Uranium comes in several flavors. There's plain old-fashioned yellowcake powdered uranium concentrate. There's low-enriched uranium, whose natural uranium-235 content of 0.7% has been increased to 3% to 5% concentration, so that it can be used in a nuclear power plant. There's even high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) with a U235 content increased past 5% -- as high as almost 20% -- for use in ...
Uranium comes in several flavors. There's plain old-fashioned yellowcake powdered uranium concentrate. There's low-enriched uranium, whose natural uranium-235 content of 0.7% has been increased to 3% to 5% concentration, so that it can be used in a nuclear power plant. There's even high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) with a U235 content increased past 5% -- as high as almost 20% -- for use in the new generation of high-efficiency small modular reactors. Then there's highly enriched uranium, with U235 content of 90%-plus. (That's the stuff we don't want Iran to get.) But for now, let's focus on yellowcake, LEU, and HALEU as the fuels driving the nuclear power revolution . Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Xiaomi Corp. posted its slowest quarterly growth since 2023, after strong sales of its EVs failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand. Sales rose 7.3% to 116.9 billion yuan ($17 billion) in the December quarter, just edging past the average estimate of 116.3 billion yuan. The Beijing-based company shipped 145,115 cars in the period, more than doubling from a year ago, getting a boost from a ...
Xiaomi Corp. posted its slowest quarterly growth since 2023, after strong sales of its EVs failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand. Sales rose 7.3% to 116.9 billion yuan ($17 billion) in the December quarter, just edging past the average estimate of 116.3 billion yuan. The Beijing-based company shipped 145,115 cars in the period, more than doubling from a year ago, getting a boost from a sports utility vehicle it launched last summer. EVs have become an increasingly important growth engine for Xiaomi after it entered China’s crowded market two years ago to diversify beyond smartphones and other gadgets. That division recorded a profit of 1.1 billion yuan, extending its momentum after reporting its first-ever profit in the previous quarter. But the smartphone business is getting hit by higher memory prices. Research firm IDC expects a 12.9% contraction in the global smartphone market this year due to an ongoing memory shortage. Xiaomi retained its position as the third-largest smartphone vendor last quarter but saw a 11.5% decline in shipments, while the overall market grew by more than 2%, according to IDC. READ MORE: China Warns of ‘Penalties’ Against Carmakers for Price War The company’s billionaire co-founder Lei Jun has set a goal of delivering 550,000 cars in 2026, up 34% from last year’s sales of 410,000 vehicles. It is also trying to expand its global footprint, aiming to sell cars in Europe from 2027. China’s EV market remains a tough arena. Automakers were locked in an intense price war last year, driven by an oversupply and a slowing economy. Xiaomi’s Hong Kong-listed shares are already down more than 40% from the peak in 2025. Carmakers now face further pressure as costs for chips and battery materials are rising while the government phases out subsidies for purchases. Xiaomi launched an updated version of its first sedan SU7 last week, charging 2% higher than the previous generation. READ MORE: Rampant AI Demand for Memory Is Fueling a Growing C...
America's Top War Unicorn To Begin Combat Drone Production As Next-Gen Startups Challenge Big Defense Primes Weaponized AI, interceptor drones, automated kill chains, ground robots armed with machine guns, humanoid robots, and FPVs equipped with shaped charges all offer a scary preview of what warfare in the 2030s was expected to look like. Instead, four years of war in Ukraine, followed by the U....
America's Top War Unicorn To Begin Combat Drone Production As Next-Gen Startups Challenge Big Defense Primes Weaponized AI, interceptor drones, automated kill chains, ground robots armed with machine guns, humanoid robots, and FPVs equipped with shaped charges all offer a scary preview of what warfare in the 2030s was expected to look like. Instead, four years of war in Ukraine, followed by the U.S.-Iran conflict, have sharply accelerated that timeline, pulling the future of warfare into today. These are truly frightening times, as defenses against this technology are still lacking across the West ( Amazon found that out with its data centers bombed ). We warned about this drone threat exactly one month before. Wall Street analysts largely missed it because their framework remained fixated on climate change nonsense rather than properly assessing real-world incoming risks. They get paid the big bucks, yet still fail to see actual threats. On the positive side, the U.S. Department of War under President Trump appears to recognize that the modern battlefield is shifting quickly toward low-cost, scalable autonomous systems ( first revealed here ). In response, the DoW's DOGE initiative is focused on overhauling its procurement program, moving away from legacy primes such as Lockheed and Boeing and toward a new generation of defense startups, or " war unicorns ," now viewed as a national security priority. This brings us to Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries, which is expected to begin production of its new FURY "loyal wingman" high-speed combat drones at a new facility in Ohio next week. Soon. https://t.co/6V68tR0nF9 pic.twitter.com/KZj6bmUZAp — Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) March 20, 2026 Reuters said Anduril's new Columbus-based production facility is expected to employ more than 4,000 people over the next decade, starting with 250 this year as production begins to ramp up for the new drone built for the Air Force loyal-wingman program. Reporter Molly O'Shea rece...