Good morning from Sydney. It’s Ed right here with the information you’ll want to begin your day.
Today’s must-reads:
• Billionaire’s photo voltaic farm guess
• Assange plea deal
• AI risk to energy grids
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, has a grand imaginative and prescient to repair the world’s local weather disaster. In a wide-ranging interview with my colleague Brian Kahn, he discusses a seemingly “insane” plan to build the world’s largest photo voltaic farm in Australia and ship the facility to Asia through an undersea cable.
Gina Rinehart has amassed a 5.82% stake in Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. through her non-public firm Hancock Prospecting Ltd. The billionaire mining magnate and Hancock turned substantial shareholders of the Sydney-listed agency on Friday, in line with a Lynas assertion despatched Tuesday night.
US officers are contemplating a request from the Australian authorities to strike a take care of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, underneath which he would enter a felony responsible plea and presumably return on to Australia, in line with a person acquainted with the matter.