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It's long been an open secret that Prince Andrew, now stripped of his royal title, was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle. But the Epstein files reveal that another figure should be understood as the paedophile’s unofficial ambassador to the British royal family.

David Stern, a 48-year-old German-born investor who now lives in the United Arab Emirates, is mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files. Epstein introduced David Stern to Andrew. Stern became a trusted friend to the royal family. So trusted that in 2016 he was made a director of the St George’s House trust.

Nestled in Windsor Castle, St George’s House was founded in 1966 by the late Duke of Edinburgh as a private space “where people of influence from right across society could come together to debate and discuss issues of national and international importance”.

Stern was so trusted that he was placed next to the late Queen Elizabeth at an event at St James’s Palace in 2016.

He reported on the then-royal’s doings to Epstein. He pitched business deals to the financier.

It was only after Epstein’s suspicious death and Andrew’s disastrous BBC Newsnight interview about his relationship with the paedophile in 2019 that Stern resigned as a director of Andrew’s project Pitch@Palace, a role he had been given in 2016. He would remain on the board of St George’s House until 2022, three years after Epstein’s death.

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Small detail Yvette Cooper forgot to mention.

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Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.

As it announced its booming financial results, Palantir was prepared. CEO Alex Karp told CNBC: "If you are critical of ICE, you should be out there protesting for more Palantir. Our product, actually, in its core, requires people to conform with Fourth Amendment data protection."

The actual numbers were strong, as Palantir reported Q4 revenue of $1.41 billion, up 70 percent year-on-year. Revenue for calendar 2025 grew 56 percent to hit $4.475 billion. Underlying operating profit for the quarter more than doubled to $798 million.

"From the beginning, we have stuck to our very strong values of expanding what we believe is the noble side of the West ... meaning domestic institutions, intelligence institutions [are] essentially taking an incatenation of the Fourth Amendment, which is completely represented by our pipelining, Foundry, and impregnating institutions with it so that every institution that uses our product is doing it within conformity of the law and the ethics of America," he said.

In a letter prepared for investors, Karp had already laid out these arguments. "It should indeed be uncontroversial that the single most effective means of guarding against incursions into our private lives is to invest in the development of a technical platform that makes possible constraints on government action and investigation through granular permissioning capabilities, to ensure that the state and its agents can see only what ought to be seen, and functional audit logs, to ensnare both external and internal threats."

Nvidia has confirmed "Globes" report that it has chosen the Israel Land Authority (ILA) area in Kiryat Tivon to build its huge campus that will accommodate up to 10,000 employees.

According to the illustration published by the US chip giant, this will be a large campus inspired by the design of the company’s new iconic headquarters in Santa Clara. When built it will be surrounded by commercial areas and restaurants with investment in parks and green spaces.