Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 3/17/24. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 3/17/24. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Thousands of You are Buying Dangerous Power Supplies
The video discusses the importance of power supply testing, highlighting that many power supplies on the market are not as reliable as they claim to be. The hosts test power supplies using a custom-built testing station, which has resulted in a 23% failure rate. They emphasize the need for power supplies to adhere to the ATX specification and deliver the required voltages under various load conditions.
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Where do Cheap Windows OEM Keys Come From
The video discusses the origin of cheap Windows OEM keys sold on websites like Hookkeys. The speaker explains that these keys can come from various sources, including Microsoft's Developer Network (MSDN) and retail arbitrage in different countries where keys are cheaper.
They also mention that some keys might be obtained through wholesalers who bundle keys together and sell them to websites like Hookkeys. The speaker notes that while some people claim that these keys are obtained through stolen credit cards, they couldn't find any evidence to support this claim.
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AI Firms Shrink Costs with Smarter Models
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are adopting "distillation" to build more affordable AI models. By training smaller systems with a larger "teacher" LLM, these companies are slashing costs while maintaining efficiency. Imagine distilling a complex recipe into a quick, easy-to-follow version—these AI models work the same way. It’s like getting the same power, but with less effort and fewer resources. This trend is reshaping the future of AI development.
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AMAZON'S ALL-IN ON AI: EVERYTHING FROM AWS TO ALEXA
Amazon's VP of AI, Vishal Sharma, shared that AI is now deeply integrated into every part of the company. From AWS cloud services to robotics and Alexa, AI is driving innovation everywhere. Sharma emphasized that no aspect of Amazon is untouched by AI, showcasing how it’s shaping everything from tech infrastructure to consumer products. Think of it like AI is the engine powering the entire Amazon machine.
#amazon #ai #innovation #technology
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ARE OPEN AI MODELS REALLY OPEN?
Google's Gemma 3 and Meta's new releases, though labeled "open," come with tricky licensing terms. These restrictions could hurt smaller businesses that depend on AI for innovation. While the buzz around "open" models sounds appealing, these commercial limitations might stifle true creativity and access. Think of it like having a free ticket to the concert, but the best seats are reserved for VIPs. Open AI might not be as open as it seems.
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GE-PRON TON 9-26 BRING FIXES
The latest GE Proton 9-26 update brings various fixes for games on Linux and Steam Decks, including Vermintide 2, GTA 5, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. This update includes patches from the upstream project, such as wine, dxvk, and vkd3d updates. It also fixes issues in multiple games, including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, which now requires registered custom metadata.
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New Linux Mint Start Menu and More
The latest Linux Mint version, set to release in summer, features a new start menu with significant changes, including app descriptions and a relocated sidebar. The menu now shows categories on the right and includes more information about each app.
The favorites section has been moved down, and user information is now accessible. Linux Mint's main edition, Cinnamon, has around 44% of users, with LMDE and Edge combined making up about 60%. The news also touches on Android running Debian Linux, which could allow Linux apps to run on Android devices, potentially replacing web apps.
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Unleashing the Power of ThunderKittens on Blackwell GPUs
ThunderKittens is a game-changer for writing efficient CUDA kernels. It's an abstraction that makes using the latest Nvidia Blackwell GPUs easier. Instead of traditional approaches, the key is thinking in terms of data flow—a shift that simplifies performance optimization. This new framework makes coding for Blackwell GPUs smoother and faster, perfect for developers looking to harness the full power of Nvidia’s tech.
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Whisper ASR Revolutionizes Speaker Identification
WSI is taking multilingual speaker identification to the next level, using Whisper ASR's encoder with joint loss optimization. It's not just another tool—it's outperforming big names like Pyannote, ECAPA TDNN, and Xvector in identifying speakers across various languages and environments. Think of it as a more powerful, multilingual detective that can figure out who’s talking, no matter the setting or language. This innovation is a game-changer in the tech world.
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Sakana's AI Paper Sparks Debate in Science World
Sakana, a Japanese AI startup, claimed its AI-generated paper was accepted at an ICLR workshop using AI Scientist-v2. However, they withdrew it after concerns over transparency. While the company celebrates AI's potential, critics argue human judgment played a key role, and the paper’s acceptance might be linked to higher acceptance rates at the workshop. Skeptics warn of AI’s flaws and call for clearer guidelines to preserve scientific review standards.
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GOOGLE'S STRATEGY FOR AI POLICY IN THE U.S.
Google's making moves in the U.S. AI policy game. They’re calling for increased investments in AI infrastructure and quicker government adoption. Their goal? Keep the U.S. leading in AI innovation while shaping global standards that favor progress. The big push: ensure AI is developed responsibly, but with a focus on maintaining an edge over global competitors. It’s all about balancing innovation and regulation for future growth.
#ai #innovation #policy #technology
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Google Assistant Is Out—Meet Gemini
Google is replacing Assistant with Gemini, a smarter AI that works across apps and services. Think of it like upgrading from a basic GPS to a co-pilot that actually understands where you want to go. Gemini uses generative AI to personalize responses, making it feel less like a bot and more like an assistant who actually "gets" you. Big shift for Google—curious to see if it delivers.
#google #gemini #ai #future #technology
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Massive Cool Tech Unboxing - Feb 2025
The video showcases a variety of innovative tech products, including the Insta 360 X4 8K 360 camera, NP E20 ebike, Ecoflow Rapid Magnetic power bank, Black View BV8200 rugged smartphone, Aoi Future Starship power bank, Uviw second screen for mobile phones, 8bitdo Pro 2 Bluetooth Gamepad, Ace Magic F1A Mini PC, U16 Flex vacuum cleaner, Just Tap tripod, Mayona Wave T5 Wireless Lavalier microphone set, and SNAP Stand Qi2 3-in-1 folding wireless charging stand.
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Top 8 Passive Income Strategies in Crypto
The video discusses eight passive income strategies in the crypto space, including lending and earning interest, staking, revenue sharing or dividend tokens, airdrops and forks, NFT royalties, affiliate and referral programs, providing liquidity and yield farming, and mining. Each strategy has its own set of risks and rewards, and it's essential to do your own research and understand the risks before investing. The video aims to provide a comprehensive overview of these strategies, helping viewers make informed decisions about generating passive income in crypto.
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FACEBOOK EXEC KEEPS IT REAL IN NEW BOOK
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Meta’s former global policy director, isn’t holding back. In her new book, she calls out the company’s top brass for being obsessed with status while dodging real responsibility. Sounds familiar? Big tech loves the power but hates the accountability.
#meta #facebook #bigtech #corporateculture #technology
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Tech's Vibe Shift: Adapt or Struggle
The golden era of endless perks in tech is fading. Over the past two years, companies have tightened budgets, focusing only on bets execs truly care about. Junior engineers and those resisting change risk getting left behind. The upside? The industry is more grounded—real value matters now. If you’re in tech, it’s time to adapt. #techindustry #softwareengineering #careergrowth #futureofwork #technology
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Understanding the Elusive Modern Audience
The video discusses the concept of the "modern audience" in the gaming industry, specifically in relation to a recent LinkedIn post that appealed to this audience to support games by buying them.
The speaker argues that the industry has not yet figured out that the "modern audience" is not a reliable market, as they are more focused on virtue signaling and pushing their ideological beliefs rather than actually buying and playing games.
The speaker cites examples of games that have failed despite catering to this audience, such as Lost Records, and argues that studios should focus on making games that appeal to their target audience rather than trying to appease the "modern audience".
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Y Combinator Startups Are Growing Like Crazy—Thanks to AI
Y Combinator’s latest batch is the fastest-growing and most profitable in its history, with startups scaling 10% per week over nine months. The secret? AI is doing the heavy lifting—writing 95% of the code for a quarter of these companies. CEO Garry Tan says AI lets startups build more with fewer people, turning hype into real revenue. This isn’t just a tech trend; it’s a fundamental shift in how businesses launch and grow.
#ai #startups #yc #automation #technology
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Steam Deck - BTRFS Formatted MicroSD Card Works On SteamOS AND Windows!
The video explores the use of BTRFS formatting on a microSD card for the Steam Deck, allowing it to work on both SteamOS and Windows. The host demonstrates how to format and mount the microSD card using BTRFS, and tests its performance by loading a game. The results show that BTRFS on SteamOS loads around the same time as ext4, while the open-source BTRFS driver on Windows runs around 3 seconds slower.
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S3 Keeps Getting Simpler—Here’s How
Over the past year, S3 has rolled out features that remove limits and make storage easier to use. The team’s goal? Make simplicity so seamless that you don’t even notice it. Every popular feature has come directly from customer requests, evolving S3 to support everything developers throw at it—without adding complexity. This article dives into how S3 stays simple while handling massive amounts of data.
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Athena’s Rough Landing Still a Win for Lunar Science
Intuitive Machines’ Athena spacecraft misjudged its altitude last week and landed in a dark crater, toppling over and kicking up dust that blocked its solar panels. With just 13 hours of power, the team grabbed all the data they could. Despite the rough landing, the mission was a success—Athena flew smoothly, proved its methane-powered engine, and showed its comms tech can support NASA’s lunar network.
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A New GPS Alternative That Works Without Satellites
Tern AI has built a low-cost GPS alternative that uses a vehicle’s own sensors and map data to pinpoint location—no satellites needed. It works in tunnels, parking garages, and even mountains, where GPS often fails. Plus, it’s more private since there’s no tracking by third parties. The details are still under wraps, but this could be a game-changer for navigation.
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Man I have had a busy day talking to @alphathoughts today. If we get some more of these agents going and some people keep conversing with them, we have a big source of food for LeoAI.
THE LONGEST "EIGHT-DAY" TRIP EVER
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to stay on the ISS for just eight days. Nine months later, they’re finally heading home. A SpaceX capsule just docked with a fresh crew, and after a two-day handover, Wilmore and Williams will begin their return—unless bad weather delays them again. Despite the extended stay, they’ve stayed upbeat about life in orbit.
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Apple's Siri AI Delays: "Ugly and Embarrassing"
Robby Walker, the exec leading Siri’s overhaul, called Apple’s AI delays "ugly and embarrassing"—especially after hyping features that aren’t coming until next year. The iPhone 16 was supposed to showcase Siri’s AI boost, but now it’s just another iPhone. While Apple isn’t firing top execs yet, management shake-ups are likely. This is a rare public misstep for Apple, and with AI moving fast, they can’t afford to stay behind.
#apple #ai #siri #iphone #technology
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AI that can match humans at any task will be here in five to 10 years, Google DeepMind CEO says
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he thinks artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will emerge in the next five or 10 years.
LONDON — Artificial intelligence that can match humans at any task is still some way off — but it's only a matter of time before it becomes a reality, according to the CEO of Google DeepMind.
Speaking at a briefing in DeepMind's London offices on Monday, Demis Hassabis said that he thinks artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is as smart or smarter than humans — will start to emerge in the next five or 10 years.
"I think today's systems, they're very passive, but there's still a lot of things they can't do. But I think over the next five to 10 years, a lot of those capabilities will start coming to the fore and we'll start moving towards what we call artificial general intelligence," Hassabis said.
Hassabis defined AGI as "a system that's able to exhibit all the complicated capabilities that humans can."
"We're not quite there yet. These systems are very impressive at certain things. But there are other things they can't do yet, and we've still got quite a lot of research work to go before that," Hassabis said.
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From 'dumb pipes' to 'techcos'
Some lingo that has gathered steam in the telco industry for the last couple of years is the phrase "techco," a portmanteau of the words "telco" and "tech."
The term refers to the idea of a telco firm that operates more like a tech company — one that invests in cutting-edge technology and offers digital services to consumers to help them make money from the significant capital expenditures they've allocated to upgrading their wireless networks.
For two decades, tech giants such as Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Netflix have flourished in a world where content can be delivered directly to people's devices, consumers can communicate seamlessly with one another, and data can be stored or streamed online without having to own cumbersome infrastructure — all thanks to innovations like the internet, smartphones and the cloud.
However, these innovations have disrupted telecom firms' business models, to the point where they're now often perceived as legacy players that are only there to lay down the cables and other network infrastructure that enable internet connectivity.
It's a dilemma that's earned telco brands the pejorative term "dumb pipes."
"I remember early in the industry, even before mobile internet when SMS used to be the killer app," Hatem Dowidar, CEO of UAE state-owned telecom company e&, said in a keynote speech at MWC. "We used to make messaging revenue. We used to make voice revenue."
"All this over the years got disrupted by over-the-top players, to the point that today, a lot of telcos around the world are reduced to being a pipe of packets just getting data across the networks," Dowidar added. "And competition is not staying still. They have the scale, they have the investment to go and disrupt even further."
Telcos embrace AI
Ryu Young-sang, CEO of SK Telecom, told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal that the South Korean telecoms giant has looked to AI technology to help it improve the efficiency of its wireless network — something that was consistently on display at numerous telco operators' booths at MWC.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup born out of MIT, has raised the most money, nearly $2 billion from the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Google.
Washington-based Helion has raised $1 billion from investors like Open AI's Sam Altman and a highly ambitious deal with Microsoft to deliver fusion power to the grid by 2028. Google-backed TAE Technologies has raised $1.2 billion.
"Whoever has essentially abundant limitless energy … can impact everything you think of," said Michl Binderbauer, CEO of TAE Technologies. "That is a scary thought if that's in the wrong hands."
When it comes to public funding, China is way ahead.
China's existing national tokamak project, EAST, has been setting records, volleying with France's project WEST in the last couple months for the longest ever containment of plasma inside a reactor, although that's a less monumental milestone than net positive energy.
Another huge state-funded Chinese project, CRAFT, is set to reach completion this year. The $700 million 100-acre fusion campus in eastern China will also have a new tokamak called BEST that is expected to be finished in 2027.
China's CRAFT appears to follow a U.S. plan published by hundreds of scientists in 2020, Holland said.
"Congress has not done anything to spend the money to put this into action," he said. "We published this thing, and the Chinese then went and built it."
"That sounds a little scary, but on the other hand, what that means for founders is that you don't need a team of 50 or 100 engineers," said Tan, adding that companies are reaching as much as $10 million in revenue with teams of less than 10 people. "You don't have to raise as much. The capital goes much longer."
The growth-at-all-costs mindset of Silicon Valley during the zero-interest-rate era has gone "out the window," said Tan, pointing to a renewed focus on profitability. That focus on the bottom line also applies to megacap tech companies. Google, Meta and Amazon have gone through multiple rounds of layoffs and pulled back on hiring.
While that's shaken some engineers, Tan described it as an opportunity.
Hassabis isn't alone in suggesting that it'll take a while for AGI to appear. Last year, the CEO of Chinese tech giant Baidu Robin Li said he sees AGI is "more than 10 years away," pushing back on excitable predictions from some of his peers about this breakthrough taking place in a much shorter timeframe.
Some time to go yet
Hassabis' forecast pushes the timeline to reach AGI some way back compared to what his industry peers have been sketching out.
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI startup Anthropic, told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January that he sees a form of AI that's "better than almost all humans at almost all tasks" emerging in the "next two or three years."
While it's been possible to develop systems that can break down problems and complete tasks autonomously in the realm of games — such as the complex strategy board game Go — bringing such a technology into the real world is proving harder.
"The question is, how fast can we generalize the planning ideas and agentic kind of behaviors, planning and reasoning, and then generalize that over to working in the real world, on top of things like world models — models that are able to understand the world around us," Hassabis said."
"And I think we've made good progress with the world models over the last couple of years," he added. "So now the question is, what's the best way to combine that with these planning algorithms?"
A pair of U.S. astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, after a replacement crew arrived at the ISS early Sunday.
The stranded duo have been on the ISS since June after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they were testing on its maiden crewed voyage suffered propulsion issues and was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth.
NASA said in a statement on Sunday evening that it had moved forward the astronauts' anticipated ocean splashdown off the Florida coast to approximately 5:57 pm Tuesday. It was initially slated for no sooner than Wednesday.
Another Texas company, Intuitive Machines, ended up sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole earlier this month, dooming the mission. It was the second incomplete mission for Intuitive Machines. Its first lander put the U.S. back on the moon last year for the first time since the Apollo era after a less-than-perfect landing that hampered communications.
Firefly is already working on its next lunar lander and striving for one moon landing a year.
No More Coca-Cola: Europeans Boycott US Goods
Ivan Hansen, a retired Danish police officer, loaded up his basket at the supermarket, carefully checking each product to avoid buying anything made in the United States. No more Coca-Cola, no more California Zinfandel wine or almonds.
The 67-year-old said it's the only way he knows to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's policies. He's furious about Trump's threat to seize the Danish territory of Greenland, but it's not just that. There are also the threats to take control of the Panama Canal and Gaza. And Trump's relationship with Elon Musk, who has far-right ties and made what many interpreted as a straight-armed Nazi salute.
“Drink more champagne,” one user posted after Trump threatened 200% tariffs on EU wine and Champagne.
Albertus, a school principal, told the AP he really misses the strong taste of Colgate. But he's been pleasantly surprised at finding a cola replacement that is half the price of Pepsi.
Trump's policies have “brought the Danish Viking blood boiling,” said Jens Olsen, an electrician and carpenter. He is now considering replacing $10,000 worth of U.S.-made DeWalt power tools even though it will cost him a lot.
He has already found European replacements for an American popcorn brand and California-made Lagunitas IPA beer, which he calls “the best in the world.”
“The man is deadly dangerous and is already costing lives” in the developing world and Ukraine, added Stæhr, who works helping disabled war veterans, many of whom got injured serving alongside U.S. troops in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He himself served in Bosnia.
Edouard Roussez, a farmer from northern France, launched an online group, “Boycott USA, Buy French and European!” that in just two weeks has attracted over 20,000 members on Facebook.
Roussez believes a boycott of U.S. companies is a good way to express opposition to Trump’s policies, especially “the commercial and ideological war” he believes Trump is waging against Europe.
“First of all, these are the companies that financed Donald Trump’s campaign,” he said on state-owned LCP television channel. “I’m thinking of Airbnb, I’m thinking of Uber, I’m thinking of Tesla of course.”
Judge Cancels Hearing on R.I. Doctor Deported to Lebanon
A federal judge in Massachusetts canceled a hearing regarding a Rhode Island transplant surgeon and Brown University assistant professor deported Friday over her alleged support for Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists and Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, a Barack Obama appointee, canceled the hearing regarding the deportation Friday of Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese national in the U.S. on an H-1B work visa, after most of the attorneys associated with the plaintiff withdrew from the case, WFXT-TV in Boston reported.
Sorokin ordered Friday that Alawieh be kept in the U.S. and brought to a court hearing Monday, but he wrote Monday morning that "Dr. Alawieh is now in Lebanon," CBS News reported.
Sorokin is giving the government a week to provide the court with more information. Yara Chehab, who filed the habeas corpus petition on behalf of her cousin, alleged customs officials "willfully" disobeyed Sorokin's order, will have until March 31 to respond to the government's request to dismiss the petition, according to WFXT.
The Department of Homeland Security told CBS News on Monday that Alawieh told CBP officers that she traveled to Beirut to attend the Feb. 23 funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed after an Israeli airstrike in September.
"A visa is a privilege not a right — glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied," the DHS said. "This is common sense security."
GSCI increased 6.28 points or 1.14% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Historically, GSCI Commodity Index reached an all time high of 1718.63 in July of 2008.
WTI crude oil futures rose to around $67.8 per barrel on Monday, extending gains from the previous session, after top oil importer China promised new measures to boost consumption, and the U.S. ordered attacks on Yemen's Houthis. Beijing on Sunday unveiled plan on special initiatives to revive consumption, including raising people's incomes and establishing a childcare subsidy scheme. China’s better-than-expected economic data released on Monday also pointed to the growing strength of the nation’s recovery. Additionally, investors are worried about potential supply disruptions after the U.S. vowed to keep hitting Houthis until shipping attacks in the Red Sea stop. Also supporting prices were diminishing prospects of a swift end to the Ukraine war that could bring back more Russian energy supplies to Western markets. U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin are expected to hold talks this week as the U.S. tries to broker a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict.
Eggs US decreased 2.36 USD/DOZEN or 40.60% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. Historically, Eggs US reached an all time high of 8.17 in March of 2025. source: USDA
Brent crude oil futures rose to around $71.2 per barrel on Monday, extending gains from the previous session, after top oil importer China promised new measures to boost consumption, and the U.S. ordered attacks on Yemen's Houthis. Beijing on Sunday unveiled plan on special initiatives to revive consumption, including raising people's incomes and establishing a childcare subsidy scheme. China’s better-than-expected economic data released on Monday also pointed to the growing strength of the nation’s recovery. Additionally, investors are worried about potential supply disruptions after the U.S. vowed to keep hitting Houthis until shipping attacks in the Red Sea stop. Also supporting prices were diminishing prospects of a swift end to the Ukraine war that could bring back more Russian energy supplies to Western markets. U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin are expected to hold talks this week as the U.S. tries to broker a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict.
US natural gas futures fell toward $4.0/MMBtu, the lowest in over two weeks, as record production and mild weather forecasts through early April reduce the demand for heating. Gas output in the Lower 48 states rose to 105.9 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) in March, surpassing the February record of 105.1 bcfd. Meteorologists predict warmer-than-normal weather through April 1, likely leading to lower-than-usual withdrawals from storage. However, U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports continue to rise. Flows to LNG export plants have reached an average of 15.7 bcfd in March, slightly higher than February's record of 15.6 bcfd, boosted by the start of new units at Venture Global’s Plaquemines LNG plant in Louisiana.
Halroy Candis Williams (born December 14, 1938)[2] is an American actor, best known for his recurring roles as Police Officer Smith ("Smitty") on Sanford and Son (1972–1976), Harley Foster on The Waltons (1973-1980), and as the patriarch Lester Jenkins, the husband of Marla Gibbs's character, on the NBC sitcom 227 which originally aired from 1985 until 1990. His film credits include Private Benjamin (1980), Guess Who (2005), and Flight (2012).
US gasoline futures climbed above $2.1 per gallon, after data showed US gasoline inventories fell by nearly 6 million barrels to the lowest since early January, indicating robust consumer consumption. Crude oil stocks increased by 1.5 million barrels, below market expectations, while reserves at the Cushing hub declined. Meanwhile, markets weighed the potential impact of tariffs on Canadian oil, which could disrupt domestic supply and strain refining capacity in the Northern US. According to fuel distributor TACenergy, gasoline stations in New England faced higher costs on Canadian fuel shipments due to anticipated tariffs from US President Donald Trump. In geopolitical developments, Ukraine agreed to a US-backed 30-day truce with Russia, while Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis threatened to resume attacks on Israeli ships.
Heating oil futures in the US fell toward $2.15 per gallon in March, reaching a three-month low, as rising global oil supply, trade uncertainties, and weakening demand weighed on prices. OPEC+ plans to increase output by 138,000 barrels per day in April, with Kazakhstan surpassing its quota, further boosting global supply and placing a cap on crude oil feedstock costs. Uncertainty surrounding US tariffs on Canadian oil has added volatility, raising concerns about potential disruptions to US supply and refining. Meanwhile, increased US natural gas production, combined with forecasts for milder weather in the next two weeks, is adding further pressure on heating oil prices, as natural gas competes for market share. Additionally, distillate stocks fell by 1.6 million barrels for the week ending March 7th, surpassing market expectations of a 1.3 million barrel decline, while heating oil inventories decreased by 183,000 barrels, marking the second consecutive drop.
Telcos race to transition from 'dumb pipes' to tech players with help from AI
Telcos are talking up efforts to transform themselves into tech players, touting advances in AI, 5G and 6G networks, satellite internet and even smart cities.
BARCELONA — Global telecommunications firms are talking up advances in key technologies like artificial intelligence as they look to transition away from being perceived as the "dumb pipes" behind the internet.
At the Mobile World Congress technology conference in Barcelona, CEOs of multiple telecoms companies described how they're piling money into new technological innovations, including AI, next-generation 5G and 6G networks, satellite internet and even smart cities.
Makoto Takahashi, president and CEO of Japanese telecom giant KDDI, detailed plans to build a smart city dubbed Takanawa Gateway City in Tokyo, as well as roll out direct-to-cell satellite internet connectivity in partnership with Elon Musk's Starlink venture.
Ralph Mupita, the CEO of Africa's largest mobile network operator MTN, also took to the stage to share how the company has made significant strides toward becoming a company that offers both wireless connectivity and fintech services such as payments, e-commerce, insurance, lending and remittances.
"The telco business has served us well. It has iterated since. But the future is really about the future of platforms," Mupita said in his keynote talk, adding the company has invested aggressively into other areas such as media streaming and financial services.
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How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge
For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as much and building projects faster.
China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. leadership, China is catching up by spending twice as much and building projects at record speed.
Often called the holy grail of clean energy, nuclear fusion creates four times more energy per kilogram of fuel than traditional nuclear fission and four million times more than burning coal, with no greenhouse gasses or long-term radioactive waste. If all goes to plan, it will be at least a $1 trillion market by 2050, according to Ignition Research.
There's just one big problem.
"The only working fusion power plants right now in the universe are stars," said Dennis Whyte, professor of nuclear science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The U.S. was first to large-scale use of fusion with a hydrogen bomb test in 1952. In the seven decades since, scientists around the world have been struggling to harness fusion reactions for power generation.
Fusion reactions occur when hydrogen atoms reach extreme enough temperatures that they fuse together, forming a super-heated gas called plasma. The mass shed during the process can, in theory, be turned into huge amounts of energy, but the plasma is hard to control. One popular method uses powerful magnets to suspend and control the plasma inside a tokamak, which is a metal donut-shaped device. Another uses high-energy lasers, pointed at a peppercorn-sized pellet of fuel, rapidly compressing and imploding it.
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TESLA'S ROBOTAXI PLANS: REAL DEAL OR JUST SMOKE AND MIRRORS?
Tesla’s launching its robotaxi service in Austin this June, but there’s a catch—it’ll rely on remote operators and work only in mapped areas. Ex-Waymo CEO John Krafcik isn’t convinced, saying, “There are many ways to fake a robotaxi service.” If a car needs human backup, is it really self-driving? Sounds more like a high-tech remote-controlled car than full autonomy.
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Y Combinator startups are fastest growing, most profitable in fund history because of AI
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says for about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of the code was written by artificial intelligence models.
Silicon Valley's earliest stage companies are getting a major boost from artificial intelligence.
Startup accelerator Y Combinator -- known for backing Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe -- this week held its annual demo day in San Francisco, where founders pitched their startups to an auditorium of potential venture capital investors.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC that this group is growing significantly faster than past cohorts and with actual revenue. For the last nine months, the entire batch of YC companies in aggregate grew 10% per week, he said.
"It's not just the number one or two companies -- the whole batch is growing 10% week on week," said Tan, who is also a Y Combinator alum. "That's never happened before in early-stage venture."
That growth spurt is thanks to leaps in artificial intelligence, Tan said.
App developers can now offload or automate more repetitive tasks, and they can generate new code using large language models. Tan called it "vibe coding," a term for letting models take the wheel and generate software. In some cases, AI can code entire apps.
The ability for AI to subsidize an otherwise heavy workload has allowed these companies to build with fewer people. For about a quarter of the current YC startups, 95% of their code was written by AI, Tan said.
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