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Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of industry dominance.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, an open-source platform for building autonomous AI agents, and then rattled off the names of the companies that will use it: Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, Cadence, Synopsys, IQVIA, Palantir, Box, Cohesity, Dassault Systèmes, Red Hat, Cisco and Amdocs. Seventeen enterprise software companies, touching virtually every industry and every Fortune 500 corporation, all agreeing to build their next generation of AI products on a shared foundation that Nvidia designed, Nvidia optimizes and Nvidia maintains.The toolkit provides the models, the runtime, the security framework and the optimization libraries that AI agents need to operate autonomously inside organizations — resolving customer service tickets, designing semiconductors, managing clinical trials, orchestrating marketing campaigns. Each component is open source. Each is optimized for Nvidia hardware. The combination means that as AI agents proliferate across the corporate world, they will generate demand for Nvidia GPUs not because companies choose to buy them but because the software they depend on was engineered to require them.”The enterprise software industry will evolve into specialized agentic platforms,” Huang told the crowd, “and the IT industry is on the brink of its next great expansion.” What he left unsaid is that Nvidia has just positioned itself as the tollbooth at the entrance to that expansion — open to all, owned by one.Inside Nvidia’s Agent Toolkit: the software stack designed to power every corporate AI workerTo grasp the significance of Monday’s announcements, it helps to understand the problem Nvidia is solving.Building an enterprise AI agent today is an exercise in frustration. A company that wants to deploy an autonomous system — one that can, say, monitor a telecommunications network and proactively resolve customer issues before anyone calls to complain — must assemble a language model, a retrieval system, a security layer, an orchestration framework and a runtime environment, typically from different vendors whose products were never designed to work together.Nvidia’s Agent Toolkit collapses that complexity into a unified platform. It includes Nemotron, a family of open models optimized for agentic reasoning; AI-Q, an open blueprint that lets agents perceive, reason and act on enterprise knowledge; OpenShell, an open-source runtime enforcing policy-based security, network and privacy guardrails; and cuOpt, an optimization skill library. Developers can use the toolkit to create specialized AI agents that act autonomously while using and building other software to complete tasks.The AI-Q component addresses a pain point that has dogged enterprise AI adoption: cost. Its hybrid architecture routes complex orchestration tasks to frontier models while delegating research tasks to Nemotron’s open models, which Nvidia says can cut query costs by more than 50 percent while maintaining top-tier accuracy. Nvidia used the AI-Q Blueprint to build what it claims is the top-ranking AI agent on both the DeepResearch Bench and DeepResearch Bench II leaderboards — benchmarks that, if they hold under independent validation, position the toolkit as not merely convenient but competitively necessary.OpenShell tackles what has been the single biggest obstacle in every boardroom conversation about letting AI agents loose inside corporate systems: trust. The runtime creates isolated sandboxes that enforce strict policies around data access, network reach and privacy boundaries. Nvidia is collaborating with Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft Security and TrendAI to integrate OpenShell with their existing security tools — a calculated move that enlists the cybersecurity industry as a validation layer for Nvidia’s approach rather than a competing one.The partner list that reads like the Fortune 500: who signed on and what they’re buildingThe breadth of Monday’s enterprise adoption announcements reveals Nvidia’s ambitions more clearly than any specification sheet could.Adobe, in a simultaneously announced strategic partnership, will adopt Agent Toolkit software as the foundation for running hybrid, long-running creativity, productivity and marketing agents. Shantanu Narayen, Adobe’s chair and CEO, said the companies will bring together “our Firefly models, CUDA libraries into our applications, 3D digital twins for marketing, and Agent Toolkit and Nemotron to our agentic frameworks to deliver high-quality, controllable and enterprise-grade AI workflows of the future.” The partnership extends deep: Adobe will explore OpenShell and Nemotron as foundations for personalized, secure agentic loops, and will evaluate the toolkit for large-scale workflows powered by Adobe Experience Platform. Nvidia will provide engineering expertise, early access to software and targeted go-to-market support.Salesforce’s integration may be the one enterprise IT leaders parse most carefully. The company is working with Nvidia Agent Toolkit software including Nemotron models, enabling customers to build, customize and deploy AI agents using Agentforce for service, sales and marketing. The collaboration introduces a reference architecture where employees can use Slack as the primary conversational interface and orchestration layer for Agentforce agents — powered by Nvidia infrastructure — that participate directly in business workflows and pull from data stores in both on-premises and cloud environments. For the millions of knowledge workers who already conduct their professional lives inside Slack, this turns a messaging app into the command center for corporate AI.SAP, whose software underpins the financial and operational plumbing of most Global 2000 companies, is using open Agent Toolkit software including NeMo for enabling AI agents through Joule Studio on SAP Business Technology Platform, enabling customers and partners to design agents tailored to their own business needs. ServiceNow’s Autonomous Workforce of AI Specialists leverage Agent Toolkit software, the AI-Q Blueprint and a combination of closed and open models, including Nemotron and ServiceNow’s own Apriel models — a hybrid approach that suggests the toolkit is designed not to replace existing AI investments but to become the connective tissue between them.From chip design to clinical trials: how agentic AI is reshaping specialized industriesThe partner list extends well beyond horizontal software platforms into deeply specialized verticals where autonomous agents could compress timelines measured in years.In semiconductor design — where a single advanced chip can cost billions of dollars and take half a decade to develop — three of the four major electronic design automation companies are building agents on Nvidia’s stack. Cadence will leverage Agent Toolkit and Nemotron with its ChipStack AI SuperAgent for semiconductor design and verification. Siemens is launching its Fuse EDA AI Agent, which uses Nemotron to autonomously orchestrate workflows across its entire electronic design automation portfolio, from design conception through manufacturing sign-off. Synopsys is building a multi-agent framework powered by its AgentEngineer technology using Nemotron and Nemo Agent Toolkit.Healthcare and life sciences present perhaps the most consequential use case. IQVIA is integrating Nemotron and other Agent Toolkit software with IQVIA.ai, a unified agentic AI platform designed to help life sciences organizations work more efficiently across clinical, commercial and real-world operations. The scale is already significant: IQVIA has deployed more than 150 agents across internal teams and client environments, including 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.The security sector is embedding itself into the architecture from the ground floor. CrowdStrike unveiled a Secure-by-Design AI Blueprint that embeds its Falcon platform protection directly into Nvidia AI agent architectures — including agents built on AI-Q and OpenShell — and is advancing agentic managed detection and response using Nemotron reasoning models. Cisco AI Defense will provide AI security protection for OpenShell, adding controls and guardrails to govern agent actions. These are not aftermarket bolt-ons; they are foundational integrations that signal the security industry views Nvidia’s agent platform as the substrate it needs to protect.Dassault Systèmes is exploring Agent Toolkit software and Nemotron for its role-based AI agents, called Virtual Companions, on its 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform. Atlassian is working with the toolkit as it evolves its Rovo AI agentic strategy for Jira and Confluence. Box is using it to enable enterprise agents to securely execute long-running business processes. Palantir is developing AI agents on Nemotron that run on its sovereign AI Operating System Reference Architecture.The open-source gambit: why giving software away is Nvidia’s most aggressive business moveThere is something almost paradoxical about a company with a multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization giving away its most strategically important software. But Nvidia’s open-source approach to Agent Toolkit is less an act of generosity than a carefully constructed competitive moat.OpenShell is open source. Nemotron models are open. AI-Q blueprints are publicly available. LangChain, the agent engineering company whose open-source frameworks have been downloaded over 1 billion times, is working with Nvidia to integrate Agent Toolkit components into the LangChain deep agent library for developing advanced, accurate enterprise AI agents at scale. When the most popular independent framework for building AI agents absorbs your toolkit, you have transcended the category of vendor and entered the category of infrastructure.But openness in AI has a way of being strategically selective. The models are open, but they are optimized for Nvidia’s CUDA libraries — the proprietary software layer that has locked developers into Nvidia GPUs for two decades. The runtime is open, but it integrates most deeply with Nvidia’s security partners. The blueprints are open, but they perform best on Nvidia hardware. Developers can explore Agent Toolkit and OpenShell on build.nvidia.com today, running on inference providers and Nvidia Cloud Partners including Baseten, CoreWeave, DeepInfra, DigitalOcean and others — all of which run Nvidia GPUs.The strategy has a historical analog in Google’s approach to Android: give away the operating system to ensure that the entire mobile ecosystem generates demand for your core services. Nvidia is giving away the agent operating system to ensure that the entire enterprise AI ecosystem generates demand for its core product — the GPU. Every Salesforce agent running Nemotron, every SAP workflow orchestrated through OpenShell, every Adobe creative pipeline accelerated by CUDA creates another strand of dependency on Nvidia silicon.This also explains the Nemotron Coalition announced Monday — a global collaboration of model builders including Mistral AI, Cursor, LangChain, Perplexity, Reflection AI, Sarvam and Thinking Machines Lab, all working to advance open frontier models. The coalition’s first project will be a base model codeveloped by Mistral AI and Nvidia, trained on Nvidia DGX Cloud, that will underpin the upcoming Nemotron 4 family. By seeding the open model ecosystem with Nvidia-optimized foundations, the company ensures that even models it does not build will run best on its hardware.What could go wrong: the risks enterprise buyers should weigh before going all-inFor all the ambition on display Monday, several realities temper the narrative.Adoption announcements are not deployment announcements. Many of the partner disclosures use carefully hedged language — “exploring,” “evaluating,” “working with” — that is standard in embargoed press releases but should not be confused with production systems serving millions of users. Adobe’s own forward-looking statements note that “due to the non-binding nature of the agreement, there are no assurances that Adobe will successfully negotiate and execute definitive documentation with Nvidia on favorable terms or at all.” The gap between a GTC keynote demonstration and an enterprise-grade rollout remains substantial.Nvidia is not the only company chasing this market. Microsoft, with its Copilot ecosystem and Azure AI infrastructure, pursues a parallel strategy with the advantage of owning the operating systems and productivity software that most enterprises already use. Google, through Gemini and its cloud platform, has its own agent vision. Amazon, via Bedrock and AWS, is building comparable primitives. The question is not whether enterprise AI agents will be built on some platform but whether the market will consolidate around one stack or fragment across several.The security claims, while architecturally sound, remain unproven at scale. OpenShell’s policy-based guardrails are a promising design pattern, but autonomous agents operating in complex enterprise environments will inevitably encounter edge cases that no policy framework has anticipated. CrowdStrike’s Secure-by-Design AI Blueprint and Cisco AI Defense’s OpenShell integration are exactly the kind of layered defense enterprise buyers will demand — but both are newly unveiled, not battle-hardened through years of adversarial testing. Deploying agents that can autonomously access data, execute code and interact with production systems introduces a threat surface that the industry has barely begun to map.And there is the question of whether enterprises are ready for agents at all. The technology may be available, but organizational readiness — the governance structures, the change management, the regulatory frameworks, the human trust — often lags years behind what the platforms can deliver.Beyond agents: the full scope of what Nvidia announced at GTC 2026Monday’s Agent Toolkit announcement did not arrive in isolation. It landed amid an avalanche of product launches that, taken together, describe a company remaking itself at every layer of the computing stack.Nvidia unveiled the Vera Rubin platform — seven new chips in full production, including the Vera CPU purpose-built for agentic AI, the Rubin GPU, and the newly integrated Groq 3 LPU inference accelerator — designed to power every phase of AI from pretraining to real-time agentic inference. The Vera Rubin NVL72 rack integrates 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs, delivering what Nvidia claims is up to 10x higher inference throughput per watt at one-tenth the cost per token compared with the Blackwell platform. Dynamo 1.0, an open-source inference operating system that Nvidia describes as the “operating system for AI factories,” entered production with adoption from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure alongside companies like Cursor, Perplexity, PayPal and Pinterest.The BlueField-4 STX storage architecture promises up to 5x token throughput for the long-context reasoning that agents demand, with early adopters including CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Mistral AI and Nebius. BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan announced Level 4 autonomous vehicle programs on Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion platform, and Uber disclosed plans to launch Nvidia-powered robotaxis across 28 cities and four continents by 2028, beginning with Los Angeles and San Francisco in the first half of 2027.Roche, the pharmaceutical giant, announced it is deploying more than 3,500 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments in the U.S. and Europe — what it calls the largest announced GPU footprint available to a pharmaceutical company. Nvidia also launched physical AI tools for healthcare robotics, with CMR Surgical, Johnson & Johnson MedTech and others adopting the platform, and released Open-H, the world’s largest healthcare robotics dataset with over 700 hours of surgical video. And Nvidia even announced a Space Module based on the Vera Rubin architecture, promising to bring data-center-class AI to orbital environments.The real meaning of GTC 2026: Nvidia is no longer selling picks and shovelsStrip away the product specifications and benchmark claims and what emerges from GTC 2026 is a single, clarifying thesis: Nvidia believes the era of AI agents will be larger than the era of AI models, and it intends to own the platform layer of that transition the way it already owns the hardware layer of the current one.The 17 enterprise software companies that signed on Monday are making a bet of their own. They are wagering that building on Nvidia’s agent infrastructure will let them move faster than building alone — and that the benefits of a shared platform outweigh the risks of shared dependency. For Salesforce, it means Agentforce agents that can draw from both cloud and on-premises data through a single Slack interface. For Adobe, it means creative AI pipelines that span image, video, 3D and document intelligence. For SAP, it means agents woven into the transactional fabric of global commerce. Each partnership is rational on its own terms. Together, they form something larger: an industry-wide endorsement of Nvidia as the default substrate for enterprise intelligence.Huang, who opened his career designing graphics chips for video games, closed his keynote by gesturing toward a future in which AI agents do not just assist human workers but operate as autonomous colleagues — reasoning through problems, building their own tools, learning from their mistakes. He compared the moment to the birth of the personal computer, the dawn of the internet, the rise of mobile computing.Technology executives have a professional obligation to describe every product cycle as a revolution. But here is what made Monday different: this time, 17 of the world’s most important software companies showed up to agree with him. Whether they did so out of conviction or out of a calculated fear of being left behind may be the most important question in enterprise technology — and it is one that only the next few years can answer.

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The Los Angeles Lakers’ championship hopes just took a major hit.NBA scoring leader Luka Dončić will miss the rest of the regular season with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring, the team announced Friday.It’s unclear what his status is for the postseason.Dončić was the main reason the Lakers climbed into the third spot in the Western Conference standings. But an injury to his leg during Los Angeles’ blowout loss in Oklahoma City Thursday has taken that all away after an MRI exam revealed the severity of the strain.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMLakers coach JJ Redick said Dončić was injured in the first half against the Thunder but was cleared to return to the game while his team was getting plastered by the defending NBA champion Thunder. Dončić lasted only about four minutes before he spun, stopped and went down on the court in pain, leading to his departure.The Lakers acquired Dončić in a surprising and controversial trade in February 2025, when the Dallas Mavericks sent the Latvian superstar, along with Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to LA in exchange for 31-year-old Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick. The move left many fans and pundits puzzled, believing the trade was lopsided in favor of the Lakers.The Pacific Division champion Lakers (50-27) have just five games left before the postseason, starting Sunday at Dallas.Grade 2 hamstring strains sometimes require several weeks of recovery, but Dončić also has prior experience with hamstring issues. He missed four games right before the All-Star break with another left hamstring strain but returned to the lineup after the break.LAKERS STAR LUKA DONČIĆ SAYS HE’S IN A CUSTODY BATTLE WITH FIANCÉE OVER DAUGHTERSDončić is putting up spectacular numbers in his first full season with the Lakers, who acquired the Slovenian superstar from the Mavericks last season. He is averaging 33.5 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds per game for Los Angeles, and he was named the NBA’s Western Conference player of the month for March after racking up 13 consecutive 30-point performances, including seven 40-point games, a 51-point barrage against Chicago and a 60-point masterclass in Miami.Dončić scored 600 points in March, becoming only the 10th player in NBA history to hit that mark in a single month. While LeBron James and Austin Reaves have also played well down the stretch, the Lakers depend on Dončić, who either scored or assisted on 58% of their total points in March.The Lakers’ regular-season finale is next Sunday, April 12, at home against Utah. Their first-round playoff series is expected to start the following weekend.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

Tesla has already had a rough run in 2026, but on Thursday, April 2, the stock had its worst session of the year after the company reported first-quarter deliveries that fell short of industry expectations. Analysts at BNP Paribas are sounding the alarm, saying 2026 will be a make-or-break year for the electric vehicle maker. Tesla reported first-quarter production of 408,386 vehicles and deliveries of 358,023, well short of analyst expectations of 370,000 and its internal consensus estimate of 365,000.It wasn’t all bad news: deliveries actually improved 6% year over year, but the increase is somewhat skewed since 2025’s Q1 total was 13% lower than 2024’s. So the company’s comps were favorable. Tesla’s stock fell 5.4% Thursday, bringing its 2026 decline to more than 20% so far. Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 341,893 of the deliveries, while the “other models,” like the Model S and Model X (which will officially end production forever later this year) and the Cybertruck, accounted for the remaining 16,000+ deliveries. But while Musk criticizes the state of California on Twitter, and makes juvenile jokes about rockets, analysts at BNP Paribas have serious concerns about the company, saying its switch away from the Model S and Model X towards Optimus robots and Cybercabs better work, because Tesla’s future may be at stake.

2026 has been a rollercoaster for Tesla so far. Photo by Newsday LLC on Getty Images

Stakes for Tesla ‘could not be higher’ says BNP Paribas analystsEarlier this year, Tesla announced it was pulling the plug on the Model S and Model X and would replace that production capacity with Optimus humanoid robots as part of the company’s plan to build 1 million of them per year. That plan may worry investors, since there is currently no discernible market for humanoid robots, and selling 10,000 of them in a year would be impressive. But the vehicle models the company is getting rid of haven’t sold either, so that it may be a wash in the end. However, analysts at BNP Paribas aren’t taking this Tesla experiment lightly because the company is also spending a lot of money to make it happen. “Given Tesla’s sizable cash burn this year ($7 billion estimate by BNPP) and indications for massive multi-year investments on the horizon tied to a TeraFab and 100 GW solar capacity, the ‘stakes’ of TSLA’s demonstrated robotaxi and Optimus progress could not be higher,” analysts said in a note Thursday. According to BNP, the other models that combined delivered 16,000 vehicles in the quarter benefited from demand that was artificially inflated, so once again, moving off of them makes sense. However, Musk has made some pretty big promises about what Optimus and Robotaxi can do, and the firm says it’s time for Tesla to put up or shut up in 2026. “We view 1Q26’s deliveries – modestly below consensus – as yet another input to the TSLA stock’s challenged setup for this year, with EGS storage deployments also meaningfully light,” BNP analysts said. “A critical factor to this year is the Co.’s progress rate in its active Robotaxi fleet, which is climbing yet still limited to just two cities. The core catalysts for TSLA center on its ability to show meaningful progress toward its AI-defined future, inclusive of Robotaxi fleet expansion (targeting 7 new cities in 1H26) and commercialized production of Optimus by year-end.”Related: Rivian and Lucid can operate like Tesla after new legislative winIf their analysis seems a bit dim, the firm is one of the few on Wall Street with a negative view of the stock. BNP reiterated its underperform rating and $280 price target on Tesla shares, representing a potential 22% downside from the stock’s current level. Tesla investors get good news out of the latest delivery dataIt wasn’t all doom and gloom for Tesla in the first quarter. The electric vehicle maker topped Chinese rival BYD for the global EV sales crown, and the company even increased deliveries in BYD’s home country as sales of Model 3 and Model Y cars made in Tesla’s Shanghai factory, which includes exports to Europe and other markets, rose by nearly 9% year over year to 85,670, Reuters reported. It was the fifth straight month of rising sales and the second straight quarter of year-over-year gains. After losing close to half of its market share in Europe last year, driven by numerous issues, including CEO Elon Musk’s increased involvement in politics. The company is showing signs of recovery in the region so far in 2026. Year over year, Tesla registrations in France rose 55% in February, 74% in Spain, and 32% in Norway. Tesla more than doubled its sales in Portugal, with registrations jumping 112%.France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands account for 60% of European EV sales on their own, and the results are mixed.France and Germany saw registration gains of 52% and 24%, respectively, while Belgium and the Netherlands experienced declines of 11.5% and 35.4%, respectively.Tesla’s sales in Europe declined by nearly 40% from January to April 2025, compared to the same period the previous year. In June, sales dropped another 39%. Tesla’s first-half sales were down 44% in Europe, per the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).That trend followed into the second half of 2025 across the continent, including the United Kingdom, where registrations dropped by more than 29% in December.The year 2025 was the second consecutive year of declining Tesla sales in Europe. Last year, they fell 27%, despite the company introducing newer, cheaper versions of its top-selling Model Y and Model 3 vehicles.Tesla’s market share in the EU, Britain, and the European Free Trade Association fell to 0.8% in January, well below its 1.8% market share in 2025, 2.5% in 2024, and 2.9% the year before that.Related: Tesla gets some more good news from a key region

Beyond Meat made headlines in 2019 when it went public. I remember my vegetarian friends raving about how great it was and how their burgers nearly tasted like meat.Now I am surprised when I see Beyond Meat burgers on a menu, since it seems as if they’re not as common anymore.And apparently, I am not the only one. The company is trying to rebrand itself less as a protein company known as Beyond The Plant Protein Co. or simply Beyond, but it doesn’t seem to be working.Its stock has hovered at less than $1 for several months, and it’s been on the brink of bankruptcy, TheStreet reported back in December.Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown says he knows why the company is struggling, and that it has nothing to do with how the company is run.  

Americans aren’t buying as much plant-based protein as they used to. Shutterstock

Beyond Meat reports more lossesBeyond Meat made several changes to its business recently, including restructuring its debt. This has cost the company dearly.An inventory problem caused it to delay filing its 2025 financial report, according to TheStreet.Beyond Meat reported a 19.7% decrease in net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025 at just $61.6 million and operating losses of $132.7 million.Its 2005 full-year results weren’t that great, either.Beyond Meat 2025 financial highlightsThe company saw a 15.6% decline in revenue compared to the year prior, with just $275.5 million.The gross profit of Beyond Meat was also down, at just $7.6 million, compared to $41.7 million in 2024.The company also lost significant money from running its business. It reported a loss of $332.7 million, which was related to some of its assets being written down in value.Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $178.4 million, compared to a loss of $101.7 million in 2024.But while Beyond Meat’s CEO acknowledged the financial impact that restructuring has had on the company’s bottom line, he says the blame lies with how American society sees meat alternatives.Beyond Meat CEO blames Americans’ changing beliefsPlant-based meat overall has been struggling. Protein alternatives just aren’t as popular with Americans as they were six years ago. Annual sales fell in 2025 to near 2019 levels, when Beyond Meat became popular, according to BNP Media’s National Provisioner.It’s the move away from meat alternatives and sound science and belief in “pseudoscientific jargon” that is hurting Beyond Meat’s bottom line, said Brown.“This is a very difficult period for the world, and it’s a difficult period for our country…. Nothing in our lane is a more obvious representation of this troubling trend than the resurgence of red meat,” he said during an earnings report call on March 31 .More retail stocksWalmart fires OpenAI in playbook-changing moveCostco CEO just gave members a new reason to renewBath & Body Works makes big change customers will notice right awayHis comments were a clear stab at guidance from the Make America Healthy Again movement led by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Dietary guidelines from the U.S. government released in January put red meat at the top of the food pyramid. That’s despite health warnings from experts on the dangers of eating too much red meat, according to the Harvard School of Public Health.“I can only look at these current trends with a mixture of sadness for the folks that are going to be impacted by it and increased impatience for those that are seeking to profit from it,” Brown said.Despite the change in guidance from the U.S. government, Brown is optimistic that it’s just a fad and that Beyond Meat “will prosper” when protein alternatives are popular again.“We’re really well positioned to look outside the category and take that technology, take that science, take that brand into segments and categories that are many, many, many, many times the size of the plant-based meat category,” he said.Related: Low-priced Walmart rival steps up expansion plans

Breaking down all the ramifications (on and off the court) of Luka Dončić’s catastrophic Grade 2 hamstring injury.

Micro AI Sentry Guns May Be Next Layer Of Defense For Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drones

Submitted by Cameron Rowe, Co-Founder and CEO of Sentradel, 

Most people don’t think about what the “cloud” actually is. It’s a physical building full of servers storing everything from your medical records to your social media. Every Google search, every ChatGPT query, every hospital pulling up your health history routes through a data center. Right now, those buildings have about as much aerial protection as your local Costco.

In March 2026, Iranian Shahed drones struck three AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. Multiple availability zones went down simultaneously, taking core services like EC2, S3, and Lambda offline, cascading outages to banks, payment platforms, and ride-hailing apps across the region. It was the first confirmed kinetic attack on a hyperscale data center run by a U.S. company. Shortly after, Iranian state media published a list of “Enemy Technology Infrastructure,” including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle facilities, painting targets on every major cloud provider in contested regions.

Yes, the cloud is distributed. Workloads can fail over. But data still lives somewhere physical, and partial corruption or destruction can be devastating in ways a temporary outage doesn’t capture. Medical records, financial transactions, and AI training datasets are worth hundreds of millions. When those are gone, they’re gone.

Global data center capex is approaching $1 trillion in 2026. The top four hyperscalers are collectively spending nearly $600 billion on infrastructure this year. That’s the physical backbone of modern life, sitting behind chain-link fences, with no ability to stop a drone costing between $30,000 and $80,000.

These facilities were never built to survive military threats. Security was designed around physical intrusion and cyberattacks, not one-way attack drones that cost a fraction of what they destroy.

Decentralization helps at the margins, but hundreds of billions of dollars poured into existing mega facilities can’t be shifted overnight. The real answer is layered detection and intercept: radar, RF sensors, EO/IR tracking, and kinetic or electronic defeat systems working together around these sites.

Autonomous counter-drone system

Watch: Autonomous counter-drone system

The military may eventually provide coverage for the most critical nodes, but they’ll prioritize their own assets first. And human life should come before server racks. That’s exactly why data centers need to be more proactive about protecting their own infrastructure rather than waiting for someone else to do it. Sentradel is already marketing counter-drone solutions to data center operators; it’s likely to become more important over the next year as these kamikaze drones continue to improve rapidly in AI, speed, and payload. 

Tyler Durden
Fri, 04/03/2026 – 20:00

Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell on Friday threatened FBI agents during an appearance on CNN on Friday.
Swalwell ran to CNN to discuss Trump’s decision to fire Pam Bondi as Attorney General.
The Democrat lawmaker who is currently running for governor of California, claimed FBI agents are being asked to break the law every single day.
“To the FBI agents who are being asked to break the law every single day. What we want to make clear, and I know this comes from Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, who will have the subpoena power next Congress,” Swalwell said without offering any proof whatsoever.
He continued, “You will be protected if you come forward right now.”
“If you do not come forward right now and you enable more corruption on Epstein or the weaponization, you will be before Congress and it will all come out,” Swalwell said.
Even CNN was skeptical.
“What evidence do you have that the FBI agents are being asked to break the law every single day?” CNN asked Swalwell.
Swalwell cited a report from the Washington Post and The New York Times.
“This Washington Post reporting and The New York Times reporting that they are essentially being asked to collude with the Chinese government to interfere in the California’s governors race,” Swalwell said.
WATCH:

Eric Swalwell is panicking as Kash Patel pushes to release salacious files related to his relationship with Chinese spy and honeypot Fang Fang.
Lawyers for Rep Eric Swalwell sent FBI Director Kash Patel cease and desist letter earlier this week.
Credit: Facebook
“Attorneys for Rep. Eric Swalwell demanded in a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel that the bureau refrain from releasing decade-old investigative files involving the congressman’s purported ties to a suspected Chinese intelligence operative,” the Washington Post reported on Monday.
“Swalwell’s attorneys said in their letter that there was no justification for releasing the files, especially since the congressman had assisted the FBI in its investigation,” WaPo reported.
“The congressman has never been accused of wrongdoing in that matter and your attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for governor of California,” the letter said, according to WaPo. “Your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability.”
According to Axios, Fang Fang was a “bundler” for Eric Swalwell and other Democrat candidates but it was also reported the Chinese spy had an intimate relationship with Swalwell.
A source on Capitol Hill previously confirmed to the Federalist that Swalwell indeed had a sexual relationship with Fang Fang.
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A “repeat offender” coyote has been captured and euthanized after being caught on camera biting and attempting to drag away a four-year-old boy standing in his grandparents’ driveway in Southern California earlier this week.Four-year-old Solomon suffered seven puncture wounds on his legs and torso after the coyote bit and attempted to drag the young boy away in heart-stopping video caught on surveillance camera.”I just hear him screaming and I turn around and I scream as well because I see the coyote on top of him,” Solomon’s mother Sarina Donohoo told FOX 11 Los Angeles.TODDLER FLEES IN TERROR AS COYOTE CHASES HIM OUTSIDE CALIFORNIA FAMILY HOME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT”He bit me,” Solomon said. “He tried to drag me.”The California Department of Fish and Wildlife believes the animal may be responsible for even more attacks than initially believed, according to reporting from FOX 11 Los Angeles. The coyote may have been a “repeat offender,” with the animal linked to two additional victims reporting attacks on March 26 and March 30. According to FOX 11, DNA testing linked the coyote to a separate attack on a child on Feb. 11 near an elementary school. Wildlife authorities confirmed with FOX 11 that the coyote was “humanely euthanized” on Thursday per “standard protocol” for animals that attack humans.OREGON CHILD ATTACKED BY COYOTE DURING GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK IN BACKYARD; STATE OFFICIALS SOUND ALARM”For a wild animal to walk up into your yard and try to snatch your grandchild, it’s like the most horrific thing in the world,” Solomon’s grandmother and property owner Stephanie Fields added.The terrifying incident happened early in the morning, just before 9 a.m., as his mother was unloading groceries from her vehicle.”I was so scared because I know how bad it could have been,” Sarina said, recalling the chilling incident. “My initial response was just, I need to get him away.”Grandfather Stanley Fields shared that little Solomon is now undergoing a series of rabies treatments.”He got nipped three times, and now he’s going through rabies protocol,” Stanley said. “He’s four years old, and I just think it was a little much for a young child to experience.”A neighbor who operates a nearby daycare told FOX 11 she now carries an air horn and a golf club for protection in the area.Authorities have urged residents in the neighborhood to “remain vigilant” as officials confirm whether other aggressive coyotes remain in the area, according to FOX 11.Other recommendations for residents include supervising small children, especially outdoors, and using loud noises like air horns to deter wild animals. Residents are also encouraged to secure any food waste and trash bins.Authorities encourage witnesses to call the Carson Sheriff’s Station at 310-830-1123 for coyote attacks or California Fish & Wildlife at 858-467-4257 for coyote sightings.

President Donald Trump wants to take the U.S. military back to the days of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On Friday, according to Just the News, Trump asked Congress for a $1.5 trillion military budget in fiscal year 2027.
A pair of White House fact sheets provided details.
“The Budget request for the Department of War (DOW) advances President Trump’s delivery of peace through strength by reinvesting in the foundations of American military power — from defense industrial capacity to the readiness and health of the force — and ensuring the United States maintains the world’s most powerful and capable military by continuing to invest in innovative programs such as the Golden Dome for America,” the first fact sheet read.
The president’s “peace through strength” budget request came as the Iran war neared the end of its fifth week.
“The Budget builds upon the historic $1 trillion overall Defense topline for 2026 and requests $1.5 trillion in total budgetary resources for 2027. This is a $445 billion or 42-percent increase from the 2026 total resource level,” the first fact sheet added.
The president’s budget also included a 10 percent reduction in non-defense spending. “Savings are achieved by reducing or eliminating woke, weaponized, and wasteful programs, and by returning State and local responsibilities to their respective governments,” the document said, adding that it still provides “for our Nation’s veterans, seniors, law enforcement, and other critical priorities for the Federal Government.”
Meanwhile, Trump requested increases for DHS and the Department of Justice as part of his commitment to cracking down on crime, particularly migrant crime.
Other highlights included funding for veterans, fraud prevention, and the beautification of Washington, D.C.
The overwhelming focus, however, was on the proposed military buildup.
“Supporting American Maritime Dominance,” for instance, figured prominently on the White House’s first fact sheet. In fact, the new budget request builds on what the White House called “the largest consistent shipbuilding order by any administration since Franklin Roosevelt’s World War II ship buys.”
A second fact sheet, focused solely on “Rebuilding Our Military,” also emphasized the Trump administration’s historic spending request.
“For FY 2027, the Budget proposes $1.15 trillion in discretionary (28% increase) and $350 billion in mandatory bringing total resources for defense to $1.5 trillion (including a 44% increase for the Department of War (DOW),” the second fact sheet read.
“This amount exceeds even the Reagan buildup by approaching the historic increases just prior to World War II, a level that recognizes the current global threat environment and restores the readiness and lethality of our forces. The whole of government, whole of nation shipbuilding order of 41 ships alone represents the largest demand signal to the maritime industrial base since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” the White House added.
In his 1989 Farewell Address, President Ronald Reagan identified the federal budget deficit among his regrets.
According to the U.S. Treasury, the national debt at the end of fiscal year 1989 stood at $2.857 trillion. By the end of fiscal year 2025, the debt approached $38 trillion.
As of April 2026, the national debt has soared past $39 trillion.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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