If the UK wants to regain serious respect in the world, it needs its European leg as well as its transatlantic one “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend. And since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward, I will be prepared to be much stronger. And the president should be prepared for that.” Thus spoke Hugh Grant, playing the British prime minister confronting the US president in a famous scene in the romcom Love Actually. Real-life British prime minister Keir Starmer has attempted to stand up ever so slightly to the current bully in the White House over the latest US war in the Middle East. Despite the British government’s right-royal efforts to flatter Donald Trump ever since he was elected US president, his response to Starmer’s little attempt has been a torrent of contempt. So the reality is not Love Actually. It’s Contempt Actually. Asked about the British government’s subtle distinction between defensive strikes in the Gulf, which it now supports, and offensive ones, which it doesn’t, Maga ideologue Steve Bannon tells the New Statesman’s Freddie Hayward: “That’s diplomatic bullshit. Fuck you. You’re either an ally or you’re not. Fuck you. The special relationship is over.” Ah, the “special relationship”! It must be 40 years since I first heard former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt say: “The special relationship is so special only one side knows it exists.” Continue reading...

1. What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government View image in fullscreen Illustration: Anais Mims/Guardian Design double quotation mark Elon Musk’s office featured a gaming rig complete with an oversized curved screen, and the Doge website had a leaderboard for tallying cuts in real time. But beneath the jokes and cosplay lay a serious conviction. If the state was just a database, then inefficiency came from bad data: undocumented foreigners, ghost employees, even “vampires” collecting social security. These were bugs in the codebase, irregularities to be traced, quarantined and purged. Musk had revamped and retrained Twitter into X. To him, the US state was just another system – a glitchy dataset to be scrubbed and optimised. In this gripping Long Read, Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian told the story of how Musk and his team of teenage coders, steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, set out to defeat what they saw as the enemy of the US: its people. Read more 2. The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism View image in fullscreen Illustration: Rude: thisisrude.com double quotation mark Things change. They change for the better because we make them change, or for the worse because we don’t show up or lose the battle. But if you forget the sheer profundity of the changes of the last several decades, you can mourn what the right is trying to do to pretty much everything from the climate to women’s rights without seeing that what they’re really trying to do is change things back, to return to their version of the good old days that for a lot of us were the bad old days. In this searing essay, Rebecca Solnit looks at the phenomenon of people declaring the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the “failure” of #MeToo or the Epstein files. But, she wrote, we mustn’t ignore the vast progress made over the past few decades. Read more 3. And the winner is ... all of us? How the Oscars have changed for the better View image in fullscreen Photograph: ...

Going out: Cinema Project Hail Mary Out now Novelist Andy Weir’s brand of comic, semi-plausible sci-fi led to Ridley Scott’s The Martian – now Phil Lord and Christopher Miller will be hoping to repeat something of the same success. Ryan Gosling is the lead of a caper in which a science teacher wakes up on a spaceship on a desperate mission in deep space. La Grazia Out now Italian star Toni Servillo reunites with director Paolo Sorrentino for another collaboration exploring conflicts between personal freedom and public obligations. This time, an Italian president must navigate various moral dilemmas, including potentially pardoning two murderers. Broken English Out now Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s documentary about Marianne Faithfull eschews convention to explore its topic through devices including the Ministry of Not Forgetting – an imaginary space where actual memories can collide with myth-making. Contributors include Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Nick Cave and Courtney Love. Dead Man’s Wire Out now Gus Van Sant directs this crime thriller based on the true story of Tony Kiritsis, a kidnapper who took his mortgage broker hostage for 63 hours, setting up a “dead man’s wire” contraption that meant that if anyone shot Kiritsis, the mortgage broker would be shot too. Bill Skarsgård stars. Catherine Bray Going out: Gigs View image in fullscreen Wun more time … Gunna. Photograph: Prince Williams/WireImage Gunna 25 to 31 March; tour starts London Gunna’s sixth album, The Last Wun, cemented the Georgia rapper as one of hip-hop’s newest superstars. After a UK Top 10 – his fifth in a row – he arrives in arenas this week, offering a suitable environment for atmospheric trap anthems such as One of Wun and FukUMean. Michael Cragg 6 Music festival Various venues, Greater Manchester, 25 to 28 March Spotlighting independent venues including Band on the Wall, YES and the Eccles Town Hall Ballroom, this year’s festival features established acts such as Bloc Party and Courtney Ba...

His multi-hyphenate career has made him one of Britain’s most versatile recognisable stars – but hasn’t stopped him facing some seriously awkward moments… Riz Ahmed was multitasking. It was February in London, and the actor was doing an interview with a men’s magazine en route to collect his kid from school. So far, so starry. “Here’s the reality,” says Ahmed today, palms slamming down hard on the table. “I’m late for the school run. I’m stuck in traffic. I’m meant to be at my laptop, but I’m having to do it on my phone, in my car. I’m double parked on a double yellow line, doing the interview, looking over my shoulder. The traffic warden’s coming, it’s rush hour. He tries to move me along. I try to get out of there while I’m talking on the phone to this guy.” Distracted, Ahmed hit another car. The driver jumped out of his vehicle, incensed. “He’s like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?!’” says Ahmed, who had been attempting to continue the interview. “I’m now going off video, like, ‘Oh, my signal’s a bit bad!’ while going on and off mute negotiating car insurance details. On the phone, I’m going, ‘Absolutely, it was just such an honour getting to tell my story with these amazing collaborators,’” he says, his voice lowering an octave and turning smooth. Continue reading...

Tyra Skinner had already been violently sick three times when doctors at Kent’s William Harvey hospital realised something was badly wrong. The 20-year-old was rushed into critical care, racked with a pounding headache, a stiff neck and excruciating pain – the hallmark symptoms of meningitis, the disease that had already claimed two young lives in Kent. “She could hardly move, she was in a foetal position. She was so cramped up and sore,” her father, Dale Skinner, 42, told the Guardian. “It was horrendous, to be honest, to see her so helpless and in so much pain.” The Canterbury Christ Church University student was quickly given antibiotics and fluids before tests confirmed her family’s worst fears: she had meningitis. Her condition has since improved, but she is expected to remain in hospital for at least another week. Ten days before her admission on Monday, Skinner had been at Club Chemistry, the nightclub in Canterbury that health officials believe was at the centre of a “super-spreader” event. Experts are still trying to understand how a cluster of infections linked to the nightclub escalated into a public health incident requiring a national response, with a case now reported in London. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said on Friday there had been 29 confirmed or suspected cases of meningitis. Of the 18 confirmed cases, 13 are known to be caused by the meningitis B strain. All 29 have required hospital admission. More than 9,800 courses of antibiotics and 2,360 vaccines have been administered to eligible people in Kent. View image in fullscreen Anyone who attended Club Chemistry from 5 March onwards would be vaccinated, the health secretary said. Photograph: Carlos Jasso/AFP/Getty Images Prof Dr Anjan Ghosh, the director of public health at Kent county council, said: “As more cases are getting known, they all have a back history back to [Club Chemistry].” Known patients visited the venue on 5, 6 or 7 March, during which an estimated 4,800 people are thou...

The sight of Nasser al-Khelaifi grounded in Doha when Paris Saint Germain hosted Chelsea in the last-16 of the Champions League last week provided a symbolic illustration of the fragility of the Gulf’s sports project amid the conflict in the Middle East. Al-Khelaifi is the president of PSG, the chair of Qatar Sports Investments and, most crucially, the European Football Clubs, a lobby group that, along with Uefa, runs the Champions League. He is seen as the second-most powerful individual in world football, after the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino. Yet, with Qatari airspace closed, the 52-year-old was forced to miss his first PSG match for years. After watching PSG’s thrilling 5-2 victory in the first leg on the sports channel of the global TV network he also chairs, BeIN Media Group, Al-Khelaifi made it to London to watch Luis Enrique’s side inflict further misery on Chelsea with a 3-0 win in the second leg at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday. However, the partial reopening of Qatari airspace has not eased the collateral damage to the sporting calendar and the Gulf states’ economies caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. View image in fullscreen Drivers line up behind a safety car at the Bahrain Grand Prix last April. This years race has been called off because of the war. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters In echoes of the start of the Covid pandemic, a drip of sporting cancellations has become a flood in recent days, with Formula One calling off next month’s Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grands prix. A showpiece football clash between the world champions Argentina and the European champions Spain scheduled to take place in Doha has also been cancelled, along with MotoGP’s Qatar Grand Prix, which has been rescheduled for November. Smaller competitions have also been threatened, with the status of next month’s Artistic Gymnastics World Cup and the GCC Games, a regional multi-sport event, in May still unconfirmed. Looking further ahead, Qatar is to stage the FIBA Basketbal...

Native British wildlife will feature on the next set of £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England has announced, but it has yet to be decided which creatures will make the cut. While politicians from Nigel Farage to Ed Davey have sought to confect outrage about ditching Winston Churchill and Jane Austen for badgers or blackbirds, public consultations by the Bank show that people favour the switch to wildlife. Regularly changing images on the notes is a measure to foil counterfeiters. A panel of experts including wildlife broadcasters and academics will draw up a shortlist which the public will vote on later this summer. Early favourites include uncontroversial and much-loved garden animals, such as the hedgehog and the robin, and attractive predators such as the barn owl. In Scotland, notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland feature mackerel, otters, red squirrels and osprey. Tony Juniper, the chair of Natural England, has suggested championing extinct species which have been successfully returned to England, such as the white-tailed eagle, the large blue butterfly and the lady’s slipper orchid. The animal welfare charity RSPCA has called for unfashionable wildlife, such as the feral pigeon, fox, herring gull and brown rat, to be represented. In that spirit of representing the underdog, the Guardian has convened its own expert panel to recommend wild candidates for the notes. £5 Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) Nominated by Chris Packham Foxes are bold, successful and one of the most frequently encountered wild animals in cities, towns and countryside. They are our most successful predator. For centuries they’ve withstood all the utter nonsense we chuck at them, and keep chucking at them. View image in fullscreen ‘The red fox remains a divisive animal.’ Photograph: Giedrius Stakauskas/Alamy The red fox remains a divisive animal. They are much loved – “fox of the day”, where I post people’s pictures of foxes, is one of the most popular things I do on social media – an...

Lebanese healthcare workers and officials say Israeli bombings have deliberately targeted medical workers and facilities in south Lebanon, including through the use of double-tap strikes, in what they describe as a systematic effort to make the area unlivable. Since the war began on 2 March, Israel has struck at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon, killing 40 healthcare workers and wounding 107, according to the Lebanese ministry of health. The war started when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel, triggering an Israeli military campaign. Most of the strikes on medics happened while they were sitting in ambulances or at first aid centres, several of which have been destroyed in south Lebanon. Israel has also carried out at least five double-tap strikes, a tactic in which an initial strike is followed by a pause, allowing medical workers to arrive before the area is bombed for a second time. Medical workers and hospitals are protected under international law and deliberately targeting them could constitute a war crime. Amnesty International said on Thursday that, regardless of political affiliation, medical workers are considered civilians and targeting them is unlawful. View image in fullscreen The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Nabatieh. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images The Guardian conducted interviews with nine medical workers, including eyewitnesses of Israeli strikes on three separate medical facilities, visited three destroyed medical centres in the Nabatieh and Tyre governorates and inspected two damaged ambulances. None of the sites showed evidence of military use. The Israeli military accused Hezbollah of using ambulances for military purposes last week, saying it would “act in accordance with international law” if the practice continued. The Israeli army made the same accusation in 2024; it has not provided any evidence or proof for its claims. The Lebanese ministry of health condemned the accusation, calling it an attemp...

Brian on Jeanette What were you hoping for? At worst, a free meal and an enjoyable conversation. At best, the start of a journey … First impressions? Excellent. Jeanette is lovely: very warm, friendly and easy to talk to. What did you talk about? Living and working abroad, Parisians being unfriendly, office banter and the fact that the best-looking people hang around in gay bars. Most awkward moment? She shared some forthright views about a few of the bars she has been to in Belfast. Good table manners? Impeccable. Nothing bad to report here. Best thing about Jeanette? She is unapologetic in her views. Would you introduce Jeanette to your friends? She would liven up any social gathering. Q&A Fancy a blind date? Show Blind date is Saturday’s dating column: every week, two strangers are paired up for dinner and drinks, and then spill the beans to us, answering a set of questions. This runs, with a photograph we take of each dater before the date, in Saturday magazine (in the UK) and online at theguardian.com every Saturday. It’s been running since 2009 – you can read all about how we put it together here. What questions will I be asked? We ask about age, location, occupation, hobbies, interests and the type of person you are looking to meet. If you do not think these questions cover everything you would like to know, tell us what’s on your mind. Can I choose who I match with? No, it’s a blind date! But we do ask you a bit about your interests, preferences, etc – the more you tell us, the better the match is likely to be. Can I pick the photograph? No, but don't worry: we'll choose the nicest ones. What personal details will appear? Your first name, job and age. How should I answer? Honestly but respectfully. Be mindful of how it will read to your date, and that Blind date reaches a large audience, in print and online. Will I see the other person’s answers? No. We may edit yours and theirs for a range of reasons, including length, and we may ask you for more details. W...

At the start of the year, my wife launched a campaign for us to go to the theatre more. It bears many of the hallmarks of my 2018 campaign for us to go to the theatre more, which failed miserably after my wife pronounced it stupid. She claims not to remember this. My wife’s campaign is hampered by her refusal to accept the kind of outlay that modern theatre-going requires. She comes into the kitchen and places her open laptop in front of me. “Uh-oh,” I say. Her laptop screen shows a schematic representation of a partially filled London theatre, with available seats highlighted. “The tickets are £50 each, which is ridiculous,” she says, “but what do you think of these seats?” “What’s wrong with them?” I say. “What do you mean?” she says. “All the seats around them are £75,” I say. “Will I be sitting behind a pillar? Are the seats facing the wrong way or something?” I say. double quotation mark We arrive early, but my wife cannot find the tickets on her phone. In the end, the usher has to print them manually. I feel very old “I’m not paying 150 quid to go to the theatre!” she says. “This is your campaign, not mine!” I say. After several fraught exchanges like this, I have two nights at the theatre in my calendar. On the first night we arrive early, but my wife cannot find the tickets on her phone. “They were there yesterday,” she says, scrolling. Behind us, a queue is building up. “Sometimes if you search your email … ” says the usher, patiently. In the end, the usher has to take us aside and print our tickets manually. I feel very old. “That was embarrassing,” my wife says as we search for our seats. “But here we are.” “Second row?” I say. “Yes!” she says. “Only £25.” “But the stage is right there,” I say. My wife knows I have a particular fear of the second row, because once at the circus I was plucked from the audience by some clowns and dragged into the ring, where I was blindfolded and sported with. “I don’t think there are any clowns in this,” my wife says. “No,...

In my cookbook East, I wrote a recipe for silken tofu, a fragile, creamy block, topped with a quick blast of pine nuts, pickled chillies, soy sauce and herbs. It was based closely on a dish at My Neighbours the Dumplings in east London, which I loved deeply. It was fast, delicious and filling, and I ate it over and over again for weeks on end with rice. Since then, I’ve always wanted a variation on the formula, and now, seven years later, here it is. It’s spunky thanks to the citrus and ginger, crunchy thanks to the carrot and sesame seeds, and very worthy of consideration as a midweek meal. Clementine and sesame seed silken tofu This is on the light side for an evening meal, so you’ll probably need to bolster it with something else. I like it with fried green beans or sprouting broccoli covered with a simple, quick, stir-together gomae-style sauce that I make by mixing tahini with agave, soy and toasted sesame oil. Prep 10 min Cook 10 min Serves 2 300g silken tofu 2 carrots (150g), trimmed and julienned 20g mint, leaves picked 3 tbsp toasted sesame oil 4 tbsp light soy sauce 6 tbsp fresh clementine juice (from 1-2 clementines) 2cm x 2cm piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated 1 tbsp rice vinegar 30g black and white toasted sesame seeds 1 tsp chipotle flakes Sushi rice or jasmine rice, to serve Carefully take the tofu out of its box, drain well and place on a lipped plate. Put the carrots and mint in a heatproof bowl. Combine the sesame oil, light soy sauce, clementine juice, grated ginger, rice vinegar, sesame seeds and chipotle flakes in a small saucepan, put it on a low to medium heat and warm through gently for a few minutes; don’t let it come to a boil. Pour the sauce over the carrots and mint, and toss to coat. Using clean hands, lift up the carrot salad and place it on top of the tofu. Pour the dressing from the bowl all over the top and serve with rice.

TV If you only watch one, make it … Last One Laughing UK Prime Video Summed up in a sentence The triumphant return of the unfailingly hilarious TV show featuring comedians trying to make each other laugh – while keeping a straight face. What our reviewer said “This series leaves me helpless with laughter at least once an episode.” Rachel Aroesti Read the full review Further reading Last One Laughing contestant Diane Morgan’s honest playlist: ‘I was mesmerised by Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste’ Pick of the rest Inside the Rage Machine BBC iPlayer View image in fullscreen Marianna Spring and Matt Motyl, a former staff researcher at Facebook and Meta. Photograph: BBC Studios Summed up in a sentence Whistleblowers who once worked at Meta and X reveal the horrifying truth about the social media giants. What our reviewer said “To see these companies’ machinations laid bare in under an hour, frequently by people who worked inside Zuckerberg’s factory or on the Twitter-to-X transition, until they couldn’t bear the guilt and fear any longer and left to become whistleblowers, is … quite something.” Lucy Mangan Read the full review The Plastic Detox Netflix Summed up in a sentence A startling documentary following an epidemiologist’s attempt to help couples conceive by reducing their exposure to plastics – raising some genuinely troubling questions. What our reviewer said “Do viewers of documentaries like this one really change their own lifestyles after watching them? The Plastic Detox states it plainly: we really should, and most of us have a lot of work to do.” Jack Seale Read the full review Boarders BBC iPlayer View image in fullscreen Jodie Campbell, Georgina Sadler, Aruna Jalloh and Josh Tedeku in Boarders. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Alistair Heap Summed up in a sentence The hugely impressive final series of the BBC’s sharp sendup of boarding school in the UK is a riot of sex, scandals and final exams. What our reviewer said “There is something about...

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As China undergoes a sweeping economic transition, its regions are also in the process of embracing change. The powerhouses of yesteryear must adapt or risk falling behind, as traditional industries become less reliable growth drivers and new sectors take prominence. In this series, we explore three representative areas of the country as they attempt to navigate this rapidly changing environment. One morning in December, Zhang Li showed up for work as normal at Everwin Toys in Dongguan to find a notice pinned to the factory gates. The message was brief and unsentimental: due to shrinking demand in the toy industry and changes in the global economy, the company had seen its revenues decline by over 40 per cent and had no choice but to halt production. Advertisement For Zhang, the news threw her life into disarray. Like many of her 2,000 colleagues, she had worked at the factory for more than 15 years, joining in her early 20s and spending her prime years on the assembly line. “Now I’m in my 40s,” she said. “Where will I find my next job?” Advertisement Zhang is one of millions of migrant workers caught on the front line of a rapid – and, at times, painful – economic transition unfolding in China, as the country’s vast manufacturing sector adapts to rising global trade tensions and breakneck technological changes.

China has joined the global top-tier timekeeping club with a new optical clock that could help it play a leading role in redefining the second. A team, led by Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, has built a strontium optical clock that would lose or gain less than one second over about 30 billion years – more than twice the age of the universe. The clock’s key parameters, known as stability and uncertainty, both surpassed the level of 10 to the power of minus 19, a feat achieved by only a handful of labs worldwide, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US and Germany’s national standards laboratory, the team wrote in the journal Metrologia this month. Advertisement Its precision exceeds the threshold required for redefining the second, potentially “allowing China to play a leading role in the effort”, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The work also provided a practical path for China to develop more stable and portable optical clocks, as well as space-based versions , said Dai Hanning, a co-author from Pan’s team. Advertisement “It lays a solid foundation for using optical clocks to test fundamental physics, improve next-generation satellite navigation and build a unified ultra-precise global time standard,” Dai told CCTV on March 7. Optical clocks are the most precise timekeeping devices available. They use lasers to trap atoms such as strontium and rubidium at very low temperatures, and measure time from the frequency of light emitted as their electrons jump between energy levels.

一位外交部官员表示，继媒体报道称将允许与日本有关的船只通过霍尔木兹海峡后，韩国政府一直与包括伊朗在内的相关国家保持沟通。 该官员表示，韩国政府一直在与“包括伊朗在内的相关国家”进行“各种沟通”，“政府正密切关注中东局势的发展，同时探索保护公民和确保能源运输路线安全的方法”。 此前媒体报道称，伊朗外长阿巴斯·阿拉格齐表示，伊朗已准备好允许与日本有关的船只通过霍尔木兹海峡。 责任编辑：刘明亮

Pancakes are a common breakfast in many parts of China today, but few people are aware that the popular meal has been around for 5,000 years. An ancient griddle unearthed from the Yangshao site in central China’s Henan province reveals that the history of Chinese pancakes could date back to at least 50 centuries ago. The ancient painting above clearly shows a person preparing to make a pancake. Photo: mp.weixin.qq.com/ As for their invention, legend has it that pancakes came into being when Nuwa mended the heavens. Advertisement In primordial times, when the world fell apart, mother goddess Nuwa gathered five-coloured stones and melted them in a riverbed to patch up the sky. It was said that the patches that Nuwa made were the earliest form of Chinese pancakes. Advertisement Another folk story suggested that pancakes were invented by Xiang Yu, a warlord who joined in the rebellions that led to the end of the Qin dynasty (221–207).

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Since its market debut on Tuesday, the stock price for tech defense company Swarmer (SWMR 30.14%) has skyrocketed. With an initial public offering price of $5, the shares opened trading at $12.50 on Tuesday, then climbed to $31 by the end of the day. After that, shares kept climbing, opening at $53 on Thursday. As of midday on Friday, the stock was changing hands at about $45.30 -- well below its peak of $65.04, but still up impressively over the course of the week. Expand NASDAQ : SWMR Swarmer Today's Change ( -30.14 %) $ -15.84 Current Price $ 36.71 Key Data Points Market Cap $453M Day's Range $ 35.11 - $ 55.00 52wk Range $ 5.00 - $ 65.04 Volume 6.3M Avg Vol 10M In the wake of all this early excitement, it's important for anyone who is considering buying shares to not do so based on hype alone. Here are three key things to keep in mind. No. 1: Swarmer is a software company, not a hardware company Swarmer emphasizes that it is a software company with a product that can be used for unmanned systems, but that it is not a drone manufacturer. It believes that gives it a distinct advantage as a supplier within an increasingly competitive and fragmented drone manufacturing market, as the capabilities of its licensed software can provide manufacturers with an edge in securing contracts. Speaking of that software, the company says its platform has been used in over 100,000 real-world missions in Ukraine, providing data and feedback that can be used to fine-tune performance and deepen operational intelligence. No. 2: It's still an early-stage company Swarmer is not for risk-averse investors. Its revenue was nearly $310,000 in 2025, down from roughly $329,000 in 2024. Losses, however, grew. In 2024, Swarmer had a net loss of $2 million. In 2025, that jumped to $8.5 million. It's also dependent on a small number of customers, which is a risky position. Losing one key client could significantly harm the business. Anyone considering making an investment will want to keep an eye...

Key Points Shares of tech defense company Swarmer have skyrocketed since its March 17 IPO. The company's software has been used in over 100,000 real-world missions. With roughly $310,000 in revenue last year, this is a highly speculative investment. 10 stocks we like better than Swarmer › Since its market debut on Tuesday, the stock price for tech defense company Swarmer (NASDAQ: SWMR) has skyrocketed. With an initial public offering price of $5, the shares opened trading at $12.50 on Tuesday, then climbed to $31 by the end of the day. After that, shares kept climbing, opening at $53 on Thursday. As of midday on Friday, the stock was changing hands at about $45.30 -- well below its peak of $65.04, but still up impressively over the course of the week. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » In the wake of all this early excitement, it's important for anyone who is considering buying shares to not do so based on hype alone. Here are three key things to keep in mind. No. 1: Swarmer is a software company, not a hardware company Swarmer emphasizes that it is a software company with a product that can be used for unmanned systems, but that it is not a drone manufacturer. It believes that gives it a distinct advantage as a supplier within an increasingly competitive and fragmented drone manufacturing market, as the capabilities of its licensed software can provide manufacturers with an edge in securing contracts. Speaking of that software, the company says its platform has been used in over 100,000 real-world missions in Ukraine, providing data and feedback that can be used to fine-tune performance and deepen operational intelligence. No. 2: It's still an early-stage company Swarmer is not for risk-averse investors. Its revenue was nearly $310,000 in 2025, down from roughly $329,000 in 2024. Los...

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