Cuba boat shooting, Nvidia and Pentagon v Anthropic
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Hi, I'm Kim Vinnell in Whanganui, New Zealand. It's Thursday, February 26th. Today, Cuba says it's killed exiles who sailed into its waters on a Florida-registered speedboat and started shooting. AI darling NVIDIA beats earnings estimates again, while Anthropic gets new orders from the Pentagon. And the woman who wants to be America's top doctor gets quizzed on vaccines.
What happened during the Cuba boat shooting incident?
This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. At least four Cuban exiles have been killed and another six wounded on board a speedboat. Cuba says the speedboat registered to Florida entered Cuban waters and opened fire on a patrol vessel. Cuban government television, reading an official statement, said the people on board were carrying assault rifles, handguns and Molotov cocktails. The deadly confrontation is bound to raise fresh tensions with the U.S., testing an already volatile relationship. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the speedboat has nothing to do with Washington and that the U.S. is trying to verify the details of the incident.
Reuters' Daniel Trotta is in Havana. with what we know so far.
According to the Cuban government, a group of 10 Cuban exiles formed a commando and attempted to infiltrate Cuba, in their words. They came into Cuban waters on a speedboat from a vessel registered in Florida, When they came across Cuban authorities, the Cuban patrol, they opened fire, according to the Cuban government, in which case the Cubans returned fire, killing four people and injuring six others. According to the Cuban government, these were known Cuban nationals, at least two of whom had been wanted on charges from Cuba previously for plots to attack the country. You have to understand, the Cuban exile community in Florida has long dreamed of overthrowing the Cuban government or seeing it fall.
Cuban exiles have been involved in a number of paramilitary operations over the years, most famously the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, which failed to topple the Castro government at the time.
The timing is particularly sensitive.
This is taking place amid a time of super heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba. Since the Venezuelan operation, President Donald Trump has increased his rhetoric against Cuba, essentially threatening Cuba, using language that Cuba has to change or could face severe consequences.
NVIDIA's quarterly earnings have beaten Wall Street's expectations again, but that might not be enough for investors who closely follow the chipmaker as a bellwether of the AI boom. Here's Reuters tech correspondent Stephen Nellis on the key takeaways from NVIDIA's latest numbers.
The top line from these results is that they are still phenomenally good by any historical standard, but... Only a lukewarm response from investors who have now seen NVIDIA beat its estimates and raise its guidance for something like 14 quarters in a row. So it's hard to argue that these are great results by any standard, but people are just expecting more and more and more from the world's most valuable listed company. I think these results tell us two things about the AI boom. One is that it's still not over in as much as now that the models have been trained and businesses are starting to put them to use, there's still a lot of computing power that has to be built out to use them The other big thing that this says about the nature of the AI computing boom is it has changed how computing happens.
One of the reasons that NVIDIA's results look so impressive is they're rolling a whole bunch of Computing that used to happen among several different companies, you know, maybe Apple for computing that happened on your phone to Intel for computing that may have happened on a PC. And they're rolling kind of all of that up into one company that's providing a lot of the dominant computing power for it. So it looks really big.
For more on how markets are digesting NVIDIA's latest, make sure to listen to today's episode of our sister podcast, Morning Bid.
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