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Increasing the Share of Alternative Proteins to Half the Global Protein Market Would Cut Emissions as Much as Taking Half of Gas-Fueled Cars Off the Road

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Animal Agriculture Produces 15% to 20% of Green House Gas Emissions, More than Cars, Motorcycles, and Passenger Light Vehicles Put TogetherIn 2023, 18% of Car Sales Were Electric Vehicles Plant-Based Meat Accounts for Only 1% of Meat Dollar Sales in US RetailThe Alternative Protein Industry Received $635 Million in Government Support in 2022, Compared with $40 Billion for Electric Vehicles

BOSTON, July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Growing the share of alternative proteins to half of the global protein market, including dairy, would reduce agriculture and land use greenhouse gas emissions by almost a third by 2050. It would mitigate 5 gigatons of CO2 equivalents annually, the equivalent of taking 50% of gas-fueled cars off the road. However, while the electric vehicle industry grew from 0.2% of total new car sales in 2012 to 18% in 2023, the alternative protein share of the protein market remains relatively small. Plant-based meat has hovered around 1% of total meat dollar sales in US retail for the past five years. These are among the findings of a new report being released today by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), The Good Food Institute (GFI), and Synthesis Capital titled What the Alternative Protein Industry Can Learn from EV Companies.

Animal agriculture produces 15% to 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, compared with 10% for passenger road transportation. But the alternative protein industry received only $635 million in government support in 2022, compared with roughly $40 billion in direct purchase subsidies for electric vehicles. This public commitment to electric vehicles has also stimulated significant private investment. By contrast, alternative protein companies raised one-eighth of the private capital of the electric vehicle industry from 2017 to 2023.

“Achieving mass adoption of alternative protein is an opportunity we can’t afford to miss in the drive to cut emissions and combat climate change,” said Elfrun von Koeller, BCG partner and managing director, and coauthor of the report. “There are many lessons that the industry, as well as governments and regulators, can learn from the successful electric vehicles sector, which also faced early hurdles to consumer adoption and expansion. If private companies, governments, and investors come together, they can lay the foundation for a food system that is more sustainable, as well as more secure.”

Emma Ignaszewski, Senior Associate Director, Industry Intelligence & Initiatives at the Good Food Institute, said, “Electric vehicles are a powerful climate solution that doesn’t require consumers to make significant behavioral changes. They simply offer a more sustainable swap-in for gas-powered cars. Alternative proteins offer a strikingly similar promise: enjoy your burger, but produced with far lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional meat. Securing public funding—which has been instrumental for EV innovation—is critical for alternative proteins to scale and compete with conventional meat on taste and price. And competing on these drivers of consumer choice is the blueprint for alternative proteins to help decarbonize the food sector, just as electric vehicles can help decarbonize the transportation sector.”

Rosie Wardle, co-founder and Partner at Synthesis Capital, said: “Government support for alternative proteins is gaining momentum, with policymakers across the globe recognizing the potential of the sector to generate significant benefits, including achieving climate commitments, ensuring food security, mitigating environmental damage, and boosting economies. However, much more support is needed for the sector to deliver on its potential. This new report offers insights into how stakeholders can advance the industry, in order to create a future where these products are no longer ‘alternative.'”

The study lists several lessons that the alternative protein industry can learn from the electric vehicle sector, including:

Innovating to achieve parity with animal proteins: Alternative protein producers must innovate to create products that match animal proteins in taste, texture, price, and convenience, making alternative proteins a choice rather than a compromise. Similarly, successful electric vehicle makers have made their vehicles competitive with gas-powered cars on price, range, and model selection.Building a supportive public sector: Government measures can include setting ambitious targets for carbon reduction in the food system, enacting regulations to aid companies in bringing innovative proteins to market, and funding open-access research to help alternative protein makers collectively achieve scale.Boosting public and private investment: As alternative protein companies seek to secure funding, they can apply lessons learned from the earlier experience of the electric vehicle industry. These range from investing to build resilient supply chains to securing both public and private funding to conduct high-risk, early-stage research.

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Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

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The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit think tank working to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals. Alongside scientists, businesses, and policymakers, GFI’s teams focus on making plant-based and cultivated meat delicious, affordable, and accessible. Powered by philanthropy, GFI is an international network of organizations advancing alternative proteins as an essential solution needed to meet the world’s climate, global health, food security, and biodiversity goals.

About Synthesis Capital
Synthesis Capital is an investment manager based in London (UK) and investing globally in transformative food technology innovations, with a focus on the alternative protein ecosystem. The Synthesis team has been investing in the food technology sector since its nascency over a decade ago. Synthesis is currently investing out of a $300M venture fund, the world’s largest dedicated to food technologies.

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SOPHiA GENETICS Announces Closing of $57.5 Million Public Offering of Ordinary Shares With Full Exercise of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

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BOSTON and ROLLE, Switzerland, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), a global leader in Ai-driven precision medicine, announced today the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering with total gross proceeds of $57.5 million, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. As a result of strong investor demand, the offering was oversubscribed, and the underwriters fully exercised their option to purchase an additional 1,578,900 ordinary shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The Company sold 12,104,900 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $4.75 per share, which included the 1,578,900 ordinary shares issued upon exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares. All of the ordinary shares were sold by the Company.

TD Cowen acted as the lead book-running manager for the offering. Guggenheim Securities acted as book-running manager, and BTIG and Craig-Hallum acted as lead managers for the offering.

A registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-289266) relating to the ordinary shares and other securities of the Company has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and was declared effective on August 15, 2025. The offering was made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to this offering has been filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus are available on the SEC’s website located at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to this offering, may be obtained for free by contacting TD Securities (USA) LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by email at TDManualrequest@broadridge.com.

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SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is an Ai-native healthcare technology company on a mission to transform patient care by expanding access to data-driven medicine globally. It is the creator of SOPHiA DDM™, an Ai platform that analyzes complex genomic and multimodal data to generate real-time, real-world insights for a broad global network of hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions.

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NEW YORK, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. dollar is cracking—and the market knows it. After years of monetary excess, swelling deficits, and policy uncertainty, the world’s reserve currency is losing its grip as a store of value. Capital is fleeing paper promises and piling into hard assets at a pace not seen in decades.  Companies mentioned in today’s commentary includes:  Bitzero Holdings Inc.  (NASDAQ: AIBZ) (CSE: AIBZ-U), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD), Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR), Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR), SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX).

Nowhere is this more visible than in precious metals: Gold has surged to above $4,100 per ounce, silver has ripped past $70, and palladium—once written off—has clawed its way back to $1,350. Add an unstable geopolitical backdrop stretching from war in the Middle East to Venezuela and the ongoing Ukraine War, and it’s no surprise that traditional safe havens are looking increasingly crowded—and increasingly fragile. But here’s the twist: even as precious metals soar, the smartest money in the room is already looking past them.

Gold doesn’t generate cash flow. Silver doesn’t power economies. And when trades get crowded, volatility cuts both ways. The dollar debasement trade and overbought precious metals have pushed some institutional investors into something with steady, growing cash flows: generating power for the Data Centre boom. This is something that Canadian billionaire investor Kevin O’Leary understands like no other.

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Securing land and dirt-cheap power contracts is the number one pre-requisite for data centre developers, hyperscalers and crypto miners. In a recent interview, O’Leary highlighted how BitZero (NASDAQ: AIBZ) (CSE: AIBZ-U), a company in which he is a strategic backer, created a unique strategic advantage by being able to lease power for compute business such as data centres or crypto miners.  At a time that Big Tech is scrambling for capacity, the real winners control Gigawatts of power capacity and real estate in strategic locations. Smart money didn’t even need a wake-up call.

“The need for new capacity is very urgent—it needs to be procured now,” says Tania Tsoneva, Head of Infrastructure Research at CBRE Investment Management, one of the world’s largest real-estate investment firms. By partnering with operators that have already locked in land, permits, and power supply, hyperscalers can fast-track new compute deployments, effectively bypassing years of development work and moving straight to installing their hardware.

BitZero succeeded in those two hardest challenges and has secured sites with long-term, low-cost electricity at the outset of the AI-boom. This is exactly what sets BitZero apart from its competitors. Because the company owns its land, power infrastructure, and hardware, its cost base is largely fixed. That structure protects margins and allows expansion without renegotiating leases or power-purchase agreements.

Leveraging True Energy Sovereignty

Founded in 2021, Bitzero has quietly assembled one of the most scalable clean-energy portfolios in the digital infrastructure sector, with more than 1 gigawatt of growth capacity across four strategic sites in Norway, Finland, and North Dakota. Its flagship hydro-powered facility in Namsskogan, Norway, already delivers 40 MW of self-mining capacity at power costs below $0.05 per kWh, among the lowest globally.

According to CEO Mohammed Bakhashwain, each million dollars of capital deployed into Bitzero’s grid and mining equipment generates roughly $700,000 in annual net profit. That efficiency comes from vertical integration: the company owns its high-voltage connections and operates as a licensed grid operator at the 132 kV level, eliminating middle-layer grid fees that most competitors still pay. With expansion capacity exceeding 320 MW in Norway, a one-gigawatt campus in Finland, and up to 300 MW staged in North Dakota, Bitzero has achieved something rare in this market: true energy sovereignty. And it’s this energy sovereignty that institutional investors value so much. We’re living in an age where new generation capacity is bottlenecked and new connections to the grid are almost impossible.

Bitzero’s energy sovereignty gives it a rare two-fold advantage in today’s compute economy: it can either lease scarce, low-cost power directly to hyperscalers and data-center operators, or deploy that same power internally to mine Bitcoin at industry-leading margins and potentially run its own GPU clusters. Bitcoin‘s economics now heavily favor miners who control their energy destiny—at current hash difficulty, every fraction shaved off power costs drops straight to the bottom line. Bitzero’s all-in energy cost of about 4.3 cents per kWh—less than half that of major U.S. peers like Riot Platforms and Marathon Digital—puts its cost per Bitcoin near $50,000 today and below $40,000 once new hardware is fully deployed.

That efficiency, combined with ultra-lean operations where five staff run a 40 MW facility using fully automated monitoring and fault-response systems, creates powerful optionality. When Bitcoin economics are attractive, Bitzero mines; when hyperscalers need capacity fast, it can redirect power to AI-ready data centers. This flexibility is already visible in its purpose-built 200 MW Norwegian site on a former UN airbase, designed exclusively for AI compute and expandable to 500 MW on offshore-wind-backed grid capacity—turning energy control into a switchable revenue engine across both Bitcoin and AI. 

The real inflection point for BitZero (NASDAQ: AIBZ, CSE: AIBZ-U) in 2026 may now be its newly announced 110 MW Norway project, which has the potential to transform the company from a profitable Bitcoin miner into a major AI infrastructure and hyperscaler landlord almost overnight.

Under the binding letter of interest, the site would generate roughly $176 million in annual recurring revenue through long-term contracted compute capacity, with the customer covering energy costs separately and pricing escalating by 3% annually. That structure dramatically improves margin visibility and reduces exposure to power-price volatility, potentially allowing the project to generate well over $135 million in annual net income once operational. Just as importantly, the project highlights why BitZero’s Norwegian assets are so strategically valuable in today’s market: while many competing AI data-center developments face 3–5 year build timelines due to grid bottlenecks and permitting delays, BitZero believes this facility could be delivered as early as Q3 next year thanks to already-secured power access, existing infrastructure, and partnerships with established EPC contractors and cooling-system providers. In a market where hyperscalers are desperately searching for immediately deployable capacity, that speed-to-market advantage could prove enormously valuable.

Skyrocketing valuations in the AI-space

The handful of technology companies that have successfully built a proprietary energy moat similar to BitZero’s now command multi-billion-dollar valuations. Yet despite rising institutional interest in BitZero’s power-first model and asset base, the company remains meaningfully undervalued relative to peers.

Investors in names like TeraWulf (WULF) and BitMine Immersion (BMNR) have seen one-year gains of more than +554% and +269%, respectively. Smart money has learnt that the real advantage in compute and crypto mining is cheap, scalable electricity, and this reality is repeating cycle after cycle. The dynamic in 2026 is no different. 

Other companies to keep an eye on:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) reported Q1 2026 data center revenue of $5.8 billion, up 57% year over year — an all-time record — with total Q1 revenue of $10.25 billion, up 38%, beating Wall Street consensus by roughly $350 million. Free cash flow more than tripled to $2.57 billion. CEO Lisa Su called the quarter “a clear inflection in our growth trajectory,” and guided Q2 revenue to $11.2 billion, with server CPU revenue alone expected to grow more than 70% year over year. The stock surged roughly 14% in after-hours trading following the release.

AMD’s data center story runs on two rails that NVIDIA’s does not. First, EPYC server CPUs, which now hold significant market share in hyperscaler deployments across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, deliver four consecutive quarters of record server CPU revenue. Second, Instinct GPUs are gaining traction as an alternative to NVIDIA in AI training and inference — and the demand signal is large. Meta signed a multi-year agreement to deploy up to 6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, with the first 1 GW built around a custom version of the MI450 accelerator and Meta named as a lead customer for AMD’s upcoming sixth-generation EPYC processors.

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) sits in a different part of the AI data center stack than most names on this list — it’s the software layer that makes the data inside those data centers actionable for governments and large enterprises. Q1 2026 revenue grew 85% year over year to $1.633 billion, the company’s fastest growth rate since going public in 2020. U.S. revenue grew 104% to $1.28 billion, with U.S. government revenue up 84% to $687 million and U.S. commercial revenue up 133% to $595 million. The company reported a GAAP operating margin of 46%, an adjusted operating margin of 60%, and a Rule of 40 score of 145 — a metric where 40 is considered strong.

The government side of the business is increasingly anchored by AI-enabled defense and intelligence programs. Palantir’s Maven AI system — which analyzes battlefield data and supports targeting and command decisions in real time — is moving closer to becoming a formal U.S. Department of Defense program of record. The Pentagon expanding long-term use of Maven means the revenue base here is contracted and durable, not project-by-project. A $10 billion U.S. Army contract and a $300 million USDA deal in the quarter are concrete data points for what that looks like at scale.

Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) builds and maintains the electrical infrastructure that connects data centers to the grid — transmission lines, substations, high-voltage distribution systems, and the last-mile electrical work that no data center can operate without. It’s not a flashy AI story, but it’s a foundational one: none of the $200 billion Amazon is spending on data centers in 2026 translates into operational compute capacity without the grid connections Quanta builds. CEO Duke Austin has pegged the company’s addressable opportunity at $2.4 trillion through 2030, driven by data center electrification, grid hardening, and renewable interconnection combined.

The constraint driving Quanta’s order book is simple physics: large transformers for high-voltage substation connections have lead times of two years or more, and the skilled labor to install them is in short supply nationally. Quanta has both the relationships with utilities and hyperscalers, and the crew deployment capacity, to capitalize on that constraint. Its backlog has been expanding steadily as hyperscaler capex converts from announced projects into actual construction contracts.

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, pricing at $135 a share for a $1.77 trillion valuation and topping $2 trillion in market cap on its first trading day. The listing raised roughly $75 billion and made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire on paper. But the AI data center story here isn’t really about rockets. It’s about what SpaceX became after merging with xAI in February: a company that now describes itself in its own IPO filing as the operator of “the largest AI training data center clusters on Earth.”

Those clusters are Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, the xAI supercomputers built near Memphis, Tennessee, originally to train Grok. In May, SpaceX struck a deal with Anthropic that hands over essentially the entire Colossus 1 facility — more than 300 megawatts of capacity across roughly 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including H100, H200, and GB200 accelerators. Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, a contract that could bring in more than $40 billion over its life. It’s a striking arrangement: a direct AI competitor renting out the infrastructure that was supposed to be Grok’s competitive edge, in order to monetize compute Grok wasn’t fully using.

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NEW YORK, June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The world’s first HIV-positive-to-HIV-positive lung transplant was performed at NYU Langone Health. 

The surgery brings new hope for HIV-positive patients in need of lung transplants, as it opens a pool of potential donors who were previously ineligible.

“This is a watershed moment for the HIV-positive community and represents real progress in creating equity in organ transplantation,” said Sapna Mehta, MD, clinical director of NYU Langone Transplant Institute and co-architect of the research protocol, sanctioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, that enabled the complex procedure. “While these transplants are still only allowable under certain research protocols, this marks an expansion of options for people in need of a lifesaving organ.”

Approximately 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV. People with HIV can live long, healthy lives due to advances in antiretroviral therapies, or ART. Most people using ART are unable to transmit the virus and have near-normal life expectancies.

A Breath of Fresh Air

Bertrand Nelson, 56, has had HIV for nearly 26 years. In 2000, he was diagnosed with HIV and sarcoidosis, which can affect the lungs and spread to the liver. The disease had not yet spread from his lungs, and soon after diagnosis his doctors told him it was in remission. 

Then, in 2021, he acquired Legionnaires’ disease and was hospitalized for weeks with severe pneumonia. The disease reactivated his sarcoidosis, which attacked his liver. His condition worsened in 2024—he required an increasing amount of oxygen to breathe—and his doctor referred him to NYU Langone Transplant Institute to be evaluated for both lung and liver transplants. A research protocol for lung transplantation under the 2013 HIV Organ Policy Equity Act, or HOPE Act, had begun, and he was evaluated for HOPE dual-organ transplant in 2025.

“Transplantation of HOPE hearts and abdominal organs has been done before, but this has not been done in lung transplantation. It takes a special kind of patient to be willing to do something that hasn’t been done before,” said Mark A. Sonnick, MD, transplant pulmonologist at NYU Langone Transplant Institute and co-author of the research protocol with Dr. Mehta.

NYU Langone Transplant Institute is one of the only transplant centers in the United States equipped and approved under a research protocol to perform HOPE lung transplants. Nelson received the first in the world on March 21, 2026, by Stephanie H. Chang, MD, surgical director of lung transplantation at NYU Langone. He received a new liver that same day, performed by Karim J. Halazun, MD, surgical director of liver transplantation at NYU Langone. 

Nelson is now off oxygen for the first time in four years and getting back in shape after years of limited mobility. 

He credits his mother, who will be 82 in August, for always supporting him and helping him throughout his journey.

“I want to be well for her,” he said. “I want her to see me thriving.” 

He hopes his story of perseverance might inspire others and help raise awareness of people in the HIV community in need.

“There are so many others who need access to this level of care, and the more organs that become available, the better the odds of finding the right match and living a long life,” he said.

About NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone No. 1 out of 118 comprehensive academic medical centers across the nation four years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently ranked four of its clinical specialties No. 1 in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across seven inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and more than 330 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. The system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise.

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