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The US president has postponed his visit to China from March 31 to April 2 to focus on the escalating war with Iran.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished March 16, 2026March 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationUS President Donald Trump has said he is delaying his long-awaited visit to China in early April by about a month, citing the US and Israel’s war against Iran.”We have asked for a delay of about a month,” President Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.“And there are no tricks,” he added.…
Former World Cup winner Will Greenwood says he expects England to stick with head coach Steve Borthwick despite their shock Six Nations campaign.After a big win over Wales in the opening game, extending England’s winning streak to 12 games, Borthwick’s side collapsed, losing their remaining four games. The team were criticized for not being clinical or calm as they kicked too much and put themselves under pressure, ultimately conceding 55 penalties, nine yellow cards and one red card. England bounced back to face eventual champions France in Paris on Saturday night, showing intent and ambition with the ball in hand…
Elon Musk’s company xAI should be held accountable for allowing its AI models to generate abusive sexual images of recognizable minors, three anonymous plaintiffs claim in a lawsuit filed Monday in California federal court. The three plaintiffs want to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who had actual images of themselves as minors altered by Grok to contain sexual content. xAI claims it does not take basic precautions taken by other Frontier Institutes to prevent image models from producing pornography depicting real people or minors. The lawsuit by Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, a minor, and…
People wait in long TSA lines at O’Hare and other airports in Chicago, Illinois, on March 9, 2026, as the partial government shutdown continues for weeks.Peter Zai/ | Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe first three months of this year have brought significant disruption to travellers. Since early 2026, the Iran war, cartel violence in Mexico, U.S. military operations in Venezuela, and severe snowstorms on the East Coast have totaled tens of thousands of flights and disrupted many Americans’ travel plans. There’s always a certain amount of unpredictability when it comes to travel. But travel advisors and other experts say recent events…
The 33-year-old Columbia University protester was held in an immigration detention center for a year.listen to this article | 2 minutesinformationPublished March 16, 2026March 16, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareplus 2 googleAdd Al Jazeera to GoogleinformationRequa Cordia, a Palestinian woman who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration in 2024 and was detained in the United States, has been released after a year of detention.The 33-year-old, who grew up in the occupied West Bank and immigrated to the United States in 2016, had been held in a Texas detention center since March last year.”I don’t know what to say.…
Liam Livingstone has spoken out harshly about his treatment by England’s current government, claiming that “nobody cares about you”.Livingstone has exactly 100 international caps across all three formats, but has not featured for his country in over a year and appears resigned to the status quo. In an interview with ESPN Cricinfo, the 32-year-old was highly critical of his interactions with director of cricket Rob Key, describing last year’s Champions Trophy as “the worst experience I’ve had playing cricket”. Sky Sports News understands that the England and Wales Cricket Board does not believe Livingstone’s career in England is over and…
Sean Shen believes that for AI to succeed in the physical world, it needs to remember what it sees. Shen’s company Memories.ai uses Nvidia AI tools to build an infrastructure that allows wearables and robotics to remember and recall visual memories. Memories.ai announced a partnership with semiconductor giant NVIDIA at Monday’s GTC conference. Through this partnership, Memories.ai continues to develop visual memory technology using Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, an inferential vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, a video search and summarization application. Shen (pictured above, left) told TechCrunch that he and his co-founder and CTO Ben Zhou (pictured above, right) got…
Apollo Global Management sign in New York, December 5, 2023.Gina Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesApollo’s John Zito has given a frank assessment of how private equity firms are valuing their software holdings, saying, “Not really.” As the share prices of comparable publicly traded technology companies plummet, he says, “Not really.”Zito, co-president and head of credit at the firm’s giant asset management division, told clients of investment bank UBS last month in remarks first published in the Wall Street Journal. CNBC confirmed Zito’s comments. “I think literally every mark is wrong,” Zito told his customers. “I think the private equity…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday hailed the drop in oil prices that sent stocks higher, but said the real action for investors will unfold at Nvidia’s GTC artificial intelligence showcase this week.Nvidia Kramer said on “Mad Money” that stocks participated in a broader stock market rally spurred by President Donald Trump’s decision to “allow Iranian oil to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.” “That caused oil prices to drop to the mid-$90s, but that’s all that matters to the (stock) average,” he added. The move allayed fears that an escalating war with Iran could disrupt global oil supplies and push…
rome, italy — Maritime authorities have warned sailors to stay away from an unmanned Russian fuel tanker that has been drifting between Italy and Malta for days after being attacked by drones, raising fears of an environmental disaster. Surveillance video taken from aboard the ship shows the smoldering, blackened vessel leaning to one side, with a large gash in its port side and a film of material in the surrounding waters. Italian authorities said the Russian-flagged Arctic Metagas was carrying around 900 tonnes (992 US tonnes) of diesel fuel and more than 60,000 tonnes (66,000 US tonnes) of liquefied natural…