when Trump formally withdrew Washington from the nuclear deal in 2018, a move widely criticised domestically and by foreign allies, and despite the IAEA saying Iran had complied with the agreement up to that point.
“The Iranian regime supports terrorism and exports violence, bloodshed and chaos across the Middle East. That is why we must put an end to Iran’s continued aggression and nuclear ambitions. They have not lived up to the spirit of their agreement,” he said in October 2017.
He reimposed crippling economic sanctions on Tehran as part of his “maximum pressure” tactic. These targeted Iran’s oil exports, as well as its shipping sector, banking system and other key industries.
The goal was to force Iran back to the negotiating table to agree to a new deal, which also included a discussion about Tehran’s missile capabilities, further curbs on enrichment and more scrutiny of its nuclear programme.
What has happened to Iran’s nuclear programme since the JCPOA?
During the JCPOA period, Iran’s nuclear programme was tightly constrained and heavily monitored. The IAEA repeatedly verified that Iran was complying with the deal’s terms, including one year after Trump announced the US’s withdrawal from the agreement.
Starting in mid-2019, however, Iran began incrementally breaching the deal’s limits, exceeding caps on uranium stockpiles and enrichment levels.
In November 2024, Iran said it would activate “new and advanced” centrifuges. The IAEA confirmed that Tehran had informed the nuclear watchdog that it planned to install more than 6,000 new centrifuges to enrich uranium.
In December 2024, the IAEA said Iran was rapidly enriching uranium to 60 percent purity, moving closer to the 90 percent threshold needed for weapons-grade material. Most recently, in 2025, the IAEA estimated that Iran had 440kg (970lb) of 60-percent enriched uranium.
What are Trump’s latest demands for Iran’s nuclear programme?
The US and its ally, Israel, are pushing Iran to agree to zero uranium enrichment and have accused Iran of working towards building a nuclear weapon, while providing no evidence for their claims.
They also want Iran’s estimated 440kg stock of 60pc enriched uranium to be removed from Iran. While that is below weapons-grade, it is the point at which it becomes much faster to achieve the 90 percent enrichment needed for atomic weapons production.
In March 2025, Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, testified to Congress that the US “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”.
On Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a strongly worded statement, said Trump had no right to ”deprive” Iran of its nuclear rights.
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What else is Trump asking for?
Restrictions on ballistic missiles
Before the US-Israel war on Iran began, Tehran had always insisted negotiations should be exclusively focused on Iran’s nuclear programme.
US and Israeli demands, however, extended beyond that. Just before the war began, Washington and Israel demanded severe restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
Analysts say this demand was at least partly triggered by the fact that several Iranian missiles had breached Israel’s much-vaunted “Iron Dome” defence system during the 12-day war between the two countries in June last year. While Israel suffered only a handful of casualties, it is understood to have been alarmed.
For his part, Trump has repeatedly warned, without evidence, about the dangers of Iran’s long-range missiles, claiming Iran is producing them “in very high numbers” and they could “overwhelm the Iron Dome”.
Iran has said its right to maintain missile capabilities is non-negotiable. The JCPOA did not put any limits on the development of ballistic missiles.
However, a United Nations resolution made when adopting the nuclear agreement in July 2015 did stipulate that Iran could not “undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons”.
Ending support for proxy groups
The US and Israel have also demanded that Iran stop supporting its non-state allies across the Middle East, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and a number of groups in Iraq. Together, these groups are referred to as Iran’s “axis of resistance”.
In May last year, Trump said Tehran “must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars, and permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons”, during a GCC meeting in Riyadh.
Three days before the war on Iran began in February, during his State of the Union address to Congress, Trump accused Iran and “its murderous proxies” of spreading “nothing but terrorism and death and hate”.
Iran has refused to enter a dialogue about limiting its support for these armed groups.
Can Trump really get a new deal that is ‘much better’ than the JCPOA?
According to Andreas Kreig, associate professor of Security Studies at King’s College, London, Trump is more likely to secure a new deal that closely resembles the JCPOA, with “some form of restrictions on enrichment, possibly with a sunset clause, and international supervision”.
“Iran might get access to frozen assets and lifted sanctions much quicker than under the JCPOA, as it will not agree to a long drawn-out, gradual lifting of sanctions,” Krieg pointed out.
However, he warned that the political landscape in Tehran has hardened. “Iran now is a far more hardline and less pragmatic player that will play hardball at every junction. Trump cannot count on any goodwill in Tehran,” he said.
“The IRGC is now firmly in charge… with likely new powerful and tested levers such as the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which operates as a parallel elite military force to the army and has a great deal of political and economic power in Iran. It is a constitutionally recognised part of the Iranian military and answers directly to the supreme leader.
Overall, Krieg stressed, the US-Israel war on Iran “leaves the world worse off than had Trump stuck to the JCPOA”, even if a new compromise is eventually reached.
Moreover, since the revocation of the JCPOA, the US and Israel have waged two wars on Iran, including the current one. The 12-day war in June last year included attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites and killed more than 1,000 people.
Attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have continued since the latest war began on February 28, including on the Natanz enrichment facility, Isfahan nuclear complex, Arak heavy water reactor, and the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
Nevertheless, King’s College’s Krieg said there is still room for a negotiated outcome if Tehran and Washington scale back their demands.
“Both sides can compromise on enrichment thresholds, and on temporary moratoriums on enrichments. But Iran will not surrender its sovereignty to enrich altogether, and the Trump administration will have to meet them halfway,” he said.
“While the Iranians will commit on paper not to develop a nuclear weapon, they will want to keep R&D [research and development] in this space alive.”
Economic incentives will be central, he added. “Equally, Iran would want to get immediate access to capital and liquidity. Here, the Trump administration is already willing to compromise.”
Rob Bonta, the Attorney General of California, has released an unredacted copy of a legal document that the state filed in relation to its lawsuit against Amazon, containing details of the company’s alleged price fixing scheme. In it, the state of California accuses the e-commerce company of reaching out to brands and asking them to “fix” the retail prices of their products on competitors’ websites. Due to Amazon’s “overwhelming bargaining leverage” and out of fear of punishment, the brands agree to raise their products’ prices on other retailers like Walmart and Target or to remove them altogether, the filing reads.
California filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Amazon of price fixing back in 2022. It said the company prevented sellers from offering lower prices on other sites and that vendors risked losing buy buttons and prominent listings if they defied Amazon. In February this year, Bonta filed for a preliminary injunction, asking the court to put a stop to Amazon’s “illegal conduct” while the state’s lawsuit is ongoing and waiting to go to trial next year.
In the unredacted filing, California said that Amazon instructs vendors and brands to increase their prices on other retailers and threatens them with “significant penalties for failure to comply.” State officials gave several examples in the filing, including one incident wherein Amazon allegedly emailed security systems provider Arlo.
The company talked to Arlo about “external price matching,” along with a screenshot of one of its cameras on Walmart, noting that its price of $549.93 “did not go back up.” Arlo reportedly responded that it would get it addressed, and Amazon told the company to “get [it] corrected by EOD.” Afterward, Arlo sent Amazon a screenshot, showing the same Walmart page now listing the camera’s price at $649.99. Amazon ended the conversation by thanking Arlo for its “quick action.” Other samples include Amazon asking Levi’s to “resolve” the lower prices of its khaki pants on Walmart and Hanes to increase the prices of its clothing items on Walmart and Target.
Amazon shrugged off the filing’s release and called California’s case against the company weak. “The Attorney General’s motion is a transparent attempt to distract from the weakness of its case, coming more than three years after filing its complaint and based on supposedly ‘new’ evidence it has had for years,” an Amazon spokesperson told Engadget. “Amazon is consistently identified as America’s lowest-priced online retailer, and we’re proud of the low prices customers find when shopping in our store. Amazon looks forward to responding in court at the appropriate time.”
Attitudes to crypto investment in Japan are shifting from cautious interest to active portfolio planning, according to a survey by Nomura and its digital asset arm, Laser Digital, with almost 80% of the country’s institutional investors saying they plan to add crypto in the next three years.
The shift reflects a growing view of crypto as a diversification tool. Many of the respondents cited low correlation with traditional asset classes as a key reason for adding exposure. Allocations, though, remain restrained, with more than half targeting between 2% and 5% of their portfolios.
It also reflects improving sentiment: 31% percent of respondents described their outlook on crypto as positive, compared with 25% in 2024, while negative sentiment declined to 18%.
The findings come as Japan refines one of the more established regulatory frameworks for digital assets among major economies. The country was an early mover in regulating crypto exchanges following the Mt. Gox collapse in 2014. Recent efforts have focused on integrating digital assets into existing financial laws, including updates tied to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
That clarity has helped foster a domestic crypto ecosystem anchored by major companies such as SBI Holdings, the financial conglomerate that operates one of Japan’s largest crypto businesses, and bitFlyer, a long-standing exchange. Traditional financial institutions have also entered the industry.
Nomura, one of the world’s largest financial services companies, founded Laser Digital in 2022 to expand into trading, asset management and venture investing, while firms like Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group have explored tokenized deposits and stablecoins.
Interest is expanding beyond simple price exposure. More than 60% of respondents expressed interest in income-generating strategies such as staking and lending, as well as derivatives and tokenized assets. That suggests investors are beginning to treat crypto less as a speculative trade and more as a broader financial toolkit.
Stablecoins are another area of focus. Sixty-three percent of respondents identified potential use cases, including treasury management, cross-border payments and foreign exchange transactions. Trust appears to be highest for stablecoins issued by major financial institutions, highlighting the importance of familiar counterparties.
Still, barriers remain. Investors pointed to challenges including the lack of established valuation frameworks, counterparty risks such as fraud or asset loss, and regulatory uncertainty. High volatility also continues to weigh on adoption.
Even so, those concerns are shifting. Rather than debating whether to invest, institutions are now focused on how to do it.
The survey was conducted in December and January and gathered responses from 518 investment professionals, including institutional investors, family offices and public-interest organizations.
Charles Schwab, a leading US financial company, has announced it will expand its cryptocurrency business by publishing Bitcoin ($BTC) educational content.
A direct trading service is also expected to be launched soon.
Charles Schwab, one of Wall Street’s most prominent figures, recently announced plans to offer direct Bitcoin and Ethereum ($ETH) trading services within a few weeks.
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These moves by the company are being interpreted as an effort to lay the groundwork for future use of the service.
While the company’s Bitcoin and Ethereum trading service was expected, they took another step forward. The company released an educational video on Bitcoin and risk management.
While this is part of the company’s goal to expand its cryptocurrency business, this educational content aims to improve investment understanding and is seen as a step towards laying the groundwork for future use of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency services.
With millions of customers already employed by the giant company, they will soon be able to buy and hold Bitcoin directly in their accounts. With these steps, Bitcoin is becoming a standard asset class.
Market analysts also note that Charles Schwab’s endorsement of direct trading is seen as a structural turning point that will pave the way for Bitcoin’s acceptance as a mainstream asset and significantly increase its accessibility for new individual and institutional investors.
Palantir posted a thread on Saturday summarizing ideas from The Technological Republic, a 2025 book by CEO Alex Karp and executive Nicholas Zamiska.
The post argues that artificial intelligence will define the next era of military deterrence and that Silicon Valley has a responsibility to support national defense.
Academics and commentators warned that the message promotes a militarized vision of AI and closer ties between technology firms and the defense sector.
Palantir reignited debate over the role of artificial intelligence in warfare in a weekend social media thread on X, drawing criticism for promoting a vision of AI-driven military deterrence.
The defense technology company used the post on Saturday to summarize arguments from “The Technological Republic,” a 2025 book co-authored by CEO Alex Karp.
“Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible,” the company wrote. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”
The thread argues that modern military power will increasingly depend on software and technological “hard power,” rather than traditional hardware. It also frames the development of AI-driven weapons as inevitable and argues that the central question is which nations will build and control them.
“If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software,” Palantir wrote. “We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.”
Founded in 2003 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, Palantir develops data analysis and artificial intelligence software used by governments and intelligence agencies. The company has secured multibillion-dollar contracts with the U.S. military.
Palantir’s thread extended beyond military technology into broader geopolitical ideas. The thread also suggested that Germany and Japan should reconsider military restrictions imposed by the United States and its allies after World War II.
“The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price,” Palantir said. “A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.”
It also raises the possibility of universal national service, a sentiment recently echoed by the Donald Trump administration, which instituted an automatic military draft registration policy earlier this month.
“National service should be a universal duty,” the post said. “We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”
The posts drew criticism from technology experts and policy advocates who said the arguments promote a vision of global politics defined by competition for AI military capability, and warned that framing artificial intelligence as a strategic deterrent risks encouraging more aggressive defense policies.
Savannah Wooten, a policy advocate with the non-profit group Public Citizen, said tech companies often claim a national security role to win government contracts.
“A firm like Palantir will gladly backfill a national security rationale to ensure the same outcome for itself. No state should have corporate executives leading its decision-making, let alone the country with the largest and most heavily funded military in the world,” Wooten told Decrypt. “A corporation will not look after everyday people, and Palantir pretending it has a moral imperative to do so is nothing more than a savvy PR move.”
Yanis Varoufakis, a left-wing economist who served as Greece’s finance minister, similarly criticized Palantir’s arguments as dismissive of the public, supportive of force-driven policy, and aligned with billionaire interests, warning of growing ties between surveillance capitalism and state power.
“Silicon Valley owes an immeasurable debt to the ruling class who bailed out the criminal bankers that wrecked the livelihood of the majority of Americans,” he wrote. “The engineering elite of Silicon Valley will defend that ruling class to the death (literally!), in the name of the majority of Americans whom they treat with contempt – i.e., like cattle that have lost their market value.”
Palantir supporter Shawn Maguire, a partner at the VC firm Sequoia, called the company’s post “brilliant,” writing on X: “Despite what the extremes preach on social media and Ivy League campuses, Palantir represents the ideological center with a rarely articulated moral clarity.”
The debate comes amid a growing divide over the role artificial intelligence should play in warfare and society. Some, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, have pushed back on the military use of their technology to produce AI-enabled weapons, warning that the systems could introduce new risks. However, others, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, argue that democratic nations must develop AI-driven military capabilities to deter rivals such as China and Russia, which are also investing heavily in the technology.
Still, political scientist Donald Moynihan said statements like Palantir’s thread provide insight into how powerful technology leaders view politics and power.
“When they roll out their political manifestos, we should take them seriously, if not literally,” Moynihan wrote on Substack. “Public statements by these actors, while often couched in statesmanlike or visionary terms, offer insights into a growing power elite: what they like, what they hate, their enemies, what they felt are entitled to.”
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Reabold Resources is “exploring the potential” to use its new gas field site to power a Bitcoin mining operation.
The firm initially received pushback after The Telegraph reported it would mine Bitcoin instead of contributing to U.K. energy needs.
Shares in the firm, which traded on the London Stock Exchange, jumped more than 7% on Monday.
Reabold Resources, a U.K.-based energy firm with a focus on oil and gas, told investors that it is “exploring the potential” to mine Bitcoin with a small-scale power generation facility in Yorkshire—though its tone softened following initial pushback to the idea.
“A private gas supply means we can run a data center to mine Bitcoin relatively cheaply,” Reabold co-CEO Sachin Oza told The Telegraph. “Initially, this would help fund the further development of the gas field and prove the concept—meaning it could become the precursor to a far larger data center.”
The firm’s official announcement, made Monday as a “clarification of media article,” differs in tone from the news report from The Telegraph, which suggested the firm would use its West Newton gas field to “mine Bitcoin instead of boosting British energy.”
“The significant onshore natural gas resource at the West Newton site in Yorkshire has and will continue to be progressed for the benefit of U.K. energy security, which is particularly important at this time of significant geopolitical uncertainty,” the firm wrote in its media clarification.
“In addition, Reabold will continue to engage with all stakeholders, both locally and nationally, to ensure the optimal development pathway for West Newton is achieved,” it added.
The firm’s statement said it could potentially use the initial flows of gas to power a Bitcoin mining operation, mirroring Oza’s message to The Telegraph. Doing so could showcase the feasibility of using the West Newton gas field for “data center developments that will be crucial to the future U.K. economy,” its statement said.
“Successful implementation of such a project could allow for the development of a larger-scale data center at site, which would not preclude the potential for gas to grid, or gas to industrial consumption development options,” it wrote.
The firm’s response follows criticism from anti-fracking leader Lorraine Inglis, who told The Telegraph that “using that gas to power Bitcoin mining is not energy security or any genuine public benefit, but the deliberate burning of fossil fuels for one of the most energy-intensive and socially questionable activities at a time of high bills and missed climate targets.”
Shares in the firm (RBD) were up 7.3% on Monday on the clarification that followed Sunday’s Telegraph report.
The firm’s entry into the Bitcoin mining space would buck the trend that has seen publicly traded Bitcoin miners stray from mining the top crypto asset, instead to provide compute power for artificial intelligence (AI). For example, Bitfarms rebranded to Keel Infrastructure and dumped its Bitcoin business to pursue opportunities in AI energy demand.
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Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add more artificial intelligence tools. The review site has upgraded its Yelp Assistant, an agentic AI chatbot, to work across all of Yelp’s categories. Yelp Assistant was initially launched in 2024 with a limited scope and then expanded in 2025.
With the latest update to its chatbot, Yelp Assistant can handle natural language queries for finding a specific local business. It can also be used to take some additional actions, such as making a restaurant reservation or ordering takeout. Yelp’s spring product updates introduced new third-party integrations with Vagaro, ZocDoc and Calendly. Yelp Assistant can also use these integrated services for booking appointments in related fields. The chatbot now has a dedicated Assistant tab in the iOS and Android apps, and it can also be accessed directly from business pages for certain fields, such as restaurants and retail shops. Support for all business types and a desktop version are planned for later in 2026.
Other AI features coming to Yelp include a personalized home page on mobile and extra photo discovery tools.
