Skyrocketing Gas Prices Threaten Political Order Across the Globe | OilPrice.com Haley Zaremba Haley Zaremba is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She has extensive experience writing and editing environmental features, travel pieces, local news in the… More Info Trending Discussions Premium Content By Haley Zaremba – Mar 17, 2026, 4:00 PM CDT The…
Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday announced changes within the company’s AI organization that will bring its Copilot efforts more directly under his control within a new group. In a memo to staff, Nadella said Jacob Andreou will be named executive vice president of Copilot, reporting directly to Nadella. Under Andreou, this group will…
The US government has officially confirmed that Tesla is the customer behind LG Energy Solution’s massive $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery supply contract — ending months of speculation since LG first disclosed the deal last July. The three-year agreement will see LG produce LFP prismatic cells at its Lansing, Michigan factory starting in…
Bob Iger has been hailed as among the greatest CEOs of his generation. As he prepares to (finally) exit as Disney’s CEO and officially hands over the reins to former parks chief Josh D’Amaro on March 18, Iger will leave behind a strong track record of successfully executing big M&A deals and pulling the media…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iran war has scrambled the Federal Reserve’s outlook on inflation and unemployment and will likely further delay interest rate cuts this year, putting off any relief for consumers struggling with high borrowing costs for home and car purchases. The spike in oil and gas prices presents already-divided Fed officials with a…
Fourth quarter revenue increased 1% to $3.6 billion. Diluted EPS of $5.01Full year revenue increased 5% to $11.1 billion. Diluted EPS of $13.26 VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)– lululemon athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended February 1, 2026. Meghan Frank, Interim Co-CEO and Chief Financial Officer, stated:…
Arizona prosecutors filed criminal charges against the prediction market Kalshi on Monday, accusing it of running an illegal gambling outfit in the state. The 20-count complaint, filed in Maricopa County, alleges that Kalshi operates a gambling business in Arizona without a license and takes illegal bets on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction…
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A well-known stock market proverb says: “Buy when the cannons are firing.” In other words, in times of war and uncertainty, people should invest. Those looking to protect their wealth and assets often turn to gold — even though gold is rarely cheap in turbulent times. In times of crises, such as a pandemic or…
Day-one integrations include IBM watsonx.data, IBM MQ, IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, and IBM Z Mar 17, 2026 ARMONK, N.Y., March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today completed its acquisition of Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform that more than 6,500 enterprises, including 40% of the Fortune 500, rely on to power real-time operations….
United and American are locked in a battle in Chicago. American had been late to rebuild its schedules at O’Hare after Covid. They had retired too many planes, and didn’t have the aircraft if they wanted to focus on Dallas and Chicago. So they waited and it cost them – Chicago moved to re-allocate gates…
Microsoft is reshuffling AI responsibilities after a veteran executive retired. Microsoft is reshuffling AI responsibilities after a veteran executive retired. Mar 17, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is doing another executive…
Motorists are paying sharply higher fuel prices since the outbreak of the Iran war, despite the U.S. being the world’s largest oil producer. Why? After all, as of 2023 (the latest data available), the U.S. churned out roughly 13 million barrels of crude a day, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). That compares with roughly 10…
US restaurants are feeling squeezed as Americans pull back on booze. A 2025 Gallup poll found that just over half of US adults drink at all, and those who do are consuming less. That’s bad news for restaurants, which make their fattest margins on alcohol, not labor-heavy food, the New York Times reports. Research firm…
The average price of diesel fuel hit $5.04 a gallon nationwide Tuesday, the latest fallout from soaring crude oil prices brought on by Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical oil transit route. Diesel fuel is the refined product of crude oil and biomass materials, and it is used around the world to…
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Mastercard agreed to buy BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure company, for as much as $1.8 billion as it looks to bolster its use of the digital assets for international payments. By integrating BVNK’s technology, Mastercard aims to connect onchain payments to its global network, enabling use cases such as cross-border transfers, remittances and business-to-business payments, the…
Dell Technologies continued its belt tightening in Fiscal Year 2026, bringing its total headcount down by 27 percent from Fiscal Year 2023 to Fiscal Year 2026. Dell Technologies continued its belt-tightening in Fiscal Year 2026, reducing its workforce by 11,000 employees, bringing its total headcount down by 27 percent from Fiscal Year 2023 to Fiscal…
The U.S. Navy has inked its largest robotics deal yet as the military branch looks to use robots to keep up with its fleet maintenance. Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based company that makes robots and sensors for inspecting large industrial assets, has signed a five-year IDIQ (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) deal with the U.S. Navy and…
Amazon is launching one-hour and three-hour delivery options across many cities in the U.S. as the e-commerce giant looks to compete with instant delivery companies like Instacart, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. The e-commerce giant is making more than 90,000 items available via this new delivery system. If an item can be delivered to a user…
The Economist was first published in 1843 and its sale remains subject to trustee and board approval © ifeelstock/Alamy Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire more than a quarter of The Economist Group from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, marking the first change in ownership for a decade at the publisher of the…
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One victim alleges that explicit, AI-generated images of herself and at least 18 other minors were posted on Discord. One victim alleges that explicit, AI-generated images of herself and at least 18 other minors were posted on Discord. Mar 16, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars,…
Australia has already raised rates this year to try to stem inflation as the Iran war has raised expectations of further price rises © William West/AFP/Getty Images Australia’s central bank has raised interest rates for the second time in as many months, pointing to the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on its…
Bridging a crucial gap between consumer-grade PCIe-based GPU workstations and data-center grade AI servers, Supermicro’s new Super AI Station is a true deskside AI supercomputer that brings the power and performance of NVIDIA’s flagship GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip compute platform out of the data center and onto your desk. With native support for the…
At Mistral AI, we believe the future of artificial intelligence is open, collaborative, and built for everyone. Today, we’re proud to announce our participation as a founding member in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, a groundbreaking global initiative uniting leading AI labs to advance open, frontier-level foundation models. As part of this strategic partnership, Mistral AI…
New York Attorney General Letitia James is throwing her support behind state legislation to curtail retailers and grocers from setting prices using algorithms based on personal data. James, a Democrat, held a news conference Monday at the state Capitol in Albany to push for a pair of bills that would effectively ban the practice, including…
WASHINGTON — Nvidia is pushing its artificial-intelligence hardware beyond Earth, unveiling a computing module designed for space missions and potential orbital data centers. The California-based company said March 16 at its annual GTC conference in San Jose that it is developing the Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, a computing system intended to bring more powerful AI…
News Summary: Engineered for size-, weight- and power-constrained environments, NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin Module, IGX Thor and Jetson Orin platforms deliver data-center-class performance and edge AI inferencing for orbital data centers, geospatial intelligence and autonomous space operations. Aetherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Communications, Planet Labs PBC, Sophia Space and Starcloud are using NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms…
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