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2680 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 6 of 45.

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Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)ESSpain's Official State Gazette, the sole legal publication channel for laws, royal decrees, and ministerial orders.
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BoltEEEstonian ride-hailing company; founder Markus Villig angel-invested in Rivan, April 2026.
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Bonyad MostazafanIRIranian state-controlled conglomerate linked to the IRGC, designated as a prohibited Hormuz toll payment channel on 1 May 2026.
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Booking.comNLDutch travel platform; one of three remaining Eurostat STR panel members after TripAdvisor's exit.
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Booz Allen HamiltonUSUS defence and intelligence management consulting firm; Golden Dome OTA awardee.
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Boris Yeltsin Presidential LibraryRUSt Petersburg archive and cultural centre; the venue where Araghchi met Putin on 27 April 2026.
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Borussia MönchengladbachDEGerman Bundesliga club; Gio Reyna's club team, where a muscle injury is dropping him from USMNT World Cup projections.
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BoschDEGerman engineering and electronics giant; automotive chips, tools, and industrial tech.
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Boston GlobeUSUS newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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BOTASTRTurkey's state pipeline and gas import company; markets a blended Russian, Azerbaijani and Iranian product.
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BournemouthGBAFC Bournemouth, Premier League club on England's south coast; Tyler Adams returned to fitness here.
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BPGBBritish integrated oil major pivoting towards lower-carbon energy.
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BpifranceFRFrench state investment bank financing tech companies and national industrial priorities.
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Branch OfficeUSAI consumer-app company spun out of BuzzFeed Inc, unveiled at SXSW March 2026, operating BF Island, Conjure, and Quiz Party.
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Brave1UAUkrainian state defence-innovation cluster backing frontline drone and robot makers.
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Brazilian Football ConfederationBRBrazil's national football federation; Ancelotti's squad needs a 24 June result against Scotland to advance.
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BreachsenseUSBreachsense is a threat intelligence platform that tracks ransomware leak-site claims; its May 2026 count of 646 victims is six times BlackFog's disclosed-attack figure of 95 for the same month.
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Breaking DefenseUSAmerican online defence-industry news and analysis publication.
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BreegaFREuropean seed and early-stage venture capital firm; co-led BioOrbit's £9.8m seed round.
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Brennan Center for JusticeUSNYU School of Law-affiliated non-partisan legal institute; research authority on voting rights, war powers, and democracy.
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BRICSZZEmerging-market bloc; foreign ministers meeting New Delhi 14-15 May with Iran, Russia, and India as principals.
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Bridge Data CentresMYWarburg Pincus-backed Asia-Pacific DC operator; Johor campus expansion halted by Malaysia's water-rights approval freeze.
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British American TobaccoGBUK-headquartered multinational tobacco company, maker of Dunhill and Vuse.
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British Army CyberGBUK Army's cyber and information warfare branch; client of Rowden Technologies.
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British Broadcasting CorporationGBUK public broadcaster, licence-fee funded; running build and buy AI tracks simultaneously.
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British Business BankGBUK government development bank; £6.6bn direct-investment mandate active from April 2026.
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British Business Bank South West Investment FundGBBBB regional fund deploying capital in the South West of England through external fund managers.
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British DemocratsGBMinor right-wing party fielding Kai Stephens at the 2026 Clacton by-election.
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British Growth Partnership Fund IGBBritish Growth Partnership Fund I
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British National PartyGBFar-right British political party whose historical membership lists were used to vet 2026 Reform UK candidates.
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British Smaller Companies VCTsGBLondon-listed pair of VCTs targeting growth-stage UK small companies; second-largest VCT raiser in the 2025/26 record year.
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Broadcast NowGBUK broadcasting and TV production industry trade publication by Future plc; sources AI production-technology adoption stories.
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BroadcomUSUS semiconductor and infrastructure software conglomerate; added to Project Glasswing in April 2026 alongside CrowdStrike, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.
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Brookings InstitutionUSWashington think tank founded 1916; non-partisan research authority on economics, governance, and foreign policy.
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Brothers to the RescueUSCuban-American humanitarian aviation group that conducted search-and-rescue flights over the Florida Straits; two of its aircraft were shot down by Cuban MiG-29s on 24 February 1996.
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BruegelBEBrussels think tank; quantifies EU gas refill costs and AI compute dependency on US and Chinese infrastructure.
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BSIDEGermany's national cybersecurity authority; co-signed the 16-agency China-nexus advisory, April 2026.
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BSSBDBangladesh's state-run national news agency, distributing wire content domestically since 1972.
BTA (Bulgarian News Agency)BGBTA is Bulgaria's state news agency (Bulgarska Telegrafna Agentsia), which provided official CEC election result figures.
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BT GroupUKs largest telecoms group; natural deployment partner for quantum-secure networks.
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Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsUSNuclear-affairs journal; published satellite analysis showing Iran pre-moved 540 kg of 60%-HEU to Isfahan.
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Bullhound CapitalGBEuropean growth-stage technology investment firm that led OQC's £260m Series C.
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BundeskartellamtDEGermany's Federal Cartel Office; competition law across tech, energy and M&A for all German markets.
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Bundesliga.comDEOfficial digital platform of Germany's Bundesliga; confirmed Schlotterbeck's World Cup withdrawal.
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BundesnetzagenturDEGermany's federal network regulator for electricity, gas, telecoms, post and rail.
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BundesratDEGermany's federal council, the states' upper chamber; approved the national AI Act enforcement law on 10 July 2026.
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BundestagDEGermany's federal parliament; gateway for defence deployments, energy law, and fiscal commitments.
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BundeswehrDEGermany's unified armed forces; published first standalone military strategy naming Russia its primary threat in April 2026.
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BundeswirtschaftsministeriumDEGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action; oversees energy security policy.
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Bureau of Economic AnalysisUSUS Commerce Dept statistical agency; produces GDP data; reported Q1 2026 contraction of 0.3%.
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Bureau of Industry and SecurityUSUS Commerce division controlling export licences; targeted in February 2026 congressional push to revoke Cuba business permits.
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Bureau of Labor StatisticsUSUS federal agency for labour market measurement, established 1884, publishing monthly employment and price data.
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Business and Trade CommitteeGBHouse of Commons select committee that reviewed Britain's economic-security policy.
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BusinessEuropeBEEU employers' confederation representing 20 million companies; backed softer AI-literacy wording in the Digital Omnibus.
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Business InsiderUSUS digital business and finance news publisher, owned by German media group Axel Springer.
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BuzzFeedUSAmerican internet media company; Tasty, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News (closed 2023).
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BYCYBFRFrench national metrology and testing body; certifier for CISPE's sovereign cloud badge.
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BYDCNChinese EV giant trimming headcount via contractor cuts invisible to Western labour trackers.
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Byline TimesGBUK investigative journalism outlet focused on press, politics, and power.
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ByteDanceCNChinese internet company; parent of TikTok, Douyin, CapCut, and Lark.