Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Tuesday, reaffirmed his belief that AI efforts undertaken by his enterprises will exceed rivals. Elon Musk Has Taken On Entire Industries In a post on the social media platform X, user Robert Scoble shared his take on the current AI race in the tech sector amid Nvidia Corp.‘s GTC 2026 conference. “Everyone else in AI is at GTC,” he said, alluding to the even...
Tesla Inc. and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Tuesday, reaffirmed his belief that AI efforts undertaken by his enterprises will exceed rivals. Elon Musk Has Taken On Entire Industries In a post on the social media platform X, user Robert Scoble shared his take on the current AI race in the tech sector amid Nvidia Corp.‘s GTC 2026 conference. “Everyone else in AI is at GTC,” he said, alluding to the event’s scale and importance in the sector. “If SpaceX beats everyone in this industry that will be quite something,” he said, adding that Musk, on previous occasions, “took on entire industries” and “innovated” in fields they couldn’t. https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/2033687781739008326 Don't Miss: Elon Musk Hails SpaceX, xAI Responding to Scoble, Musk shared his views on the take by quoting a post he had previously made, where he outlined that xAI will have three separate Grok models in training simultaneously. “While others go to conferences, we study the blade,” he said, in an apparent jibe at Nvidia and other rivals. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2033877744522756109?s=46 Bullish On SpaceX, Terafab Efforts These comments come as Musk had earlier said that SpaceX would "far exceed" rivals in AI, including Alphabet Inc.‘s Google DeepMind. This comes despite a series of high-profile departures from his artificial intelligence startup xAI. Trending: Disney Was Built on Character IP — This Pre-IPO Company Is Using the Same Playbook Meanwhile, Musk also hailed Tesla’s AI chip efforts, sharing that the EV giant would be kicking off its Terafab AI chip project shortly. The project is aimed at helping Tesla design its updated self-driving chip. Tesla has also hired AI chip designers in South Korea to build AI chips. Nvidia’s GTC Conference Chipmaker Nvidia shared a roadmap for the company’s AI efforts at the GPU Technology Conference, revealing that Tesla’s Chinese rivals BYD Co. Ltd. and Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. would be incorporating Nvidia self-driving technolog...
Spring breakers in the US could see their long-awaited trips to party destinations disrupted by a trifecta of issues: airport security delays, high gas prices, and chaotic weather. The potential for flight delays comes as US airlines expect that they will see a record-shattering spring travel season. Airlines for America, an aviation industry group, said that 171 million passengers are expected to...
Spring breakers in the US could see their long-awaited trips to party destinations disrupted by a trifecta of issues: airport security delays, high gas prices, and chaotic weather. The potential for flight delays comes as US airlines expect that they will see a record-shattering spring travel season. Airlines for America, an aviation industry group, said that 171 million passengers are expected to fly – a 4% increase from the 2025 spring travel period. US airlines are expected to transport 2.8 million passengers every day between 1 March and 30 April. Airlines will provide 2% more flights and seats, the group said. But Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents working at the nation’s airports have gone weeks without pay, spurring long security lines at some travel hubs. Several airline CEOs have made public entreaties to end the impasse. The Department of Homeland Security, which includes the TSA, has not been funded since mid-February. Democrats said they will not vote to approve DHS’s operations unless Republicans agreed to new rules governing federal agents’ manner of immigration enforcement. Congressional Democrats want federal agents to show identification and cease wearing masks. They also want agents to stop detaining people on the street. “It’s not sustainable, and what’s going to happen is lines are just going to continue to get longer and longer as spring breaks goes on,” Cameron Cochems, vice-president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1127 and a lead TSA officer based in Boise, Idaho, told the Hill. “What’s going to happen is longer wait times. Passengers are going to get more frustrated. They’re going to take their anger out on, who do you think? Us,” Cochems also reportedly said. “We’re not the ones in charge of any of this, and so they’re going to continue to push back on us.” While the spring breakers driving to sunny climes or apres-ski hotspots won’t contend with airport delays, they will see outsized gas prices due to ...
Rodney Bushmeyer has been farming as long as he can remember. Bushmeyer’s father was a farmer, as was his grandfather. The family-run Bushmeyer Farms in Illinois dates back more than 100 years, when his ancestors came to the US from Germany. They acquired the first 80 acres cost-free as homesteaders, cleared the land, and worked it. Now Bushmeyer, 69, gets to see the sunrise on his way to work eve...
Rodney Bushmeyer has been farming as long as he can remember. Bushmeyer’s father was a farmer, as was his grandfather. The family-run Bushmeyer Farms in Illinois dates back more than 100 years, when his ancestors came to the US from Germany. They acquired the first 80 acres cost-free as homesteaders, cleared the land, and worked it. Now Bushmeyer, 69, gets to see the sunrise on his way to work every day. Wheat is planted and will be followed by soy and corn in the next several weeks. In a month, the farm will “be greening up”, revealing a powerful palette. “It’s a great life,” he said. But Bushmeyer’s farm, which he runs with his son and cousin, has felt the impact of “dramatically” increased fertilizer prices over the past five or six years. And while some fertilizers have doubled in cost, commodity prices for grain have dwindled. “There is really no profit right now,” Bushmeyer said, later adding: “It’s not sustainable in the long term. We can do that for a few years, but eventually it’ll put us out of business.” While Bushmeyer’s fight with fertilizer costs started several years ago, many US farmers are seeing themselves squeezed even more as prices for agricultural nutrients have jumped in recent weeks. American farmers have become casualties in the US-Israel war against Iran. Iran closed the strait of Hormuz, cutting off a key fertilizer production and transportation route, and efforts to reopen this crucial trade route have stalled. The closure has intensified pressure on farmers as it comes as during the US spring planting season. The price spike also comes as farmers are experiencing several years of losing money on growing crops. “It’s not a great time for the grower,” said Matt Bennett, CEO of AgMarket, a brokerage and farmer consulting firm. Bennett is also a seventh-generation grain farmer based in Shelby County, Illnois. The Middle East is critical to global fertilizer trade, with 35% of global urea trade, a solid nitrogen fertilizer, coming through the...
You can pep up your cooking by growing wild garlic, crow garlic and three-cornered leek Unlike most gardeners, I’m not especially captivated by spring bulbs. I do love that they symbolise the return of fairer weather, but I only have the tulips and narcissi that I adopted when we moved here and, every autumn, I fail to consider planting more to replenish their dwindling numbers. Lucky for me, I al...
You can pep up your cooking by growing wild garlic, crow garlic and three-cornered leek Unlike most gardeners, I’m not especially captivated by spring bulbs. I do love that they symbolise the return of fairer weather, but I only have the tulips and narcissi that I adopted when we moved here and, every autumn, I fail to consider planting more to replenish their dwindling numbers. Lucky for me, I also adopted the kind of spring bulb that I’m more inclined towards – because they’re edible. Wild alliums are what I’m really looking for to herald the arrival of spring. Too many edible wild plants are only edible in theory, in my opinion. I’m mostly of the “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” school of foraging. But that’s not the case when it comes to the most well-known member of this wild allium group. The strongly flavoured leaves of wild garlic ( Allium ursinum ) cover the woodland floor wherever they are resident, producing clusters of white, star-shaped flowers that are edible too – but leave most of them for the pollinators please! I’m a big fan of this delectable plant and am fortunate enough that it has made a home in my front garden. As with all foraging endeavours, make sure you’re 100% certain you have identified the plant correctly, pick where you are allowed, and always leave plenty behind. Fortunately, when it comes to this group of plants, it’s fairly easy to know if you have gone wrong as all the leaves should smell strongly of and taste like garlic or onions. Continue reading...
The sound of the scythes wielded by brothers Jorge and Ubirajara Cardia breaks the silence in the hills of Vargem Grande, in the south-west zone of Rio de Janeiro city. Quilombola from the Cafundá Astrogilda community, they harvest bananas the same way their ancestors used to. Every week, they select the bunches of prata, maçã, and Cavendish bananas, cut them down and, on the back of their mules, ...
The sound of the scythes wielded by brothers Jorge and Ubirajara Cardia breaks the silence in the hills of Vargem Grande, in the south-west zone of Rio de Janeiro city. Quilombola from the Cafundá Astrogilda community, they harvest bananas the same way their ancestors used to. Every week, they select the bunches of prata, maçã, and Cavendish bananas, cut them down and, on the back of their mules, go down the hillside with the newly harvested crop. Through sloping ways in the forest, they travel about 5km (3 miles) along paths first opened by the Indigenous Tupinambá people and enslaved workers of African descent. The abundant banana groves cultivated by quilombola communities and traditional farmers are part of the designated Pedra Branca state park conservation area. There, the banana growing tradition guarantees more than financial and food security for these communities. View image in fullscreen On the hillsides of the Pedra Branca state park, banana plants blend with several other species. Photograph: Jorge Castro Henriques/The Guardian Through a crop culture passed down over many generations, gradually evolving into a model agroforestry system [the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock], banana growers help restore and preserve the park’s biodiversity. Part of Unesco’s Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, it is made up of 17 Rio neighbourhoods and is considered the world’s largest urban forest. “In agroforestry, the management of banana crops demands less work, and we save time as we only need to prune the banana plant. Then, nature, with its own rhythm, does all the rest,” Jorge Cardia says. Originally from south-east Asia and the west Pacific, the exotic fruit was brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonisers in the 16th century. At the Pedra Branca state park, banana plants are so numerous and robust they look like a living green tapestry, weaving among a variety of native and foreign tree species, such as embaúba, carrapeta, jacatirão and jabu...
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Global concerns are rising over the fate of ships and crews trapped in the Strait of Hormuz amid the intensifying Middle East conflict, as reports spread that Iran is rolling out screening processes and steep transit fees for vessels using the waterway. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) called for the establishment of a “safe maritime framework” to ensure the swift evacuation of mercha...
Global concerns are rising over the fate of ships and crews trapped in the Strait of Hormuz amid the intensifying Middle East conflict, as reports spread that Iran is rolling out screening processes and steep transit fees for vessels using the waterway. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) called for the establishment of a “safe maritime framework” to ensure the swift evacuation of merchant ships confined within the Persian Gulf, after holding a special session on the Middle East situation on Thursday. About 20,000 seafarers and 2,000 vessels are currently stuck in the Gulf, according to the IMO. Advertisement “I am ready to start working immediately in negotiations to establish a humanitarian corridor to evacuate all vessels and seafarers trapped,” said Arsenio Dominguez, the IMO’s secretary general. However, when a representative from the Cook Islands asked about the specific conditions required for vessels to be extracted via a secure corridor, the Iranian delegation at the meeting declined to provide a response. Advertisement Iran distanced itself from the IMO’s declaration on Thursday, arguing that the statement failed to address the US and Israeli attacks on Iran. China expressed support for the proposed security corridor in principle, while stressing the need for further clarification on how it would be implemented.
The film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it's great —go see it! Though a little light on the science, the movie goes hard on the relationship between schoolteacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) and an extraterrestrial named Rocky, and it's a ride well worth taking. But as good as it is, the movie shares a small flaw with the book: Despite h...
The film adaptation of Andy Weir's novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it's great —go see it! Though a little light on the science, the movie goes hard on the relationship between schoolteacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) and an extraterrestrial named Rocky, and it's a ride well worth taking. But as good as it is, the movie shares a small flaw with the book: Despite having very few things in common, Grace and Rocky learn to communicate with each other extremely quickly. In fact, Grace and Rocky begin conversing in abstracts (concepts like "I like this" and "friendship") in even less time than it takes in the book. Obviously, there are practical narrative reasons for this choice—you can't have a good buddy movie if your buddies can't talk to each other. It's therefore critical to the flow of the story to get that talking happening as soon as possible, but it can still be a little jarring for the technically minded viewer who was hoping for the acquisition of language to be treated with a little more complexity. And because this is Ars Technica, we're doing the same thing we did when the book came out : talking with Dr. Betty Birner, a former professor of linguistics at NIU (now retired), to pick her brain about cognition, pragmatics, cooperation, and what it would actually ake for two divergently evolved sapient beings not just to gesture and pantomime but to truly communicate . And this time, we'll hear from Andy Weir, too. So buckle up, dear readers—things are gonna get nerdy. Read full article Comments
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reflects on Jensen Huang’s penchant for long speeches — and whether the audience is getting the message. Tech Across the Globe OpenAI purchase: OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers. The deal will bolster OpenAI’s Codex ...
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reflects on Jensen Huang’s penchant for long speeches — and whether the audience is getting the message. Tech Across the Globe OpenAI purchase: OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers. The deal will bolster OpenAI’s Codex effort, whose user base has tripled since the start of the year. DoorDash workers: DoorDash is paying delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other digital tasks to help improve artificial intelligence and robotics models. Meta moderation: The social media giant will soon cut back on its use of third-party vendors to help with content moderation in favor of AI systems. Revalued Uber plans to invest as much as $1.25 billion in carmaker Rivian to help launch a robotaxi fleet that will be available in the US, Canada and Europe over the next five years. The deal represents one of Uber’s biggest robotaxi partnerships to date as its ride-hailing business faces competition from a wave of rival operators. Missing the Point Jensen Huang can’t help himself — he’s a compulsive communicator. The chief executive officer of Nvidia sees it as his duty to educate his audience. And that means if he doesn’t see people nodding along in understanding, he’ll make his point again and again and again. We got a full view of that approach during a marathon keynote speech at the GTC conference in San Jose, California, where Huang spoke for about 2 1/2 hours. He expounded further at a number of other panels and Q&As during the conference, the company’s biggest annual gathering. Nvidia’s front man offered his usual mix of dad jokes, professorial lectures and occasional displays of irritation. He laughed at French people’s accents and acknowledged that his slideshow charts were barely legible. The CEO also laid out another enormous revenue target, saying the company would g...
Hi, this is Charles in Stockholm. Welcome to our weekly newsletter on what’s shaping economies and investments from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea. You can subscribe here . Deals, Deals, Deals Conventional economic thinking holds that corporate dealmakers will bide their time during periods of intense volatility, preferring instead to wait for calmer conditions. That isn’t the case in the Nordics, w...
Hi, this is Charles in Stockholm. Welcome to our weekly newsletter on what’s shaping economies and investments from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea. You can subscribe here . Deals, Deals, Deals Conventional economic thinking holds that corporate dealmakers will bide their time during periods of intense volatility, preferring instead to wait for calmer conditions. That isn’t the case in the Nordics, where companies are keeping busy despite US and Israeli attacks on Iran stoking uncertainty and raising inflationary pressures. This week we learned that TK Elevator, an elevator maker in Germany that’s been planning a stock market listing, has found a suitor in Finnish rival Kone. According to people familiar with their thinking, the recent swings across equity markets have made TK Elevator’s private-equity owners more open to a sale. On Monday, Italian hearing-aid-maker Amplifon agreed to buy the hearing-aid arm of Denmark’s GN Store Nord. The transaction valued the division at $2.7 billion and sent the seller’s share price soaring. In the entertainment space, French broadcaster Canal+ and Czech investment group PPF are weighing whether to take Nordic streamer Viaplay private as it tries to lift its financial performance. The company launched an emergency capital raise in 2024 and the stock has yet to recover in a meaningful way. The late Tina Turner even put in an appearance this week, as Swedish music investment firm Pophouse Entertainment Group acquired a majority stake in the rock icon’s publishing rights and recordings. The Turner deal is the fifth marquee acquisition for Pophouse, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars securing the rights from KISS, Cyndi Lauper , Avicii and Swedish House Mafia. Why, Robot? Nordea, the region’s biggest bank, is planning to cut as many as 1,500 jobs through next year in a bet that artificial intelligence will make its work more efficient. The reduction — up to 5% of Nordea’s workforce — fits into a broader trend. Banks are ex...
Nanci Santos/iStock via Getty Images The ranks of lower- and middle-class households in the United States are thinning. The reason why is remarkable: more households are earning higher incomes, allowing them to move up into the top ranks of the nation's income spectrum. You don't have to take our word for it. We've organized the U.S. Census Bureau's inflation-adjusted data for household income fro...
Nanci Santos/iStock via Getty Images The ranks of lower- and middle-class households in the United States are thinning. The reason why is remarkable: more households are earning higher incomes, allowing them to move up into the top ranks of the nation's income spectrum. You don't have to take our word for it. We've organized the U.S. Census Bureau's inflation-adjusted data for household income from 1967 through 2024 into three groups. The first group contains households with annual total money income of $49,999 or less, which represents lower income-earning households. The second group contains households earning between $50,000 and $149,999 to represent middle income-earning households. The third group contains all households earning $150,000 or more. The following chart confirms the percentage share of lower- and middle-class households in the U.S. is shrinking as the percentage of upper-class households increases. U.S. households earning $150,000 or more in inflation-adjusted constant 2024 U.S. dollars have risen from 4.6% of all households to 26.1% from 1967 through 2024. Middle-ranked households earning between $50,000 and $149,999 has fallen from 52.4% to 43.8% of all U.S. households. The lowest-ranked households earning real incomes of $49,999 or less has plunged from accounting for 43.0% of all U.S. households to just 30.2%. A similar pattern holds for U.S. families. See more commentary on this phenomenon here and here . Reference U.S. Census Bureau. Historical Income Tables: Households . Table H-17. Households by Total Money Income, Race, and Hispanic Origin of Householder. [ Excel spreadsheet ]. 25 August 2025. Original Post Editor's Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha editors.
Ethereum is the world's largest platform for developing decentralized applications, which are increasingly popular in industries like finance and gaming. Ether (ETH 0.94%) is the native cryptocurrency in the Ethereum ecosystem, where it helps facilitate everything from fee payments to money transfers. Ether set a new all-time high of $4,954 per coin last year, but it has since plummeted by more th...
Ethereum is the world's largest platform for developing decentralized applications, which are increasingly popular in industries like finance and gaming. Ether (ETH 0.94%) is the native cryptocurrency in the Ethereum ecosystem, where it helps facilitate everything from fee payments to money transfers. Ether set a new all-time high of $4,954 per coin last year, but it has since plummeted by more than 50% and trades at just $2,339 as of March 17. Investors have trimmed their exposure to speculative, high-risk assets like cryptocurrencies during the past six months in favor of safe assets like gold, amid heightened economic uncertainty and geopolitical turmoil. But Ether has experienced sharper sell-offs in the past, and it recovered to deliver spectacular gains on each occasion. Could this downturn be a buying opportunity ahead of a potential run to the $5,000 milestone? The leading destination for decentralized applications Decentralized apps are designed to function without the need for human intervention, so every user receives equal treatment based on a concrete set of rules. These rules are governed by slivers of computer code called smart contracts, which live on the Ethereum blockchain and typically can't be changed, ensuring no person or company can manipulate an app's core functions. Whenever someone uses a decentralized app, they activate smart contracts which trigger fees (often called gas) payable in Ether. Gas covers the cost of the computing power required to complete a requested action. It also compensates the people who validate transactions on the blockchain, which keeps the network secure. Ethereum boasts a perfect 100% uptime during the past 10 years, which is a key reason it's the most trusted ecosystem among developers. Rather than hosting the network in a centralized data center, which is a common strategy in the digital age, Ethereum is hosted on thousands of nodes (computers) spread all over the world. This crowdsourced approach keeps the Ether...
2026-03-20 | ORCL INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman, LLC Announces that Oracle Corporation Stockholders Have Opportunity to Lead Class Action Lawsuit! | NYSE:ORCL | Press Release Stockhouse
2026-03-20 | ORCL INVESTOR ALERT: Bronstein, Gewirtz and Grossman, LLC Announces that Oracle Corporation Stockholders Have Opportunity to Lead Class Action Lawsuit! | NYSE:ORCL | Press Release Stockhouse
"The Government of Mexico reiterates that these deaths are unacceptable and once again calls on immigration authorities to carry out a prompt and thorough investigation to clarify the circumstances that led to this death, determine responsibility, and establish effective guarantees of non-repetition," the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
"The Government of Mexico reiterates that these deaths are unacceptable and once again calls on immigration authorities to carry out a prompt and thorough investigation to clarify the circumstances that led to this death, determine responsibility, and establish effective guarantees of non-repetition," the foreign ministry said on Thursday.