EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Alliance To Secure AI Supply Chains

A massive rally was held in Tehran on Monday in support of Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the opening attacks of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. The massive turnout for the younger Khamenei, who also lost his […]

This war is not just making energy more expensive, it’s knocking out the higher order goods the global structure of production depends on. This has already locked in dangerous shortages in critical industries like healthcare, food production, and much more.

Pull-Forward Demand Boosts PC Shipments Amid Memory Crunch Woes The latest snapshot of the global PC market, from International Data Corporation's first-quarter shipment tracker, shows units rising 2.5% year over year to 65.6 million. "Despite deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and memory shortage issues, the PC market recorded another quarter of positive growth," IDC wrote in the report published on Thursday morning. IDC said last quarter's growth was "mostly fueled by the anticipation of rising component prices, Windows 10 migration, and new product introductions." Jean Philippe Bouchard, research vice president at IDC, noted, "The...