Robert Way Nvidia ( NVDA ) shares slid 2% in premarket trading on Thursday even as Raymond James upped its price target after the tech giant's GTC keynote address. “We maintain our Strong Buy rating on NVIDIA, raised estimates, and increase our price target to $323 to reflect management’s updated outlook for $1 trillion of cumulative GPU sales through 2027 that could prove conservative,” analyst Simon Leopold wrote in a note to clients. “The forecast leaves us incrementally encouraged that our thesis around inference as a catalyst is playing out, and may even be slightly ahead of schedule.” Leopold also noted that when contributions from Vera Rubin Ultra and the Groq LPX are included, total AI data center revenue could be closer to roughly $1.3T through 2027. As such, he reiterated his Strong Buy rating on the stock and raised his price target to $323 from $291. More on Nvidia Nvidia: History Says This Ends Badly NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Shareholder/Analyst Call Transcript Nvidia Uses GTC To Recast Itself For The Agentic AI Era Chip sales top $830B in 2025 as Nvidia, Micron lead AI-driven growth Musk: SpaceX AI, Tesla to keep buying Nvidia chips at scale

Powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors and the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform, the collaboration enables enterprises to run AI-driven networking, security, and analytics directly within distributed edge infrastructure. News Summary Versa and Intel are collaborating to advance Enterprise AI deployment where it is needed the most – at the Edge – transforming the traditional edge to an Intelligent Edge. The collaboration is intended to pilot AI inference for select AI/ML workloads, including traditional machine learning, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), and Small Language Models (SLMs), running directly within branch, campus, and other edge infrastructure. Intel Xeon 6 processors, including Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), provide the compute foundation, while VersaONE and VOS provide the software platform for secure networking, policy enforcement, and hosting AI workloads. The effort is aligned with Versa’s Intelligent Edge vision: a distributed architecture where networking, security, and AI work together as one operational system on a universal platform. SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Versa, the global leader in unified security and networking, today announced a strategic collaboration with Intel to advance AI processing at the Intelligent Edge. The collaboration is intended to help enterprises run select AI-driven security, networking, and analytics functions closer to where users, devices, applications, and data operate. Combined with the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform and Versa Operating System (VOS), this architecture supports Versa’s vision of the Intelligent Edge: a distributed infrastructure layer where networking, security, and AI capabilities work together as a unified system. As enterprises adopt AI-driven security, networking, and analytics capabilities, many of these functions require real-time inference close to where users, devices, and applications operate. Running capabilities such as Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Data...

【国际贵金属价格快速走低，现货白银日内跌幅扩大至12%】财联社3月19日电，国际贵金属价格快速走低，现货黄金跌5.67%，报4545.45美元/盎司；现货白银跌12.09%，报66.25美元/盎司。消息上，在美国上周初请失业金人数数据公布后，交易员不再押注美联储2026年降息。交易员也提高对欧洲央行加息的押注，认为今年有第三次加息的概率为75%。

cagkansayin Two Harbors Investment ( TWO ) stock surged 11% in Thursday premarket trading after it received an unsolicited proposal for $10.70 per share in cash, the company said on Thursday. That comes after the mortgage REIT had already agreed to be acquired by mortgage wholesaler UWM Holdings ( UWMC ) in an all-stock deal that valued each share of TWO at $11.94 on Dec. 16, 2025. At the close of March 18, the UWMC deal valued each share of TWO at ~$8.61. The new proposal provides for the payment of the $25.4M termination fee that would be required under the UWMC agreement. The unsolicited proposal represents a 12% premium to Two Harbors' ( TWO ) closing price of $9.53 on March 18. Two Harbors ( TWO ) board's ad hoc committee has determined that the unsolicited proposal could "r easonably be expected to lead to a 'company superior proposal'" as defined in the UWMC agreement. The company didn't disclose the identity of the new suitor. The committee, though, hasn't determined whether the proposal is superior to the UWMC deal, and that agreement remains in effect. The board continues to recommend the UWMC transaction. If the new proposal leads to a superior proposal, then UWM Holdings ( UWMC ) will have three business days to negotiate with Two Harbors ( TWO ) to propose any revisions to its agreement. UWM Holdings ( UWMC ) stock gained 2.5% in Thursday premarket. More on Two Harbors Investment, UWM Holdings UWM Holdings Corporation 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation UWM Holdings Corporation (UWMC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Prepared Remarks Transcript Two Harbors Investment Corp. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Most oversold financial mid-cap stocks on Wall Street amid Middle East disruptions Two Harbors adjourns meeting to solicit more votes on merger with UWM Holdings

BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) - Xiaomi ‌will ‌invest at least ​60 billion yuan ($8.70 billion) in ‌artificial ⁠intelligence over next ⁠three years, CEO ​Lei ​Jun ​said on ‌Thursday. His comment comes as the company announced ‌its ​latest ​AI ​model ‌called MiMo-V2-Pro. ($1 = 6.8998 ​Chinese ​yuan renminbi) (Reporting by ​Ju-min ‌Park; Editing ​by Andrew ​Heavens)

da-kuk/E+ via Getty Images Global equity markets are entering a phase that has historically marked the worst point of geopolitical-driven selloffs, even as the news flow around Iran deteriorates, according to Deutsche Bank. The S&P 500 ( SP500 ) is down just under 4% over 13 trading days since the latest strikes on Iran, broadly tracking the average pattern seen across more than 30 geopolitical shocks since 1939, Deutsche Bank analysts said. Historically, U.S. equities tend to bottom around 15 trading days after such events, with average declines of a little over 4% relative to pre-shock levels. Markets are now approaching that window. The bank noted that this “average path by day” differs from the maximum drawdown typically seen during such episodes. On that measure, declines are deeper—around 6% on a median basis and roughly 8% on average—reflecting the lowest point reached at any stage rather than on a specific day. In calendar terms, the trough has often occurred roughly three weeks after the initial shock, suggesting markets are nearing a critical inflection point. Recovery has historically followed within weeks, with median returns back to pre-shock levels by around day 34. The latest escalation in the Middle East has added to uncertainty. Energy markets have reacted sharply, with reports of significant damage to a major LNG facility in Qatar driving spikes in gas and oil prices. The key question for investors is whether the worsening backdrop signals a deeper, more prolonged selloff or whether markets are following a familiar geopolitical pattern, Deutsche Bank said. Here is a chart posted by Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank S&P ETFs: ( SPY ), ( VOO ), ( IVV ), ( RSP ), ( SSO ), ( UPRO ), ( SH ), ( SDS ), and ( SPXU ). More on markets Has The Monetary Easing Cycle Ended? The Fed Is Not Coming To The President's Rescue Limited Follow-Through Dollar Today After Yesterday's Surge AM Markets Need to Know: Oscars viewership, gold and silver losses, and more S&P 500 to...

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Remember Tesla’s electric vehicle business? It’s what makes Tesla money to invest in all of its artificial intelligence ambitions. With the first quarter coming to a close, Wall Street is updating EV sales numbers.

华特 迪士尼 在新任CEO乔什·达马罗的领导下正酝酿一场战略重置。达马罗勾勒出一个愿景，可能将Disney+重新定位，使其不仅是一个流媒体平台。在他担任CEO以来的首次年度股东大会上，达马罗将Disney+描述为一个潜在的数字化“核心平台”，能够将公司的电影、游戏、主题公园及更广泛的体验连接成一个更统一的生态系统。他强调要为消费者提供更加个性化和沉浸式的体验，同时指出人工智能、增强现实和虚拟现实等技术是可能深化跨平台用户互动的工具。 达马罗接手的公司在部分业务上仍保持强劲运营，但面临投资者日益严格的审视。迪士尼的电影制片厂、主题乐园和流媒体业务持续扩张，尤其是乐园部门在他任职期间已成为主要的利润驱动力。然而，公司近期发布了较为疲软的增长展望，理由是美国乐园在吸引国际游客方面面临挑战，以及体育节目相关成本上升。与此同时，自鲍勃·伊格尔2022年回归以来，迪士尼的股价表现一直落后于大盘和主要竞争对手，这表明投资者可能仍在等待更明确的证据，证明流媒体业务能在改善利润率的同时实现更强劲的增长。 竞争格局的变化也给战略执行带来了压力。Paramount+和HBO Max合并后的平台预计将拥有约2亿全球订阅用户，规模与迪士尼（不包括ESPN）的流媒体业务相当，这可能会加剧在内容和定价方面的竞争。一些分析师建议，迪士尼可以通过重新评估ESPN和ABC等资产来释放价值，尤其是在大型科技公司参与下，体育版权竞标已加速的背景下。在此环境下，达马罗已开始组建其领导团队，包括提拔达娜·瓦尔登负责创意和流媒体运营，同时推进迪士尼对Epic Games的投资以及计划围绕《堡垒之夜》构建娱乐宇宙等举措。这一更广泛战略的关键可能在于，这种更加互联的生态系统方法能否转化为可衡量的增长并提升投资者信心。 责任编辑：张俊 SF065

Welcome to Next Africa, a daily newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email. In today’s edition we look at the impact of cheaper vehicle imports on South Africa’s car-manufacturing industry. Also: Africa’s biggest banks are flocking to East Africa Congo and Rwanda promise peace, again And finally, a small Kenyan port is a surprise refuge Motor Problems South Africa’s century-old car industry is laboring under a catalogue of very modern problems. At risk is a sector that rivals mining for economic output in the continent’s biggest economy, employing tens of thousands of people. What was for years one of the country’s only manufacturing bright spots is now struggling to contend with a surge of shipments from China and India that are showing no sign of slowing. A Bloomberg Economics study shows China’s share of car imports by volume climbed to 27% last year. Granted, the wave of cheaper models has helped to contain inflation — the price of imported vehicles is down 4.5% — and have been widely embraced by a car-loving population. Yet in a country with official unemployment of more than 30%, there are casualties. Thousands of workers have been laid off and the brunt is being felt in a once-picturesque southern coast harbor town. In Nelson Mandela Bay, Goodyear’s tire factory isn’t the only vehicle-related plant to have closed. The municipality that includes Gqeberha lost 41,000 jobs last year, official statistics show. The surrounds of Volkswagen’s facility assembling Polos northwest of the city are littered with evidence of industrial decline. Mangled roadside armco forms a flimsy barrier to moldering colonial-era buildings marked by peeling paint and rusted corrugated roofing. The German giant that’s been operating in South Africa since 1951 says this is a “ make-or-break year ” for its investment plans. The consequences of the decline are being felt across the country. Nissan abruptly announced ...

From mezcal to sotól, the agave plant delivers a bounty of styles and flavours to explore “We were amazed,” wrote the Spanish conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo as he beheld the extent of the Aztec empire in 1521. “Some of our soldiers even asked whether the things that we saw were not a dream.” I remember feeling a similar vertigo when I first saw the wall of agave spirits at the long-since-closed Los Angeles mezcaleria Petty Cash more than a decade ago. Agave spirits are distilled from the fermented heart (or piña ) of the agave plant – not a cactus, but a succulent, like aloe vera or that thing dying on your windowsill. Tequila, from Jalisco, is the most famous kind, but it’s far from the only one, much as burgundy is just one way the French make wine. And here was an entire continent to (respectfully) explore: not only refined tequilas, but hundreds of mezcals from wild, untamable agaves: madrecuixe , arroqueño , tobalá and pulquero , some of which take 25 years to reach maturity. Beyond these foothills were spirits that had barely penetrated European bartending consciousness: sotól and raicilla , bacanora and pox (“posh”) made from maize, as well as pechuga , whose ingredients include, yum, poultry breasts. And all this at a time when a lot of tequila sold in Britain came topped with red plastic sombreros. Continue reading...

皮克林表示，当前局势意味着市场正转向“供给问题”，“一旦产能本身受损，影响将更加持久”。 由于中东地区能源基础设施遭到袭击，市场对全球能源供应中断的担忧迅速升温，油气价格大幅飙升，欧洲股市与债券市场暴跌。 欧洲天然气价格19日早盘一度涨超30%。欧洲基准荷兰TTF天然气价格19日开盘升至70.70欧元/兆瓦时，随后回落至约67欧元/兆瓦时。 国际油价同步走强，布伦特原油价格升至115美元上方。 本轮上涨的直接诱因来自中东局势升级。综合新华社报道，卡塔尔内政部和卡塔尔能源公司18日说，该国拉斯拉凡工业城当天因伊朗导弹袭击而起火，造成大面积损坏。以色列18日袭击伊朗天然气田，随后伊朗紧急警告，沙特、阿联酋和卡塔尔三国石油设施成为“合法打击目标”。 油气价格飙升迅速冲击金融市场。欧股日内血流成河，截至第一财经记者发稿时，德国DAX指数跌约2.30%，欧洲斯托克600指数跌约2.03%，法国CAC40指数跌约1.73%，英国富时100指数跌约1.87%。高耗能行业、航空与可选消费板块跌幅居前。 欧债同样显著下跌。英国两年期国债收益率上升约15个基点至4.25%，触及近一年高位；英国十年期国债收益率升至约4.82%。德国国债与美国国债收益率亦出现上行，反映市场对通胀与利率路径的重新定价。 供给风险开始主导定价 市场对“供给冲击”的定价明显加速。机构Pickering Energy Partners首席投资官丹·皮克林（Dan Pickering）表示，当前局势意味着市场正从“供应链问题”转向“供给问题”，“一旦产能本身受损，影响将更加持久”。 海湾石油（Gulf Oil）高级能源顾问汤姆·克洛扎（Tom Kloza）表示，如果冲突进一步外溢并波及更多能源设施，市场可能进入“原有预期全部失效”的状态，价格波动将显著放大。 从交易结构看，市场已出现明显变化。交易员称，欧洲天然气期货近月合约涨幅显著高于远月，呈现倒挂结构，反映短期现货供应趋紧，同时远期价格同步上行，显示市场预期紧张将持续。 通胀与政策压力上行 宏观层面，能源价格飙升也正在推高通胀预期。英国一年期通胀掉期已升至5%以上，较年初不足3%明显上行；欧元区一年期通胀掉期升至约4%，年初时低于2%。巴克莱（Barclays）经济学家认为，若能源价格维持高位，通胀可能出现更持久的上行，这将限制欧洲央行短期内转向宽松的空间。 欧...

(RTTNews) - Caleres Inc. (CAL) will host a conference call at 10:00 AM ET on March 19,2026 to discuss Q4 25 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://investor.caleres.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx To listen to the call, dial (877) 704-4453 (US) or (201) 389-0920 (International) For a replay call, dial (844) 512-2921 (US) or (412) 317-6671 (International) The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

BlackSalmon/iStock via Getty Images SCHD Still Looks Good For The Capital Rotation Trade In my previous article on Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF ( SCHD ) that came out in mid-September 2025 , I expected that the extreme tech valuations at the time would eventually lead to a capital rotation to dividend-paying stable stocks, like most of the names within SCHD's holdings. That was the reason for my core expectation of SCHD likely beating the S&P 500 index ( SP500 ), at least in the short term. And so it happened - SCHD has beaten SPY since September 2025 as I expected: Seeking Alpha, my previous article on SCHD I believe that the core structure of the fund - the combo of high-quality dividend payers and low expense ratio - makes SCHD a nice pick for the current macro environment when we're talking about capital preservation and risk-focused growth. I wouldn't expect massive, extraordinary returns for value/GARP investors from SCHD, but it's a stable ETF whose strategy keeps working as expected, and even major geopolitical risk-offs can't shake it as much as some of its peers. The capital rotation trade doesn't seem to be over (at least for now), so I keep my Buy on SCHD in place. Why Do I Think So? If you've read my most recent articles on big tech firms, you probably know that I'm bullish on Amazon ( AMZN ), Alphabet ( GOOG ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), and most other mega-cap AI enablers because I believe most of them won't lose the moat that helped them increase their market cap and valuation over the past few decades. But even as a bull, I can't cancel out the fact that these companies spend their FCFs like crazy : BCA Research [proprietary data] While I believe most of those FCFs will eventually translate into tangible returns, I agree that there's a risk that a) it can take a lot of time, and b) it may not be realized in full. If these risks look more likely to you than to me, and your risk aversion doesn't let you accept them, then buying SPY alone doesn't really make...

Alibaba logo on stock screen Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images News Alibaba Group Holding Limited ( BABA ) just released its December quarter earnings, delivering a miss on both revenue and earnings per share [EPS], but showing considerable growth in its all-important AI segment. Investors took the miss poorly, sending the stock tumbling as much as as 5.6% pre-market. The release was one of the most highly anticipated ones of this earnings season. Taking place two to three weeks later than is the norm for Alibaba, the delay had many people on the edge of their seats in the days and weeks prior to the release's publication. The company didn’t even announce the earnings date until March 6, a date by which it usually publishes its actual release. As a result of the extreme delay in Alibaba’s earnings release, many investors started to question the results that were about to be revealed. Was the company hiding something? Were the results going to be horrifically bad? Or was it simply a function of the company’s usual reporting date being right after the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations? There was quite a bit of speculation, on X and elsewhere, as to the reasons for Alibaba’s earnings delay. So, it should come as no surprise that the markets’ reaction to the release was a little dramatic. Immediately after the publication of Alibaba’s earnings release, the stock took a big dip, falling 5.6%. On the surface, it was an understandable move–the company did miss all of the big headline metrics. But there are other ways of looking at the release. It was a release that showed the company investing heavily in some of the most promising and fastest-growing areas of its business: AI, quick commerce and international commerce. These investments have more long term value than a single quarter's EPS performance. When I last covered Alibaba, I rated the stock a Strong Buy on the grounds that the company’s AI transition fundamentally transformed the thesis on the stock. After three c...

Baidu Inc. (BIDU) is one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com visitors lately. So, it might be a good idea to review some of the factors that might affect the near-term performance of the stock. Over the past month, shares of this web search company have returned -11.6%, compared to the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -3.6% change. During this period, the Zacks Internet - Services industry, which Baidu Inc. falls in, has gained 1%. The key question now is: What could be the stock's future direction? While media releases or rumors about a substantial change in a company's business prospects usually make its stock 'trending' and lead to an immediate price change, there are always some fundamental facts that eventually dominate the buy-and-hold decision-making. Earnings Estimate Revisions Here at Zacks, we prioritize appraising the change in the projection of a company's future earnings over anything else. That's because we believe the present value of its future stream of earnings is what determines the fair value for its stock. We essentially look at how sell-side analysts covering the stock are revising their earnings estimates to reflect the impact of the latest business trends. And if earnings estimates go up for a company, the fair value for its stock goes up. A higher fair value than the current market price drives investors' interest in buying the stock, leading to its price moving higher. This is why empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. For the current quarter, Baidu Inc. is expected to post earnings of $2.12 per share, indicating a change of -16.9% from the year-ago quarter. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has changed -18.2% over the last 30 days. For the current fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $9.91 points to a change of +29.7% from the prior year. Over the last 30 days, this estimate has changed +2.1%. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earnings estima...

Li Auto Inc. Sponsored ADR (LI) has recently been on Zacks.com's list of the most searched stocks. Therefore, you might want to consider some of the key factors that could influence the stock's performance in the near future. Shares of this company have returned -6.9% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -3.6% change. The Zacks Automotive - Foreign industry, to which Li Auto belongs, has lost 12.9% over this period. Now the key question is: Where could the stock be headed in the near term? Although media reports or rumors about a significant change in a company's business prospects usually cause its stock to trend and lead to an immediate price change, there are always certain fundamental factors that ultimately drive the buy-and-hold decision. Revisions to Earnings Estimates Rather than focusing on anything else, we at Zacks prioritize evaluating the change in a company's earnings projection. This is because we believe the fair value for its stock is determined by the present value of its future stream of earnings. We essentially look at how sell-side analysts covering the stock are revising their earnings estimates to reflect the impact of the latest business trends. And if earnings estimates go up for a company, the fair value for its stock goes up. A higher fair value than the current market price drives investors' interest in buying the stock, leading to its price moving higher. This is why empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock price movements. For the current quarter, Li Auto is expected to post break-even earnings per share, indicating a change of -100% from the year-ago quarter. The Zacks Consensus Estimate has changed +100% over the last 30 days. For the current fiscal year, the consensus earnings estimate of $0.27 points to a change of +80% from the prior year. Over the last 30 days, this estimate has changed -37.7%. For the next fiscal year, the consensus earning...

OpenAI plans to acquire Astral , a startup that makes Python tools for developers, marking the ChatGPT maker’s latest investment in the fast-growing market for coding and developer services. The deal, which hasn’t yet closed, will bring Astral’s team into OpenAI’s Codex effort, OpenAI said Thursday. Codex has more than 2 million users, the company said, a number that’s tripled since the start of this year. Astral’s suite of tools will push Codex — which can write software features, fix bugs and run tests — into a broader suite of developer services. “Astral has always focused on building tools that transform how developers work with Python — helping them ship better software, faster,” the startup’s founder, Charlie Marsh, said in a statement, adding that the company will continue evolving its open-source tools within OpenAI. OpenAI is currently in a race with competitors including Anthropic, Microsoft Corp. and startups like Cursor to woo corporate customers using AI as coding assistants. Cursor is currently in talks with investors to raise money at a valuation of $50 billion, Bloomberg reported . Meanwhile, Anthropic is nearing an annual revenue run rate of $20 billion . Buying Astral is the latest in a string of purchases for OpenAI. This month, it agreed to buy AI security startup Promptfoo , adding tools to test and secure AI agents before deployment. Late last year, it also bought startups including Software Applications Inc. and Neptune . Read More: OpenAI Hires OpenClaw AI Agent Developer Steinberger

Prologis ( PLD ) and GIC have formed a $1.6 billion joint venture to develop and own build-to-suit logistics facilities across major U.S. markets, the companies said on Thursday. The new venture includes $1.6 billion in combined capital commitments, which includes an initial portfolio of approximately 4.1 million square feet with additional capacity for future investments. Prologis ( PLD ) is the world's largest logistics real estate company, with 1.3 billion square feet of properties in 20 countries and $230 billion of assets under management. "Build-to-suit activity continues to be one of the clearest signals of customer conviction across our business," said Daniel S. Letter, chief executive officer of Prologis. The venture combines Prologis' development and operating platform with long-term institutional capital and will operate within Prologis Strategic Capital, the company's asset management business. More on Prologis After A Massive Rally, The Easy Money May Be Gone - Prologis Prologis, Inc. (PLD) Presents at 47th Annual Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference Transcript Prologis, Inc. (PLD) Presents at Citi's Miami Global Property CEO Conference 2026 Transcript Most and least shorted REIT stocks with over $2B market cap Prologis said in talks on possible data-center co-investment fund

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In a move to appeal to its younger viewers, the Fox-owned streaming service Tubi has launched its “Creatorverse Incubator” in partnership with TikTok. The initiative announced on Thursday gives content creators support — such as promotions and the potential of funding — to create original shows exclusively for Tubi. The strategy mirrors that of Peacock, which enlisted TikTok creators last year to generate original content, indicating a trend among streaming platforms to tap into the popularity of social media influencers. Tubi launched Creatorverse Incubator to offer new content to Tubi’s current audience, which boasts more than 100 million monthly active users, while also bringing in new customers eager to check out original series featuring their favorite TikTokers. Under the program, selected creators will have the freedom to craft original series across a range of genres, whether scripted or unscripted. Tubi is giving them the creative reins, allowing creators to shape their content with the company backing them up to bring those ideas to life. The company plans to announce the first cohort of creators later this summer. Tubi has increased its focus and investment on influencer talent over the past year. Today’s announcement builds on a creators program that Tubi launched 10 months ago that was designed to bring content from famous YouTubers, including Mythical Entertainment onto its platform. The company already has 16,000 episodes from more than 200 creators in its content lineup. The most recent series to premiere is “Terri Joe: Missionary in Miami,” which features famous TikTok characters Terri Joe and Amethyst Jade. Tubi has also rolled out other creator-centric initiatives like teaming up with Kickstarter to feature crowdfunded films and launching “Stubios,” a program to help aspiring filmmakers showcase their original work. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026: The tech ecosystem, all in one room Your next round. Your next hire. Your next breakout opportunity. F...

Los Angeles startup Arc Boat Company wants to expand its nascent commercial business and even sell electric propulsion systems to defense contractors, in an attempt to fulfill founder Mitch Lee’s desire to “electrify everything on the water.” To do that, Arc has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round from Eclipse, a16z, Menlo Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Necessary Ventures, and Offline Ventures. The expansion into these newer markets won’t come at the expense of Arc’s consumer boat business, Lee told TechCrunch in an interview. He said sport boats are a category that generates “meaningful revenue” for Arc, and helps prove to commercial customers that the company’s technology is both capable and durable. It’s a plan that roughly approximates how Tesla got started, and one that Greg Reichow — a former VP at Tesla and a general partner at Eclipse — said can work for Arc. “The right strategy was go develop the technology, get it to work on the high end of consumer boats, then take that technology as you get some experience with it and make sure the economics really work well for the commercial sector, and you have the reliability for the commercial sector,” he said in an interview with TechCrunch. “And so that’s where we’re at today with Arc.” This approach appears to be working. Lee said organic interest from commercial and defense players was so strong that it accelerated the startup’s plans to expand into these sectors. “Our thesis is the entire industry is going to go electric in the same way that lawn equipment is all going electric, because it’s just a way better experience,” he said. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026: The tech ecosystem, all in one room Your next round. Your next hire. Your next breakout opportunity. Find it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders gather for three days of 250+ tactical sessions, powerful introductions, and market-defining innovation. Register now to save up to $400. Save up to $300 or...

Adobe is launching customizable AI image generators that can mimic specific artistic styles and character designs. The Firefly Custom Models are available in public beta starting today, allowing creators and brands to train a model on their own assets to ensure generated images follow a consistent aesthetic for characters, illustrations, and photography. The tool aims to streamline workflows for teams and creators that need to produce high volumes of content, providing a reusable foundation that preserves visual consistency across multiple projects, instead of having to start from scratch each time. Adobe says that custom models can help preserve details like stroke weight, color palettes, lighting, and character features across generations. The custom models are also private by default, so images used to train them won’t be used to train Adobe’s general Firefly models. “To grow a brand, you need a steady stream of assets that consistently express who you are. Those assets should be yours and yours alone,” Adobe said in its press release. “Once trained, your custom model becomes part of your workflow. You can generate new ideas aligned to your aesthetic, reuse the model across projects, briefs and campaigns and produce at scale without losing what makes your work distinctive.” Firefly custom models were previously announced as a private beta at Adobe Max last year, but now anyone can try them. Adobe has long promoted its Firefly models — which are trained using a mix of licenced and public domain content — as an ethical and commercially safe alternative to rival services that likely scraped protected works. Giving creative professionals more control over how the models they use are trained feels like a natural expansion, but Adobe doesn’t say it’ll prevent users from training custom models on work they don’t own. According to Adobe’s help page, users will be prompted before training a custom model to confirm they have the necessary rights and permissions and “that y...

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. CEO Carl Pei says Nothing won’t release a flagship phone this year. So instead we have the 4A Pro, a $499 phone that looks and feels higher-end than last year’s flagship Phone 3, helped in large part by a new metal design. Compare the Phone 4A Pro to its immediate rivals, the Pixel 10A and iPhone 17E, and it looks impressive: a larger, brighter, and faster display; more cameras; and Nothing’s unique design, including the Glyph Matrix rear display. But dig deeper, and the 4A Pro’s compromises are revealed. Nothing earns points for style, but unless you’re particularly enamored of the bigger screen and bolder look, Apple and Google’s phones have the 4A Pro beat on substance. Every Nothing phone until now has had a consistent aesthetic: transparent plastic revealing a (usually white or black) design that implies the internal construction of the phone without actually revealing much of it, with visible screws and abstract lights to complete the effect. The 4A Pro is different. It’s mostly metal, with an aluminum unibody design — available in silver, black, or a very subtle pink — that stretches everywhere except the camera. That’s the one island of transparency: a curved cuboid that squeezes in all the plastic detailing, metal screws, and Glyph lights needed to remind you that this is still a Nothing phone. The shift to metal has two obvious effects. Firstly, it makes the 4A Pro a little more boring, and thus presumably a little more appealing to the mainstream market. Perhaps that’s why this phone is launching in the US, while the all-transparent 4A isn’t. But it also makes the 4A Pro feel high-end. That’s partly because this is the thinnest Nothing phone yet, at 8mm, but mostly because I’m hardwired to think that metal feels fancier than plastic. I have an unreas...

NEW YORK, March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GETY) (“Getty Images” or the “Company”) today announced that on March 17, 2026 it received written notice from the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) indicating that the Company is not currently in compliance with Section 802.01C of the NYSE Listed Company Manual, which requires an average closing share price of at least $1.00 over a consecutive 30 trading-day period. The Notice does not result in any immediate impact on the listing or trading of Getty Images’ Class A common stock, which will continue to be listed and traded on the NYSE during the applicable cure period, subject to the Company’s continued compliance with the NYSE’s other requirements. In accordance with NYSE rules, Getty Images has six months to regain compliance. The Company intends to notify the NYSE within ten business days of its intent to cure the deficiency. Compliance can be achieved at any time during the cure period if, on the last trading day of any calendar month, the Company’s Class A common stock has a closing share price of at least $1.00 and an average closing share price of at least $1.00 over the preceding 30 trading days. The NYSE notice does not affect Getty Images’ business operations, reporting obligations to the SEC, customer commitments or strategic initiatives. The Company continues to execute against its operational and financial priorities and remains confident in its long-term strategy. Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that reflect management’s current expectations, plans, and assumptions that management has made in light of their experience in the industry, as well as their perceptions of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments, and other factors they believe are appropriate under the c...

Broadcom Inc. Emulex SecureHBA, the First CNSA 2.0 and NIS2/DORA-Compliant Network Adapter, Is Now Available in Everpure’s Latest Arrays PALO ALTO, Calif., March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) a global leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced that it is shipping the world’s first end-to-end Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)-safe, in-flight network encryption solution. Over the last year, more than 120,000 Emulex SecureHBAs have shipped on OEM server platforms. Everpure now becomes the industry’s first storage platform to embed Emulex SecureHBAs in its FlashArray product family, completing the end-to-end solution. Emulex SecureHBA enables organizations to encrypt all in-flight data across Fibre Channel networks ensuring PQC-safe encryption. The solution protects data transfers end-to-end, from application servers to storage, providing protection against harvest now, decrypt later (HNDL) attacks. As enterprise AI moves from proof of concept to production, PQC-safe network encryption has become an essential security requirement. “As enterprise customers recognize that HNDL attacks present an ever-increasing threat, closing an infrastructure’s security vulnerabilities becomes a corporate imperative. Extending an enterprise’s Encrypt Everything policy from today’s data-at-rest encryption to include PQC-safe in-flight network encryption is the next obvious step for securing mission critical data,” said Jeff Hoogenboom, vice president and general manager, Emulex Connectivity Division, Broadcom. “In an era of AI-enabled threats and quantum computing, robust data encryption is table stakes,” said Shawn Hansen, vice president and general manager, Core Platform Business Unit, Everpure. “By embedding Broadcom’s Emulex SecureHBA into our Everpure Platform, Everpure is delivering the industry’s first end-to-end solution for automatic, in-flight encryption using Post-Quantum Cryptography...

Capitalizing on the Crimson Desert release date hype, Maingear is launching a commemorative gaming PC. The configuration includes the powerful Ryzen 7 9850X3D gaming CPU and Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070XT. Ornate illustrations inspired by Pywel adorn the chassis of the Crimson Desert PC. 30 of the Maingear Crimson Desert Limited Edition PC are available. Buyers only have until quantities run out or April 2nd to reserve the configuration. At an asking price of $4,499, the key specs are as follows: To achieve 60 fps at 4K, Pearl Abyss suggests a Ryzen 7 7700X or an Intel i5-13600K processor. Maingear has opted for the more powerful 8-core, 16-thread 9850X3D, which is widely considered the best gaming CPU. It's 96MB of 3D V-Cache should help prevent stuttering while exploring never-ending landscapes. How a GPU affects Crimson Desert performance Buyers may be disappointed not to see an Nvidia RTX 5090 in this high-end gaming PC. Still, the Sapphire Nitro+ Edition RX 9070 XT is an obvious match for the prebuilt system. In February, AMD announced a bundle headlined by a Crimson Desert-themed version of the RDNA 4 GPU. The graphics card displays similar artwork to the exterior of the system on its Quick Connect MagniPlate. Even if not top-end, the RX 9070 XT, with its 16GB of VRAM, meets the benchmarks for the game’s Ultra preset. Likewise, the Crimson Desert PC’s 64GB of DDR RAM is far above the minimum system requirements. Given the effects of the memory shortage, the modules contribute to the desktop’s lofty price. Despite graphics wrapping around the tempered-glass chassis, components remain visible. Those include an RGB-illuminated 360mm liquid cooler and a trio of fans. Less noticeable is the 2TB Gen M.2 NVMe SSD installed on the X870E motherboard. Commemorative prebuilts are now routine, but Maingear expects its Crimson Desert Limited Edition PC to turn some heads. Judging by pre-order sales for the Pearl Abyss title, the desktop may sell out quickly.

AdrianHancu/iStock Editorial via Getty Images What I would be saying if I were still employed As a person who has friends and family in the software and hardware design worlds, I love to keep up on trends to see where the industry is headed, especially as it relates to AI. Since tech is such a large proportion of the major index weightings ( SPY, DIA, VOO, IVV, QQQ ) ( VTWO ), paying attention to what those employed in the tech sector have to say is now easier than ever. I am also a voyeur of sorts and frequent Reddit forums where those employed by different industries air out their grievances. This is the modern-day 'scuttlebutt' method that Phil Fisher once employed by knocking on office doors; now you can just flip on social media and listen to industry insiders spout. While much of it is hyperbole, written to maximize clicks, patterns do emerge of what is really going on as long as you can see the mid-ground. The main gripe I'm seeing for those still employed in tech is not that AI has become the emergent tool that makes tasks easier and faster, but that it also makes employees force multipliers. One can now do the task of many. During COVID-19, coders and software engineers were in such high demand that they could demand a king's ransom and still move on to a better deal 6 months later. Employers now sense the shoe is on the other foot. From what I am picking up, the advent of AI has increased the workload for those in tech substantially. Even if someone is using an AI agent instead of their own coding skills, they now have more projects to monitor and more code to proofread [I guess that's the right terminology?]. Either way, AI is not creating a pinkies-out tea-sipping utopia; it's just creating more opportunities for businesses to squeeze more out of their employees. More work, please So, if one has decided to remain employed and working in the tech sector, I would embrace the 'more work, please' attitude. Mastering AI and learning how to become the most aut...

Albion Enterprise VCT PLC Interim Management Statement LEI Code: 213800OVSRDHRJBMO720 Introduction I present Albion Enterprise VCT PLC (the “Company”)’s interim management statement for the period from 1 October 2025 to 31 December 2025. Performance and dividends The Company's unaudited net asset value (“NAV”) on 31 December 2025 was £290.1 million or 115.23 pence per share (excluding treasury shares), a decrease of 0.99 pence per share (0.9%) since 31 March 2025. After accounting for the second dividend for the year ending 31 March 2026 of 2.82 pence per share paid on 27 February 2026 to shareholders on the register on 6 February 2026, the NAV is 112.41 pence per share. Fundraising On 11 February 2026 the Company announced the closure of the Albion VCTs Top Up Offers 2025/26, having raised £30 million, before issue costs. Under the terms of the Albion VCTs Prospectus Top Up Offers 2025/26, the following new ordinary shares, of nominal value 1 penny each, were allotted during the year: Date of allotment Number of shares allotted Issue price (pence per share) Net consideration received (£’000) 19 December 2025 15,320,428 115.03p – 116.21p 17,270 Portfolio The following investments have been made during the period: New investments £’000 Activity Bound Rates 2,379 FX risk management platform. Clstr (T/A Kinfolk) 1,537 AI agent operating system for workforce operations. Outerlimit Group 1,424 Runtime security and policy enforcement platform for agentic AI. Total new investments 5,340 Further investments £’000 Activity OutThink 168 SaaS platform to measure and manage human risk for enterprises. Seldon Technologies 35 Software company that enables enterprises to deploy Machine Learning models in production. Total further investments 203 Top ten holdings (as at 31 December 2025) Investment Carrying value £000s % of net asset value Activity Quantexa 54,065 18.6% Decision intelligence platform to help solve challenges across customer intelligence, KYC, financial crime, risk ...

Leading open source event explores building, securing and sustaining the open technologies powering modern infrastructure Summary The Linux Foundation announced the schedule for Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026, which will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 18-20, 2026. The event will feature sessions on the rise of AI agents, strengthening software supply chain security, advancing embedded Linux and edge innovation, and sustaining the open source projects that power modern infrastructure. Attendees will gain insights from experts at industry-leading organizations like AWS, Cloudflare, Google, IBM, Intel, LG, Microsoft, Netflix, Nordic Semiconductor, OpenAI, Sony and more. SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the schedule for Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference North America 2026 (OSS + ELC NA), taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from May 18-20, 2026. This premier event serves as the essential gathering point for the global open source community to collaborate on the foundational technologies powering everything from autonomous AI agents to mission-critical industry systems. The Linux Foundation logo (PRNewsfoto/The Linux Foundation) "Open source underpins today's most critical technology shifts, from AI to cloud and beyond," said Jim Zemlin, CEO, Linux Foundation. "Open Source Summit and Embedded Linux Conference North America brings the global community together to accelerate that progress." Engaging with the open source community not only promotes innovation, but delivers measurable value. According to a Linux Foundation Research report on open source ROI, open source contribution has proven to be a strategic business imperative that enables organizations to lower long-term costs, accelerate development, improve security outcomes, and influence project roadmaps. Highlights at OSS + ELC NA 2...