The keel laying ceremony of HMS Dreadnought, on March 20, was a largely symbolic act. Firstly, submarines don’t actually have a keel. Large parts of the submarine were also present in the facility during the ceremony. This is because the first steel was cut for HMS Dreadnought on October 6, 2016.
Since that time, 16 separate modules have been built for the submarine. These will be welded together. The vessel will then be fitted with the Rolls-Royce nuclear reactor and other key parts. So, in truth, the keel laying ceremony really marks the start of the final assembly of HMS Dreadnought, rather than the start of construction.
While China smashes records, U.S. wind energy growth struggles under policy freezes
A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port in China, breaking the record for the longest blade handling operation in the Yangtze River basin.
According to a video shared by China Global Television Network (CGTN), port workers used a gantry crane cooperative operation system for the first time.
Integrating sensors and image recognition technologies allowed real-time monitoring of lifting equipment, blades, and cargo ships, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
A major milestone for wind power logistics
This accomplishment highlights the growing importance of wind energy equipment logistics in China. Yangzhou Port has become a central hub in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for loading and unloading wind power components, streamlining the movement of massive turbine parts.
The 436-foot-long blade represents the industry’s push toward larger, more powerful wind turbines. Another significant development in China’s wind sector is the planned 25 MW offshore wind turbine led by China Eastern Electric Group.
With a hub height of 607 feet (185 meters), this enormous turbine is designed for deep-sea installations and aims to boost wind energy efficiency. However, such ambitious ventures do face setbacks; reports emerged last December that the MySE18.X-20MW prototype’s “typhoon-proof” blades broke off. Although the prototype survived a typhoon in September, mechanical and weather-related challenges remain concerning.
China’s offshore wind dominance
China now operates nearly half of the world’s offshore wind turbines, and according to Offshore WIND, China has a total of 41 gigawatts connected to its grid. Its broader renewable energy portfolio is also expanding rapidly. I
In 2024 alone, China invested 13.6 trillion yuan (about 1.9 trillion US dollars) in renewables, pushing total installed capacity beyond 1,410 gigawatts, surpassing coal-fired power generation.
In photovoltaic technology, China controls 95% of the global production capacity of polycrystalline silicon and silicon wafers. These advantages extend to wind turbine manufacturing, where local companies produce higher-capacity turbines than many Western counterparts.
По словам мужчины, от его дома не осталось ничего еще в августе 2024 года. Под обстрелами боевиков с женой и детьми пришлось покинуть дом буквально в тапочках, забрав только документы. Казалось бы — как после всего пережитого вообще возвращаться в город? А он приехал в разоренный дом за фотографией деда-фронтовика, «чтобы память осталась». «Будем жить, работать и верить в лучшее!» — говорит он нам на прощание.
Основания для веры в Судже и правда остались. Красивейшие и с виду нетронутые православные храмы — единственное, что радует глаз и внушает оптимизм. Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы долгое время служила убежищем для горожан. Рядом с ликами святых до сих пор можно найти следы их пребывания — брошенный чайник, посуду, белье.
Перекрестившись, продолжаем путь через наспех сделанный мост из деревянных понтонов, по соседству — разрушенный боевиками при отступлении Суджанский мост. Ведет он в ближайший пригород — Замостье, старинную слободу, основанную на реке Суджа еще в середине XVII века.
Когда-то в этих красивых домах жили зажиточные куряне, кипела жизнь, теперь же нас встречают лишь тишина, звуки выходов и прилетов арты и изредка доносящийся лай дворовых собак. Стучимся в дома с надписью «Здесь живые люди», а находим лишь оставшуюся без хозяев живность, истосковавшуюся по живому человеку.
Гордость Замостья — церковь Преображения Господня — чудом уцелела во время оккупации ВСУ. Рядом с ней встречаем бойца 30-го мотострелкового полка с дробовым ружьем наперевес. Из него «Леший», такой у мужика позывной, сбил уже 27 дронов врага, один из них с перебитыми винтами как раз валяется у входа в храм.
Поднявшись на чердак, обнаруживаем бесценные находки — десятки икон и сохранившиеся хоругви. Еще выше — колокольню с открывающимся видом на Суджу и окрестности. На одном из зданий символично выведена надпись «СВО».
Russia and Ukraine on Friday accused each other of shelling a gas pumping station in the southwestern Kursk region overnight, days after the two warring sides agreed to pause attacks on energy infrastructure.
Earlier, the Ukrainian military and Russian pro-war bloggers reported a strike on the nonfunctioning Sudzha gas pumping and metering station, with images showing a huge fire lighting up the night sky.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces dismissed Russian military bloggers’ claims that it was responsible for the attack, calling it part of a “campaign to discredit Ukraine.”
Мой сопровождающий осторожно дергает за веревки, тянущиеся к красивым колоколам. Звук красивый и мелодичный. Немного осмелев, пытается подобрать ритм. Вот и первый колокольный звон над Суджей и окрестностями. Доброе утро! Жизнь обязательно вернется.
Суджа — единственный город Курской области, захваченный нацистами в начале вторжения в августе 2024 года. Оплот курской группировки ВСУ, из которого противник надеялся сделать неприступную крепость. В марте он был освобожден нашими войсками за пару дней решительных боев.
тестовый баннер под заглавное изображение
Опубликован в газете "Московский комсомолец" №29488 от 24 марта 2025
“Today, the enemy has ramped up its planned destructive information influence with another provocation — it fired artillery at this facility [in Sudzha],” the General Staff claimed in a statement.
“The [Sudzha] station was repeatedly shelled by the Russians themselves,” it added, citing what it said were similar incidents last summer.
Later on Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that retreating Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region attacked the Sudzha gas pumping station, calling it a “deliberate provocation... aimed at undermining the peace initiatives of the U.S. President.”
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia continued transporting natural gas to Europe through the Sudzha hub until Kyiv declined to extend a transit deal at the start of 2025.
The town of Sudzha, home to around 5,000 people, was the largest Russian settlement to be seized by Ukrainian forces during a surprise cross-border incursion last August. Russia said it had regained full control of Sudzha last week.
The reported strike on the Sudzha gas station came after Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle to a 30-day pause in attacks on energy infrastructure, but questions remain about its implementation.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Kyiv of violating the ceasefire with an attack on an oil depot in the southern Krasnodar region.
If 23andMe's plan to sell its assets through a Chapter 11 plan is approved by the court, the company will "actively solicit qualified bids" over a 45-day process. Wojcicki plans to pursue the company as an independent bidder, she said in her post on Monday.
23andMe has between $100 million and $500 million in estimated assets, as well as between $100 million and $500 million in estimated liabilities, according to the bankruptcy filing.
Beyond its financial woes, privacy concerns around 23andMe's genetic database have swirled in recent years. In October 2023, hackers accessed the information of nearly 7 million customers.
Wiz's mammoth buyout may dampen near-term sentiment for cybersecurity startups with IPO aspirations, but experts told CNBC they anticipate a pickup in the second half of the year.
One of those contenders is malware and phishing software maker Proofpoint, which told CNBC in October that it was exploring an IPO in the next 12 to 18 months. The company went private in 2021 in a $12.3 billion acquisition by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Forrester's Maxim said Proofpoint and Illumio are companies ripe for IPOs in the coming months. Illumio, which offers data center and cloud security, was a member of CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2017 and 2018.
Open-source generally refers to software in which the source code is made freely available on the web for possible modification and redistribution.
AI models that call themselves open-source had existed before the emergence of DeepSeek, with Meta's Llama and Google's Gemma being prime examples in the U.S. However, some experts argue that these models aren't really open source as their licenses restrict certain uses and modifications, and their training data sets aren't public.
DeepSeek's R1 is distributed under an 'MIT License,' which Counterpoint's Sun describes as one of the most permissive and widely adopted open-source licenses, facilitating unrestricted use, modification and distribution, including for commercial purposes.
The DeepSeek team even held an "Open-Source Week" last month, which saw it release more technical details about the development of its R1 model.
While DeepSeek's model itself is free, the start-up charges for Application Programming Interface, which enables the integration of AI models and their capabilities into other companies' applications. However, its API charges are advertised to be far cheaper compared with OpenAI and Anthropic's latest offerings.
OpenAI and Anthropic also generate revenue by charging individual users and enterprises to access some of their models. These models are considered to be 'closed-source,' as their datasets, and algorithms are not open for public access.
In addition to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have increasingly been providing their AI offerings for free and are making more models open source.
For example, Alibaba Cloud said last month it was open-sourcing its AI models for video generation, while Tencent reportedly released five new open-source models earlier this month with the ability to convert text and images into 3D visuals.
Smaller players are also furthering the trend. ManusAI, a Chinese AI firm that recently unveiled an AI agent that claims to outperform OpenAI's Deep Research, has said it would shift towards open source.
"This wouldn't be possible without the amazing open-source community, which is why we're committed to giving back" co-founder Ji Yichao said in a product demo video. "ManusAI operates as a multi-agent system powered by several distinct models, so later this year, we're going to open source some of these models," he added.
Zhipu AI, one of the country's leading AI startups, this month announced on WeChat that 2025 would be "the year of open source."
Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research, told CNBC that companies have been compelled to make these moves following the emergence of DeepSeek.
"With DeepSeek free, it's impossible for any other Chinese competitors to charge for the same thing. They have to move to open-source business models in order to compete," said Wang.
OpenAI — which started the AI frenzy when it released its ChatGPT bot in November 2022— has not signaled that it plans to shift from its proprietary business model. The company which started as a nonprofit in 2015 is moving towards towards a for-profit structure.
Sun says that OpenAI and DeepSeek both represent very different ends of the AI space. She adds that the sector could continue to see division between open-source players that innovate off one another and closed-source companies that have come under pressure to maintain high-cost cutting-edge models.
The open-source trend has put in to question the massive funds raised by companies such as OpenAI. Microsoft has invested $13 billion into the company. It is in talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round that would lift its valuation to as high as $340 billion, CNBC confirmed at the end of January.
In September, CNBC confirmed the company expects about $5 billion in losses, with revenue pegged at $3.7 billion revenue. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, has also said that $11 billion in revenue is "definitely in the realm of possibility" for the company this year.
He calls the development the "Android moment," referring to when Google's Android made its operating system source code freely available, fostering innovation and development in the non-Apple app ecosystem.
"We used to think China was 12 to 24 months behind [the U.S.] in AI and now we think that's probably three to six months," said Wang.
However, other experts have downplayed the idea that open-source AI should be seen through the lens of China and U.S. competition. In fact, several U.S. companies have integrated and benefited from DeepSeek's R1.
"I think the so-called DeepSeek moment is not about whether China has better AI than the U.S. or vice versa. It's really about the power of open-source," Alibaba Group Chairperson Joe Tsai told CNBC's CONVERGE conference in Singapore earlier this month.
Tsai added that open-source models give the power of AI to everyone from small entrepreneurs to large corporations, which will lead to more development, innovation and a proliferation of AI applications.
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!summarize #arkinvest #tesla #ai
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!summarize #stock #market #investing #crash #forecast
The keel laying ceremony of HMS Dreadnought, on March 20, was a largely symbolic act. Firstly, submarines don’t actually have a keel. Large parts of the submarine were also present in the facility during the ceremony. This is because the first steel was cut for HMS Dreadnought on October 6, 2016.
Since that time, 16 separate modules have been built for the submarine. These will be welded together. The vessel will then be fitted with the Rolls-Royce nuclear reactor and other key parts. So, in truth, the keel laying ceremony really marks the start of the final assembly of HMS Dreadnought, rather than the start of construction.
!summarize #tesla #stock #market #elonmusk #hate
!summarize #pambondi #elonmusk #democrats #politics
World-longest: 436-feet, 73-ton heavy offshore wind turbine blade loaded in China
While China smashes records, U.S. wind energy growth struggles under policy freezes
A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port in China, breaking the record for the longest blade handling operation in the Yangtze River basin.
According to a video shared by China Global Television Network (CGTN), port workers used a gantry crane cooperative operation system for the first time.
Integrating sensors and image recognition technologies allowed real-time monitoring of lifting equipment, blades, and cargo ships, ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
A major milestone for wind power logistics
This accomplishment highlights the growing importance of wind energy equipment logistics in China. Yangzhou Port has become a central hub in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River for loading and unloading wind power components, streamlining the movement of massive turbine parts.
The 436-foot-long blade represents the industry’s push toward larger, more powerful wind turbines. Another significant development in China’s wind sector is the planned 25 MW offshore wind turbine led by China Eastern Electric Group.
With a hub height of 607 feet (185 meters), this enormous turbine is designed for deep-sea installations and aims to boost wind energy efficiency. However, such ambitious ventures do face setbacks; reports emerged last December that the MySE18.X-20MW prototype’s “typhoon-proof” blades broke off. Although the prototype survived a typhoon in September, mechanical and weather-related challenges remain concerning.
!summarize #tariff #trade #venezuela #economy
!summarize #trump #pambondi #sanctions #lawfirms
China’s offshore wind dominance
China now operates nearly half of the world’s offshore wind turbines, and according to Offshore WIND, China has a total of 41 gigawatts connected to its grid. Its broader renewable energy portfolio is also expanding rapidly. I
In 2024 alone, China invested 13.6 trillion yuan (about 1.9 trillion US dollars) in renewables, pushing total installed capacity beyond 1,410 gigawatts, surpassing coal-fired power generation.
In photovoltaic technology, China controls 95% of the global production capacity of polycrystalline silicon and silicon wafers. These advantages extend to wind turbine manufacturing, where local companies produce higher-capacity turbines than many Western counterparts.
!summarize #canada #country #economy
По словам мужчины, от его дома не осталось ничего еще в августе 2024 года. Под обстрелами боевиков с женой и детьми пришлось покинуть дом буквально в тапочках, забрав только документы. Казалось бы — как после всего пережитого вообще возвращаться в город? А он приехал в разоренный дом за фотографией деда-фронтовика, «чтобы память осталась». «Будем жить, работать и верить в лучшее!» — говорит он нам на прощание.
Основания для веры в Судже и правда остались. Красивейшие и с виду нетронутые православные храмы — единственное, что радует глаз и внушает оптимизм. Церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы долгое время служила убежищем для горожан. Рядом с ликами святых до сих пор можно найти следы их пребывания — брошенный чайник, посуду, белье.
Перекрестившись, продолжаем путь через наспех сделанный мост из деревянных понтонов, по соседству — разрушенный боевиками при отступлении Суджанский мост. Ведет он в ближайший пригород — Замостье, старинную слободу, основанную на реке Суджа еще в середине XVII века.
Когда-то в этих красивых домах жили зажиточные куряне, кипела жизнь, теперь же нас встречают лишь тишина, звуки выходов и прилетов арты и изредка доносящийся лай дворовых собак. Стучимся в дома с надписью «Здесь живые люди», а находим лишь оставшуюся без хозяев живность, истосковавшуюся по живому человеку.
Гордость Замостья — церковь Преображения Господня — чудом уцелела во время оккупации ВСУ. Рядом с ней встречаем бойца 30-го мотострелкового полка с дробовым ружьем наперевес. Из него «Леший», такой у мужика позывной, сбил уже 27 дронов врага, один из них с перебитыми винтами как раз валяется у входа в храм.
Поднявшись на чердак, обнаруживаем бесценные находки — десятки икон и сохранившиеся хоругви. Еще выше — колокольню с открывающимся видом на Суджу и окрестности. На одном из зданий символично выведена надпись «СВО».
Russia and Ukraine on Friday accused each other of shelling a gas pumping station in the southwestern Kursk region overnight, days after the two warring sides agreed to pause attacks on energy infrastructure.
Earlier, the Ukrainian military and Russian pro-war bloggers reported a strike on the nonfunctioning Sudzha gas pumping and metering station, with images showing a huge fire lighting up the night sky.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces dismissed Russian military bloggers’ claims that it was responsible for the attack, calling it part of a “campaign to discredit Ukraine.”
Мой сопровождающий осторожно дергает за веревки, тянущиеся к красивым колоколам. Звук красивый и мелодичный. Немного осмелев, пытается подобрать ритм. Вот и первый колокольный звон над Суджей и окрестностями. Доброе утро! Жизнь обязательно вернется.
Суджа — единственный город Курской области, захваченный нацистами в начале вторжения в августе 2024 года. Оплот курской группировки ВСУ, из которого противник надеялся сделать неприступную крепость. В марте он был освобожден нашими войсками за пару дней решительных боев.
тестовый баннер под заглавное изображение
Опубликован в газете "Московский комсомолец" №29488 от 24 марта 2025
“Today, the enemy has ramped up its planned destructive information influence with another provocation — it fired artillery at this facility [in Sudzha],” the General Staff claimed in a statement.
“The [Sudzha] station was repeatedly shelled by the Russians themselves,” it added, citing what it said were similar incidents last summer.
Later on Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that retreating Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region attacked the Sudzha gas pumping station, calling it a “deliberate provocation... aimed at undermining the peace initiatives of the U.S. President.”
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia continued transporting natural gas to Europe through the Sudzha hub until Kyiv declined to extend a transit deal at the start of 2025.
The town of Sudzha, home to around 5,000 people, was the largest Russian settlement to be seized by Ukrainian forces during a surprise cross-border incursion last August. Russia said it had regained full control of Sudzha last week.
The reported strike on the Sudzha gas station came after Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle to a 30-day pause in attacks on energy infrastructure, but questions remain about its implementation.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Kyiv of violating the ceasefire with an attack on an oil depot in the southern Krasnodar region.
Music legend Larry Tamblyn dead at 82
Larry Tamblyn formed the rock band The Standells in the ’60s.
!summarize #bengoertzel #singularitynew #superintelligence #decentralization
If 23andMe's plan to sell its assets through a Chapter 11 plan is approved by the court, the company will "actively solicit qualified bids" over a 45-day process. Wojcicki plans to pursue the company as an independent bidder, she said in her post on Monday.
23andMe has between $100 million and $500 million in estimated assets, as well as between $100 million and $500 million in estimated liabilities, according to the bankruptcy filing.
Beyond its financial woes, privacy concerns around 23andMe's genetic database have swirled in recent years. In October 2023, hackers accessed the information of nearly 7 million customers.
!summarize #lawsuit #trump #billoreilly
!summarize #french #language #learning
Wiz's mammoth buyout may dampen near-term sentiment for cybersecurity startups with IPO aspirations, but experts told CNBC they anticipate a pickup in the second half of the year.
One of those contenders is malware and phishing software maker Proofpoint, which told CNBC in October that it was exploring an IPO in the next 12 to 18 months. The company went private in 2021 in a $12.3 billion acquisition by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
Forrester's Maxim said Proofpoint and Illumio are companies ripe for IPOs in the coming months. Illumio, which offers data center and cloud security, was a member of CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2017 and 2018.
!summarize #billmaher #trump #maga #politics #democrats
!summarize #relationships #divorce #marriage
Open-source generally refers to software in which the source code is made freely available on the web for possible modification and redistribution.
AI models that call themselves open-source had existed before the emergence of DeepSeek, with Meta's Llama and Google's Gemma being prime examples in the U.S. However, some experts argue that these models aren't really open source as their licenses restrict certain uses and modifications, and their training data sets aren't public.
DeepSeek's R1 is distributed under an 'MIT License,' which Counterpoint's Sun describes as one of the most permissive and widely adopted open-source licenses, facilitating unrestricted use, modification and distribution, including for commercial purposes.
!summarize #fbi #kashpatel #government #lawenforcement
The DeepSeek team even held an "Open-Source Week" last month, which saw it release more technical details about the development of its R1 model.
While DeepSeek's model itself is free, the start-up charges for Application Programming Interface, which enables the integration of AI models and their capabilities into other companies' applications. However, its API charges are advertised to be far cheaper compared with OpenAI and Anthropic's latest offerings.
OpenAI and Anthropic also generate revenue by charging individual users and enterprises to access some of their models. These models are considered to be 'closed-source,' as their datasets, and algorithms are not open for public access.
!summarize #duolingo #languange #application #education
In addition to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have increasingly been providing their AI offerings for free and are making more models open source.
For example, Alibaba Cloud said last month it was open-sourcing its AI models for video generation, while Tencent reportedly released five new open-source models earlier this month with the ability to convert text and images into 3D visuals.
Smaller players are also furthering the trend. ManusAI, a Chinese AI firm that recently unveiled an AI agent that claims to outperform OpenAI's Deep Research, has said it would shift towards open source.
!summarize #progressive #politicians #left #democrats
"This wouldn't be possible without the amazing open-source community, which is why we're committed to giving back" co-founder Ji Yichao said in a product demo video. "ManusAI operates as a multi-agent system powered by several distinct models, so later this year, we're going to open source some of these models," he added.
Zhipu AI, one of the country's leading AI startups, this month announced on WeChat that 2025 would be "the year of open source."
Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research, told CNBC that companies have been compelled to make these moves following the emergence of DeepSeek.
"With DeepSeek free, it's impossible for any other Chinese competitors to charge for the same thing. They have to move to open-source business models in order to compete," said Wang.
!summarize #mlb #seasonopener #mookiebetts #japan #losangeles #dodgers
OpenAI — which started the AI frenzy when it released its ChatGPT bot in November 2022— has not signaled that it plans to shift from its proprietary business model. The company which started as a nonprofit in 2015 is moving towards towards a for-profit structure.
Sun says that OpenAI and DeepSeek both represent very different ends of the AI space. She adds that the sector could continue to see division between open-source players that innovate off one another and closed-source companies that have come under pressure to maintain high-cost cutting-edge models.
!summarize #losangeles #dodgers #mlb #sickness
The open-source trend has put in to question the massive funds raised by companies such as OpenAI. Microsoft has invested $13 billion into the company. It is in talks to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round that would lift its valuation to as high as $340 billion, CNBC confirmed at the end of January.
In September, CNBC confirmed the company expects about $5 billion in losses, with revenue pegged at $3.7 billion revenue. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, has also said that $11 billion in revenue is "definitely in the realm of possibility" for the company this year.
He calls the development the "Android moment," referring to when Google's Android made its operating system source code freely available, fostering innovation and development in the non-Apple app ecosystem.
"We used to think China was 12 to 24 months behind [the U.S.] in AI and now we think that's probably three to six months," said Wang.
However, other experts have downplayed the idea that open-source AI should be seen through the lens of China and U.S. competition. In fact, several U.S. companies have integrated and benefited from DeepSeek's R1.
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"I think the so-called DeepSeek moment is not about whether China has better AI than the U.S. or vice versa. It's really about the power of open-source," Alibaba Group Chairperson Joe Tsai told CNBC's CONVERGE conference in Singapore earlier this month.
Tsai added that open-source models give the power of AI to everyone from small entrepreneurs to large corporations, which will lead to more development, innovation and a proliferation of AI applications.
!summarize #tesla #money #sales #modely