The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. (Image credit: simplehappyart)
The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. (Image credit: simplehappyart)
(RTTNews) - Zhongsheng Group Holdings Ltd. (ZSHGY, 0881.HK), an automobile dealership group, on Thursday reported a shift to loss in the financial year 2025 from profit last year, as weaker revenue weighed on overall performance.
(RTTNews) - Zhongsheng Group Holdings Ltd. (ZSHGY, 0881.HK), an automobile dealership group, on Thursday reported a shift to loss in the financial year 2025 from profit last year, as weaker revenue weighed on overall performance.
China could lead the way in Asia in forging new pathways for plurilateral cooperation, Singapore’s prime minister said, calling for smaller groups of like-minded countries to work together to address challenges in multilateralism. Delivering a keynote address at the Boao Forum for Asia on Thursday, Lawrence Wong also said Beijing could spearhead areas such as AI governance and play a greater role ...
China could lead the way in Asia in forging new pathways for plurilateral cooperation, Singapore’s prime minister said, calling for smaller groups of like-minded countries to work together to address challenges in multilateralism. Delivering a keynote address at the Boao Forum for Asia on Thursday, Lawrence Wong also said Beijing could spearhead areas such as AI governance and play a greater role in promoting economic prosperity across Asia, noting Singapore was willing to collaborate with China...
Charing Cross theatre, London Carmel Owen’s ambitious musical follows the impressionist’s regrets back to his early adventures in art and his first marriage As its title suggests, this musical about Claude Monet is full of reflections – fittingly so given the artist’s preoccupation with light. In 1916, while struggling to complete The Water Lilies with cataracts, the ageing painter (Jeff Shankley)...
Charing Cross theatre, London Carmel Owen’s ambitious musical follows the impressionist’s regrets back to his early adventures in art and his first marriage As its title suggests, this musical about Claude Monet is full of reflections – fittingly so given the artist’s preoccupation with light. In 1916, while struggling to complete The Water Lilies with cataracts, the ageing painter (Jeff Shankley) retreats into memories of his early career. His single-minded younger self (Dean John-Wilson) may be about to change art for ever but, looking back, all Monet sees is the personal cost of his drive, particularly his mistreatment of his first wife, muse and mother of his children, Camille (Brooke Bazarian). For a man usually defined by his success, this alternative reflection is refreshing. Also bouncing back at Monet are his peers’ struggles, the artistic establishment’s dismissal of impressionism, and art’s relationship to war and women. So abundant are these reflections, in fact, that Carmel Owen’s ambitious book at times becomes a house of mirrors – enticing but with a distractingly split focus. Continue reading...
I know many well-regulated women who spend hours on social media, and others who struggle while not being online Recently I read Girls ® , a new book seeking to explore the problems posed by digital and social media to young women’s mental health. It has been praised by reviewers as “punchy” and “a starting place for young women seeking guidance”. As a young woman always open to improving myself, ...
I know many well-regulated women who spend hours on social media, and others who struggle while not being online Recently I read Girls ® , a new book seeking to explore the problems posed by digital and social media to young women’s mental health. It has been praised by reviewers as “punchy” and “a starting place for young women seeking guidance”. As a young woman always open to improving myself, I rolled my sleeves up. Written by 26-year-old Freya India, it encourages young women to “look past what you’re being TOLD and see what you’re being SOLD”. Big tech, the book says, is preying on the insecurities of its users; the recent mental health crisis in young women should be chalked up to social media, the internet and our addiction to it. Isabel Brooks is a freelance writer Continue reading...
Unruly behaviour, safety concerns and lost trade are forcing some landlords to act, but others argue pubs should remain for everyone “It was like the wild west. If you had an hour, I could talk you through so many scenarios,” says Egil Johansen, the landlord of the Kenton pub in Hackney, east London. He sounds exhausted just remembering them. Johansen is still shaken by the three-year-old who rece...
Unruly behaviour, safety concerns and lost trade are forcing some landlords to act, but others argue pubs should remain for everyone “It was like the wild west. If you had an hour, I could talk you through so many scenarios,” says Egil Johansen, the landlord of the Kenton pub in Hackney, east London. He sounds exhausted just remembering them. Johansen is still shaken by the three-year-old who recently toddled behind the bar and tumbled down the cellar hatch while his parents sat, oblivious, in a different part of the pub. Continue reading...
Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever – what kind of economic model do Musk’s methods presage? Genius industrialist or clownish conman, humanity’s saviour from a rapidly crumbling planet or rabid social media troll – the verdicts on the world’s richest person vary in flavour, but most share something in common: they focus on Musk as an individual. In their study, Quinn Slobodian, a histo...
Henry Ford changed the face of industry forever – what kind of economic model do Musk’s methods presage? Genius industrialist or clownish conman, humanity’s saviour from a rapidly crumbling planet or rabid social media troll – the verdicts on the world’s richest person vary in flavour, but most share something in common: they focus on Musk as an individual. In their study, Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Boston University, and Ben Tarnoff, a tech writer, wish to reframe the conversation. The most important question, they argue, is not “who is Musk?” but “what is Musk a symptom of?” As the title suggests, their answer is “Muskism”, the coinage a deliberate nod to Fordism, the shorthand for 20th-century capitalism built on the pairing of mass production with mass consumption. If Fordism was the last century’s operating system, Slobodian and Tarnoff contend that Muskism is this century’s. Continue reading...
Jena Lisa Jones says she backed Trump in 2024 election because of his campaign promises to release Epstein files After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”. “I wanted my day in court,” said...
Jena Lisa Jones says she backed Trump in 2024 election because of his campaign promises to release Epstein files After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”. “I wanted my day in court,” said Jones, who has said she was abused by Epstein when she was 14 , in an interview on the Shadow Sessions podcast that aired on Thursday morning. “I didn’t get that, and we were so close to it, it really got ripped from us, and then after [Epstein] passed, everything just went into a circus show.” Continue reading...
In an honest new memoir, the musician opens up about being closeted in country, sexual assault, and finding love in his 60s On 14 June 1995, Nashville singer Ty Herndon was riding high with a No 1 single on the country charts and an album hurtling towards gold status when he was arrested on charges that could have killed his career in an instant. At 10am, he pulled into a gas station in Texas, rig...
In an honest new memoir, the musician opens up about being closeted in country, sexual assault, and finding love in his 60s On 14 June 1995, Nashville singer Ty Herndon was riding high with a No 1 single on the country charts and an album hurtling towards gold status when he was arrested on charges that could have killed his career in an instant. At 10am, he pulled into a gas station in Texas, right across the street from park well known for gay cruising and hookups. Amped by a hit of meth amphetamine, Herndon strolled into a glade where he soon met a guy he later described as “movie-star handsome”. The stranger began stroking his own crotch, then reached for Herndon’s. But when the singer unzipped his fly, the man, an undercover cop, said, “This ain’t your day, cowboy,” leading to the star’s arrest on charges from drug possession to indecent exposure. While news of the incident traveled fast – aided in no small part by the police alerting the media – Herndon’s record company swung into parallel action. They cooked up a massive PR strategy that painted the singer as victim of drug use while feeding the media a series of lies to explain away the sex. “The drugs could be forgiven,” Herndon says during a Zoom interview the other day from his Nashville home. “Being gay definitely could not.” Continue reading...
US President Donald Trump said he would visit China from May 14 to May 15, including a meeting with President Xi Jinping, after delaying the trip by about six weeks because of the war on Iran. The new schedule is a day shorter than the original three-day visit that was due to start on March 31. China didn’t join the White House in announcing the trip. It rarely makes statements about planned visit...
US President Donald Trump said he would visit China from May 14 to May 15, including a meeting with President Xi Jinping, after delaying the trip by about six weeks because of the war on Iran. The new schedule is a day shorter than the original three-day visit that was due to start on March 31. China didn’t join the White House in announcing the trip. It rarely makes statements about planned visits more than a few days ahead of the arrival date. “I look very much forward to spending time with...
Listen and subscribe to Trillions on Apple , Spotify , iHeart and the Bloomberg Terminal. With each passing year, ETFs pull in trillions of dollars while mutual funds steadily bleed assets. And yet, mutual funds still hold more money overall. Now, a long-standing wall between the two may finally be coming down. Dimensional Fund Advisors has launched the first-ever ETF share class of an existing mu...
Listen and subscribe to Trillions on Apple , Spotify , iHeart and the Bloomberg Terminal. With each passing year, ETFs pull in trillions of dollars while mutual funds steadily bleed assets. And yet, mutual funds still hold more money overall. Now, a long-standing wall between the two may finally be coming down. Dimensional Fund Advisors has launched the first-ever ETF share class of an existing mutual fund, a structure made possible by the expiration of Vanguard’s once-protective patent. On this episode of Trillions , Eric Balchunas and Joel Weber speak with Joel Schneider, Dimensional’s deputy head of portfolio management for North America, and Katie Greifeld of Bloomberg News. They discuss why Dimensional volunteered to be the guinea pig, why it chose its 45-year-old US Micro Cap Portfolio (ticker: DFMC), and whether this hybrid structure could reshape how trillions of dollars are invested. Money goes where it’s treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money (trillions of dollars, in fact) flows into a powerful, low-cost tool that’s quietly transformed investing. Exchange-traded funds let you invest in everything from the stock market to gold like never before. This biweekly podcast will demystify them—and hopefully delight you in the process.
Chinese government advisers are calling for government-set “red lines” in artificial intelligence development and applications, as mounting threats of job displacement and data security challenges spark concerns in the country. Jiang Xiaojuan, former deputy secretary general of the State Council, said at the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Hainan province that precaution was needed when u...
Chinese government advisers are calling for government-set “red lines” in artificial intelligence development and applications, as mounting threats of job displacement and data security challenges spark concerns in the country. Jiang Xiaojuan, former deputy secretary general of the State Council, said at the Boao Forum for Asia annual conference in Hainan province that precaution was needed when using AI simply to reduce labour costs. “Those that do not improve service quality or promote...
When it comes to punishments levied against Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google over the years, $6 million for claims that their apps were addictive and caused a mental health crisis might not seem like much. The amount, which a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday ordered to be paid to a 20-year-old woman known as Kaley G.M., is a mere pittance when compared with a $5 billion fine from the Fe...
When it comes to punishments levied against Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google over the years, $6 million for claims that their apps were addictive and caused a mental health crisis might not seem like much. The amount, which a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday ordered to be paid to a 20-year-old woman known as Kaley G.M., is a mere pittance when compared with a $5 billion fine from the Federal Trade Commission for Meta or a $3.5 billion penalty for Google from the European Union. But that would be the wrong way to look at this pivotal moment in big tech accountability. Those other penalties could be chalked up as the cost of doing business. They resulted in little change to the companies’ actual products, the defining characteristic of which is their ability to keep users hooked in order to sell advertising. But the case of Kaley G.M., and a similar case that went against Meta just a day earlier in New Mexico, may well be an inflection point. As the group Mothers Against Media Addiction pointed out in its statement celebrating the verdict, the case in Los Angeles was chosen as a bellwether: Thousands of additional cases are waiting in the wings, lawsuits filed by families and school districts and others in the blast radius of Meta and Google’s design choices as well as those made by the owners of other apps such as Snapchat and TikTok. The verdict will give even more momentum to a legal approach that has proved more effective than some previous efforts that stumbled on First Amendment grounds or ran into the notorious Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the protection that shields platforms from liability for third-party content. Instead, relying on tort law — the branch of civil law used by injury claims lawyers, among others — the attorneys in this case removed these questions and replaced them with a different one : What if it could be proved the very design architecture of the services was responsible for Kaley’s addiction? Features like inf...
States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services. (Image credit: Aaron Bolton)
States are rolling out plans for their share of a $50 billion fund established by Congress to improve rural health care. In some states, the money may provoke rural hospitals to cut services. (Image credit: Aaron Bolton)
In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season. (Image credit: Tyrone Turner)
In Annapolis, Md., people gather each year to usher in the warmer weather by burning their socks. The springtime tradition is the unofficial start of the Chesapeake Bay sailing season. (Image credit: Tyrone Turner)
As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party. (Image credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
As June's primary election nears, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and combat veteran Graham Platner are effectively engaged in a proxy battle between factions in their own party. (Image credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP; Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
LONDON, March 26, 2026--According to Omdia, global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached US$110.9 billion in Q4 2025, reflecting year-on-year growth of 29%. Growth accelerated from the previous quarter, marking the sixth consecutive quarter in which the market expanded by more than 20%. As enterprise AI demand shifts from experimentation to production deployment, hyperscalers are incre...
LONDON, March 26, 2026--According to Omdia, global spending on cloud infrastructure services reached US$110.9 billion in Q4 2025, reflecting year-on-year growth of 29%. Growth accelerated from the previous quarter, marking the sixth consecutive quarter in which the market expanded by more than 20%. As enterprise AI demand shifts from experimentation to production deployment, hyperscalers are increasing investment to expand AI infrastructure capacity.
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, announced its strategic partnership with CGTrader, one of the world's largest 3D model marketplaces. Under the agreement, Tencent HY 3D Global will be integrated into CGTrader's upcoming AI-powered 3D creation workflow, marking a significant step forward in automated and accelerated 3D asse...
At Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, announced its strategic partnership with CGTrader, one of the world's largest 3D model marketplaces. Under the agreement, Tencent HY 3D Global will be integrated into CGTrader's upcoming AI-powered 3D creation workflow, marking a significant step forward in automated and accelerated 3D asset creation.
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is struggling to respond to Flavio Bolsonaro ’s rise in polls as tensions mount within his inner circle over how to counter the surge, adding to a string of crises denting his approval and threatening his chances in the final electoral campaign of his career. Lula has seen a double-digit lead evaporate in just four months, and Flavio, the eldest son of fo...
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is struggling to respond to Flavio Bolsonaro ’s rise in polls as tensions mount within his inner circle over how to counter the surge, adding to a string of crises denting his approval and threatening his chances in the final electoral campaign of his career. Lula has seen a double-digit lead evaporate in just four months, and Flavio, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro , now holds a slight advantage ahead of October’s election. That has generated divisions among allies preaching patience and those who want Lula to go on the attack now, people familiar with the situation said, as the president also grapples with a slowing economy, inflationary concerns from US war in Iran, and corruption probes that are fostering anti-establishment sentiment across Brazil. The combination has returned Lula’s approval ratings to their low points from last year, before Donald Trump ’s trade war against Brazil provided a boost that turned him into an election favorite. And it has reinvigorated concerns over whether the 80-year-old Lula is capable of crafting a message tailored to a modern Brazilian voter. A massive probe into fraud allegations at Banco Master SA , a failed bank whose former CEO forged deep connections with Brazil’s political elite, is weighing on voter sentiment ahead of the election, and posing political risk to Lula even though he’s faced no allegations of wrongdoing in the case. Roughly 60% of Brazilians rate corruption as one of the country’s biggest concerns, according to LatAm Pulse, a survey conducted by AtlasIntel for Bloomberg News and released Thursday. About 40% say Lula’s allies are the most involved in the scandal, compared to 28% who say Bolsonaro’s are, even as the highest-profile politicians who’ve been directly linked to former Master owner Daniel Vorcaro are associates of the former president. Read More: Flavio Bolsonaro Inches Ahead of Lula in Brazil Election Poll That’s likely due to perceptio...
Pony AI Inc. delivered its first profitable quarter ever, bolstered by a windfall from an early investment, rather than its main robotaxi business. Net income reached $75.5 million in the three months ended December, helping the full-year loss narrow by 72% to $76.8 million, according to a company statement on Thursday. Revenue climbed 20% for the year to $90 million. “We are making front-loaded i...
Pony AI Inc. delivered its first profitable quarter ever, bolstered by a windfall from an early investment, rather than its main robotaxi business. Net income reached $75.5 million in the three months ended December, helping the full-year loss narrow by 72% to $76.8 million, according to a company statement on Thursday. Revenue climbed 20% for the year to $90 million. “We are making front-loaded investment to drive our commercialization at a quicker pace,” said Chief Financial Officer Leo Wang, according to the statement. Though the investment gain wasn’t specified, a Pony AI unit is an early investor in Chinese chip designer Moore Threads, whose shares surged as much as 425% when it went public in December. The global robotaxi race is heating up, with players in China and the US leading deployment. Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has expanded to 10 cities in America, while Chinese companies such as Pony AI, Weride Inc. and Baidu Inc.’s Apollo Go are working with partners such as Uber Technologies Co. and Lyft Inc. in markets such as the Middle East and the UK. Pony AI has set a goal of deploying robotaxis with partners in more than 20 cities worldwide this year. The company said late last year it plans to grow its global fleet to 3,000 in the same time. Uber and Pony AI, as well as local startup Verne, are planning to launch robotaxis soon in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, making it likely to be the first European city to have a fare-charging self-driving cab service. Pony AI is also conducting trials in Luxembourg, while Uber and Baidu are testing in London. Read More: Pony AI, Uber to Launch Robotaxis in Croatia in Europe Push After achieving break even on a per vehicle basis in Guangzhou and Shenzhen after the launch of its seventh-generation robotaxi model, the technology firm plans to replicate the business model globally and to more cities in China. “The foundation we have established in China will enable us to replicate this model in overseas market and build dual gr...
Businesses and professionals increasingly rely on cross-platform workflows as Mac adoption grows across industries. However, many organizations still depend on Windows-only applications for accounting systems, enterprise tools, engineering platforms, and legacy software. Running those programs on macOS has long required complicated workarounds or additional hardware.
Businesses and professionals increasingly rely on cross-platform workflows as Mac adoption grows across industries. However, many organizations still depend on Windows-only applications for accounting systems, enterprise tools, engineering platforms, and legacy software. Running those programs on macOS has long required complicated workarounds or additional hardware.
The market may be close to all-time highs, but that has not prevented carnage from happening across many sectors. One stock that has recently been hit is SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) . Down close to 50%, the financial technology company keeps growing quickly but was recently targeted by a short seller alleging potentially misleading accounting that would wipe out the company's profitability. S...
The market may be close to all-time highs, but that has not prevented carnage from happening across many sectors. One stock that has recently been hit is SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) . Down close to 50%, the financial technology company keeps growing quickly but was recently targeted by a short seller alleging potentially misleading accounting that would wipe out the company's profitability. Should you panic over this short report on SoFi? Or is the stock a buy now? First, let's talk about the short report. Muddy Waters, which tries to profit from falling share prices, is a famous short-selling firm that makes bold claims against high-flying companies popular on Wall Street. Sometimes its allegations are right. Sometimes, they are wrong. Continue reading
The US Army has announced the first group of companies that will build data centers on military bases, as the armed forces address a growing need for artificial intelligence computing power. The Army plans to work with Carlyle Group Inc. to build a data center at Fort Bliss in Texas, and KKR & Co. -backed data-center operator CyrusOne to construct another at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, Army Secre...
The US Army has announced the first group of companies that will build data centers on military bases, as the armed forces address a growing need for artificial intelligence computing power. The Army plans to work with Carlyle Group Inc. to build a data center at Fort Bliss in Texas, and KKR & Co. -backed data-center operator CyrusOne to construct another at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters. Each project is expected to involve the companies investing billions of dollars. The centers will be built on underused Army land through 50-year leases, allowing private developers to finance construction and operations in exchange for access to computing power. “We just have massive demands,” Driscoll said. “This is the first of many, many projects that we hope to announce.” President Donald Trump signed an executive order in December to restrict state-level regulation, the latest in a series of steps he’s taken to bolster the AI industry since his return to the White House. Those moves are intended to make it easier to build infrastructure and increase energy supply for data centers. David Fitzgerald, the senior official performing the duties of under secretary of the Army, said this new model was designed to avoid boom-and-bust spending cycles tied to government budgets. Instead, the private sector will invest billions to set up shop on Army land. Read More: Pentagon to Push AI Battlefield Integration With Focus on Maven The Fort Bliss campus-style center would be set across roughly 1,384 acres and is being structured to generate its own energy and a closed water system to avoid stresses on local communities. The center, he said, would bring 2,000 new jobs to the El Paso region. The Dugway-based center would be built on a 1,200 acre parcel, anchoring more economic activity in a remote region. The AI drive has emerged as a politically contentious issue in November midterm elections, as voters bristle over the rapid development of data ce...