A Malaysian state chief minister is under police investigation after a viral video showed him shooting a sacrificial cow with a shotgun at an Eid ul-Adha event, triggering public anger and questions over gun use, animal welfare and Islamic slaughter rules. Police in Perlis, a small northern state bordering Thailand, said they had seized the shotgun believed to have been used by Chief Minister Abu ...
A Malaysian state chief minister is under police investigation after a viral video showed him shooting a sacrificial cow with a shotgun at an Eid ul-Adha event, triggering public anger and questions over gun use, animal welfare and Islamic slaughter rules. Police in Perlis, a small northern state bordering Thailand, said they had seized the shotgun believed to have been used by Chief Minister Abu Bakar Hamzah at the korban (ritual sacrifice of livestock) ceremony in Kuala Perlis on...
Lusyaya/iStock via Getty Images Nomura Tax-Free USA Fund Institutional Class shares underperformed the Fund's benchmark by 21 basis points, returning -0.39% versus -0.18% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index, for 1Q26. Nomura Tax-Free USA Fund Institutional Class shares underperformed the median return within its Lipper peer group (General & Insured Municipal Debt Funds) by 30 bas...
Lusyaya/iStock via Getty Images Nomura Tax-Free USA Fund Institutional Class shares underperformed the Fund's benchmark by 21 basis points, returning -0.39% versus -0.18% for its benchmark, the Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index, for 1Q26. Nomura Tax-Free USA Fund Institutional Class shares underperformed the median return within its Lipper peer group (General & Insured Municipal Debt Funds) by 30 basis points. Average annual total returns (%) as of March 31, 2026 Expense ratio Share Class 1Q26 1 YTD 1 1 year 3 year 5 year 10 year Lifetime Inception date Gross Net 2 Institutional -0.39 -0.39 1.78 3.64 0.31 2.39 4.41 12/31/2008 0.64% 0.55% A (at NAV) -0.47 -0.47 1.51 3.37 0.06 2.13 5.64 0.89% 0.80% A (at Offer) 3 -4.96 -4.96 -3.02 1.81 -0.85 1.66 5.52 Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index -0.18 -0.18 4.29 2.87 0.84 2.16 — Lipper General & Insured Municipal Debt Funds Average (median) -0.09 -0.09 3.80 3.08 0.58 1.98 — Click to enlarge 1. Returns for less than one year are not annualized. 2. Net expense ratio reflects a contractual waiver of certain fees and/or expense reimbursements from December 30, 2025 through December 29, 2026. Please see the fee table in the Fund's prospectus for more information. Expenses are from the Fund's prospectus that is effective as of the date of this commentary indicated above. 3. Includes maximum 4.50% upfront sales charge. For Class A shares, a 1% contingent deferred sales charge is only imposed on certain Class A shares that are purchased at net asset value (NAV) for $250,000 or more that are subsequently redeemed within 18 months of purchase. The performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance quoted. Performance data current to the most recent month end may be obtained by calling 800 523-1918...
Carbice's Carbon Nanotube Thermal Pad Lands in an AMD Retail Box for the First Time, Noctua to Distribute Standalone Pads This September The FPS Review
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Bet_Noire/iStock via Getty Images By Lynn Song , Chief Economist, Greater China Manufacturing PMIs moderate in May China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index, published by the National Bureau of Statistics over the weekend, showed activity falling to 50.0 in May, down from 50.3 in April. This 50.0 level represents the threshold between expansion and contraction and marked a 3-month ...
Bet_Noire/iStock via Getty Images By Lynn Song , Chief Economist, Greater China Manufacturing PMIs moderate in May China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index, published by the National Bureau of Statistics over the weekend, showed activity falling to 50.0 in May, down from 50.3 in April. This 50.0 level represents the threshold between expansion and contraction and marked a 3-month low. There was a broad-based decline in the sub-indices. But we saw the most notable drops in new orders, which fell back into contraction at 49.9 from 50.6, and new export orders, which fell to 48.6 from 50.3. The Raw Material Purchasing Price Index (60.5) and Ex-factory price index (51.9) also saw fairly steep declines in May. Still, both remain well above 50, suggesting that China's reflation trend is continuing. The production sub-index also saw a 0.3pp drop but remained comfortably in expansion territory at 51.2 in May. Manufacturing activity still looks firm. Large enterprises have resumed their long‑running lead - their PMI has topped medium and small firms in 23 of the past 25 months - suggesting April’s brief rebound among smaller manufacturers may have been a blip rather than a turning point. The RatingDog PMI fared better, showing a slight moderation to 51.8, down from 52.2. This outperformed market forecasts for a bigger decline. It suggests China's export-focused manufacturing continues to outperform, with external demand remaining solid while domestic demand has been soft. The RatingDog PMI release noted that, aside from employment, the sub-indices all contributed positively in May - though mostly at lower levels than in April. In the past several years, we've seen the correlation between PMI and industrial production weaken. Last month, we saw PMIs rise, while industrial production plummeted to a multi-year low. We believe this may be explained by China's industrial activity becoming increasingly high-tech focused. Also, many of the more traditional manufactu...
New and Enhanced NVIDIA DOCA Security Capabilities for Vera BlueField-4 STX Help Protect AI Agents, Context Memory and File-Based Data Access Directly in Silicon NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 STX Brings Agentic AI Storage Processing With In-Silicon Security New and enhanced NVIDIA DOCA security capabilities for Vera BlueField-4 STX help protect AI agents, context memory and file-based data access direct...
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AI 为企业自动化的是员工「讨厌的工作」,而不是「赚钱的工作」。 几天前,极客公园报道过在 AI 上押上重注的微软公司,悄悄在内部停止了大部分员工的 Claude Code 许可。 这件事十分诡异,因为这一波 AI 落地的浪潮中,面向企业用户最大的营销点就是「提效」。既然能提效,为什么微软却要停止让员工们使用 Claude Code? 微软并不是唯一一家这么干的,「紧缩 Token 用量」,不再鼓...
AI 为企业自动化的是员工「讨厌的工作」,而不是「赚钱的工作」。 几天前,极客公园报道过在 AI 上押上重注的微软公司,悄悄在内部停止了大部分员工的 Claude Code 许可。 这件事十分诡异,因为这一波 AI 落地的浪潮中,面向企业用户最大的营销点就是「提效」。既然能提效,为什么微软却要停止让员工们使用 Claude Code? 微软并不是唯一一家这么干的,「紧缩 Token 用量」,不再鼓励员工疯狂 Vibe Coding,已经成了硅谷大厂的新风向。 Uber 在四个月内花完了全年的 AI token 预算。Salesforce 每年给 Anthropic 的支票大约是 3 亿美元。某位 AI 顾问透露,他的一个客户单月 AI 支出高达 5 亿美元。 Meta 甚至悄悄下线了内部的「tokenmaxxing 排行榜」 ——那个榜单原本是为了鼓励员工多用 AI 的。 现在,企业们正在做一件几年前想都不敢想的事: 限制、并监视员工使用 AI 。 为什么大厂们纷纷转向了? 「Tokenmaxxing」,时代的缩影 要理解今天的成本危机,得先搞清楚「tokenmaxxing」是什么。 这个词大概在 2025 年开始流行,字面意思是「最大化 token 使用量」。它背后是一种管理逻辑—— 既然公司花大钱买了 AI 工具,员工就应该拼命用,用得越多证明你越「数字化转型」 ,用得越少就是在浪费资源。于是很多公司设置了使用配额、排行榜、甚至绩效考核,催着员工把 AI 用起来。 结果呢? 员工开始用公司的企业级 AI 模型查天气、写生日祝福、问今天吃什么。 一项针对 2444 家公司的研究发现,企业每花 1 美元在 AI token 上, 0.44 美元用于修复 AI 生成的 bug,0.27 美元用于重写 AI 产出的代码,0.11 美元消耗在审查和合并延迟上 。 也就是说,每一块钱 AI 采购成本背后,还藏着将近 80% 的隐性损耗。 投资人 Shruti Gandhi 用了一个很准的比喻:「tokenmaxxing 企业,就像靠开着所有的灯来衡量生产力的公司——花更多钱,不等于产出更多。」 更讽刺的是, 这些公司大多根本不知道员工在用 AI 做什么,更不知道那些任务的完成,是否因为 AI 而带来任何改变 。 这场「烧钱竞赛」从 2024 年烧到了 2025 年,终于在今...