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3544 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 7 of 60.

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BioSpaceUSUS biotech trade publication covering life sciences news and careers.
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BirdonAUPrivately owned Australian marine builder, founded in 1977 in Port Macquarie, New South Wales.
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Birmingham City CouncilGBThe UK's largest local authority by population, which issued a Section 114 notice in September 2023.
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Bishop FoxUSBishop Fox is a US offensive security and penetration testing firm that published the public unauthenticated-root exploit chain against Ubiquiti UniFi OS Server in June 2026.
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BitdefenderRORomanian cybersecurity company making endpoint protection and threat intelligence, founded 2001 in Bucharest.
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BitMEXCryptocurrency derivatives exchange co-founded by Ben Delo.
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BitpinIRIranian cryptocurrency exchange that handled approximately 10% of the country's digital-asset inflows in 2025, designated by OFAC under EO 13902 on 2 June 2026.
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Black BastaRansomware group formed in 2022, linked by researchers to former Conti members.
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Black Clergy Collaborative of MemphisUSMemphis clergy organisation and co-plaintiff challenging Tennessee's redrawn congressional map.
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Blackfinch VenturesGBUK regional venture capital firm; co-invested in Third Space Learning's £4.4m round.
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BlackFogUSBlackFog is a cybersecurity company that publishes monthly ransomware statistics tracking publicly disclosed attacks, victims by country and sector, and active ransomware group counts.
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BlackstoneGlobal alternative asset manager investing across private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure.
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Black Voters Matter FundUSCivil rights organisation focused on Black voter mobilisation and redistricting defence in the South.
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Blanca Goods Wholesaler LLCAEDubai-registered trading company designated by OFAC on 11 May 2026 for facilitating IRGC oil logistics.
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BleepingComputerUSA US cybersecurity news and analysis publication.
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Blohm+VossDEGerman shipbuilder in Hamburg, part of Rheinmetall's naval business, building uncrewed surface vessels
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BloombergUSFinancial data, analytics, and news company; Terminal serves 325,000 subscribers across global markets.
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BloombergNEFGBBloomberg's energy and infrastructure research arm, providing market analysis on the power and clean-energy transition.
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Blossom CapitalGBLondon venture capital firm that led both Greenjets' and Arrakis' Series A rounds.
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Blue DiamondCACanadian hotel operator running the Archipelago Internacional brand; exiting GAESA-linked Cuban resorts.
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BlueHaloUSAeroVironment subsidiary; US counter-UAS leader in directed energy and RF defeat.
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Blue OriginUSJeff Bezos aerospace company; building Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar lander for Artemis IV.
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Blue Sky StudiosUSDefunct US animation studio, creator of Ice Age; shuttered by Disney in April 2021.
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BMWDEGerman premium carmaker and Mistral AI industrial partner; signed a five-year engineering deal in June 2026 for the Large Industry Model.
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BNP ParibasFRFrance's largest bank; over €2.5 trillion in assets, 65 countries.
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Board of Deputies of British JewsGBRepresentative body of British Jews.
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BoeingUSUS aerospace giant; excluded from USAF CCA production franchise; Artemis SLS core stage contractor.
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BOKA CapitalUSInvestment firm backing Kraken Technology Group 2026 Series B round
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Boko HaramNGJihadist insurgent group founded in Maiduguri in 2002; active across the Lake Chad basin.
BOLD LabGBEPSRC-funded AI research lab at the University of Oxford focused on new learning algorithms and embodied AI, intended to seed a UK robotics spinout pipeline.
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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 Consulting GroupUS management consultancy, founded 1963 in Boston; a private partnership, $14.4bn 2025 revenue.
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Boston GlobeUSUS newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Boston ScientificUSUS medical device maker headquartered in Marlborough, 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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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole CouncilGBUnitary authority for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in Dorset, created in April 2019.
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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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Brigantes ConsultingGBExeter-based British defence firm, partnered with France's Harmattan AI on training drones.
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British American TobaccoGBTobacco and nicotine group restructuring operations and transferring work through its Fit2Win programme.
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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.