Hurricane Lowell Brings Rain, Fierce Wind and Power Outages on Hawaii's Kauai
Hurricane Lowell dumped heavy rain and knocked out power across Kauai overnight, with utility crews still working to restore service Tuesday morning.
Overnight the Houthis' strikes on Saudi energy facilities pushed Brent crude to $98 as Yemen's civil war keeps bleeding into global oil markets, while Mistral closed a EUR3 billion raise to keep Europe's open-weight AI ambitions alive and Google DeepMind quietly dropped an AlphaGenome atlas mapping how DNA variants drive disease - watch today whether crude keeps climbing and whether more chipmakers follow TSMC and Samsung into ASML's newest tools.
Hurricane Lowell dumped heavy rain and knocked out power across Kauai overnight, with utility crews still working to restore service Tuesday morning.
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