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Rory McIlroy has unveiled the menu for his traditional Champions Dinner ahead of his Masters title defense at Augusta National in April. This Northern Irishman will cater to fans of 1990 Château Lafite Rothschild and 1989 Château d’Yquem, lovers of too-sticky toffee pudding, and fans of grilled elk scriners. Traditionally, the reigning Masters champion selects a meal to be served to fellow winners in the Augusta clubhouse on Tuesday night, prior to the start of the tournament on Thursday morning. McIlroy defeated Justin Rose in a dramatic playoff hole last year to earn the elusive green jacket and end his…

You’ve probably all had those moments where you’re sitting with a friend and a conversation strikes up, making each other laugh, and maybe even saying something surprisingly insightful. Then someone said, “You should start a podcast.” Most of the time, the idea disappears just as quickly as it came to you. Not because it’s necessarily a bad idea, but because actually creating a podcast has always been kind of a pain. Between recording setup, editing software, and promotion, many argue that the barrier to entry is higher than expected. That’s the gap that a new platform, Rebel Audio, aims to…

A sign displaying the price of unleaded gasoline at a Chevron gas station in Palo Alto, California, USA, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEconomists said the Iran war and the resulting rise in oil and gasoline prices risked worsening the so-called K-shaped economy. The term, which emerged during the coronavirus pandemic, uses the letter “K” to describe differences in economic experience. In other words, high-income households are doing better and better, forming an upward arm, while low-income households are falling further behind, forming a downward arm. Economists said oil and gasoline price increases…

China is making a big push into artificial intelligence, and the tech powerhouse is holding public events to let the public get their hands on the much-talked-about mobile device, OpenClaw.”Everyone around me seems to have it, including colleagues and friends,” said new user Gong Sheng while waiting for setup. “I don’t want to be left behind.”At a rally hosted by the internet giant in Beijing on Tuesday. BaiduGong was one of hundreds of people who lined up to install OpenClaw on their laptops and cell phones.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday that OpenClaw is “definitely the…

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, March 18, 2026.Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Chairman candidate Kevin Warsh wants to lower interest rates. Fed officials suggested Wednesday that if he is confirmed to take the job soon, it could be even harder to achieve than expected.Fed officials raised their forecasts for the trajectory of inflation and interest rates in data released by the central bank on Wednesday. This was largely expected, given the rise in oil prices caused by the Iran war.…

The US Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates on hold as the labor market cools and the prices of goods and services soar after the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran.The central bank will keep interest rates between 3.5% and 3.75%, consistent with the Fed’s decision last month to keep rates unchanged.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”The Committee aims to achieve maximum employment and 2% inflation over the long term. Uncertainty surrounding the economic outlook remains high. The impact of developments in the Middle East on the U.S. economy is unclear,” the central bank said in a…

Havana — US President Donald Trump mused on Monday whether he would have the “honor of occupying Cuba” on the same day the island’s communist-run power grid suffered its first nationwide collapse since the US effectively cut off the flow of oil to the country. “You know, I’ve been hearing about the United States and Cuba all my life, but when will the United States have the honor of occupying Cuba? That would be a great honor,” President Trump said from the Oval Office. “I think we can somehow take hold of Cuba, yes, take hold of Cuba – whether…

Josep Guardiola was brought to Manchester City in a bid to break through to the Champions League, but a once-in-a-decade victory shows that even the greatest manager of his generation cannot guarantee sustained success in Europe’s top club competition.Guardiola’s European campaign ended in yet another failure as City suffered a 5-1 aggregate defeat and were eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League for the fourth time in five years. So why has the 55-year-old worked so hard to turn his days of domestic domination into repeat glory on the continental stage, or are the standards by which we measure…

Patreon CEO Jacques Conte said he is not anti-AI. That can’t be true. “I run a hell of a technology company,” he told an audience at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Still, creator platform founders have their limits. Conte doesn’t think AI companies should be able to train models based on creators’ work for free, calling the decision to call it “fair use” a “bogus” argument. Conte’s SXSW talk positioned AI as a new moment in the ongoing cycle of disruption that creators have experienced many times before in the internet age. Much like the shift from purchasing…

Orlando Bravo, managing partner of Thoma Bravo, speaks at the World Economic Forum’s “Squawk on the Street” in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2026.Oscar Molina CNBCOrlando Bravo, founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, pushed back against growing criticism of the private market, saying deep sector expertise will separate winners from losers as artificial intelligence disrupts the entire software industry.”We’ve been living in the details of this space for a very long time. We don’t invest at a high level, we don’t invest in stocks, but we invest in companies and customer contracts and we know the details. So, yeah,…