why Assad’s army failed to fight in Syria

By Maya Gebeily, Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Ahmed Rasheed and Timour Azhari DAMASCUS/AMMAN/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just had three, after some had bribed the commanding officers to escape serving, … Read more

CEO Jensen Huang talked up Blackwell but failed to satisfy Wall Street’s sky-high expectations

Noah Berger/Getty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BI; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI Nvidia reported its second-quarter earnings after Wednesday’s closing bell. The chipmaker beat second-quarter revenue and EPS estimates. However, Nvidia’s stock slid after its Q3 revenue guidance failed to hit the most bullish of expectations. Nvidia’s delivered strong second-quarter earnings on Wednesday — but that wasn’t enough to … Read more