Archive for the 'Economy' Category
People Getting Paid to Wear Cameras As They Do Chores, Videos Will Be Used To Train AI In Robots
March 13th, 2026Via: Los Angeles Times: The hottest new gig-economy job in Los Angeles is performing at home to help artificial intelligence understand how humans move. Hundreds of people from Santa Monica to Los Feliz are strapping cameras on their heads and hands as they do chores at home so bots can watch how they make coffee, […]
Iran War Disrupts Fertilizer Supply Chain
March 12th, 2026Via: CNBC: The war in Iran could raise global food prices as the conflict disrupts fertilizer shipments through one of the world’s most critical trade routes. While energy markets have focused on oil supply risks, analysts say threats to fertilizer supply chains through the Strait of Hormuz may also bring long-term economic issues through food […]
Two Tankers On Fire at Iraqi Port After Iran Attacks
March 11th, 2026Update: New Ayatollah’s First Message: Hormuz Strait Stays Closed, Warns ‘More Fronts’ Could Open — Via: Oilprice: Two oil tankers carrying Iraqi oil products caught fire Wednesday after being struck in Iraqi territorial waters near the country’s southern export terminals, according to Iraqi port officials and multiple media reports. The vessels, Vishnu, a Marshall Islands-flagged […]
IEA: Largest Ever Oil Stock Release Amid Market Disruptions From Middle East Conflict
March 11th, 2026Via: International Energy Agency: The 32 Member countries of the International Energy Agency unanimously agreed today to make 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves available to the market to address disruptions in oil markets stemming from the war in the Middle East. The decision to take emergency collective action was made following […]
Iran Attacking Ships Attempting to Transit Strait of Hormuz
March 11th, 2026Via: Telegraph: The Islamic Republic’s joint command threatened the US, Israel and their allies with attacks on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz as the countries continue their bombing campaign against Iran. It said it would shift from “reciprocal hits” to “continuous strikes” on its adversaries – a move it warned could push global […]
Meet The Ellisons: Zionists, Technocrats, Moguls
March 11th, 2026Via: Corbett Report:
U.S. Sinks Iranian Minelayers as Reports Say Tehran Is Mining the Strait of Hormuz
March 10th, 2026Via: CNBC: American forces on Tuesday sunk several Iranian ships, including 16 minelayers, near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the U.S. Central Command, amid reports that Tehran was seeking to mine the waterway critical to global energy supplies. The U.S. announcement followed a post by President Donald Trump that said if Iran had put […]
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
March 10th, 2026Via: Wired: Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models. LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are necessary to […]
EMERGENCY: KUWAIT DECLARES FORCE MAJEURE, CUTS OIL PRODUCTION
March 7th, 2026Via: Bloomberg: Kuwait Petroleum declared force majeure — a legal clause allowing a company not to fulfill contractual obligations because of circumstances outside its control — on sales of oil and refinery products, according to a notice seen by Bloomberg. The country produced about 2.57 million barrels a day of oil in January, according to […]
EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN’S OIL AND GAS FACILITIES
March 7th, 2026Perhaps this is also a war against China: China has emerged as the largest buyer of Iranian crude, importing more than 80% of Iran’s oil exports in 2025. This amounted to around 1.38 million barrels per day, roughly 13–14% of China’s total seaborne crude imports, according to Kpler. Tehran’s oil has limited buyers due to […]
