Android has been creeping into cars for more than a decade, first with the phone-based Android Auto and later with built-in Android Automotive OS. Even when Android is running on cars, it has not been allowed outside of the infotainment box. That could begin changing soon with Google's new plans for software-defined vehicles (SDVs), but don't expect most carmakers to step on the gas right away. Car companies are notoriously protective of the software running on their vehicles, which has become a core part of the experience as cars have shifted to " computers on wheels ." Part of that is a matter of safety, but the data collected by automotive software is also highly valuable. As a result of everyone going their own way, vehicles have different software stacks that can include incompatible components from myriad suppliers. Google says it can fix this "fragmentation" mess with a more powerful version of Android Automotive OS (AAOS) designed for SDVs. For better or worse, cars are increasingly reliant on software for new features—for example, remote climate controls or using smart keys on your phone. Google's car efforts didn't start there, but they've definitely trended in that direction. Early on, the company's in-car play was Android Auto, which could run on a phone or be projected from a phone to supported car displays. Google eventually dropped the phone-based Auto to focus on the projected Android Auto experience and Android Automotive OS, which runs Android locally on the vehicle. That's where Google's latest initiative is focused. Read full article Comments

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Amid artificial intelligence concerns, chips are one area that aren’t feeling the crunch. Although the war in Iran has understandably grabbed headlines, investors remain wary about AI. Nvidia is down nearly 6% this year, while the Roundhill Magnificent Seven exchange-traded fund is off 10.5%.

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Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images I have been holding the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF ( TLT ) since late 2023, and it's been a frustrating ride. Sure, the monthly distributions are nice, but the lack of movement has been frustrating. This article looks at why TLT has remained in a range despite a tumultuous backdrop and what could trigger a break in the pattern and a sustained trend. A Repetitive Range TLT has been in a contracting range since it bottomed in 2023. The lack of trend reflects a bond market that is uncertain about the future and unwilling to keep trading in either direction for a sustained period. Any time it seems like one side has the upper hand, the move fades and reverses. There are many factors driving this behavior, but at its core, two opposing forces are essentially balancing out. The first major driver comes from growth scares/labor market weakness. This heightens expectations of rate cuts and triggers a TLT rally. That in itself leads to some stabilization as yields drop. The second opposing force develops as rate cuts are delivered. By this time, the backdrop is already improving, and the outlook steadies. The focus then shifts from the labor market to inflation, and TLT drops again. As TLT drops, yields rise, growth concerns heighten, and the cycle repeats. TradingView I last wrote about TLT in September 2025, when I warned not to get too excited about rate cuts, as the reaction was likely to be similar to the previous flurry of cuts in late 2024. That largely played out, although the move up and the move down were less volatile. TradingView The reduced volatility may be a function of the market being more prepared and a lack of a surprise factor. The reaction the second time around is rarely as large as the first. Indeed, volatility has trended down for several years and has reached levels last seen in 2018 and 2019 before Covid reversed a trend that lasted for decades. Data by YCharts Of course, there are many other events ha...

IRGC Navy Turns Back Containership Seeking Hormuz Passage As Iran Starts Charging $2 Million Toll Amid reports of increasing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Alireza Tangsiri, a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, said on X that the containership Selen was turned back by the IRGC Navy for "failing to comply with legal protocols and lacking permission to transit the Strait of Hormuz." Needless to say, that is an upgrade from firing missiles at it. کشتی کانتینربر SELEN به دلیل عدم رعایت پروتکل‌های قانونی و نداشتن مجوز عبور از #تنگه_هرمز ، توسط نیروی دریایی سپاه به عقب بازگردانده شد. عبور هرگونه شناور از این آبراهه مستلزم هماهنگی کامل با حاکمیت دریایی ایران است و این مهم جز به پشتوانه مردم شریف ایران به دست نمی‌آمد. pic.twitter.com/g6ei29Y90Q — علیرضا تنگسیری (@alirezatangsiri) March 24, 2026 Tangsiri said passage through the waterway requires full coordination with Iran’s maritime authorities. His comments echo what he said a week ago when he told local media that has not yet closed the Strait of Hormuz and the vital waterway is “only being controlled.” Tangsiri, who almost certainly is toward the top of the Pentagon's most wanted list, warned a week ago after the Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field that "oil facilities associated with America are now on par with American bases and will come under fire with full force" and "warned citizens and workers to stay away from these facilities." While the reason why the Selen was turned back is unclrear, it probably is because the captain refused to pay the toll Iran has started charging on some commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, in yet another sign of Tehran’s control over the world’s most important maritime energy channel. Payments of as much as $2 million per voyage are being sought on an adhoc basis, effectively creating an informal toll on the waterway, according to Bloomberg . Some vessels have made the payment, though the mechanism wasn’t immediately clear - includ...

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Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting with us, check out the Odd Lots Discord , where you can hang out and talk with us and with other listeners 24/7. Here’s what Tracy’s thinking about... This morning we got flash PMIs for the US and they were ... not great. The composite index for March came in at 51.4, an 11-month low. Meanwhile, input prices for both manufacturing and services are creeping higher again. Here’s S&P Global: “Prices paid for inputs meanwhile spiked higher, due principally to the energy price jump caused by the war. Overall average input costs rose to the fastest degree for ten months. Higher costs were passed on to customers to generate the largest rise in selling prices in over three-and-a-half years.” So the direction of travel is clearly uncomfortable for many businesses, consumers, a Federal Reserve still grappling with inflation above its 2% target, and a market that remains reluctant to fully price out rate cuts for the rest of this year. What I’d like to focus on here though, is a perhaps unappreciated inflation driver at both the input and output ends of the economy: plastic packaging. Plastic packaging is everywhere. It’s the bottles that contain your water. It’s the crates and pallets that help store and move goods around warehouses. It’s the shrink wrap around your sandwich, etc. Think of what you’re purchasing when you buy a bag of carrots at a grocery store, for instance. There’s the cost of actually farming the carrots: energy, land rent, fertilizer, labor. There’s the transport cost to get the carrots from the farm to the grocer. And then there’s the store’s expenses; again a mi...

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Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, chief executive officer of Kuwait Petroleum Corp., speaks during the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, US, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images HOUSTON — Kuwait on Tuesday said Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz amounts to an economic blockade of Gulf Arab oil producers, warning that the impact is beyond catastrophic and will trigger a domino effect across the world. "We are outraged by this attack against us," Shaikh Nawaf Al-Sabah, the CEO Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, told the oil industry at S&P Global's CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. "This is an attack not only against the Gulf, but it is an attack that is holding the world's economy hostage," said Al-Sabah, who delivered his remarks via video conference from Kuwait after cancelling his appearance in Houston due to the war. Kuwait has declared a force majeure on its delivery contracts and ramped down oil production because it cannot export to the global market. KPC is only producing oil from domestic consumption right now, Al-Sabah said. Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser warned earlier this month that the Iran war would have "catastrophic consequences" for the world economy. Nasser understated the impact of the Strait's closure, Al-Sabah said. "It's a domino effect," Al-Sabah said. "The costs of this war don't stay within geographical lines in this region. They extend all the way through the supply chain." It will take months for oil production in the Gulf to reach full capacity because Kuwait and its neighbors have shut oil wells, Al-Sabah said. Kuwait was producing about 2.6 million barrels per day prior to the war, making it the fifth-largest producer in OPEC. "We have resilient reservoirs that bring out quite a bit of production immediately — within a few days," Al-Sabah said. "The bulk of it will come within a few weeks and then the full production will come within three or four months." The emergency oil release by more tha...

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格隆汇3月25日｜美国总统特朗普：伊朗已无领导人；我们正在与合适的人士交谈，他们想达成协议。

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【有線新聞】食環署八月起劃一公眾靈灰安置所都會每月編配龕位名額，四個靈灰安置所每月共提供逾1,600個龕位，全年接近20,000個，相信可滿足需求。 食環署助理署長（職系管理及發展）蔡家偉：「根據過往幾年使用公營骨灰龕位的趨勢，2025年實際獲編配公營龕位數目是約18,000個，再上一年2024年也是18,000個，過往六年相對穩定，也是這個數目的範圍內。所以我們有信心這個趨勢現在的安排是合適和滿足現時需求，當然新安排下我們也會留意需求走勢，有需要時我們會作出調整。

格隆汇3月25日｜据知情人士透露，OpenAI即将达成一项协议，从风险投资者那里筹集约100亿美元，这将使其最新一轮融资的总金额达到约1200亿美元。据知情人士透露，阿布扎比的MGX、Coatue Management和Thrive Capital将参与此轮融资，该轮融资的估值为7300亿美元（不包括已筹集的资金）。知情人士还表示，Altimeter Capital也计划参与投资。知情人士透露，预计这些投资将于本月底完成。谈判仍在进行中，最终金额可能会有所变动。

【有線新聞】中東戰火持續，導致中國外貿企業壓力大增。除了訂單減少、無法收回貨款，公司亦要處理貨物滯留海上的問題，不少企業調整市場方向，同時轉用陸路運輸。 受中東戰事影響，霍爾木茲海峽2月底起持續封鎖，阻礙航運，影響不少外貿企業訂單。深圳一間無線數據終端企業因為過半海外市場在中東，面臨嚴峻的資金壓力。深圳外貿企業負責人詹昌漫：「包括我們自己在迪拜倉庫有一些貨也不能正常發貨，貨款收不回來。因為我們產品定制性比較強，又不能賣給其他客戶。」 原定發往迪拜、阿聯酋等的船舶大規模停航，導致鹽田港保稅區大量貨物無法出口，滯留當地。 深圳另一間物流企業雖然在新年前發了27條船、逾千個貨櫃往中東，但因戰火無法靠岸，至今已在海上滯留20多天。船公司有權選擇在最近港口緊急卸貨，但各碼頭吞吐量非常緊張，所以只能夠繼續等通知。深圳國際物流公司國內區域副總經理司芳娟：「現在大概有4條船已經進入（波斯）灣內，但是進入灣內之後依然是無法靠港的狀態，也是在錨定地繼續等待。然後大概有23條船還是在灣外繼續徘徊，船公司會就近幫我們在臨近的港口，但是受於碼頭的吞吐量的影響，然後這些船也是依舊無法靠近去。」 即使成功靠岸，戰事拉高海運成本，包括換提貨單手續需要支付的碼頭費、換單費等都較以往高約一倍。海運費全面上漲，有企業減少出貨或暫停發貨，部分將原定發往中東的貨物轉向美國等市場，亦有企業從海運轉陸運，例如從陸路口岸發往中亞，再從中亞發卡車航班，或者經中歐班列鐵路運輸再轉到中東或周邊國家。業界指陸運成本雖高於海運，但低於空運，正承擔起串聯全球供應鏈的關鍵角色。

Yahoo Finance Anchor Josh Lipton tracks today's top moving stocks and biggest market stories in this Market Minute. Arm Holdings (ARM) stock is soaring after announcing its first-ever in-house chip with Meta Platforms (META) as a lead partner. US stocks (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) are under pressure amid fading optimism over easing tensions in the Iran war and renewed geopolitical uncertainty weighing on sentiment. Circle Internet Group (CRCL) is sinking from a sharp reversal following its recent rally. Stay up to date on the latest market action, minute-by-minute, with Yahoo Finance's Market Minute.

Sundry Photography At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm Holdings ( ARM ) took the wraps off its long-awaited custom-designed CPU, aimed at the data center market. Known as the Arm AGI CPU, the newly announced chip is aimed at agentic AI workloads. It can deliver more than twice the performance per rack when compared to traditional x86 platforms made by Intel ( INTC ) and AMD ( AMD ), the company said in a statement . The Arm AGI CPU has up to 136 V3 cores per CPU and is a system-on-a-chip, offering 6 GB/s memory per core at sub-100ns latency. It's also efficient, the company said, as it uses around 300 watts of electricity, supports 1U server chassis' air-cooled deployments with up to 8,160 cores per rack, and liquid-cooled systems that can deliver more than 45,000 cores per rack. Arm added that the CPU was developed in concert with Meta Platforms ( META ), which will be its first major customer for the chips. It will be produced by Taiwan Semiconductor ( TSM ). The company also noted that companies such as Cerebras, Cloudflare ( NET ), F5 ( FFIV ), OpenAI ( OPENAI ), Positron, Rebellions, SAP ( SAP ), and SK Telecom will deploy the Arm AGI CPU for key agentic CPU use cases. “AI has fundamentally redefined how computing is built and deployed. Agentic computing is accelerating that change,” said Arm CEO Rene Haas in a statement. “Today marks the next phase of the Arm compute platform and a defining moment for our company. With the expansion into delivering production silicon with our Arm AGI CPU, we are giving partners more choices all built on Arm’s foundation of high-performance, power-efficient computing, to support agentic AI infrastructure at global scale.” Arm added that it is partnering with companies such as ASRock Rack, Lenovo, Quanta Computer, and Supermicro for CPU availability. Early systems are available now, and broader availability is expected in the second half of the year, the company said. More on Arm Holdings Arm Holdings: Resilience I...

当地时间3月24日，美国第82空降师部分部队即将部署至中东地区。目前相关命令正在制定中，预计将在接到指令后迅速出发。消息称，此次调动将包括地面作战部队及负责后勤与作战规划的指挥单元。第82空降师常备一支约3000人的“即时反应部队”，可在约18小时内部署至全球任一地区。该部队隶属于轻步兵编制，擅长通过空降方式快速进入争议地区执行任务，驻地位于北卡罗来纳州布拉格堡。3月24日，白宫表示，在总统特朗普考虑外交选项的同时，美国对伊朗的军事行动仍在“持续进行、未有减弱”。（央视新闻）