Hongkongers can expect thundery showers in the next few hours, the local weather forecaster has said. The Observatory issued the advisory notice at 3pm on Friday and urged the public to be aware of the weather change. “Areas of thundery showers now to the west of the [Pearl River Delta] are edging closer, and are expected to affect the territory in the next couple of hours,” it said. The Observato...
Hongkongers can expect thundery showers in the next few hours, the local weather forecaster has said. The Observatory issued the advisory notice at 3pm on Friday and urged the public to be aware of the weather change. “Areas of thundery showers now to the west of the [Pearl River Delta] are edging closer, and are expected to affect the territory in the next couple of hours,” it said. The Observatory said the weather would be mainly cloudy with a few showers in the afternoon and at night, with...
Getty Images Bittensor ( TAO-USD ) and Artificial Superintelligence Alliance ( FET-USD ) posted two of the strongest rallies in crypto in March, driven by a convergence of catalysts that were specific to each protocol and to the decentralized AI sector as a whole. For TAO, the immediate trigger was Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's public endorsement of decentralized AI training on the All-in Podcast, a d...
Getty Images Bittensor ( TAO-USD ) and Artificial Superintelligence Alliance ( FET-USD ) posted two of the strongest rallies in crypto in March, driven by a convergence of catalysts that were specific to each protocol and to the decentralized AI sector as a whole. For TAO, the immediate trigger was Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's public endorsement of decentralized AI training on the All-in Podcast, a direct reference to Bittensor's architecture. For FET, the driver was a rotation of capital into AI agent infrastructure as agentic AI moved from research to production across Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. FET benefits from this narrative as the native token of ASI Chain, the platform designed to deploy and coordinate autonomous AI agents. Project Primers: What are TAO and FET? Bittensor (TAO) is a decentralized machine learning network that operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace for AI compute and model training. Participants, miners and validators, compete across specialized subnetworks called subnets, each focused on a distinct AI task such as text generation, inference, or compute routing. Validators score miner outputs using Yuma Consensus, and TAO emissions are distributed to subnets in proportion to their real performance as determined by market-based staking flows. The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (FET) is the unified token of a three-way merger between Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and CUDOS, forming a decentralized AI agent ecosystem. FET is the native token of ASI:Chain, a blockDAG-based layer-1 optimized for high-concurrency AI workloads, and powers ASI:Create, a platform for building and deploying autonomous AI agents. The alliance's roadmap targets an open beta for ASI:Create, a public TestNet, and a full mainnet launch by late 2026 or early 2027, at which point FET will be rebranded to ASI. Bittensor (TAO) ASI Alliance (FET) Core function Decentralized Machine Learning marketplace; subnets compete for compute rewards Decentralized AI agent ecosystem Arch...
Sedat Suna/Getty Images News Novartis ( NVS ) said it will acquire U.S. biotech firm Excellergy for up to $2B in upfront and milestone payments, in a move to strengthen its allergy portfolio. The deal, which is expected to close in the second half of the year, will add Excellergy's drug candidate that's currently in early-stage trials to Novartis' ( NVS ) portfolio. The drug, called Exl-111, is a ...
Sedat Suna/Getty Images News Novartis ( NVS ) said it will acquire U.S. biotech firm Excellergy for up to $2B in upfront and milestone payments, in a move to strengthen its allergy portfolio. The deal, which is expected to close in the second half of the year, will add Excellergy's drug candidate that's currently in early-stage trials to Novartis' ( NVS ) portfolio. The drug, called Exl-111, is a trifunctional Effector Cell Response Inhibitor designed to treat certain allergic disorders. If confirmed clinically, Exl-111's mechanism could support earlier symptom relief, stronger disease control, more convenient dosing and broader use across food allergy, allergic asthma and other IgE-driven diseases. "Excellergy adds a differentiated next-generation anti-IgE program that builds on biology Novartis knows well, supported by preclinical evidence and early clinical pharmacokinetic data," said Fiona Marshall, president of Biomedical Research, Novartis ( NVS ). "Together, we will be ideally positioned to realize the full potential of Exl-111 and the broader ECRI pipeline for the millions of patients living with severe, debilitating allergic diseases," said Excellergy CEO Todd Zavodnick. More on Novartis Novartis Promises Growth Despite 'Historic' Patent Cliffs - I Broadly Agree Novartis: Synnovation Deal And 8% Full-Year 2025 Sales Growth Novartis (NVS) Shareholder/Analyst Call Prepared Remarks Transcript Novartis to buy experimental breast cancer drug for up to $3B
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work. While African Guernica, which was drawn by the...
Piece by late South African artist Dumile Feni is part of new series History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme On the second floor of the Reina Sofía, in the very spot where Picasso’s Guernica was first exhibited when it arrived in the Madrid museum 34 years ago, there now hangs a smaller, near-namesake of the Spanish artist’s most famous work. While African Guernica, which was drawn by the late South African artist Dumile Feni in 1967, may lack the scale of Picasso’s masterpiece, its depth, anger and unnerving juxtaposition of man and beast, light and dark, and innocence and cruelty, are every bit as disturbing. Continue reading...
(RTTNews) - TravelSky Technology Ltd. (TSYHF, TSYHY, 0696.HK), an IT solutions provider for China's air travel and tourist industry, reported higher profit in fiscal 2025, but revenues were lower than last year.
(RTTNews) - TravelSky Technology Ltd. (TSYHF, TSYHY, 0696.HK), an IT solutions provider for China's air travel and tourist industry, reported higher profit in fiscal 2025, but revenues were lower than last year.
BrendanHunter/E+ via Getty Images Investment Thesis In the three months since my last publication , Canada Natural Resources Limited ( CNQ ) has seen its market value rise by 44%. But that doesn't make the company overbought or overvalued in the slightest, and I'm sticking with my top-tier "Strong Buy" rating. Given the continuing escalation in the Middle East, prices for energy resources remain a...
BrendanHunter/E+ via Getty Images Investment Thesis In the three months since my last publication , Canada Natural Resources Limited ( CNQ ) has seen its market value rise by 44%. But that doesn't make the company overbought or overvalued in the slightest, and I'm sticking with my top-tier "Strong Buy" rating. Given the continuing escalation in the Middle East, prices for energy resources remain abnormally high, thereby increasing the potential profits of companies in the E&P segment. It is CNQ, in particular, a broadly diversified company whose asset portfolio includes both the extraction and production of energy resources and their transportation. If we add to this the fact that more than a third of the company's sales come from exports to foreign markets, it is clear that the current crisis in the global energy market only increases CNQ's appeal to investors betting on price appreciation. I want to discuss four key factors in this article that keep my confidence in CNQ at its highest, and make it the top pick among the energy assets in my portfolio. These are influenced by both the current geopolitical landscape and the company's latest financial results. Factor #1: The Impact of the "Middle East" Crisis on the E&P Sector CNQ's main growth driver is the extent to which its financial results can be impacted by converting aggressive energy price increases into exceptionally high profits. Traffic restrictions through the Strait of Hormuz have led to a supply shock in the global market, resulting in a geopolitical risk premium in Brent crude oil prices rising to $30-40 per barrel. It is estimated, that global supplies of liquefied natural gas will decrease by 300 million cubic meters per day , two times more than the average volume of gas previously transported via the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Europe. Currently, oil and gas producers in Canada are among the most stable alternatives and "safe havens," exhibiting greater political neutrality and political st...