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Global Airlines has been ordered into liquidation by the High Court of Justice in London, ending the short-lived ambition of Holiday Swap founder James Asquith to build a budget transatlantic carrier on the back of Airbus A three-eighty jets. The venture never got airborne in any meaningful commercial sense, and the court's winding-up order closes the book on it entirely.
Shifting to the technology sector, Jensen Huang's anticipated departure from Nvidia is forcing a real conversation about what analysts call rockstar CEO risk. Huang built Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies on the planet, and markets are now grappling with a straightforward but uncomfortable question: how much of that valuation lives in the man rather than the machine he built around him. Succession planning, long an afterthought at high-flying tech firms, is suddenly front and center.
And speaking of high-profile tech listings, Anthropic has filed for an IPO priced between seventy and seventy-eight dollars per share, targeting a November nineteenth listing across eight hundred twenty-five million shares. At least one analyst argues investors would be better served simply buying Amazon, which already holds a commanding stake in the AI startup and offers far more liquidity and balance sheet depth.
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