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Saba Yemen
3 days ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Moscow: Russia's nuclear deterrent capability not affected by Kyiv attacks, but consequences exaggerated
Moscow - Saba: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced on Wednesday that Russia's nuclear deterrent capability was not affected by the Ukrainian drone attack on Russian military airfields. Sputnik quoted Ryabkov as saying to reporters that "the damage caused by these attacks is being deliberately exaggerated by Kyiv," considering that "this exaggeration aims to affect the image of Russian military power." He added that "the equipment damaged in the attacks can be recovered and will be repaired," explaining that "a large part of this equipment is not included in the platforms covered by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which is currently the reference framework in the field of nuclear weapons." The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister noted that "certain types of weapons and equipment covered by the treaty are classified as strategic aviation, while other systems are not considered heavy strategic bombers," stressing that "this does not constitute any weakness in Russia's nuclear deterrence capabilities." Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that all crimes against civilians committed on the eve of the second round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were aimed at disrupting the negotiation process, noting that the Kyiv authorities lack even the most basic level of political culture. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Miami Herald
07-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Veteran stock trader has surprising Nvidia take ahead of earnings
Business Veteran stock trader has surprising Nvidia take ahead of earnings The game is forever known as "The Comeback" and it's easy to see why. Return with us now to that thrilling day of yesteryear better known as Jan. 3, 1993. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who had just lost the White House to Bill Clinton, was in Moscow to sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. Meanwhile, the Buffalo Bills overcame a 35-3 deficit to defeat the visiting Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime and set what then was the record for the largest comeback in National Football League history. The 32-point deficit in the game - also known as "The Choke" depending on which side of the field you were on - was surpassed by the Minnesota Vikings' 33-point run over the Indianapolis Colts during the 2022 regular season. But the Bills still hold the record for the largest comeback in postseason history and the second largest including the regular season. It was also the first time an NFL team with a lead of at least 30 points lost the game. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it would be a 'tremendous loss' to be blocked from China's AI CEO Huang: 'We just have to stay agile' Veteran trader Ed Ponsi sees a potential comeback scenario for Nvidia (NVDA) , which is scheduled to report earnings on May 28. Analysts are looking for earnings of 83 cents a share on $43.28 billion in revenue. Not too long ago, Nvidia was riding so high it looked like nothing could stop the AI-chip steamroller. The Santa Clara, Calif., company's stock more than tripled (up 238%) in 2023, followed by a 171% rally in 2024. "Those massive gains made the stock immensely popular, leading to an intense focus by investors," Ponsi said in his TheStreet Pro column. This year "has been less kind to the AI-chip maker. Nvidia shares are down 17.71% year to date. The stock is underperforming all of the major U.S. stock indexes." Nvidia's troubles started in January with the arrival of a cost-effective artificial-intelligence model from the Chinese startup DeepSeek, which sparked concerns about big tech companies overspending on data centers and Nvidia chips. More Nvidia: Then tech conglomerate Huawei said it planned to start testing a highly anticipated AI chip that it touted as a rival to Nvidia's H100, a graphics processing unit used by companies such as Tesla (TSLA) and Meta Platforms (META) . Nvidia also got caught up in President Donald Trump's global tariff net. The company's reliance on Taiwan for chip manufacturing makes it vulnerable to geopolitical tensions and potential retaliation from China. The Trump administration restricted the shipment of Nvidia's H20 chips to China without a license last month, leading the company to plan a $5.5 billion quarterly charge. However, the White House is expected to reveal its new AI diffusion rule on May 15, and will likely outline AI-policy changes that favor Nvidia and its peers "Looking at the stock's chart, one question emerges," Ponsi said. "Is Nvidia about to regain its crown as the most coveted stock in the market?" Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a May 6 interview with CNBC that it would be a "tremendous loss" to be blocked from China's AI market. Veteran trader sees signs of Nvidia comeback "We just have to stay agile," Huang said. "Whatever the policies are of the government, whatever is in the best interest of our country, we'll support." Nvidia's co-founder was in Las Vegas for software company ServiceNow's NOW 2025 conference. The companies said they'd expand their partnership, which includes the debut of the ServiceNow reasoning model, Apriel Nemotron 15B, developed with Nvidia. Huang said China's artificial intelligence market will likely reach about $50 billion in the next two to three years Being able to sell into China would bring back revenue and taxes, and would "create lots of jobs here in the United States," Huang said. Piper Sandler warned that Nvidia could lose up to 6.45% of its important data-center revenue if companies cut back on spending, according to TipRanks. This could mean about $9.8 billion in lost revenue if corporate capital expenditures shrink and demand from China stays weak. In the worst-case scenario, the investment firm said, Nvidia's share price could drop to about $76.25 if the revenue loss happens. Related: Nvidia CEO sounds the alarm on Chinese rival If, however, corporate spending returns to normal and China demand picks up, the shares could rise to around $126. Piper Sandler affirmed its overweight rating on Nvidia with a $150 price target. Ponsi said that signs of an Nvidia comeback are beginning to emerge. "Since the April 7 opening bell, Nvidia has gained 23%," he said. "The stock is trading above its 50-day moving average for the first time since late February." Semiconductor stocks in general are on the rebound, he said, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, like Nvidia, climbing above its 50-day moving average for the first time since February. Ponsi said Nvidia would face obstacles along the way. Nvidia's 200-day moving average currently lies in wait near $125 and there's a bearish trendline also residing in that vicinity. "If Nvidia can demonstrate the necessary strength to break through that area, the door is open to $140 - and possibly higher," he said. "Nvidia's all-time closing high is $149, set on Jan. 6." Related: Veteran fund manager unveils eye-popping S&P 500 forecast The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc. This story was originally published May 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM.
Al Jazeera
29-01-2025
- Health
- Al Jazeera
Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, what does that mean?
For the first time in three years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) moved the Doomsday Clock forward by one second to 89 seconds before midnight, signalling a heightened risk of global catastrophe. 'It is the determination of the science and security board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that the world has not made sufficient progress on existential risks threatening all of humanity. We thus move the clock forward,' Daniel Holz, chair of the organisation's science and security board, said during a livestreamed event on Tuesday. Ongoing threats from nuclear weapons, climate change, bioweapons, infectious disease, and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) have brought the clock to its latest time in 78 years. What is the Doomsday Clock? The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic timepiece showing how close we are to 'destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making', according to BAS, a Chicago-based nonprofit organisation that controls the clock. It describes it as 'many things all at once: It's a metaphor, it's a logo, it's a brand, and it's one of the most recognisable symbols in the past 100 years.' The closer it moves to midnight, the closer humanity is to the end of the world. Apocalyptic threats could arise from political tensions, weapons, technology, climate change or pandemics. How is the clock set? The hands of the clock are moved closer to or farther away from midnight based on the scientists' reading of existential threats at a particular time. BAS updates the time annually. A board of scientists and other experts in nuclear technology and climate science, including 10 Nobel laureates, discuss world events and determine where to place the hands of the clock each year. 'The Bulletin is a bit like a doctor making a diagnosis,' the BAS website says. 'We look at data, as physicians look at lab tests and x-rays, and also take harder-to-quantify factors into account, as physicians do when talking with patients and family members. We consider as many symptoms, measurements, and circumstances as we can. Then we come to a judgment that sums up what could happen if leaders and citizens don't take action to treat the conditions,' it adds. Has the clock ever turned back? Yes, the most notable event was in 1991 when US President George HW Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to reduce the number of their countries' nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. This brought the clock back by seven seconds. The furthest the clock has been from midnight was 17 minutes. When was the Doomsday Clock created? The clock was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded two years earlier by scientists Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer and Eugene Rabinowitch along with University of Chicago scholars. During that time, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. But after the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb in 1949, Rabinowitch, who was then the bulletin's editor, moved the clock to three minutes to midnight. According to the University of Chicago, until recently, the closest it had ever been set was at two minutes to midnight: in 1953 when the US and the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear weapons and in 2018 because of 'a breakdown in the international order, of nuclear actors, as well as the continuing lack of action on climate change'. The Doomsday Clock is placed in the BAS offices at the University of Chicago.
New York Times
28-01-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Doomsday Clock Moves One Second Closer to Catastrophe
The world is closer than ever to the apocalypse. That was the dire assessment issued on Tuesday by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit organization and publication whose signature Doomsday Clock has been estimating — in the stark terms of 'minutes to midnight' — how close humanity is to annihilation since 1947. The organization said that it had moved the clock's hands closer to that dreaded day — from 90 seconds to midnight to 89 seconds to midnight. It cited the threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change and the potential misuse of biological science and artificial intelligence — existential dangers it said had been exacerbated by the spread of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories. 'In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, we send a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster,' the bulletin said in a statement. The clock is set by the organization's Science and Security Board, made up of experts in nuclear technology, global security, climate science and other fields. The clock was created in 1947, when the organization's concerns revolved around the prospect of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The time then was set at seven minutes to midnight. Since then, the scientists behind the project have broadened their focus to consider other threats like climate change, infectious disease and the spread of misinformation fueled by artificial intelligence. And the clock's hands have moved back and forth. The last shift was in January 2023, when the clock was changed from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight, largely because of the war in Ukraine. The clock was set farthest from midnight in 1991, after the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, designed to scale down their stockpiles of long-lange nuclear weapons. In response, the bulletin moved the clock to 17 minutes to midnight. The clock did not change during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 because 'too little was known at the time about the circumstances of the standoff or what the outcome would be,' the bulletin says on its website. Critics have dismissed the clock as a stunt based on subjective assessments. Others have said that its repeated warnings of total annihilation could end up being dismissed by the public — the public policy equivalent of the boy who cried wolf. But the scientists who set the clock call it an internationally recognized symbol and 'a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.' 'The purpose of the Doomsday Clock is to start a global conversation about the very real existential threats that keep the world's top scientists awake at night,' said Daniel Holz, the chairman of the Science and Security Board and the founding director of the Existential Risk Laboratory at University of Chicago. This year, the bulletin said that global leaders were failing to confront mounting threats to human survival. It said that the war in Ukraine, now in its third year, 'could become nuclear at any moment because of a rash decision or through accident or miscalculation.' It warned that global nuclear arms controls were 'collapsing.' And it said that the impacts of climate change had increased over the past year, which was almost certainly the hottest on record. The growth in solar and wind energy, the bulletin said, 'has been impressive but remains insufficient to stabilize the climate.' In a clear allusion to President Trump, the organization said: 'Judging from recent electoral campaigns, climate change is viewed as a low priority in the United States and many other countries.' Mr. Trump this month signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the global pact to fight climate change, as part of a series of actions to promote fossil fuels and to withdraw support for renewable energy. The bulletin also warned of the spread of bird flu and said that rapid advances in artificial intelligence had 'increased the risk that terrorists or countries may attain the capability of designing biological weapons for which countermeasures do not exist.' Despite the bleak outlook, the bulletin said that there was still an opportunity for the world to move back from the brink of collapse if countries — particularly the United States, China and Russia — work more closely to combat climate change, disease and other threats. 'There is still time to make the right choices to turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock,' Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, said on Tuesday at a news conference. 'In Colombia, we say, 'Cada segundo cuenta.' Every second counts. Let us use each one wisely.'
Telegraph
28-01-2025
- Science
- Telegraph
Doomsday Clock moves closer than ever to midnight over AI and lab leak fears
On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which reassesses the clock annually, set the time at 89 seconds to midnight – The countdown was established in 1947 by Albert Einstein, J Robert Oppenheimer and University of Chicago scientists, who were working on the Manhattan Project to design and build the first atomic bomb. The scientists wanted a simple way of demonstrating how close humanity was to destroying the world with dangerous technologies of its own making. In a statement, the Bulletin said: 'High-containment biological laboratories continue to be built throughout the world but oversight regimes for them are not keeping pace, increasing the possibility that 'Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have increased the risk that terrorists or countries may attain the capability of designing biological weapons for which countermeasures do not exist. 'An array of other disruptive technologies advanced last year in ways that make the world more dangerous.' The panel, which includes nine Nobel laureates, also warned that the Ukraine war could 'become Drone warfare, bird flu and climate change were also cited as ongoing dangers, with experts warning that global warming was now viewed as low priority by countries such as the United States. 'Keep world's top scientists awake at night' Dr Daniel Holz, chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and professor at the University of Chicago, said: 'The purpose of the Doomsday Clock is to start a global conversation about the very real existential threats that keep the world's top scientists awake at night. 'National leaders must commence discussions about these global risks before it's too late. Reflecting on these life-and-death issues and starting a dialogue are the first steps to turning back the clock and moving away from midnight.' Over the years, When it was first established, the clock was originally set to seven minutes to midnight and the world reached its safest point in 1991, when it read 17 minutes to midnight as the Cold War officially ended and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty greatly reduced the number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed by the US and Russia. Until recently, the closest the clock had come to midnight was two minutes, which happened in 1953, when the US upgraded its nuclear arsenal with the hydrogen bomb. But ongoing nuclear threats, missile development, climate change and the pandemic have continued to push the hands towards global catastrophe. 'We make an impassioned plea' Experts said the current dangers were being 'greatly exacerbated' by the threat of 'misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories', which 'increasingly blur the line between truth and falsehood'. They warned that 'advances in AI are making it easier to spread false or inauthentic information across the internet – and harder to detect it'. The scientists concluded their statement by saying that 'blindly continuing on the current path is a form of madness', before urging the US, China and Russia to 'pull the world back from the brink'. Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who participated in the 2025 global risk announcement, said: 'The Doomsday Clock is moving at a moment of profound global instability and geopolitical tension.' 'As the hands of the clock get ever closer to midnight, we make an impassioned plea to all leaders: now is the time to act together!'
