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Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (www.theinformation.com)
2026-3-18 AI

The Strait of Hormuz crisis: Why the US may be heading toward a strategic disaster (www.rt.com)
2026-3-18

Qualcomm says it plans to buy back another $20B worth of shares and is raising its quarterly cash dividend, after unveiling a $15B buyback in November 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-18

IBM closes its $11B deal for data streaming company Confluent, unveiled last December; CEO Arvind Krishna expects IBM to maintain its head count over five years (www.wsj.com)
2026-3-18 IBM

South Africa has no reason to cut ties with Iran – official (www.rt.com)
2026-3-18 Iran Africa South Africa

Q&A with Kalshi co-founders Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara on suing the US government, solving market making, agentic and insider trading, ethics, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-3-18

Cuba suffers nationwide power outage amid US blockade (www.rt.com)
2026-3-18

Mastercard agrees to acquire UK-based stablecoin payments infrastructure startup BVNK for $1.8B, including $300M in contingent payments, set to close in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-18 Startup

PayPal expands access to its PYUSD stablecoin from the US and UK to 70 countries in total, including new markets in Uganda, Colombia, Peru, and Malawi (fortune.com)
2026-3-18 Uganda

Enterprise AI automation startup Standard Template Labs raised a $49M seed co-led by Iconiq and CRV, a source says at a $300M post-money valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 Startup AI

Agentic cybersecurity startup Surf AI, which helps teams read signals from identity, cloud, and other tools, emerges from stealth with $57M in seed and Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-3-17 Startup AI

Amsterdam-based Nebius plans to raise ~$3.75B in convertible debt to fund its data center expansion and to purchase customized AI chips, after its Meta deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 AI

Darton Commodities: the global cobalt shortage is set to persist through 2030, after Congo limited exports in 2025; the DRC accounts for 70%+ of global supply (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-3-17 Commodity

Bills Would Ban Liability Lawsuits For Climate Change (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-3-17 Ban Climate

Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K+ products are eligible (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-17 Amazon

Sources: Google is in talks with Envicool and other Chinese companies about buying data center liquid cooling equipment, amid a tight supply of such parts (www.reuters.com)
2026-3-17 China Google

Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's CUDA core, reasoning and coding, CPUs' role in accelerated computing, Groq, China and the doomers, Nvidia's nature, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-3-17 China Nvidia

Sources: KKR, Blackstone, and other investors have turned down some data center debt because of insufficient insurance against risks like natural disasters (www.ft.com)
2026-3-17 Insurance

Hamas meets Trump's ‘Board of Peace' for first time – Reuters (www.rt.com)
2026-3-17 Trump

Hungary announces oil pipeline deal amid feud with Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2026-3-17 Ukraine

Moscow issues warning over Trump's Golden Dome plan (www.rt.com)
2026-3-17 Trump

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (www.cnbc.com)
2026-3-17 Robot

NATO snubs Trump: Finland says 'we have Russia to take care of' as Germany and Starmer refuse to be drawn in to Iran war - months after Washington condemned alliance for not pulling its weight (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Trump Russia Germany Iran Finland

Trump's options for reopening the Strait of Hormuz from boots on the ground to naval escorts and holding Iranian 'oil island' to ransom as tank blockade continues (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Trump Iran

Horrific gang-rape and torture ordeal of Iranian nurses: Medics 'subjected to brutal sex attacks out of revenge for treating wounded rioters with one victim begging surgeons to let her die' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Iran

Trump's billionaire adviser warns Israel may unleash NUKE on Iran as he rebukes the President's war (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Trump Israel Iran

Drone strike hits fuel tank near Dubai airport as fire breaks out at major UAE oil terminal (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Drone Dubai

Trump says he'll have the 'honor of taking Cuba' and insists 'I could do anything I want with it' as country is hit with island-wide blackout (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Trump

Hot air balloon crash leaves British couple injured - one 'critical' - after smashing into power cables in Mexico (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 U.K. Mexico

'The most intense assault since war began': Iranian rockets target US embassy in Baghdad, explosions rock Dubai and UAE oil facility is hit as conflict continues (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-3-17 Iran Dubai Baghdad

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