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Whirlpool Crashes After Iran Shock Sparks "Recession-Level" Appliance Slump Whirlpool shares crashed as much as 20% in premarket trading after the appliance maker slashed its full-year outlook and posted weaker-than-expected first-quarter results. Management directly blamed the three-month war in the Middle East for triggering a collapse in U.S. appliance demand. Whirlpool began the earnings release with this statement: "War in Iran resulted in a recession-level industry decline in the U.S. as consumer confidence collapsed in late February and March." For the first quarter, the maker of refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, ovens, ranges, cooktops,...

Florida Cities Enforce Curfews And Mass Arrests After Spring Break Chaos Do certain groups of people deliberately seek out chaos?  Do they revel in it so much that they choose to create it from thin air wherever they go?  Or, are they completely unaware of the destruction that follows them around?  One thing is certain - they obviously don't care about how it affects the people around them.   Spring Break in Florida has always been a wild affair attracting masses of young vacationers from across the US to white sandy beaches,...

Nvidia CEO: "I Think We've Achieved AGI" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined podcaster Lex Fridman for a 2-plus-hour conversation on the future of AI infrastructure, covering everything from chips, racks, and cooling systems to Nvidia's broader strategy for the next computing era. Jensen spoke about how computers are evolving from retrieval machines into generative AI factories. The discussion also turned to one of the biggest questions in the AI cycle: whether AGI has already arrived. Near the two-hour mark of the conversation, Fridman asked Jensen about the "AGI timeline" and whether it...