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As the war with Iran drags on, energy-starved countries in Asia, including close U.S. allies, are resorting to increasingly radical measures to keep their economies afloat. On Tuesday, the Philippines became the first country to declare a national energy emergency. Koreans are advised to take shorter showers and charge their mobile phones during the day to save energy. Meanwhile, Japan this week began releasing its largest emergency oil stockpile in history, telling its people there was no need to hoard toilet paper amid mounting panic over potential shortages of consumer goods. The escalating unrest is a grim sign of what…
Shipping containers stacked at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, California, USA on March 10, 2026. Caroline Breman | ReutersRetailers have warned that the Middle East conflict is raising costs and could lead to higher prices if the war continues in the short term. Instability in the Middle East could not only constrain growth in the region but also have knock-on effects on costs, selling prices and consumer demand for other businesses, UK retailers have warned. Next on Thursday. The company assumed that the disruption would last for three months and included 15 million pounds ($20 million) in…
While OpenAI may be scaling back its efforts in the video generation market with the closure of its Sora app, ByteDance on Thursday confirmed that its new audio and video model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, will be deployed on its editing platform CapCut. According to ByteDance, this model allows creators to draft, edit, and sync video and audio content using prompts, images, or reference videos. The phased rollout will begin with CapCut users in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, with more markets added over time. News of CapCut’s launch follows recent reports that global rollout of the model…
A sign outside Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday, February 3, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoogle’s latest research that claims to make AI models more efficient is putting pressure on memory stocks, with investors worried that the breakthrough will slow demand for chips.Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung, the world’s two largest memory chip makers, fell nearly 6% and 5%, respectively, in South Korea on Thursday. Japanese flash memory company Kioxia It fell nearly 6%. These subsequent movements fall under sandisk and micron in the United States on Wednesday. Both companies were lower in…
Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York. The facility is known for its harsh conditions and for housing high-profile inmates such as Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. “I think their daily routine will be 23 hours a day in solitary confinement,” explained Cameron Lindsay, the facility’s former warden. This means being confined almost entirely to solitary confinement, with meals delivered through a crack in the door, little to no contact with other inmates, and limited entertainment, usually alone. Hell on Earth: Inside Maduro’s…
Nancy Guthrie’s health condition revealed, requires medication to survive As the search continues for Nancy, authorities have stressed that she needs to take daily medication to survive, something she likely doesn’t have. “This woman is an 84-year-old woman who suffers from several physical illnesses, has physical problems, and requires medication,” Nanos said at a press conference on February 2. “Medications can be fatal if not taken within 24 hours.” “So we implore anyone who knows anything about this, anyone who has seen anything, anyone who has heard anything, to contact us,” he continued. “Call 911. We don’t need another tragic…
FILE PHOTO: In this photo released by the Iranian President’s Office, President Ebrahim Raisi waves as he visits an exhibition of the Revolutionary Guards’ naval capabilities with Revolutionary Guards Naval Commander Alireza Tansiri in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, Friday, February 2, 2024.Iranian Presidential Palace | APThe Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that Iranian naval commander Alireza Tansiri was killed in a “precision strike” in the port city of Bandar Abbas, blaming efforts to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz.The IDF said in a social media post that Tansiri “supervised maritime terrorism carried out against energy infrastructure…
Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg arrives in Los Angeles Superior Court on February 18, 2026, in Los Angeles, ahead of a social media trial that will determine whether the social media giant intentionally designed its platform to be addictive to children.Frederick J. Brown | AFP | Getty Imagesmeta received a scathing rebuke this week in two high-profile lawsuits, compounding the company’s challenges as it chases rivals in the artificial intelligence space and navigates an increasingly complex social media landscape.Both trials (one in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the other in Los Angeles) pointed to the struggles Meta faces in adequately…
Senegal’s lawyer said CAF’s decision to award Morocco the AFCON title was “blatantly in violation of competition law”.Published March 26, 2026March 26, 2026The head of Senegal’s governing body has vowed to launch a “campaign against” the Confederation of African Football (CAF)’s decision to strip the country of its African Cup of Nations title. The country’s legal team warned that the case could change the game forever and undermine the principle that referees’ decisions are final.”This decision cannot even be considered a true sports justice verdict. It is too crude, too absurd, too unreasonable,” Juan de Dios Crespo Perez, a lawyer…
French AI company Mistral on Thursday released a new open-source text-to-speech model that can be used in enterprise use cases such as voice AI assistants and customer support. This model allows businesses to build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, putting Mistral in direct competition with the likes of Celebrities, Deepgram, and OpenAI. The new model, called Voxtral TTS, supports nine languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi and Arabic. “Our customers have asked for a voice model, so we built a small voice model that fits into smartwatches, smartphones, laptops, and other edge devices. It…