Live music discovery platform Bandsintown has become the exclusive provider of concert listings on YouTube and YouTube Music.
Bandsintown confirmed earlier today (August 21) that YouTube users can now discover its concert listings while watching artist videos and Shorts and exploring Official Artist Channels.
Bandsintown’s platform will soon be available for music fans “while browsing the YouTube homepage“, added the concerts company. And the integration will expand to YouTube Music later this year, with Bandsintown’s live events appearing on YouTube Music home and artist pages.
In addition, the partnership with YouTube includes a new push notification feature for Bandsintown, alerting users to nearby concerts and upcoming shows.
The integration enables tour listings published by artists on Bandsintown for Artists – for free – to automatically display on YouTube.
Venues, festivals, and promoters subscribed to Bandsintown Pro will also benefit from having their events seamlessly distributed on YouTube.
Fabrice Sergent, Bandsintown co-founder and Managing Partner, said: “At a time when musicians continue to struggle to generate income, this exclusive integration with YouTube further demonstrates Bandsintown’s ethos to create value and equal opportunity for artists worldwide, of all sizes and genres, to get discovered on digital platforms and sell more tickets.”
“At a time when musicians continue to struggle to generate income, this exclusive integration with YouTube further demonstrates Bandsintown’s ethos to create value and equal opportunity for artists worldwide, of all sizes and genres, to get discovered on digital platforms and sell more tickets.”
Fabrice Sergent, Bandsintown
The first featured artist for the YouTube partnership is Sabrina Carpenter, who is fresh off a successful headlining performance at Lollapalooza.
Carpenter uses Bandsintown’s tools to showcase her tour dates on her own website, and the company says the YouTube integration will now mean her tour dates gain additional “significant visibility”.
This YouTube partnership marks the latest expansion of Bandsintown’s global distribution network across major digital platforms.
US-headquartered Bandsintown says that, over the past 18 months, it has become the “preferred live music data provider” for companies/platforms such as Google, Spotify, Apple, and Shazam.
Spotify integrated Bandsintown onto its platform in Q1 last year, which coincided with the end of the music streaming platform’s 13-year partnership with Warner Music Group-owned concert discovery platform, Songkick.
Drawing concert data from 700,000+ registered artists and 65,000 venues and promoters, Bandsintown publishes details of an estimated 2.3 million events annually.Music Business Worldwide
An appeals court has thrown out a $500m (£372m) penalty that President Donald Trump was ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud trial last year.
Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered Trump to pay the fee for massively inflating the value of the Trump Organization’s properties in order to secure favourable loans.
In the lengthy ruling released on Thursday, judges on the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division stated that while Trump was liable for the fraud, the fine of nearly half a billion dollars was excessive and probably violated constitutional protections against severe punishment.
In the case Judge Engoron had ordered Trump to pay $355m, but with interest, that grew to more than $500m.
“While harm certainly occurred, it was not the cataclysmic harm that can justify a nearly half billion-dollar award to the state,” wrote Judge Peter Moulton.
In a post on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump claimed the decision was a “total victory”.
“I greatly respect the fact that the Court had the Courage to throw out this unlawful and disgraceful Decision that was hurting Business all throughout New York State,” he said. “It was a Political Witch Hunt, in a business sense, the likes of which no one has ever seen before.”
The New York Attorney General’s Office, which brought the case against Trump, also framed the decision as a win, as it upheld Trump’s fraud liability and the judges did not throw out other penalties that were not financial. The office plans to appeal against the decision on the fine to the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.
In a statement, the attorney general’s office said the judges “affirmed the well-supported finding of the trial court: Donald Trump, his company, and two of his children are liable for fraud”.
“It should not be lost to history: yet another court has ruled that the president violated the law, and that our case has merit,” it also said.
In the case against Trump, his two adult sons, and the Trump Organization, Judge Engoron also banned Trump from serving as a company director or taking out loans from banks in the state for three years.
Thursday’s decision kept in place this and other nonmonetary penalties that Judge Engoron imposed.
The 323-page ruling, which included three lengthy opinions, revealed disagreement among the five judges on the panel.
They were primarily divided over the merits of the original lawsuit brought by Letitia James, who had accused Trump and his sons of “persistent and repeated fraud”.
While several judges said she was “within her lawful power in bringing this action”, one believed the case should have been dismissed and two said that there should be a new trial of a more limited scope.
Those two, though, joined the decision to throw out the fine “for the sole purpose of ensuring finality”, wrote Judge Moulton.
American voters had “obviously rendered a verdict” on Trump’s political career, Judge Moulton also wrote, and “this bench today unanimously derails the effort to destroy his business”.
The ruling came almost a year after the panel heard oral arguments on the appeal, during which several judges appeared skeptical of the civil fraud case.
Trump’s son, Eric Trump, who was involved in the case, celebrated the decision in a post on social media.
“After 5 years of hell, justice prevailed!” he wrote.
The ruling amounted to a “judicial version of kicking the can down the road”, said Will Thomas, an assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan.
“By its own admission, the Appellate Courts is punting the real legal decision up to the New York Court of Appeals, noting that its unusual decision was made ‘for the sole purpose of ensuring finality,'” he said.
“It’s hard to take any conclusions from this … except that we’ll have to continue to wait that much longer to find out the ultimate outcome in James v Trump.”
In September 2023, Judge Engoron ruled Trump was liable for business fraud, finding he had misrepresented his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars. Another trial was held in 2024 to determine the penalty.
In one instance, the judge found Mr Trump’s financial statements had wrongly claimed that his Trump Tower penthouse was almost three times its actual size.
Trump had said that the case brought by James, a Democrat, was politically motivated.
Thursday’s unusually lengthy ruling also reflected the historic predicament of how to handle a massive fraud case involving a sitting president, said Mark Zauderer, a longtime appellate attorney in New York.
“Would you have a 300-page opinion if this were Joe Smith the businessman, and not Donald Trump?” Mr Zauderer asked.
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Three years ago, India ramped up its imports of Russia’s oil. Now President Trump is demanding that India reverse course and quit its cheap Russian oil habit or face debilitating tariffs. Alex Travelli, a Times reporter, explains.
Leaked Israeli intelligence confirms one of the highest civilian tolls in modern conflicts.
A classified Israeli military database shows the vast majority of Palestinians killed in Gaza are civilians, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call.
Figures reviewed by the outlets revealed on Thursday indicate that, as of May 2025 – 19 months into Israel’s war on Gaza – Israeli military intelligence had listed 8,900 fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) as confirmed or “probably” dead.
Over the same period, Gaza’s health authorities recorded at least 53,000 deaths from Israeli attacks, meaning that named fighters accounted for just 17 percent of those killed, with civilians at about about 83 percent of the total death toll.
Conflict researchers say that ratio is almost unparalleled in modern warfare. Only the Rwandan genocide, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, and Russia’s 2022 siege of Mariupol recorded a higher civilian death rate, the authors noted.
Rights groups and genocide scholars argue the findings further support claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, pointing to mass civilian deaths alongside deliberate starvation.
When asked to comment by The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call, the Israeli military did not deny the existence of the intelligence database or the listed figures for Hamas and PIJ casualties.
Instead, a spokesperson said “figures presented in the article are incorrect”, but did not clarify which numbers were disputed. The statement also claimed the data does “not reflect the data available in the [Israeli military’s] systems”, without explaining what those systems contained.
Israeli politicians and military leaders have long inflated fighter death tolls, at times claiming as many as 20,000 fighters killed or insisting on a civilian-to-combatant ratio of 1:1 – figures that the report notes they do not believe in private.
Meanwhile, Israeli rhetoric has increasingly mirrored genocidal language.
In leaked audio recordings aired on Israel’s Channel 12, Aharon Haliva, the former head of military intelligence, claimed, “The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.”
He went further, saying: “For each [victim] on 7 October, 50 Palestinians have to die … There’s no choice, they need a Nakba every now and then to feel the consequences.” The Nakba, or “catastrophe”, refers to the killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 to make way for the creation of Israel.
By March, Gaza’s death toll had reached 50,000; it has since risen to beyond 62,000, according to the enclave’s health ministry. The total number of wounded has now exceeded 157,000.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed between October 2023 and May 2024.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been a longtime political enemy of President Donald Trump. However, in a political plot twist, Sanders, considered a progressive, has lined up behind his foe’s plan to turn multibillion-dollar semiconductor subsidies into government equity stakes in private companies.
The unlikely duo—a self-described democratic socialist from Vermont and a populist-leaning Republican president—now agree on one shift in America’s industrial policy: If the government is going to hand out billions, taxpayers should own a piece of the pie.
“If microchip companies make a profit from the generous grants they receive from the federal government, the taxpayers of America have a right to a reasonable return on that investment,” Sanders told Fortune.
The subject of this unprecedented convergence is Intel, the struggling chipmaker that received $10.9 billion under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. The injection was part of a broader $39 billion subsidy designed to lure semiconductor production away from Asia. The Trump administration is now pushing to exchange some of those grants for government ownership stakes, which rattled markets and sent Intel’s stock plummeting 6% since the announcement.
The idea was Sanders’ in the first place, he said.
Sanders has long criticized the CHIPS Act as corporate welfare for some of the world’s most profitable technology companies. Back in 2022, he and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed an amendment requiring the Treasury Department to take warrants, equity stakes, or senior debt whenever federal money went to private chipmakers. However, that amendment failed.
Now, three years later, Trump is reviving the idea, and Sanders is applauding.
“I am glad the Trump administration is in agreement with the amendment I offered three years ago,” Sanders said. “Taxpayers should not be providing billions of dollars in corporate welfare to large, profitable corporations like Intel without getting anything in return.”
For Trump, the move represents a dramatic embrace of state intervention in the private sector, a tactic he has increasingly leaned on in his second term. This month, Trump called for Intel’s CEO Lip Bu-Tan’s resignation over past ties to Chinese firms. Earlier this year, the administration struck a deal allowing Nvidia and AMD to sell AI chips to China in exchange for Washington pocketing 15% of the revenues.
It’s an economic strategy that looks less like Reaganism, and more of a mashup between populism and state-capitalism. In that case, Trump and Sanders are two apt representatives for the merging camps.
The White House did not respond to Fortune’s request for comment by press time.
Markets recoil
Investors aren’t thrilled by this new strategy ofpunishing Intel stock for the uncertainty about what government ownership entails for the government. Intel has already been seeking private capital infusions—including a $2 billion injection from Japan’s SoftBank this month—to shore up its balance sheet.
The Commerce Department, led by Secretary Howard Lutnick, is still reviewing how to implement the plan, according to Reuters. But the optics are clear: The United States, it seems, is no longer content to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing without strings attached.
For Sanders, it’s validation; and for Trump it’s a newfound strategy. But for Intel, which was once the undisputed king of U.S. chipmaking, it’s yet another twist in an already turbulent year.
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This eye-catching tower offers a welcome change from surrounding glass and concrete high-rise buildings with its lush exterior. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, it hosts hundreds of trees and tens of thousands of plants, making life more pleasant for those who live inside.
The Wonderwoods Vertical Forest has been in the planning stages for several years, but now construction in Utrecht, the Netherlands, has been completed. It rises to a maximum height of 104 m (341 ft), making it a significant high-rise for a European city, but not some gigantic behemoth that dominates the skyline.
The building is part of a larger development and is connected to another nearby tower. Like much of Boeri’s output over the last decade, it’s defined by its planter-filled balconies, with 360 trees and 50,000 plants made up of 30 different native species installed. According to the firm, this is equivalent to the vegetation found in 1 hectare (almost 2.5 acres) of forest.
The greenery was developed in collaboration with Laura Gatti Studio and will be maintained by specialist gardeners. A series of sensors keep an eye on the growth and sound the alert if pruning or other maintenance is required, while a rainwater capture water system is installed for irrigation.
The Wonderwoods Vertical Forest is located in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and rises to a maximum height of 104 m (341 ft)
Milan Hofmans
“This is a real urban ecosystem, a haven for the biodiversity of living species and in particular of the birds that populate the Dutch skies and find shelter in the circular holes created specifically in the facades of Wonderwoods Vertical Forest to house their nests,” says Stefano Boeri Architetti.
The Wonderwoods Vertical Forest’s interior hosts approximately 200 apartments of varying size (unfortunately no photos of those are available), along with leisure facilities, restaurants, some offices and fitness areas for residents. There is also bicycle parking and some public spaces surrounding the building.
Though the idea has been around forever, few firms are as responsible for pushing the modern trend of covering buildings in greenery as much as Stefano Boeri Architetti. Wonderwoods Vertical Forest follows a number of similar projects from the firm, including its first, the award-winning Bosco Verticale and the more recent Trudo Tower.
Ambitious plans for a bilateral summit between Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin appear to be stalling, only days after Donald Trump expressed confidence that such a meeting could take place within weeks.
Locations from Geneva and Vienna to Budapest or Istanbul have all been mooted as possible venues. Putin and Zelensky have not been in the same room since 2019, three years before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The US president said he had “begun arrangements” for the summit, indicating he believed Putin had agreed to it over the phone on Monday.
This may have been an optimistic reading of the conversation.
Almost at once, the Kremlin shared its own, more vague version of the exchange. Trump and Putin had discussed “the possibility of raising the level of representatives” – said aide Yuri Ushakov – and that could simply mean that ministers, instead of envoys, may take part in the talks.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that a meeting could happen “within the next two weeks”. But, he cautioned, “we don’t know whether the Russian president will have the courage to attend such a summit” and he pushed for Putin to be “persuaded”.
Trump mentioned a “rough” situation for Russia, should Putin not co-operate in the peace process, but declined to be more specific.
Now, as the diplomatic whirlwind dies down, the likelihood of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky seems to be further diminishing.
On the surface, Moscow appears to be open to taking part in bilateral talks between the two presidents. In reality, though, the preconditions it is attaching to a meeting will almost certainly prove unacceptable to the Ukrainian side.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Putin was ready to meet Zelensky provided that all “issues” that required consideration “at the highest level” were worked out. This vague yet uncompromising language has been used by the Kremlin in the past to resist Ukrainian proposals for a bilateral meeting.
Last week Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said that Russia had accepted security guarantees for Ukraine, calling it “a very significant step”.
But it now appears that the guarantees in question would be modelled on those first floated by Moscow and rejected by Kyiv in 2022, which would see Russia join a group of countries wielding a power of veto over military intervention in defence of Ukraine.
That proposal would also see a ban on Western troops being stationed in Ukraine, effectively leaving it defenceless in the event of a fresh Russian invasion. Lavrov said on Thursday that any other security framework would be “an absolutely futile undertaking”.
Zelensky, meanwhile, has said any meeting with Putin would need to come after Kyiv’s allies agreed on security guarantees – which would undoubtedly involve the support of Western forces and exclude Russia, making it the kind that Moscow would never accept.
As things stand, neither Russia nor Ukraine seem ready to budge from their long-held positions – and each is accusing the other of undermining efforts to reach a peace deal.
The possibility of a Putin-Zelensky summit may for the moment seem remote, but that has not stopped speculation about where it might take place.
In the aftermath of the diplomatic frenzy that followed the talks at the White House, Budapest was mentioned as a location for a potential meeting and the Americans were said to be in favour of it.
“They can come to Hungary at any time,” said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Sizjjarto. “Give us an hour’s notice beforehand, and we are ready to guarantee fair, decent, safe, and equal conditions for everyone in Hungary.”
But not everybody sees the Hungarian capital as sufficiently neutral ground. Prime Minister Viktor Orban is one of the few European leaders who has maintained ties with Putin. He has also blocked funding for Ukraine and has pledged to veto Ukrainian membership to the EU.
“Let’s be honest, Budapest did not support us,” Zelensky said on Thursday. “I’m not saying that Orban’s policy was against Ukraine, but it was against supporting Ukraine,” he told reporters, adding that holding talks in Budapest would be “challenging”.
On Wednesday Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted on X that he was opposed to Budapest hosting talks. The city was the location of a 1994 summit that resulted in Kyiv surrendering its share of the Soviet nuclear arsenal in return for Russian security assurances. Those were later rendered meaningless by Moscow’s illegal 2014 annexation of Crimea and its 2022 full-scale invasion.
“Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place,” quipped Tusk.
France’s Emmanuel Macron raised the possibility of the summit being held in Switzerland – a militarily neutral European country with a long history of hosting high-stakes talks. Zelensky also mooted Vienna, the seat of several international organisations.
In 2023 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for Putin alleging war crimes in Ukraine but Switzerland and Austria – both ICC signatories – have said they would grant immunity to the Russian president if he came for peace talks.
Turkey too has been floated as an option.
There is a precedent, as Istanbul has already hosted three rounds of direct delegation-level talks between Ukraine and Russia since April, although they failed to result in any meaningful progress towards a ceasefire beyond an agreement on exchanging prisoners of war.
The Vatican and Saudi Arabia were also mentioned by Ukraine as possible locations. The Vatican has long put itself forward as a suitable venue, while Saudi Arabia has previously brokered prisoner exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow.
Away from high-level diplomacy, the war shows no sign of abating.
On Thursday Ukraine said its armed forces had struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Rostov region, which borders Ukraine’s eastern regions of the Donbas.
Russia, meanwhile, launched its biggest wave of strikes on Ukraine for weeks, killing one person and wounding many more.
“There is still no signal from Moscow that they are truly going to engage in meaningful negotiations and end this war,” Zelensky said on social media. “Pressure is needed.”
