In 1983, the CIA determined that the most crucial commodity in the Gulf was its desalinated potable water. Although the loss of a single plant could be handled, “successful attacks on several plants in the most dependent countries could generate a national crisis that could lead to panic flights from the country and civil unrest”. And the greatest threat to the region’s water supply? “Iran.” That’...
In 1983, the CIA determined that the most crucial commodity in the Gulf was its desalinated potable water. Although the loss of a single plant could be handled, “successful attacks on several plants in the most dependent countries could generate a national crisis that could lead to panic flights from the country and civil unrest”. And the greatest threat to the region’s water supply? “Iran.” That’s why, four decades later, the world held its breath on Saturday when Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, accused the US of “a blatant and desperate crime” by attacking a desalination plant on the island of Qeshm, in the strait of Hormuz. “The US set this precedent, not Iran,” he said. The US denied responsibility for the attack. But the next day, on the other side of the Gulf, Bahrain announced one of its own desalination plants had been hit. The alleged culprit: “Iranian aggression.” It looked like the region, its cities and its industries, was poised to unravel in a frenzy of tit-for-tat assaults on critical water infrastructure. But then the attacks on desalination plants stopped. Why? Potable water has always been a scarce commodity in the Gulf. Rainfall in the Middle East is low and highly variable, and most countries lack large permanent rivers to fulfil their water needs. Historically, the region had simply coped, drawing from what limited groundwater supplies they had. But with the growth of the oil industry from the 1950s onwards, demand soon outstripped supply, aquifers were spoiled, and the region’s fast developing countries were forced to turn to desalination – turning seawater into drinking water – for their water needs. According to the latest data, 70% of Saudi Arabia’s drinking water comes from desalination plants; in Oman the figure is 86%; the United Arab Emirates, 42%; and in Kuwait, 90%. Even Israel, which has access to the Jordan river, relies on five large coastal desalination plants for half its potable water. Collectively, the Middle East accou...
S&P 500 Index futures are down about 0.1% as of 7:58 a.m. in New York. The International Energy Agency is considering a release of emergency oil reserves that would be the largest-ever in its history, according to a person familiar with the matter. Nasdaq 100 futures are lower by 0.1% Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are little changed The MSCI World Index is down 0.2% Here are some of the big...
S&P 500 Index futures are down about 0.1% as of 7:58 a.m. in New York. The International Energy Agency is considering a release of emergency oil reserves that would be the largest-ever in its history, according to a person familiar with the matter. Nasdaq 100 futures are lower by 0.1% Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are little changed The MSCI World Index is down 0.2% Here are some of the biggest US movers before the bell: Magnificent Seven stocks: Alphabet (GOOGL) -0.1%, Amazon (AMZN) +0.1%, Meta Platforms (META) -0.01%, Nvidia (NVDA) +0.2%, Apple (AAPL) +0.1%, Microsoft (MSFT) +0.1% Tesla (TSLA) rises 0.2% after Business Insider reported that the company is ramping up an AI agent project AeroVironment (AVAV) falls 10% after the drone maker cut its revenue guidance for the full year. Analysts trim their price targets, while Citizens noted that some of the weakness stems from defense deals getting delayed. Campbell’s Co. (CPB) falls 5% after the food company cut its adjusted earnings per share guidance for the full year. Domo (DOMO) rises 38% after the enterprise software company’s fourth-quarter results beat expectations. Nike (NKE) gains 2% after Barclays upgraded the sportswear retailer to overweight, citing recent operational progress, financial inflections and management’s disciplined actions. Oracle (ORCL) rises 9% after the company posted strong results and gave an outlook that suggested there is little letup in demand for AI computing. Serve Robotics Inc. (SERV) climbs 12% after the developer of AI-powered delivery robots posted fourth quarter results. Also, the company and White Castle launched a delivery pact via Uber Eats. UniFirst Corp. (UNF) rises 8% after Cintas Corp. agreed to buy the uniform maker in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.5 billion Upstart (UPST) rises 2% as the firm plans to apply for a US national bank charter, aiming to reduce costs and streamline its AI-based lending platform.
Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial intelligence data centers, as the world’s most valuable firm continues to pour money into companies that buy its chips. The partnership will help Amsterdam-based Nebius deploy more than 5 gigawatts of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030, the Dutch company in a statement Wednesday...
Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial intelligence data centers, as the world’s most valuable firm continues to pour money into companies that buy its chips. The partnership will help Amsterdam-based Nebius deploy more than 5 gigawatts of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030, the Dutch company in a statement Wednesday. That’s roughly enough energy to power 3.8 million homes. Nvidia has been using its enormous resources to finance the expansion of AI infrastructure, much of which is based on chips that it designs, leading to criticism that the circular investments are fueling a bubble. In January, Nvidia announced a similar $2 billion investment in Nebius competitor CoreWeave Inc. to deploy its products. Read More: OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Circular Deals The partnership will build upon Nebius’s existing use of Nvidia infrastructure and support its early adoption of the latest generation of chips. The companies will work together to design, build and manage AI data centers. Nebius said the partnership will allow it to build infrastructure customized for “inference,” a term for running AI models and services once they are trained. Neocloud provider Nebius was previously the Dutch holding company for Russian internet giant Yandex. It was renamed in 2024 after it sold Yandex’s Russian business to a group of investors in Russia for $5.2 billion. At the end of that year, Nebius raised $700 million from a slate of investors that included Nvidia. Nvidia owned about $33 million worth of Nebius shares as of December 2024, according to a corporate filing shortly after its initial investment.
(RTTNews) - The Campbell's Company (CPB) will host a conference call at 9:00 AM ET on March 11, 2026, to discuss Q2 26 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://investor.thecampbellscompany.com To listen to the call, dial (800) 715-9871 (US) or (646) 307-1963 (International), Conference ID: 8876056. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the aut...
(RTTNews) - The Campbell's Company (CPB) will host a conference call at 9:00 AM ET on March 11, 2026, to discuss Q2 26 earnings results. To access the live webcast, log on to https://investor.thecampbellscompany.com To listen to the call, dial (800) 715-9871 (US) or (646) 307-1963 (International), Conference ID: 8876056. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Scott Olson/Getty Images News Indian e-commerce company Flipkart plans to invite global and domestic investment banks to pitch for roles on the IPO as soon as April, following months of informal discussions. Reports indicate that Walmart ( WMT )-backed Flipkart has been in early, exploratory talks with firms such as Goldman Sachs ( GS ), Morgan Stanley ( MS ), JPMorgan ( JPM ), and Kotak Mahindra ...
Scott Olson/Getty Images News Indian e-commerce company Flipkart plans to invite global and domestic investment banks to pitch for roles on the IPO as soon as April, following months of informal discussions. Reports indicate that Walmart ( WMT )-backed Flipkart has been in early, exploratory talks with firms such as Goldman Sachs ( GS ), Morgan Stanley ( MS ), JPMorgan ( JPM ), and Kotak Mahindra Capital to gauge investor appetite, structure options, and timing for a Mumbai listing. Notably, Flipkart has already received government approval to shift its official domicile from Singapore to India. An IPO could occur later this year or early in 2027, depending on several factors. Flipkart was founded in 2007 when Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, both former Amazon ( AMZN ) employees, started the company in Bengaluru as an online bookstore operating from a small apartment. It steadily broadened into a general merchandise marketplace, built its own logistics network, and added verticals such as fashion via Myntra and payments, becoming India’s leading homegrown e-commerce platform by the mid-2010s. In 2018, Walmart ( WMT ) agreed to acquire a 77% controlling stake for about $16B, valuing Flipkart at nearly $21B. Since then, Walmart ( WMT ) has bought out several minority investors, including Tiger Global, lifting its stake above 80% and valuing Flipkart at roughly $35B in recent secondary deals. Flipkart competes primarily with Amazon India, Myntra, AJIO, and Nykaa. More on Walmart Walmart: Navigating A Bumpy Tariff Environment Walmart Inc. (WMT) Presents at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 Transcript Walmart Q4 Results: A Rare Miss On Earnings Outlook, Shares Fairly Valued Most and least shorted large-cap consumer staples at February end Walmart gained in early trading as investors wait out Middle East turbulence
A private company in China providing intelligence-gathering services to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) claims to have intercepted radio signals from American stealth bombers that struck Iran on March 1 as part of the US-Israel military action. Jingan Technology, a defence technology firm based in east China’s Hangzhou, also asserted that it detected signals linked to US military activities wel...
A private company in China providing intelligence-gathering services to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) claims to have intercepted radio signals from American stealth bombers that struck Iran on March 1 as part of the US-Israel military action. Jingan Technology, a defence technology firm based in east China’s Hangzhou, also asserted that it detected signals linked to US military activities well before tensions with Iran escalated, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse early indicators. According to the company, its Jingqi war monitoring system reconstructed the sequence of the US military build-up that occurred in the weeks leading up to the operation, which began on February 28. Advertisement The Jingqi system integrates satellite imagery, aviation trajectory data and public military records to interpret transport aircraft routes, reconnaissance flight patterns, the types of vehicles stationed at military bases and aircraft carrier strike group movements. On February 6, at the start of US-Iran talks on the future of the Iranian missile programme, Jingqi reportedly analysed open-source intelligence and identified that there had been a steady increase in American military deployments around Iran. The Jingqi monitoring system is said to have tracked a US B-2 stealth bomber as it returned from its mission over Iran on March 1. Image: Handout The company said the system concluded as early as January that the United States had begun amassing its largest military build-up in the Middle East in nearly two decades – one that surpassed the scale of deployments seen during the Iraq war.
View image in fullscreen Illustration: Xiaohua Yang/The Guardian At the end of my second American Sign Language (ASL) class, during which I had fingerspelled my name Deborah as “F-E-B-O-R-A-H”, I thought it prudent to type a question into my Notes app rather than trying to fingerspell it. “How do I sign, ‘I’m hearing impaired?’” I wrote, showing the typed sentence to my teacher, Courtney Rodriguez...
View image in fullscreen Illustration: Xiaohua Yang/The Guardian At the end of my second American Sign Language (ASL) class, during which I had fingerspelled my name Deborah as “F-E-B-O-R-A-H”, I thought it prudent to type a question into my Notes app rather than trying to fingerspell it. “How do I sign, ‘I’m hearing impaired?’” I wrote, showing the typed sentence to my teacher, Courtney Rodriguez. Then I pointed to one of my hearing aids. Sixty percent of ASL, Courtney had just taught us, consists of non-manual markers, meaning most of the communication in ASL comes from facial expressions. Puffed cheeks, for example, indicates something big. Pursed lips means small. From the puffed cheeks and pained look on my deaf teacher’s face, I could sense I had hit a big nerve. Courtney wrote the phrase “hearing impaired” on a whiteboard then crossed it out. “No,” she signed. Then she replaced my self-descriptor with the correct ASL term, “hard of hearing”, and signed it by tapping two fingerspelled “H”’s in front of her, as if hitting two adjacent bongos: “H … H. Hard of hearing.” “Ahh”, I said out loud, “hard of hearing. Got it.” My voice was the only sound in the Sign Language Center in New York, where three semicircles of students had just spent two hours learning three different levels of ASL in one cramped classroom. (When teachers do not vocalize their lessons, they do not need separate classrooms.) This change in perspective, after four years spent living in semi-silence and shame, felt like both a revelation and an imperative. The word “impaired” implies a judgment about the functionality of my ears and me, meaning I saw myself as the broken one, not society’s lack of accessibility or accommodations for people like me. Instead, I realized, I needed to start thinking of myself as hard of hearing, which is a neutral statement of fact: I am unable to understand human speech without amplification. It’s our society that is impaired by placing multiple hurdles between me ...
This year’s Edinburgh international festival will showcase American art that celebrates the creativity and energy of the US, while also exposing its cruelty and hypocrisy, its director has said. Nicola Benedetti, the Grammy-award winning violinist now presenting her fourth festival, said Donald Trump’s explosive second term as president made that quest more important than ever. “It is the largest ...
This year’s Edinburgh international festival will showcase American art that celebrates the creativity and energy of the US, while also exposing its cruelty and hypocrisy, its director has said. Nicola Benedetti, the Grammy-award winning violinist now presenting her fourth festival, said Donald Trump’s explosive second term as president made that quest more important than ever. “It is the largest presentation of American artists in the history of the festival so it’s a huge, a very definitive statement. Quite simply, this is the precise time that it is ideal, urgent, necessary, perfect to be telling the type of story we’re telling,” she said. View image in fullscreen ‘It is ideal, urgent, necessary’: the festival director Nicola Benedetti. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian This August’s festival is commemorating the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence under the overarching theme of All Rise, derived from the festival’s opening concert, a 200-performer show written for the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra (JLCO) by her husband, Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and orchestra leader, and a multiple Grammy winner. The American-themed events include a world-first collaboration between the concert pianist Yuja Wang and Marsalis’s orchestra; San Francisco Ballet’s first show in Edinburgh for 20 years which explores AI; the final shows by the Los Angeles Philharmonic before its conductor Gustavo Dudamel bows out; theatre productions investigating the Aids crisis and racist lynchings; and Clown Show – a “contemporary portrait of America as a falling-apart circus”. In her programme notes, Benedetti said these productions explored “recurring themes of freedom, innovation and ingenuity, leadership and cruelty, prejudice, perseverance and hypocrisy sit colourfully within proud demonstrations of the height of artistic and creative achievement. “Many of these could happen ‘only in America’, propelled by the friction diversity necessitates and the resulting e...
Male and female players are increasingly willing and able to switch codes, with some even playing all three By No Helmets Required Charlotte Caslick epitomises the term code agnostic. The 31-year-old has clocked up 328 appearances for Australia in rugby sevens, winning Olympic gold, Commonwealth gold and a Sevens World Cup along the way; she’s played rugby union for her state and country; and rugb...
Male and female players are increasingly willing and able to switch codes, with some even playing all three By No Helmets Required Charlotte Caslick epitomises the term code agnostic. The 31-year-old has clocked up 328 appearances for Australia in rugby sevens, winning Olympic gold, Commonwealth gold and a Sevens World Cup along the way; she’s played rugby union for her state and country; and rugby league in the world’s biggest women’s club competition in any code, the NRLW. So, why is she – and so many other players from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific – good enough to switch between codes – and why do they want to? “It probably comes down to the way we grow up,” says Caslick. “We play so many different sports all year round, changing between them. Boys will play school rugby on Saturday then club rugby league on Sunday for as long as they can. More girls are starting to do that as well. Throw in touch or oztag, and we have so many opportunities. It challenges athletes to find where they are best suited. Until you get exposed to different formats, you don’t know which one is for you.” Continue reading...
In this article UBER AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Zoox robotaxi is seen driving on Nov. 19, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Amazon 's Zoox is making its toaster-shaped self-driving vehicles available through the Uber app in Las Vegas starting this summer, the latest sign of momentum in the nascent but fast-growing robotaxi market. As part...
In this article UBER AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Zoox robotaxi is seen driving on Nov. 19, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Amazon 's Zoox is making its toaster-shaped self-driving vehicles available through the Uber app in Las Vegas starting this summer, the latest sign of momentum in the nascent but fast-growing robotaxi market. As part of a multiyear partnership announced Wednesday, the companies said they plan to make Zoox rides available in Los Angeles next year. In both cities, Zoox will continue to offer rides on its own app as well. Amazon, which acquired Zoox in 2020, is way behind Alphabet's Waymo, the U.S. robotaxi leader. Waymo said in February that it had surpassed 400,000 weekly rides across six U.S. metro areas. It's now operating its service commercially in 10 U.S. cities, and aiming for expansion to London and Tokyo in 2026. Meanwhile, robotaxi companies in Asia, including Baidu's Apollo Go, WeRide and Pony.AI , continue to expand. Baidu reported that in the fourth quarter, its peak weekly rides surpassed 300,000. Zoox's deal with Uber is a sign of growing confidence in Amazon's ability to expand after years of development, and marks the company's first tie-up with a third-party platform. "This partnership is an opportunity to continue advancing the use of autonomous mobility in daily life," Zoox CEO Aicha Evans said in a statement. "Through our collaboration, Zoox will provide a differentiated rider experience to those who already know and love the convenience of riding with Uber." For Uber, the alliance comes as executives pitch the company's platform as the best way for autonomous vehicle makers to tap rider demand. During Uber's fourth-quarter earnings call in February, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told analysts that AVs available via his company's app attain "significantly higher utilization" than robotaxis hailed on "stand-alone platforms," basing those estimates on unspecified publicly avai...
Harvey Barnes believes Newcastle are primed for historic success against Barcelona after showing they are more than capable of living with them in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Barnes’s 86th-minute goal for 1-0 at St James’ Park on Tuesday was cancelled out by Lamine Yamal’s penalty with the last kick of stoppage time. But Newcastle will travel to the Camp Nou for next Wedne...
Harvey Barnes believes Newcastle are primed for historic success against Barcelona after showing they are more than capable of living with them in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie. Barnes’s 86th-minute goal for 1-0 at St James’ Park on Tuesday was cancelled out by Lamine Yamal’s penalty with the last kick of stoppage time. But Newcastle will travel to the Camp Nou for next Wednesday’s return with confidence, Barnes’s assertion that they were the better team brooking little argument and reflecting the mood inside their dressing room. Inspired by a driving performance from the left-back Lewis Hall against Lamine Yamal, Newcastle dealt well with the pressure of their first Champions League knockout game. They restricted Barcelona to few clear chances and harried them to such an extent that their opponents had to work extremely hard to establish any kind of passing rhythm. The statistics showed Barcelona managed only nine shots, two on target, and had an expected goals number of 0.46 in open play. Although Newcastle did not create much in terms of big chances, they played on the front foot – especially early on and in the second half – and had plenty of possibilities. They had 16 shots, four on target. The challenge for them in the second leg will be to show more of a clinical edge. “It is still wide open,” Barnes said. “It would have been amazing to go there with a 1-0 lead but we’re level, we’ve got a chance to take the game to them and see where we’re at. We’re a team full of self-belief and there are so many positives to take. Next week we’ll be bang up for it. For a lot of the game we were the better side, we controlled big parts of it and looked really dangerous. “We’ve shown it time and time again that when we play at our top, top level we can compete with these top teams. There’s been too many occasions this season where we’ve dropped below those levels and it’s cost us in the league but in the Champions League we have hit our top form.” Barne...
Maybe adolescence wasn’t the ideal time to receive my mother’s advice to wear an array of colours. What better way to express how you feel on any given day, and convey that mood to the world, she would say. It was important to the eye, to the soul. It really isn’t the best advice to give any teenager, especially a sulky one who’s hoping to disappear in baggy, all-black sport-core. I’d cringe when ...
Maybe adolescence wasn’t the ideal time to receive my mother’s advice to wear an array of colours. What better way to express how you feel on any given day, and convey that mood to the world, she would say. It was important to the eye, to the soul. It really isn’t the best advice to give any teenager, especially a sulky one who’s hoping to disappear in baggy, all-black sport-core. I’d cringe when she would try to push big, loud colours on me on shopping trips, talking in what I thought was mumbo jumbo about mood-lifting lilacs, energising reds and skin-warming oranges. She did as she preached. She had a favourite parrot-green leather coat, a ridiculously frilly orange and black dressing gown and great big printed dresses that made her look like one of Hockney’s kaftan-clad women from his swimming pool paintings. There was also a pair of tropical-print trousers which I thought made her look like a walking fruit bowl. What would other people say? Cringe. double quotation mark She had a favourite parrot green leather coat and a ridiculously frilly orange and black dressing gown I see now that wasn’t the point, at all. Her advice isn’t about fashion or looking good for others, or making an impression, but dressing from the inside. It’s taken me a while to lean into the power of this. I’m not quite sure when I started implementing it myself but I remember waking up one morning in my early 20s, looking at my wardrobe and thinking: what colour do I feel like wearing today? It’s a question that brings a surprising degree of daily self-awareness. It’s asking, “What mood am I in?” “Do I want to be seen or do I want to hide?”. The idea of starting the day in the right colour sends me back to myself. View image in fullscreen Akbar and her mother in 2023. Photograph: Courtesy of Arifa Akbar The “bright” bit of the advice is also about being confident with being seen. When my older sister died suddenly in 2016, I inherited bits from her wardrobe. It was clear from her clothes tha...
“AI is at another inflection point — agentic AI, driving incredible compute demand and accelerating infrastructure buildout,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Nebius is building an AI cloud designed for the agentic era, fully integrated from silicon to software and powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation accelerated compute. Together, we are scaling the cloud to meet the surging global d...
“AI is at another inflection point — agentic AI, driving incredible compute demand and accelerating infrastructure buildout,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Nebius is building an AI cloud designed for the agentic era, fully integrated from silicon to software and powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation accelerated compute. Together, we are scaling the cloud to meet the surging global demand for intelligence.” This partnership builds upon Nebius’s ongoing deployment of NVIDIA infrastructure across its global platform, including multiple gigawatt-scale AI factories in the U.S. To enable Nebius to deploy more than 5 gigawatts of capacity by the end of 2030, NVIDIA will support Nebius’s early adoption of the latest generation of NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform. Story Continues “Nebius has been built for AI since day one — not adapted from a general-purpose cloud, but designed for what developers actually need,” said Arkady Volozh, CEO of Nebius. “Now with NVIDIA, we are extending that throughout the stack — from gigawatt-scale AI factories to inference and software — as we build one of the first and largest clouds for all AI builders everywhere.” About Nebius Nebius, the AI cloud company, is building the full-stack platform for developers and companies to take charge of their AI future — from data and model training to production deployment. Founded on deep in-house technological expertise and operating at scale with a rapidly expanding global footprint, Nebius serves startups and enterprises building AI products, agents, and services worldwide. Nebius is listed on Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam. For more information, please visit www.nebius.com . About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing. For further information, contact: Mylene Mangalindan Corporate Communications NVIDIA Corporation press@nvidia.com Toshiya Hari Investor Relations NVIDIA Corporation toshiyah@nvidia.com For media: me...
As AI adoption accelerates globally, demand for inference compute capacity is increasing rapidly. According to MarketsandMarkets, the global AI infrastructure market is projected to reach approximately US$394.5 billion by 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4% from 2024 to 2030. Within this ecosystem, the AI inference market alone is expected to grow to nearly US$255 bill...
As AI adoption accelerates globally, demand for inference compute capacity is increasing rapidly. According to MarketsandMarkets, the global AI infrastructure market is projected to reach approximately US$394.5 billion by 2030, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4% from 2024 to 2030. Within this ecosystem, the AI inference market alone is expected to grow to nearly US$255 billion by 2030, driven by the rapid deployment of generative AI and real-time enterprise AI applications. Under the AI Compute Treasury strategy, VCI Global plans to progressively accumulate GPU infrastructure assets dedicated to AI inference, the stage where trained AI models are deployed in real-world applications. VCI Global’s platform will be built on advanced GPU systems from NVIDIA, including systems powered by next-generation NVIDIA Blackwell RTX architecture, optimized for high-efficiency AI inference workloads. The strategy positions VCI Global within the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure economy, where access to high-performance compute capacity has become essential for enterprises, developers, and next-generation AI applications. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VCI Global Limited (NASDAQ: VCIG) (“VCI Global” or the “Company”), today announced the launch of its AI Compute Treasury strategy, a long-term initiative to accumulate and deploy high-performance GPU infrastructure to support the growing global demand for artificial intelligence inference workloads. Story Continues Expanding VCI Global’s AI GPU Lounge Platform The initiative builds on VCI Global’s recently launched AI GPU Lounge, a collaborative platform that provides developers, startups, and enterprises with access to high-performance GPU infrastructure for AI development and inference. The GPU Lounge serves as the first operational platform within VCI Global’s broader AI infrastructure strategy, enabling enterprises and developers to access scalable AI compute resources. As ado...
Insurance is essential for the carbon-credit market to unlock capital, manage risk and build trust. On this week’s episode of the ESG Currents podcast, Natalia Dorfman, CEO and co-founder of Kita, joins Eric Kane, director of ESG research at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how her company provides insurance products that aim to unlock institutional investment for high-integrity carbon removal a...
Insurance is essential for the carbon-credit market to unlock capital, manage risk and build trust. On this week’s episode of the ESG Currents podcast, Natalia Dorfman, CEO and co-founder of Kita, joins Eric Kane, director of ESG research at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how her company provides insurance products that aim to unlock institutional investment for high-integrity carbon removal and natural-capital projects. They discuss some of Kita’s key offerings and dive into how they accoun
It was a little after 1PM on Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was about to board her flight from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, when the drone attacks began. She had already received her boarding pass and gone through customs. Her flight was at the gate and her bags were loaded. She was simply waiting for the gate agents to open the flight for boarding. So she opened TikTok and started scr...
It was a little after 1PM on Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was about to board her flight from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, when the drone attacks began. She had already received her boarding pass and gone through customs. Her flight was at the gate and her bags were loaded. She was simply waiting for the gate agents to open the flight for boarding. So she opened TikTok and started scrolling. But instead of relieving her boredom, the algorithm fed her anxiety. It showed her dozens of videos of explosions that purported to be from around the Persian Gulf — including a few in Dubai itself. She knew better than to believe everything she saw on social media, and had heard nothing from official sources yet. For now, she kept calm. Then her friends back home started texting her: “Did you see what happened? They just closed the airspace.” She told them not to worry. After all, she was on the ground in Dubai and nothing seemed to be wrong. Then, in an instant, every single flight status on the airport’s departures monitor changed to blinking red. “Canceled, canceled, canceled,” she recalled. “Everything was canceled.” Dubai and the whole region had become a war zone. In response to a joint US and Israeli strike that morning, Iran had launched missiles and drones at targets across the Middle East, including Dubai. Most were intercepted by local defense systems. Even so, debris from intercepted drones caused damage across Dubai and injured four people. By early afternoon, civilian airspace over the entire region was closed and more than 3,400 flights were canceled. Lujano and many of her fellow passengers were now stuck. They no longer had valid visas to return to the UAE. They had no accommodations lined up. They had no choice but to wait in the departures area until someone in authority came up with a solution. And all the while, missiles and drones rained down overhead. “We were really stranded,” she said. Few places rely on air travel as much as the countries ...
Amazon-owned Zoox plans to make its robotaxis available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas later this year, the two companies announced Wednesday. Before that happens, though, Zoox still needs approval from the federal government to commercially deploy its robotaxis, which don’t have a steering wheel or pedals. That requires exemptions from the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). On ...
Amazon-owned Zoox plans to make its robotaxis available to hail on the Uber app in Las Vegas later this year, the two companies announced Wednesday. Before that happens, though, Zoox still needs approval from the federal government to commercially deploy its robotaxis, which don’t have a steering wheel or pedals. That requires exemptions from the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). On Wednesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began taking public comment on Zoox’s application for those exemptions. (Zoox currently has an exemption that allows the custom-built robotaxis to operate as a demonstration, and not commercially.) If and when Zoox gets approval, the company plans to launch its own commercial robotaxi service first, and before making the vehicles available on Uber in Las Vegas, it told TechCrunch. Zoox currently offers free rides in Las Vegas and in San Francisco. It’s also mapping and building up a presence in eight other U.S. cities, including Dallas and Phoenix, which were announced earlier this week. Zoox and Uber described this as a “multi-year strategic partnership,” that includes plans to launch in Los Angeles in 2027. This is Zoox’s first third-party partnership with a platform like Uber. But it’s certainly not Uber’s first partnership with an autonomous vehicle company. Uber has partnerships with more than 25 different autonomous vehicle companies around the world. Its most notable deal is with Waymo, which makes its robotaxis available on the Uber platform in Austin and Atlanta. Uber has also partnered with China’s Baidu and announced it would start testing those self-driving cars in London this year. The ride-hail giant has AV partnerships with Volkswagen, May Mobility, and Pony AI, too. Uber has also been building out new offerings for these robotaxi partners. In January, TechCrunch revealed the company started up an “AV Labs” division dedicated to collecting real-world driving data to reinforce its partners’ ...
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Every six months or so, Nvidia’s head of automotive, Xinzhou Wu, invites CEO Jensen Huang to go for a ride in a vehicle equipped with the ...
is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Every six months or so, Nvidia’s head of automotive, Xinzhou Wu, invites CEO Jensen Huang to go for a ride in a vehicle equipped with the company’s hands-free autonomous driving system. But only when Wu has “good confidence” in the system’s driving capabilities. Recently, the two went for a drive from Woodside, California, to downtown San Francisco in a Mercedes CLA sedan with MB.Drive Assist Pro, a hands-free driver-assist system partly designed by Nvidia that’s similar to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving. The mood was light, even if the traffic was pretty heavy. “Let me know when you’re in autonomous mode,” Huang said to Wu, according to a video of the ride provided to The Verge, “then I can be less concerned about my safety.” Over the course of the 22-minute video, the Mercedes navigates Huang and Wu through a series of everyday obstacles, like construction sites, double-parked cars, and lanes narrowly channeled through rows of orange cones. Nvidia’s system seems quite capable, though the video is edited and not presented in real time. (Nvidia spokesperson Jessica Soares later said there were no disengagements during the ride.) Still, it seemed not dissimilar from my own experience last year riding shotgun with Nvidia executives in a Mercedes with the hands-free driving system activated. I was impressed by the system’s ability to handle traffic signals, four-way stops, double-parked cars, unprotected left turns, and all the pedestrians and cyclists and scooter-riders that San Francisco can throw at you. If Tesla can do it with a bit of silicon and a bunch of cameras, it stands to reason that the world’s most valuable company could figure it out too. ‘The ChatGPT moment for physical AI’ After years of operating be...
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Chesky_W/iStock via Getty Images BETA Technologies ( BETA ) is making steady progress getting all the necessary pieces in place for commercialization to take off. Already last quarter, management said during the earnings call that they were hitting some milestones ahead of schedule, such as the commercialization of their propulsion technology with sales to companies like Embraer Eve. In the latest...
Chesky_W/iStock via Getty Images BETA Technologies ( BETA ) is making steady progress getting all the necessary pieces in place for commercialization to take off. Already last quarter, management said during the earnings call that they were hitting some milestones ahead of schedule, such as the commercialization of their propulsion technology with sales to companies like Embraer Eve. In the latest call , CEO and Founder Kyle Clark shared that the eVTOL and Advanced Air Mobility Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) initiative should allow them to accelerate the business plan by at least one year. The program could allow certain commercial operations to start as soon as this summer with specific use cases, such as logistics and emergency medical transport. While revenue is likely to be modest, it further accelerates real-world testing, helping advance the certification efforts. BETA is expected to have flown a quarter of a million nautical miles by the end of 2026, double its current total. This would be a notable achievement, especially considering that it has already flown more miles than the rest of the electric aircraft industry combined. BETA is also leading in the creation of an electric aircraft charging network, which it has opened to competitors to avoid duplicating infrastructure. By opening the network to competitors, it also means it can earn money from rivals' flights. One of the things that gives us more confidence in the BETA story is the massive backlog backing its plans. The company described it as a "deposit backlog," as the orders are tied to some financial commitment. This shows the seriousness of the customers. BETA also appears to have significant negotiating power, as the payment structure is highly favorable to the company. In the third-quarter earnings call, CFO Herman Cueto explained the setup: [...] have set it up in a way where we get a deposit upon the firm order about a year before we begin manufacturing, we begin -- we get another deposit. A...
– YCANTH® net revenue grew 130% to $15.3 million in 2025, and selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by over 40%, when compared to 2024 – – Company earned $35.6 million in total revenue in 2025, up from $7.6 million in the prior year – – YCANTH dispensed applicator units grew 99% to 51,296 in 2025 versus 25,773 units in 2024 – Company is advancing VP-315, its novel oncolytic peptid...
– YCANTH® net revenue grew 130% to $15.3 million in 2025, and selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by over 40%, when compared to 2024 – – Company earned $35.6 million in total revenue in 2025, up from $7.6 million in the prior year – – YCANTH dispensed applicator units grew 99% to 51,296 in 2025 versus 25,773 units in 2024 – Company is advancing VP-315, its novel oncolytic peptide, toward a Phase 3 program for basal cell carcinoma in 2026, further analysis supports abscopal effects and tumor size reduction in untreated lesions – – First patient dosed in the first Phase 3 study of YCANTH for the treatment of common warts in December 2025, and Company expects to initiate the second Phase 3 study in the US and Japan with Torii Pharmaceutical in mid-2026 – – Company gained alignment with the European Medicines Agency supporting a clear regulatory path forward to file for approval of YCANTH in the European Union without additional clinical studies – – Company has no outstanding debt and cash runway extended into the first quarter of 2027 – – Conference call scheduled for today at 8:30 am ET – WEST CHESTER, Pa., March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Verrica”) (Nasdaq: VRCA), a therapeutics company developing and commercializing medications for the treatment of dermatological diseases, including skin cancers, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025. “In 2025, Verrica successfully implemented a series of transformational changes that we believe have fundamentally improved the future growth and strategic value of our entire business,” said Jayson Rieger, PhD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer of Verrica. “Our focused and efficient commercial strategy allowed us to nearly double dispensed applicator units of YCANTH from the prior year while cutting selling, general and administrative expenses by over 40% over that same period. This February, we dispensed more applicat...
IRVINE, Calif., March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iHerb , a leading global eCommerce retailer specializing in vitamins, minerals, supplements and other health and wellness products, today announced record financial and operational performance for fiscal year 2025, highlighted by generating $2.9 billion in net sales, up 19% year-over-year while significantly increasing profitability. Sales increas...
IRVINE, Calif., March 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iHerb , a leading global eCommerce retailer specializing in vitamins, minerals, supplements and other health and wellness products, today announced record financial and operational performance for fiscal year 2025, highlighted by generating $2.9 billion in net sales, up 19% year-over-year while significantly increasing profitability. Sales increased in 28 of iHerb’s top 30 countries, with growth across all regions and product categories, reflecting resilient global demand and continued market share gains. The company fulfilled more than 44 million orders during the year and served 15 million active customers worldwide. More customers are increasingly choosing iHerb as their preferred, trusted provider for their health and wellness needs – a trend supported by strong repeat purchase behavior and subscription adoption. “Our 2025 performance reflects disciplined execution and a clear focus on building a durable, high-quality global platform,” said Emun Zabihi, Chief Executive Officer of iHerb. “We enhanced customer trust by ensuring authenticity across our global assortment, and safeguarding product integrity through our climate-controlled fulfillment network. Additionally, we further optimized our operations and continued investing in the infrastructure and governance that support long-term sustainable profitable growth.” Deepening Customer Loyalty and Trust Customer engagement remained a defining strength in 2025. Approximately 80% of orders came from repeat customers, demonstrating deep loyalty and satisfaction. The company’s Net Promoter Score also increased to 88, reflecting continued improvements in delivery speed, product availability, and overall customer experience and trust. A key driver of that trust is iHerb’s commitment to authenticity and product integrity. The company sources products directly from manufacturers or authorized distributors and maintains a global network of climate-controlled facilities de...