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Ap Iorwerth says it is “the greatest privilege of my life” to be Plaid’s first Welsh government leader. Source link
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., May 5, 2026. Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe U.S.-Iran war drags on with no sign yet of a peace deal. Someone needs to tell the stock market. After a small early drawdown near the outset of the war, the S&P 500 has rebounded to all-time highs, closing above 7,400 on Monday for the first time ever even as oil prices remain at elevated levels. Some say the equity market is ignoring the coming impact of the war, fueled by speculative activity. But it’s more…
Union says BP delaying negotiations following Whiting refinery lockout Source link
Such a distributed computing network makes sense in that “computation for AI inference can and should be distributed at the ‘edge,’ deployed on smaller platforms closer to population centers and users,” said Benjamin Lee, a computer architect and engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, in correspondence with Ars. “The strategy could impose much smaller impacts on the grid because inference requires a few GPUs, unlike training which requires thousands of them working in concert,” he said. However, AI inference tasks can be as varied as document question-and-answer, software code generation, and multi-turn conversations—each with different computational requirements and performance expectations,…
Sir Keir Starmer will meet Wes Streeting for talks after a day that saw his leadership come under significant pressure. Source link
Containers at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, March 26, 2026. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMonths after the Supreme Court ruled some tariffs were unconstitutional, the first round of tariff refunds has begun flowing in.Oshkosh Corporation CFO Matt Field confirmed to CNBC that the company has started receiving tariff refunds as of Tuesday.”Following acceptance of our initial filing, we have begun receiving payments on our tariff refund claims, representing an initial portion of our total claims submitted,” Field said.The company has not yet verified its total refund amount, Field added. Basic Fun, the…
Walmart lays off or relocates about 1,000 corporate workers, WSJ reports Source link
“Yeah, they could,” Sohaib agreed. Muneeb noted that an employee they knew would “have some work to do” when the destruction was revealed. Sohaib fed Muneeb more suggestions. “Delete their filesystem as well?” he said. “Smart idea,” said Muneeb. Sohaib then wondered if they had been too hasty. Perhaps, he said, “You shoulda had a kill script. Like, blackmailing them for some money would have been—” “No, you do not do that, that’s proof of guilt, man,” Muneeb said. “No, but the thing was, you always have your opinion,” Sohaib complained, and the two then bickered about whether they might…
King Charles III will attend Parliament to deliver the speech outlining the government’s agenda. Source link
DETROIT — An ominous email about an oddly timed 15-minute virtual meeting. A scripted message from human resources. And an abrupt end to that meeting, as well as their job. That’s how General Motors employees who were laid off Monday by the Detroit automaker described their jobs being terminated to CNBC.”No appreciation or empathy. No questions. Nothing,” said a data analyst who worked for more than a decade at the automaker.The layoffs affect about 500 to 600 employees, largely in information technology roles in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, according to a person at GM familiar with the layoffs who…