A shopper select pork at a supermarket in Shanghai on April 4. Photo: VCG China’s factory-gate prices likely returned to growth in March, ending a 41-month run of declines as higher global oil prices lifted costs, while consumer inflation is expected to have edged lower. A Caixin survey of 13 institutions shows the average forecast is for the producer price index (PPI) to rise 0.5% year-on-year, r...
A shopper select pork at a supermarket in Shanghai on April 4. Photo: VCG China’s factory-gate prices likely returned to growth in March, ending a 41-month run of declines as higher global oil prices lifted costs, while consumer inflation is expected to have edged lower. A Caixin survey of 13 institutions shows the average forecast is for the producer price index (PPI) to rise 0.5% year-on-year, reversing February’s contraction.
USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) and InfraVia will each acquire approximately 12.5% equity stakes in Carester SAS, according to a statement on Thursday. InfraVia is acting through its Critical Metals Fund, seeded by the French State as an anchor investor alongside private institutional capital. The partnership is part of a broader initiative to build an integrated rare earth value chain in Lacq, France. US...
USA Rare Earth ( USAR ) and InfraVia will each acquire approximately 12.5% equity stakes in Carester SAS, according to a statement on Thursday. InfraVia is acting through its Critical Metals Fund, seeded by the French State as an anchor investor alongside private institutional capital. The partnership is part of a broader initiative to build an integrated rare earth value chain in Lacq, France. USA Rare Earth gains access to Carester's oxide output and engineering capabilities as part of the deal. Conversely, Carester will have long-term access to heavy rare earth feedstock from the company’s Round Top deposit in Texas , which is expected to begin commercial operation in late 2028. Transaction closing remains subject to due diligence and definitive documentation. More on USA Rare Earth, Inc. USA Rare Earth: Buying The Pullback Ahead Of Key Catalysts USA Rare Earth: Take Advantage Of Momentum Swings USA Rare Earth: Securing U.S. AI Tech Is In Their Hands USA Rare Earth set to start commercial shipments of magnets from Stillwater plant USA Rare Earth to partner with Arnold Magnetic Technologies for rare earth magnet supply
(RTTNews) - Catalyst Bancorp Inc (CLST) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lakeside Bancshares Inc (LKSB) in an all-cash transaction, strengthening its presence in southwest Louisiana.
(RTTNews) - Catalyst Bancorp Inc (CLST) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lakeside Bancshares Inc (LKSB) in an all-cash transaction, strengthening its presence in southwest Louisiana.
A bus driver has been killed and 16 others injured in two separate crashes involving eight vehicles within two hours on Hong Kong’s San Tin Highway. Police said on Thursday that an accident involving two cars and a taxi occurred on the highway towards Sheung Shui at 9.51pm the previous day. Eight people suffered minor injuries and were sent to North District Hospital in Sheung Shui. In another acc...
A bus driver has been killed and 16 others injured in two separate crashes involving eight vehicles within two hours on Hong Kong’s San Tin Highway. Police said on Thursday that an accident involving two cars and a taxi occurred on the highway towards Sheung Shui at 9.51pm the previous day. Eight people suffered minor injuries and were sent to North District Hospital in Sheung Shui. In another accident on the same highway, a five-vehicle collision killed a 49-year-old public light bus driver and...
Just_Super/E+ via Getty Images On March 10, 2026, a team running on Bittensor's ( TAO-USD ) infrastructure completed training of Covenant-72B, a 72-billion-parameter model trained across more than 70 independent, globally distributed nodes. Ten days later, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang referenced the achievement on the All-In Podcast. TAO, Bittensor's native token, surged. The question investors should ...
Just_Super/E+ via Getty Images On March 10, 2026, a team running on Bittensor's ( TAO-USD ) infrastructure completed training of Covenant-72B, a 72-billion-parameter model trained across more than 70 independent, globally distributed nodes. Ten days later, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang referenced the achievement on the All-In Podcast. TAO, Bittensor's native token, surged. The question investors should ask is not whether the price move was justified. It is whether the underlying catalyst, decentralized model training, is the right story to anchor a thesis on. The answer is probably not. A more durable case exists one layer down, in inference. What Bittensor Actually Is Bittensor is a decentralized AI network that uses blockchain-based incentives to reward participants who contribute computation. The network is organized into subnets, specialized marketplaces where miners compete to deliver a specific AI service, whether that is running inference, training models, or processing financial signals. Each subnet defines its own task and scoring mechanism; the network's native token, TAO, flows as rewards to miners and validators who perform well within their subnet. In February 2025, the network transitioned from a validator-governed emission model to Dynamic TAO (dTAO). Under dTAO, every subnet issues its own Alpha token and operates its own AMM liquidity pool. The market, not a council of validators, now determines which subnets attract the most daily TAO emissions. A subnet whose Alpha token draws staking inflows captures a larger share of daily emissions, which it can use to attract higher-quality miners. Subnets with sustained outflows are cut off. By early April 2026, the network supported 128 active subnets. Two subnets are doing the most to define the network's direction. τemplar (SN3), focused on large-scale LLM pre-training, sits at roughly $93 million in market cap after completing Covenant-72B. Chutes (SN64), a serverless inference platform built by Rayon Labs, sit...
We have selected five Trending in China stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How Gingle Wang went from clueless novice to one of Taiwan’s top young actresses For an actress often hailed by the Taiwanese press as the “box office guarantee” of her generation, Gingle Wang Ching began her caree...
We have selected five Trending in China stories from the past seven days that resonated with our readers. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. How Gingle Wang went from clueless novice to one of Taiwan’s top young actresses For an actress often hailed by the Taiwanese press as the “box office guarantee” of her generation, Gingle Wang Ching began her career with a startling lack of vocabulary: she had no idea what the word “action” meant on a film...