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MONACO, May 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Safe Bulkers, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: SB), an international provider of marine dry bulk transportation services, announced today that it has entered into agreements for the sale of two vessels: MV Xenia, a 2006 Japanese-built Post-Panamax dry bulk vessel, for a gross sale price of $13.0 million, and MV Pedhoulas Commander, a 2008 Japanese-built Kamsarmax dry bulk vessel, for a gross sale price of $14.7 million. Both vessels are expected to be delivered to their new owners with their scheduled dry-dockings due, upon completion of their current voyages.Dr. Loukas Barmparis, President of the Company, commented: “As part of our fleet renewal strategy, we have recently divested our oldest Kamsarmax and Post-Panamax vessels, following our continued investment in modern newbuilds. These well-timed divestments support our objective of maintaining a young, modern, fuel-efficient, and environmentally advanced fleet. Since 2022, we have taken delivery of thirteen IMO GHG Phase 3 – NOx Tier III vessels, and our current orderbook includes eleven additional newbuilds, with delivery schedules aligned to our fleet age profile.”*About Safe Bulkers, Inc.*The Company is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along worldwide shipping routes for some of the world’s largest users of marine drybulk transportation services. The Company’s common stock, series C preferred stock and series D preferred stock are listed on the NYSE, and trade under the symbols “SB”, “SB.PR.C” and “SB.PR.D”, respectively.*Forward-Looking Statements*This press release contains forward-looking statements (as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) concerning future events, the Company’s growth strategy and measures to implement such strategy, including expected vessel acquisitions and entering into further time charters. Words such as “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “hopes,” “estimates” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, no assurance can be given that such expectations will prove to have been correct. These statements involve known and unknown risks and are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, business disruptions due to natural disasters or other events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, changes in the demand for dry-bulk vessels, competitive factors in the market in which the Company operates, changes in TCE rates, changes in fuel prices, risks associated with operations outside the United States, general domestic and international political conditions, tariffs imposed as a result of trade war and trade protectionism, uncertainty in the banking sector and other related market volatility, disruption of shipping routes due to political events, risks associated with vessel construction and other factors listed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company expressly disclaims any obligations or undertakings to release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in the Company’s expectations with respect thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any statement is based.*For further information please contact:**Company Contact:*Dr. Loukas BarmparisPresidentSafe Bulkers, Inc.Tel.: +30 2 111 888 400Fax: +30 2 111 878 500E-Mail: directors@safebulkers.com*Investor Relations / Media Contact:*Nicolas Bornozis, President Capital Link, Inc.230 Park Avenue, Suite 1536 New York, N.Y. 10169Tel.: (212) 661-7566Fax: (212) 661-7526E-Mail: safebulkers@capitallink.com

Blackjack and buildup I was seven years old when my father first taught me how to play blackjack. Whether that is a particularly normal thing to teach a child of that age is perhaps a conversation for another time, but it is, for me, a formative and happy childhood memory. Having spent the better part of a week vacationing at my father’s boss’s coastal vacation home, we were beginning to run out of card games to play. Old Maid, Go Fish, Kings In the Corner, Spades, Cheat, Spoons, and Uno had all been played ad nauseam, and the beach-house (very purposely) lacked a television set, much less a VCR. We had only ourselves, and our diversions, and the ocean at the shore. It was, in retrospect, a remarkably lo-fi moment in our lives, preceding the technological onslaught to come. We read books out loud, and wrestled on the living room floor, and spent time on the beach until our burgeoning sunburns drove us back inside like vampires fleeing the dawn. We marinated in the scent of spices and fresh crustacean boiling in the cavernous kitchen, and sprawled about the dining room table telling all the jokes we knew, and making up worse ones. And then, after the meal, it was down to business. “Remember, the dealer has to take a hit on 16 or lower”, my father reminded me, as I asked for a somewhat inadvisable hit on a 17 of my own. “What’s a hard 17 again?” “A 17 with no aces.” “Oh, I have an ace. What does that mean?” “That means you have a soft 17. Your ace can be an 11 or a 1.” “It’s a 1 if I go over, right?” “Right. But right now I’m showing a 6, which mean I’ll probably have to take a hit unless I have an ace too.” “Because the dealer has to stand on 17, right?” “In our game, yes. But not in all games. In our game, if I have an ace, we’ll push. We’ll tie.” “I don’t wanna tie. I wanna win. I want a card.” The card came off the deck and revealed itself as a 2. “Ok, that’s 19. Do you want to stay?” “The next card will be high, right?” “Maybe. It’s not looking good for me.” “Yeah, I’ll stay.” My father flipped his second card. It was also an ace. “Well, that’s 17. I have to stay.” “I win?” “Yep. But only in our game. In a casino maybe not. I’d get to take another hit.” “Good thing we’re not at a casino.” “Mhmm. And that it’s not your money. It’s harder when it’s your money.” “How is it harder?” “Well, do you have any money?” “No. I spent it all.” “I guess you’ll just have to find out one day.” We spent the rest of the vacation playing blackjack when we were indoors, until I was certain I’d mastered the game. I knew when to take a hit. I knew when to stand. I’d gotten good at anticipating what might be coming based on what was on the board. It wasn’t card counting per se, but it was the best I’d ever been with numbers. We ended up playing blackjack on a lot of subsequent vacations, and I was delighted to find in adulthood, in my first encounter with Las Vegas, that I’d retained the knoweldge. Maybe that shouldn’t have been so surprising considering how I took to compiling and accumulating box scores in the years just after that first brush with Vingt-et-un. I’d cut them out of newspapers the night after games (when the paper had been fully read) and keep them in my room, sometimes on my walls (like Tim Duncan’s Game 6 masterpiece against the New Jersey Nets), but more often in piles on the top of my dresser, or the tiny square of laminate ‘wood’ with legs that I called a desk. It felt like there was more information than the information I was getting, as I tracked the ups-and-downs of important Spurs players in my spiral notebooks. Having gone through much of my mother’s storage, I suspect that they are long-lost at this point, but I still fantasize about finding the notebook that I dedicated to Stephen Jackson, Malik Rose, and Speedy Claxton, as I tried to figure out which one the Spurs should make an effort to keep. I’m not 100% sure why these were the memories that San Antonio’s thrashing of the Minnesota Timberwolves triggered for me. I was certain that the game was over halfway through third quarter, in the midst of the 3rd straight 36+ point frame from the Silver and Black, just on the conscious side of dozing with the comforting weight of my daughter sleeping on my chest. (Her sole contribution before passing out was to remark that 100 is a big number) With every closing flicker of my own eyelids came a memory. With every opening, the massacre of reality. How am I going to write about this? Do I just say that everyone played well? I mean, they really did. Kelly Olynyk, Jordan McLaughlin, and Lindy Waters III all played two thirds of the fourth quarter. Only one member of the regular rotation played more than 27 minutes. With eight minutes left in the game and a 30 point deficit, the valiant but ailing Anthony Edwards personally congratulated Spurs players before retiring to rest his banged-up knees for next season, the opposite of the comportment of the extra-physical ‘Jordan Rule’ Pistons that they were sometimes exasperatingly compared to at the start of the series. In the end they were more paper tigers than the superstar thwarters so many outside the fan-base had hoped they’d be. Whether by dint of injury and/or inferior roster flexibility, they were forced to stand on 17. The Spurs were playing with house money, deeper and more advantageously capable of adjusting, and lacking a certain weight of expectation due to the seasons preceding this one. And while I have spent most of this year’s postseason blowouts reminding myself and others not to put the cart before the horse, I couldn’t help but look ahead to the match-up on the horizon, and the reality that expectations are about to really and truly change. Before the opening of the season, even the most ardent of Spurs supporters and journalists considered the Western Conference Finals to be the absolute and remotest peak on the horizon. Most agreed that avoiding the Play-In and defeating a first round opponent would be an acceptable and reasonable limit. But now the Spurs are on the doorstep of a Finals appearance in Victor Wembanyama’s 3rd season, and facing a team they went 4-1 against in the regular season. The rules have changed. All things considered, the Thunder are more flexible and more talented and healthier than the Timberwolves were, and just as (if not more) physical, with a habitually favorable whistle to boot. The Spurs can’t count on them to stand on a soft 17. The Thunder are going to take the hit. They’re going to have home-court advantage. They’re the house, and the house has the odds in their favor. It’s almost guaranteed that the Spurs will have to make the exactly right play at the exactly right time, and this time, they won’t be able to afford the lapses they had against the Trailblazers and the Timberwolves. They are no longer playing with house money. The cost will be their own, and that of the city that supports them. A loss here might haunt them, and that can go two very different ways. They’re too young to know better, and I sincerely hope that they get to stay that way. Playing in Vegas with my own cash at stake, I found myself second-guessing moves that I would never have thought about twice in the past. It was money that I had set aside for exactly that purpose, but the brain can have expectations in direct opposition to that of the nervous system in the same way that Spurs fans can intellectually hold reasonable perspectives about how this team has exceeded all expectations and still become unmoored by the not-unreasonable desire for more. It’s strange to be experiencing this all over again at the age I am now. I’ve seen variations of this story play out before, and I can see most of the plot points before they arrive, and yet it’s somehow a new experience all over again, except that now instead of the youth being soothed by the experience of the adults on the court, I find myself carrying hopefully anxiety for the prosperity of youth. I wonder how much more of my life will become that way. And yet, I find that the wonderful chaos of this season and postseason has revealed itself as an ace in a soft 17. Hit me. I’m ready for whatever card is next. 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The Strait of Hormuz has just told us something we were not ready to hear. Not about Iran, not about shipping lanes, not even about oil prices, though all of that is true. What Hormuz exposed is the scale of our energy appetite, and how much larger that appetite is about to become. It is a story about our demand that just got a great deal larger than anyone planned for. Energy has rewritten civilization before. Coal powered the industrial revolution. Oil built the world most of us were born into: the supply chains, the suburbs, the geopolitical arrangements we now call normal. Each transformation unlocked new capabilities and led to consequences that were only understood after the damage proved structural. We have now entered a fourth industrial revolution, and it is an energy omnivore with no natural ceiling. It builds more servers, trains larger models, and demands more power in a loop that shows no sign of closing. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2030, global data center electricity consumption will more than double, reaching the equivalent of Japan’s entire annual electricity use today. That number was not in any serious climate projection five years ago. Europeans have long absorbed high energy prices, and the current crisis has increased that strain. Americans have now felt it too, at the pump, and that matters. Americans drive twice as many miles per year as the average European. But the pump is the least of it. The next crisis may not be a war in a distant strait. It may be a brownout anywhere in America where data centers have outpaced the grid, and a utility bill that keeps rising to pay for infrastructure nobody planned for. One in six American households is already behind on electricity payments. The pump was just the beginning. Nobody in power is treating this as the emergency it is. The 21st century was supposed to run on two great industrial promises: decarbonization and digitalization. They were presented as compatible, even mutually reinforcing. But, they are not. The AI buildout is consuming energy faster than the renewable buildout can produce it, which means in practice that AI growth is being powered by fossil fuels and the emissions trajectory is bending the wrong way. Decarbonization is not being replaced by digitalization. It is being quietly suffocated by it. For years the energy conversation has been about which source: fossil fuels or renewables. That was the wrong question. The question is how much. Countries that moved fastest on electrification, China most visibly, now hold a strategic advantage, not primarily a climate credential. They built capacity and called it competitiveness. What follows is a global scramble in which investment becomes a lever. Fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables, all pursued simultaneously, not because anyone has a coherent plan, but because demand is outrunning every plan that exists. The Hormuz crisis fits this logic exactly. It is not an interruption of the normal order. It is a preview of what normal looks like when energy scarcity starts to bite. The Strait of Hormuz made it personal. The disruption at the pump, the surcharges, the chaos rippling through supply chains: These are real. They are the cost of a dependency we have never seriously audited. Every war, every supply chain, every server farm, every suburb runs on energy. We have treated energy like infrastructure; invisible until it fails. Hormuz is reminding us it is politics. The Gulf has always been where the world’s interests converge, and that is not changing. What needs to change is what we are dependent on and how much we consume. Hormuz is forcing that conversation. Not which energy source wins, but whether we are willing to reckon honestly with how much energy the world we are building actually requires. The climate is not waiting for that answer. Neither, as it turns out, is the Strait of Hormuz. Sophia Kalantzakos is a professor of environmental studies and public policy in the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is author of “China and Geopolitics of Rare Earths” and “The EU, US, and China Tackling Climate Change: Policies and Alliances for the Anthropocene.”

Partnership Between LaGuardia Gateway Partners and Conrac Solutions Will Double Electric Charging Infrastructure at Terminal B in Support of Port Authority’s Roadmap to Net-Zero Emissions by 2050 The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP), the manager and developer of LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B, announced a critical project that will install electric ground support equipment (eGSE) charging infrastructure across Terminal B’s airside and baggage areas. LGP will work with Conrac Solutions, a leader in the development, operations, and financing of airport infrastructure, to design, construct, maintain and provide interim financing for the terminal’s eGSE infrastructure. Through this project, LGP continues to set the standard for sustainability and stewardship in aviation infrastructure. The project — which is anticipated to be completed in 2027 — includes the installation of 164 new eGSE charging ports across both of the terminal’s concourses and the baggage hall, more than doubling the existing charging capacity. This initiative supports the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The ongoing transition to eGSE from equipment powered by fossil fuels is a significant step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuel-powered ground service equipment accounts for 4 percent of emissions by the Port Authority’s operational partners. In addition to a transition to eGSE at the agency’s airports, the Port Authority’s roadmap to net-zero emissions includes increasing use of electric vehicles and equipment, building decarbonization, solar expansion, clean construction strategies andcooperative actions with tenants and contractorsacross all facilities. Preliminary data showsthe agency met its interim target of a 35 percent reductionin direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. The agency also remains committed to its longer-term goals of a 50 percent reduction of direct emissions by 2030 and full net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Transitioning from ground support equipment powered by fossil fuels to electric equipment is one of the dozens of strategies the Port Authority has identified to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the agency,” saidPort Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia. “LaGuardia Gateway Partners’ plan to more than double the number of electric charging stations at Terminal B is a welcome contribution to the Port Authority’s commitment to reaching net-zero by 2050.” “Nearly five years ago, we set a net-zero goal for 2050 that spans every facility we operate and involves every partner we work with,” saidPort Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole. “Expanding the infrastructure needed to support electric ground support equipment at Terminal B demonstrates the shared commitment by LaGuardia Gateway Partners and the Port Authority to reach our goals and to reduce our carbon footprint.” “LaGuardia Gateway Partners has prioritized sustainability throughout the redevelopment and operation of Terminal B. Today, in partnership with Conrac Solutions, we’re proud to announce yet another eco-friendly infrastructure project to electrify the terminal’s ground support equipment,” saidSuzette Noble, chief executive officer of LaGuardia Gateway Partners. “This project addresses the critical needs of our airline partners while maintaining our commitment to continually reducing our carbon footprint, raising the bar for what is traditionally expected of an airport terminal.” “This project represents a pivotal expansion for Conrac Solutions beyond car rental facilities and into specialized infrastructure for airports and airline operations,” saidJoshua Blum, CEO of Conrac Solutions. “As airports navigate capital investment and resiliency challenges, we are pleased to provide a scalable solution at LaGuardia Terminal B that maximizes existing electrical infrastructure while advancing sustainability and improving operational uptime.” Conrac Solutions is providing interim financing and will install the 164 new charging ports through a five-phase rollout. Upon completion, it will maintain all 250 charging ports, including the 86 existing charging ports, under an eight-year operations and maintenance agreement. The project is also pursuing funding through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emissions program, which supports clean technology initiatives designed to improve airport air quality. This project follows Conrac Solutions’ successful delivery, finance, and operation of the $580 million consolidated rental car facility and public parking facility at Newark Liberty International Airport, which opened in 2023. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is undertaking a historic redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport, of which Terminal B is one part. LGP won the bid issued by the Port Authority to deliver the extensive capital redevelopment project of Terminal B and provide world-class terminal facilities and operations for passengers and airlines. In 2022, the $5.1 billion Terminal B project — a public-private partnership — finished on time and budget. In 2023, LaGuardia’s Terminal B became the first airport terminal in North America to be awarded a perfect 5-star rating for customer experience by Skytrax. LaGuardia’s Terminal B is home to Air Canada, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Porter Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines. About LaGuardia Gateway Partners LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) is the private manager and developer of the new award-winning, state-of-the-art LaGuardia Terminal B. LGP is composed of Vantage Group and Meridiam for development and equity investment with Vantage Group leading the terminal management. About Conrac Solutions Conrac Solutionsis an innovative sector leader pioneering the delivery of consolidated rent-a-car facility projects, operations and finance in the infrastructure and aviation sectors. Conrac Solutions is owned byMeridiam, an independent investment Certified B Corporation and an asset manager that specializes in development, financing, and long-term management of sustainable infrastructure assets. Developed to address the unique combined needs of airports and their partners, CS methodology provides a collective solution for on-airport stakeholder requirements, an enhanced traveler experience, and reduced environmental footprint.

Bioluminescence is one of nature’s coolest tricks. Organisms in many kingdoms of life—including animals, plants and fungi—cancreate their own lightthrough chemical reactions in their cells. The trait isn’t uncommon: As many as90 percent of deep-sea creaturesmight be able to glow. Now, scientists have harnessed bioluminescent algae to make 3D-printed lights that you won’t find at your typical furniture store. Their work, published in the journalScience Advanceson May 6, could help build more sustainable light-emitting technologies. “This project was a moonshot idea,” saysWil Srubar, a study co-author and materials scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, in astatement. “I was curious if we could create a world in which we don’t use electricity but rather use biology to produce light. This discovery really paves the way for engineering other living light materials and devices.” Srubar and his colleagues wondered if they could get the marine algaPyrocystis lunulato sustain its illumination. The single-celled organisms briefly glimmer blue when disturbed by crashing ocean waves or passing boats. At first, the team tried to squish the algae to replicate those mechanical triggers. “They weren’t really responding to that,” saysGiulia Brachi, a study co-author and bioengineer at CU Boulder, to Chris Baraniuk at theGuardian. Need to know: How does P. lunula glow? The organisms have an enzyme called luciferase. It speeds up achemical reactionbetween oxygen and a molecule called luciferin, which produces a new molecule. Most of the energy from the reaction is released as light. The nameluciferasecomes from the Latin wordlucifer, which means “light-bearing.” The team then turned to chemistry. Previous studies had shown thatP. lunula’s bioluminescence could be activated when the algae are exposed to certain chemical compounds. So, they put some algae in a solution about as acidic as tomato juice and some in a solution about as basic as mild soap. In both cases, the algae produced light, though the glow was diffuse and short-lived with the basic solution, indicating cellular stress. The acidic solution, however, helped the algae keep a concentrated glow for up to 25 minutes. “It was a very exciting moment when we found the right chemical stimulant that allowed the light to stay on for a long time,” Brachi says in the statement. “This is the first time we have figured out how to sustain luminescence.” Then, the scientists embedded the algae in a water-based gel. The material was 3D-printed in various shapes, including a crescent moon, a grid and even CU Boulder’s logo. The algae stayed alive in those structures for four weeks, and the acid-treated samples retained 75 percent of their glow when tested at the end of the study period. Srubar tellsGuardianthat this “living light” could be used for glowsticks or glimmering bracelets. With more work, it could also provide battery-free lighting for autonomous robots in space or deep-sea conditions. And if the researchers find thatP. lunularesponds to other chemicals, it could potentially be used to monitor toxins in water. Getting to this bright future won’t be easy. “Moving it from what works under controlled conditions in the lab to what works in the real world will be a challenge—but this is a really interesting first step,” saysChris Howe, a biochemist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the work, to theGuardian. Additionally, the organisms do more than just glow. The ocean absorbs about 30 percent of the heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But with humansproducing the greenhouse gas at an increasing rate, seawater has becomemore acidic, disrupting marine habitats. Since the algae are photosynthetic, they remove some dissolved carbon dioxide to make their own food. “We’re storing carbon while we’re producing light, whereas conventionally, we emit carbon to light up spaces,” Srubar says in the statement. Sara Hashemi|Read More Sara Hashemi is a science writer and fact-checker currently based in New York City. Her work has appeared inSierra,The Body,Maisonneuvemagazine and more. Email Powered by Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Privacy Notice/Terms & Conditions)

posted by AJOT|May 13 2026at 09:10 AM |Air Cargo The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and LaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) announced a critical project that will install electric ground support equipment (eGSE) charging infrastructure across Terminal B’s airside and baggage areas. LGP will work with Conrac Solutions, a leader in the development, operations, and financing of airport infrastructure, to design, construct, maintain and provide interim financing for the terminal’s eGSE infrastructure. Through this project, LGP continues to set the standard for sustainability and stewardship in aviation infrastructure. The project — which is anticipated to be completed in 2027 — includes the installation of 164 new eGSE charging ports across both of the terminal’s concourses and the baggage hall, more than doubling the existing charging capacity. This initiative supports the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The ongoing transition to eGSE from equipment powered by fossil fuels is a significant step toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Fossil fuel-powered ground service equipment accounts for 4 percent of emissions by the Port Authority’s operational partners. In addition to a transition to eGSE at the agency’s airports, the Port Authority’s roadmap to net-zero emissions includes increasing use of electric vehicles and equipment, building decarbonization, solar expansion, clean construction strategies and cooperative actions with tenants and contractors across all facilities. Preliminary data shows the agency met its interim target of a 35 percent reduction in direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. The agency also remains committed to its longer-term goals of a 50 percent reduction of direct emissions by 2030 and full net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Transitioning from ground support equipment powered by fossil fuels to electric equipment is one of the dozens of strategies the Port Authority has identified to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the agency,” said Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia. “LaGuardia Gateway Partners’ plan to more than double the number of electric charging stations at Terminal B is a welcome contribution to the Port Authority’s commitment to reaching net-zero by 2050.” “Nearly five years ago, we set a net-zero goal for 2050 that spans every facility we operate and involves every partner we work with,” said Port Authority Chairman Kevin O’Toole. “Expanding the infrastructure needed to support electric ground support equipment at Terminal B demonstrates the shared commitment by LaGuardia Gateway Partners and the Port Authority to reach our goals and to reduce our carbon footprint.” “LaGuardia Gateway Partners has prioritized sustainability throughout the redevelopment and operation of Terminal B. Today, in partnership with Conrac Solutions, we’re proud to announce yet another eco-friendly infrastructure project to electrify the terminal’s ground support equipment,” said Suzette Noble, chief executive officer of LaGuardia Gateway Partners. “This project addresses the critical needs of our airline partners while maintaining our commitment to continually reducing our carbon footprint, raising the bar for what is traditionally expected of an airport terminal.” “This project represents a pivotal expansion for Conrac Solutions beyond car rental facilities and into specialized infrastructure for airports and airline operations,” said Joshua Blum, CEO of Conrac Solutions. “As airports navigate capital investment and resiliency challenges, we are pleased to provide a scalable solution at LaGuardia Terminal B that maximizes existing electrical infrastructure while advancing sustainability and improving operational uptime.” Conrac Solutions is providing interim financing and will install the 164 new charging ports through a five-phase rollout. Upon completion, it will maintain all 250 charging ports, including the 86 existing charging ports, under an eight-year operations and maintenance agreement. The project is also pursuing funding through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emissions program, which supports clean technology initiatives designed to improve airport air quality. This project follows Conrac Solutions’ successful delivery, finance, and operation of the $580 million consolidated rental car facility and public parking facility at Newark Liberty International Airport, which opened in 2023. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is undertaking a historic redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport, of which Terminal B is one part. LGP won the bid issued by the Port Authority to deliver the extensive capital redevelopment project of Terminal B and provide world-class terminal facilities and operations for passengers and airlines. In 2022, the $5.1 billion Terminal B project — a public-private partnership — finished on time and budget. In 2023, LaGuardia’s Terminal B became the first airport terminal in North America to be awarded a perfect 5-star rating for customer experience by Skytrax. LaGuardia’s Terminal B is home to Air Canada, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Porter Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines.

NEW YORK, May 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --VertiPorts by Atlantic, a subsidiary ofAtlantic Aviationand the operator of the East 34th Street Heliport (6N5), today hosted a successful demonstration flight ofJoby Aviation’s (NYSE: JOBY) all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of advanced air mobility in New York City. Conducted on Friday, May 1, at one of Manhattan’s most active heliports, the live demonstration showcased how next-generation electric aircraft can operate safely and seamlessly within existing urban aviation infrastructure. It offered an up-close look at a quieter, more sustainable mobility alternative and a real-world glimpse of how future air taxi services could serve one of the world’s most congested cities. “For decades, the East 34th Street Heliport has served as a critical transportation link for New York City,” saidKevin Cox, CEO of VertiPorts by Atlantic. “But today represents something more: transformation. Advanced Air Mobility is no longer theoretical, and today it landed in Midtown Manhattan. Thank you to our partners at Joby, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York City Economic Development Corporation for making this milestone possible.” A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking on this link. The flight demonstrated how existing aviation infrastructure can support eVTOL operations for takeoff, landing, ground handling, passenger service and recharging. “Our focus is simple: to develop and operate the infrastructure that will enable this next era of air mobility,” Cox said. “As we build on the strength of Atlantic Aviation’s nearly century-long aviation legacy and expansive network, we are applying it to something entirely new: developing vertiports that are safe, scalable, and community-focused. Simply put, VertiPorts by Atlantic is where innovation lands.” Joby’sNew York City demonstrationsthis week follow New York’s selection in March as one of the approved projects under the federal eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP), established by executive order, which aims to accelerate commercial rollout of advanced air mobility across the U.S. “New York has always been a city that defines the future by demanding better,”said JoeBen Bevirt, founder and CEO of Joby.“We first flew here in 2023, and now we’re showing what the next chapter looks like: a quiet, zero operating emissions air taxi service designed to better serve New Yorkers. This week, flying between JFK and Manhattan, we showed what the White House-backed eIPP initiative makes possible and offered New York a look at what’s coming.“ The milestone underscores the key role that public-private partnerships play in achieving the expected benefits of advanced air mobility, including reduced travel times, better connectivity and convenience, and broader access. The companies collaborated with thePort Authority of New York and New JerseyandNew York City Economic Development Corporationto host today’s event. About VertiPorts by AtlanticVertiPorts by Atlantic is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlantic Aviation, one of the nation’s largest networks of fixed base operations (FBOs) with more than 100 locations across North America. Building on Atlantic Aviation’s decades of experience in safety, service, and operational excellence, VertiPorts by Atlantic is dedicated to developing and operating next generation vertiport infrastructure to support advanced air mobility (AAM). With a focus on seamless integration, customer experience, and sustainability, VertiPorts by Atlantic is positioned to connect communities, enable emerging eVTOL operations, and extend the trusted Atlantic Aviation standard into the future of urban and regional air transportation. VertiPorts by Atlantic is Where Innovation Lands. To learn more please visithttps://www.vertiports.com. About Atlantic AviationAtlantic Aviation offers customers more than 105 fixed base operation (FBO) locations across North America. Atlantic Aviation’s facilities each provide a full suite of critical services to the business aviation sector covering a wide range of aircraft ground handling and corporate flight support, including fueling and line services, ground transportation, catering, hangar, deicing, and ramp space – all with a strong cultural focus on creating a highly engaging customer experience for passengers and crews. In addition, Atlantic Aviation is a sustainability leader in the industry with ongoing initiatives that include increasing electric ground support equipment use, utilizing environmentally responsible construction methods, and establishing advanced air mobility infrastructure to provide for eVTOL aircraft when they begin service. To learn more about Atlantic Aviation, and for a complete list of our locations, please visithttps://www.atlanticaviation.com/. Contact: Levee CommunicationsAndrew Backover | 214.502.2168andy@leveecommunications.com

El mes de mayo arranca con un puente festivo en el que no faltará lafesta rachada. Por un lado, el barrio naronés de O Alto vive la madre de todas las fiestas en la comarca, una de las citas más esperadas por los jóvenes (y no tan jóvenes), que sirve como pistoletazo extraoficial del verano. Aunque, en realidad, la estación a la que se da la bienvenida este fin de semana es la primavera, con los tradicionales maios tomando buena parte de las localidades de Ferrolterra, Eume y Ortegal, y que en la ciudad naval alcanzan su máximo exponente en Canido. Pero solo son dos ejemplos de todos los planes para disfrutar del puente de mayo. El barrio naronés de O Alto do Castiñeiro disfruta de las Festas de San Xosé Obreiro, las más multitudinarias y que dan comienzo de forma extraoficial al verano en la comarca. Seráncuatro intensas jornadas de música, decenas de puestos y atracciones. La programación, que arrancó el jueves con la París de Noia, llega al día del patrón con pasacalles de gaiteros, misa solemne y procesión, seguidas de una sesión vermú con la Banda Xove de Narón y el grupo Unión y Fuerza, tardeo musical y verbena nocturna con Cinema y Origen. El sábado 2, la música correrá a cargo del grupo Jaque al mediodía y de las orquestas Olympus y Cayenna por la noche, mientras que la tarde volverá a estar dominada por los sonidos de DJ invitados. El domingo será todo un maratón musical ininterrumpido desde las 15.30 horas en el que se alternarán las orquestas Capitol y New York. Finalmente, el gran recinto ferial —que este año estrena atracciones gigantes como unboosterde 36 metros— despedirá los festejos el lunes 4 celebrando el Día del Niño con precios reducidos. El barrio ferrolano de Canido celebra la llegada de la primavera por todo lo alto con sus tradicionales Festas dos Maios, que desplegarán un amplio abanico de actividades a lo largo del fin de semana. Comenzarán este viernes, 1 de mayo, con la V Feira do Disco, impulsada por Ferror Records, que tomará el Centro Cívico a partir de las 12.00 horas e incluirá conciertos de O Caimán do Río Tea, Nocturna, Batalha y Robot City DJ Set. A la misma hora, en la plaza de F. Miramontes, se celebrará una Foliada Obreira con talleres de baile gallego y música tradicional a cargo de Pandeireteiras do Muíño, Agarimo de Catabois y Vai Rañala Meu. Al caer la noche, el cine y disco ambulante en bicicleta Lili Cleta recorrerá las calles del barrio. El sábado 2 la música y el buen ambiente tomarán las calles al mediodía con las actuaciones itinerantes de Cantaberneiros y Galiza Sound Machine. Por la tarde, el deporte cobrará protagonismo con un torneo de fútbol sala infantil en el pabellón del CEIP Cruceiro, para cerrar la jornada a ritmo desoul-funkcon Os Bregadiers y la sesión de Marcial Bescos en la praza do Cruceiro. Además, tanto el viernes como el sábado habrá talleres de pintacaras y espectáculos infantiles como Animaladas o Cirkote. El domingo 3, la oferta festiva continuará desde por la mañana con un mercado de artesanía y segunda mano, dando paso a una gran comida de confraternización vecinal en las calles a las 13.00 horas. Ya por la tarde, el parque Antón Varela acogerá divertidos juegos populares amenizados por la percusión de la Batukada Son de Canido. Además, ambas jornadas habrá talleres de pintacaras y espectáculos infantiles como Animaladas o Cirkote. Confección de un maio en Canido, el año pasado.JOSE PARDO Cedeira vivirá este sábado una jornada festiva con una nueva edición de la Festa dos Maios en su casco vello, impulsada por la asociación Discalzos polo Festival. La celebración contará con la implicación de los comercios y locales de hostelería en la elaboración de adornos florales, mientras que la música en directo llenará de ritmo la rúa Ezequiel López y el Paseo da Mariña. Habrá una gran sesión vermú, entre las 13.00 y las 16.00 horas, en la que seis agrupaciones musicales tocarán de forma simultánea e irán rotando por diversos locales de la zona. Por otra parte, a las 19.00 horas, el Auditorio de Cedeira acogerá la jornadaDe Santo André a Saint Andrew: Galicia, Escocia e o Mar Céltico a través das súas peregrinacións, impartida por el periodista Manuel Gago. Durante este acto también se presentará oficialmente la próxima edición de la rapa das bestas da Capelada. La Armada conmemora este domingo en Ferrol su Jornada Histórica 2026, una cita que este año rinde homenaje al quinto centenario del nacimiento del primer Marqués de Santa Cruz, don Álvaro de Bazán. Para celebrar esta destacada efeméride militar, se han organizado unas jornadas de puertas abiertas para que la ciudadanía pueda conocer de primera mano la Escuela de Especialidades Antonio de Escaño, que abrirá de 10.00 a 13.00 y de 16.00 a 18.30 horas. Además, el público tendrá la oportunidad de subir a bordo de la fragata Álvaro de Bazán, que permanecerá atracada en el Arsenal ferrolano y recibirá visitas de 10.00 a 13.00 y de 16.00 a 20.30 horas. Como complemento a estos actos, todos los buques y dependencias de la Armada izarán el engalanado general. La fragata Álvaro de Bazán, entrando en el Arsenal de Ferrol hace un año.JOSE PARDO Ares dará la bienvenida a la primavera este viernes con la celebración de los Maios, organizada por la asociación O Rueiro y el Concello. Las actividades se centralizarán en el parque Rosalía de Castro, donde a partir de las 12.00 horas comenzará la confección de las figuras tradicionales empleando elementos naturales como tuya, pino y flores. A continuación, se llevará a cabo un gran xantar popular en el que cada vecino podrá llevar y compartir su propia comida al aire libre. La jornada estará dinamizada en todo momento con música tradicional, juegos populares, venta de tazas y vino, así como diferentes puestos de artesanía local. Como colofón, se celebrará un taller de la mano de Mukina a partir de las 17.00 horas, exclusivo para los socios de la entidad vecinal. El cine Dúplex de Ferrol acoge este viernes una proyección muy especial de la películaAsí chegou a noite, un drama intimista rodado íntegramente en Galicia que reflexiona sobre la identidad, el deseo de aislamiento y las relaciones de pareja. La sesión contará con la presencia de su director, Ángel Santos —galardonado con el premio a la mejor dirección en la Sección Oficial Internacional del Festival de Cine de Gijón—, y de sus protagonistas, Denís Gómez y Violeta Gil. El equipo presentará la cinta y acompañará al público ferrolano coincidiendo con el primer fin de semana del filme en la cartelera comercial. El director Ángel Santos y los protagonistas Violeta Gil y Denís Gómez participarán en el estreno de «Así chegou a noite» en el cine Dúplex de Ferrol.sabekalsabela souto La librería As Lendas do Gato organiza los días 2 y 3 de mayo la primera edición de MugardeArte, un festival cultural que convertirá Mugardos en un punto de encuentro para escritores, músicos, artistas y lectores de toda la comarca.. La cita nace con la voluntad de celebrar la identidad cultural mugardesa, promover el talento local y ofrecer un espacio abierto donde la literatura, la música y la creación artística dialoguen con la comunidad. El programa incluye desde charlas a cuentacuentos, pasando por firmas de libros y actuaciones musicales. El municipio de Pontedeume festejará la llegada de la primavera este viernes 1 de mayo con su tradicional Concurso de Maios, organizado por el Concello. La celebración comenzará a media tarde con la concentración de las figuras de flores y elementos naturales en los jardines de Lombardero, para iniciar un pasacalles que finalizará en la alameda de Raxoi. El evento incluirá la exposición de los trabajos, música de gaiteros, la lectura de las coplas, una actuación del grupo Orballo y la entrega de premios. Al día siguiente, el sábado 2, la agenda cultural eumesa continuará con un taller de música tradicional centrado en la pandereta. Esta iniciativa de acercamiento al folklore gallego, promovida por la Asociación Folklórica Cultural Orballo y el consistorio, ofrecerá dos sesiones prácticas de libre acceso en el local de la AAVV Centroña y en el CEIP Andrade. Los maios de Pontedeume, en una imagen de archivo.J.Rios El municipio de Cabanas propone un fin de semana que combina el ocio gastronómico con la divulgación cultural. Este viernes 1 de mayo, el club deportivo Poceira Sport organiza una animada jornada en el pabellón de Lavandeira con sesión vermú, comida y tardeo. El menú será a base de paella y churrasco y es necesario consultar la disponibilidad. Por su parte, el domingo, la Asociación Tarde Piache proyectaráFood Coop, dirigido por Thomas Boothe, un documental sobre un supermercado en Nueva York que busca mediante el cooperativismo comprar la comida más barata posible. La sala de conciertos La Room de Ferrol ofrece una doble propuesta musical. El viernes, los amantes delreggaetienen una cita con Rebel Music, una banda local que rendirá homenaje al legendario Bob Marley y a The Wailers. La programación continuará el sábado coincidiendo con la festividad de Os Maios en el barrio de Canido. Esta nueva entrega de La Room Electrónica contará con los ritmos de Danielo en formato digital, junto a los sets más tradicionales en vinilo a cargo de Mario D'Fer y Occy. Rebel Music, banda tributo a Bob Marley. La parroquia de Os Casás, en Cerdido, celebra este sábado su tradicional Romería de Santa Lucía en honor a la Ascensión. La jornada festiva arrancará a las 13.30 horas con el oficio de la misa solemne y la posterior procesión, que estará acompañada por la agrupación musical Airiños dos Carrís. Finalizado el acto litúrgico, la orquesta La Tremenda pondrá el ritmo a la sesión vermú, dando paso a una gran comida popular a base de callos y churrasco. Por la noche se celebrará una animada verbena que contará con las actuaciones de la propia orquesta La Tremenda y el dúo Calú. Ortigueira acogerá un concierto de música del Siglo de Oro a cargo del prestigioso grupo vocal Qvinta Essençia. El Teatro da Beneficencia será el escenario del espectáculoEl sentir de mi sentido, una propuesta que explora la vitalidad del repertorio lírico polifónico de la España renacentista. Durante el recital, los asistentes podrán disfrutar de una inmersión en la comunión artística entre ilustres poetas como Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan Boscán o Lope de Vega y grandes maestros de la polifonía española. La iniciativa, impulsada por el Concello, busca democratizar el acceso a la música antigua y poner en valor este rico patrimonio inmaterial. Qvinta Essençia actúa en Ortigueira. Ferrol se convertirá este sábado en el epicentro de los aficionados a las motos clásicas con la celebración del Encontro Internacional de Vespa Clubes. La iniciativa reunirá a participantes de agrupaciones como el Vespa Club Rías Altas y el Vespa Clube do Porto de Portugal en una jornada dedicada a la pasión por las dos ruedas y la promoción turística. Los motoristas realizarán una ruta por el litoral ferrolano que incluye una parada en el castillo de San Felipe, culminando con una gran concentración de más de medio centenar de vehículos frente al Concello para que el público pueda disfrutar de cerca de estas icónicas piezas del motor. La parroquia de Sillobre, en Fene, celebra este sábado el XI Encontro das Lavandeiras, una cita que conjuga tradición, artesanía y fiesta popular. La jornada arrancará por la mañana con diversos talleres y un paseo en lancha por la ría de Ferrol desde Perlío, dando paso a la proyección de un cortometraje temático y a un gran comida popular a mediodía. Ya por la tarde, el protagonismo recaerá en la emotiva y tradicional recreación de la llegada y el antiguo oficio de las lavanderas, que estará acompañada por la música de la Banda de Gaitas Tradicional Airiños de Fene y, como broche festivo nocturno, el concierto del grupo Os Cantaberneiros. Además, durante todo el día el recinto contará con un mercado y demostraciones de artesanía en vivo. El ciclo teatral Domingos a Escena continúa ganando fuerza en el Centro Cívico de Caranza, donde cada semana se repite una imagen ya habitual: sala llena y público entregado. Este 3 de mayo, coincidiendo con el Día de la Madre, el escenario acogerá a las 19.00 horas una nueva propuesta. La compañía A.C. Delatoute, procedente de Ourense, pondrá en escenaArsénico por compasión, una obra que combina humor y enredo. Para mejorar la organización y facilitar la entrada, se adelanta la apertura de puertas a las 18.30 horas. Desde la organización insisten en la importancia de acudir con antelación para asegurar una butaca. I. VALERIO El Colectivo Piruchela de Neda arranca su programación mensual dando la bienvenida a la primavera. El viernes 1 se abre la exposiciónAcuareliñas e acuarelazasde Saila Chao, una muestra que vestirá las paredes del local cultural durante los meses de mayo y junio. Al día siguiente, el sábado 2, la agrupación celebrará su aniversario y la tradicional llegada de la primavera con la iniciativa Festexamos os Maios. La jornada festiva arrancará a las 11.00 horas con la creación de su propia estructura floral y vegetal en la zona de Subarreiros, para continuar a partir de las 13.00 horas con una comida de confraternización entre los asistentes. La Associaçom Cultural Artábria propone para este fin de semana una programación que une la reivindicación social con la tradición popular. Comienzan el viernes, 1 de mayo, en su local con una sesión vermú que contará con la música de Loita Amada, así como pinchos a precios populares, y la proyección, a las 17.30 horas, del documental10 de marzo, como foi e como no-lo contárom. El sábado se realizará un taller de costura de flores para preparar la jornada del domingo 3, día en el que la entidad se desplazará al Centro Cívico de Canido para confeccionar su maio, que este año rinde homenaje a la escritora y periodista Begoña Caamaño. El Concello de Monfero reabrió la pasada semana su Oficina de Turismo, en el interior del monasterio. Todos los sábados y domingos habrá visitas guiadas a las 11.30 horas, para que poder conocer la historia de este enclave único situado a las puertas de las Fragas do Eume. Durante la primavera, el horario de apertura será de miércoles a domingo de 11.00 a 14.00 y de 16.00 a 19.00 horas. DÓNDE: Monasterio de MonferoCUÁNDO: toda la primaveraPrecio: gratis

Business May 1 : Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are beginning to follow those exchanges in real time using an autonomous underwater robot that can track whales by listening to their voices. Sperm whales use clicks to navigate and hunt, and also produce patterned sequences of clicks, known as "codas," that are thought to play a role in communication. Scientists first identified that sperm whales vocalize in 1957. But understanding how they communicate has remained difficult because these marine mammals dive to depths of more than 1.6 km (one mile) for around 50 minutes each hour, making continuous observation challenging. "The underwater glider is listening for whales via four hydrophones and then steering itself toward them using a feature called backseat driver," said David Gruber, founder and CEO of Project CETI, professor of biology and environmental sciences at Baruch College at the City University of New York and a co-author of the study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports. "When the glider detects the distinctive vocalizations of sperm whales, the software on board identifies where that sound is coming from and automatically communicates with the glider's navigation system to change directions and follow the whale," Gruber added. CNA GamesGuess WordCrack the word, one row at a timeBuzzwordCreate words using the given lettersMini SudokuTiny puzzle, mighty brain teaserMini CrosswordSmall grid, big challengeWord SearchSpot as many words as you canShow MoreShow LessA glider is a small robot that slowly changes its buoyancy, becoming slightly heavier to sink and lighter to rise."You can think of it as a quiet, long-distance explorer, more like a soaring albatross than a motorized vehicle, steadily travelling through the ocean while listening and gathering information as it goes," Gruber said.Traditional tracking methods rely on suction tags that fall off after a few days or on stationary sensors that lose contact when whales move away. Project CETI also deploys hydrophones - underwater devices that detect and record sounds - towed from boats.What makes the new robotic system different, Gruber said, is that it "can make decisions in real time while it's still underwater," rather than recording acoustic data for later analysis.Previous methods allowed scientists to reconstruct where a whale had been, but not actively follow it at the moment. The new approach "continuously updates the glider's path so it can stay with a single whale for extended periods - potentially months," Gruber said.The ability to track whales for longer periods marks what Gruber called a shift "from brief encounters to continuous relationships," allowing scientists to stay with the same whale or group instead of relying on short, opportunistic glimpses and to see patterns in how whales coordinate, socialize and respond to their environment over time.Such data could also help answer longstanding questions about how sperm whales communicate."By following mother-calf pairs over time, we can begin to see how calves pick up vocal patterns from their mothers," Gruber said.The system could also reveal how whales react to human activity, allowing researchers to track the way their communication changes in the presence of human-made noise and offering a clearer picture of how shipping, offshore construction or fishing affect them.By linking whale behaviour with environmental pressures, the technology could inform more precise, evidence-based policy decisions such as when to reduce ship speeds, reroute traffic or implement fishing restrictions to minimize disruption in sensitive areas, the researchers said.Developing the system "brings us closer to understanding another form of intelligence on Earth, which has implications not just for conservation, but for how we think about communication and life beyond our own species," Gruber added.Yet, precise localization remains a challenge, as the glider can detect the direction of a whale but not its exact position, limiting its ability to distinguish between individual whales and track them accurately. Communication is another constraint. The robot must surface every few hours to send and receive updates, making long-term, real-world monitoring less seamless.For Gruber, the moment the glider acted on its own offered the first real glimpse of what this technology could become."We're beginning to build systems that can operate independently and respond to the natural world as it unfolds," Gruber said. A glider is a small robot that slowly changes its buoyancy, becoming slightly heavier to sink and lighter to rise. "You can think of it as a quiet, long-distance explorer, more like a soaring albatross than a motorized vehicle, steadily travelling through the ocean while listening and gathering information as it goes," Gruber said. Traditional tracking methods rely on suction tags that fall off after a few days or on stationary sensors that lose contact when whales move away. Project CETI also deploys hydrophones - underwater devices that detect and record sounds - towed from boats. What makes the new robotic system different, Gruber said, is that it "can make decisions in real time while it's still underwater," rather than recording acoustic data for later analysis. Previous methods allowed scientists to reconstruct where a whale had been, but not actively follow it at the moment. The new approach "continuously updates the glider's path so it can stay with a single whale for extended periods - potentially months," Gruber said. The ability to track whales for longer periods marks what Gruber called a shift "from brief encounters to continuous relationships," allowing scientists to stay with the same whale or group instead of relying on short, opportunistic glimpses and to see patterns in how whales coordinate, socialize and respond to their environment over time. Such data could also help answer longstanding questions about how sperm whales communicate. "By following mother-calf pairs over time, we can begin to see how calves pick up vocal patterns from their mothers," Gruber said. The system could also reveal how whales react to human activity, allowing researchers to track the way their communication changes in the presence of human-made noise and offering a clearer picture of how shipping, offshore construction or fishing affect them. By linking whale behaviour with environmental pressures, the technology could inform more precise, evidence-based policy decisions such as when to reduce ship speeds, reroute traffic or implement fishing restrictions to minimize disruption in sensitive areas, the researchers said. Developing the system "brings us closer to understanding another form of intelligence on Earth, which has implications not just for conservation, but for how we think about communication and life beyond our own species," Gruber added. Yet, precise localization remains a challenge, as the glider can detect the direction of a whale but not its exact position, limiting its ability to distinguish between individual whales and track them accurately. Communication is another constraint. The robot must surface every few hours to send and receive updates, making long-term, real-world monitoring less seamless. For Gruber, the moment the glider acted on its own offered the first real glimpse of what this technology could become. "We're beginning to build systems that can operate independently and respond to the natural world as it unfolds," Gruber said. Subscribe to our Chief Editor’s Week in Review Our chief editor shares analysis and picks of the week's biggest news every Saturday. Get our pick of top stories and thought-provoking articles in your inbox Stay updated with notifications for breaking news and our best stories Get WhatsApp alerts Join our channel for the top reads for the day on your preferred chat app

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Hansi Lo Wang Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields is seen with members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday at the Capitol. Fields represents the Louisiana congressional district at the heart of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Wednesday to severely weaken the Voting Rights Act.J. Scott Applewhite/APhide caption A historic drop in representation by Black members of Congress may be on theway after the U.S. Supreme Court'slandmark decision Wednesdaytofurtherweaken the Voting Rights Act. Now that the high court's conservative majority has reinterpreted longstanding provisions against racial discrimination under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Republican calls for new rounds of map drawing for the House of Representatives have already begun. How much of that redistricting can be done in time for this fall's midterm election is unclear, although many stateshave held or are close to holdingcongressional primary races. But in the long run, looking beyond this November, many redistricting experts are expecting Republican-controlled state legislatures in the South to eliminate at least some House districts with sizable racial minority populations currently represented by Black Democrats and that were likely protected under the Supreme Court's previous interpretation of Section 2 provisions. From Louisiana and eastward to North Carolina, there are at least 15 House districts now at risk of elimination, according toan NPR analysisconducted earlier this year. (That list grows longer if taking into account newly redrawn districts in Missouri and Texas, which were not included in the analysis.) Exactly how redistricting will play out with an eroded Voting Rights Act is hard to predict. Some Democratic-led states may jump into the fray and consider undoing certain majority-minority districts to spread out their voters and try to pick up additional seats. And some GOP-led states may decide to keep some of those districts for partisan reasons, as they can keep large numbers of Democratic-leaning voters packed within those lines. Losing even a handful of those districts, however, could set up the largest-ever decline in the number of Black representatives on Capitol Hill — breaking a record set around the end of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era by the Congress that began in 1877 with four fewer House districts represented by Black lawmakers than the previous session. Black-represented districts were in the single digits or at zero for a century after the Civil War. But since the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that number has grown to 63 districts, making up around 14% of the House. Loading... The potential drop in that figure drew a swift rebuke Wednesday from members of the Congressional Black Caucus. "With this decision inLouisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court has opened the door to a coordinated attack on Black voters across this country," Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York, chair of the caucus,said during a press conference hours after the court released its decision. "This is an outright power grab. It's about silencing Black voices, dismantling majority Black districts and rigging the maps so that politicians can choose their voters instead of the other way around." As part of its reinterpretation of the Voting Rights Act, the court's conservative majority ruled that a Louisiana congressional district crafted to comply with Section 2 was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and that Section 2 should focus on intentional racial discrimination. Rep. Terri Sewell, a Democrat from Alabama who has led what has been an uphillpush to shore up and expand the Voting Rights Act, said she plans to revise her bill again to "reflect the court cases that have tried to gut" the landmark law. "Listen, we cannot give up," Sewell said. "We're not going to give up." In the meantime, however, Atiba Ellis, a law professor and associate dean at Case Western Reserve University, sees theongoing partisan gerrymandering warbetween Republicans and Democrats only getting worse with a further weakened Voting Rights Act. "This could distort politics in Washington substantially by preventing communities of color from genuinely being heard," Ellis says. "I think it highly ironic that under the guise of a colorblind Constitution communities of color in a diversifying America could lose the lion's share of their voice in government." Edited byBenjamin Swasey

Luxembourg, April 30, 2026- ArcelorMittal (referred to as “ArcelorMittal” or the “Company” or the "Group") (MT (New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Luxembourg), MTS (Madrid)), the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company, today announced results1for the three-month period ended March 31, 2026 1Q 2026 key highlights: Safety focus:Protecting employee health and safety is a core Company value. The multi-year safety transformation continues to deliver measurable improvements, with LTIFR improving to 0.45x in 1Q 2026 from 0.63x in 1Q 2025Delivering structurally improved margins:The Group's results continue to demonstrate resilience, with 1Q 2026 EBITDA per tonne of $131/t increasing by $15/t year-on-year, reflecting the benefits of the strategic investment program, continued asset optimization and diversified market exposures. Net income in 1Q 2026 was $0.6bn (basic EPS of $0.76/sh)Operational momentum:Record iron ore production and shipments in Liberia and a return to normalized operating levels in North AmericaSeasonal investment in working capital:A typical seasonal working capital investment of $1.5bn during the quarter led to a free cash outflow of $1.3bn and an increase in net debt to $9.3bn4. Liquidity7remains at a robust $9.9bn and the Company's positive FCF outlook for 2026 and beyond remains unchangedConsistent cash generation, supporting balanced capital allocation and continued growth investment:Over the past 12 months, the Company generated $2.0bn in investable cash flow6(net cash provided by operating activities less maintenance/normative capex). Over the same period, the Company invested $1.5bn in strategic capex to build incremental long-term EBITDA capacity, returned $0.7bn to shareholders, and allocated $0.2bn to M&ACapital return policy is creating significant value for shareholders:The Company paid its first quarterly interim dividend of $0.15 per share in March 2026, as part of a proposed annual dividend of $0.60 per share. The Company will continue to return a minimum of 50% of post-dividend free cash flow to shareholders through share buybacks. The fully diluted share count has been reduced by 38% since September 20205 Strategic focus: Well positioned to benefit from a balanced and fair European steel market:The Company believes that CBAM (which now imposes a carbon cost on imports), together with the recently agreed tariff rate quota (TRQ) trade tool (expected to be effective from July 1, 2026), structurally resets the outlook for the European steel industry. Lower imports will lead to higher capacity utilization, restoring profitability and returns on capital to healthy, sustainable levels. ArcelorMittal is well positioned to capture the volume upside through: improved utilization of its existing operating capacity; restart of idled blast furnaces (Fos (France) & Dabrowa (Poland) currently in preparation); and the commissioning of the new Gijon EAF and expanded EAF capacity at Sestao Strategic growth projects have good momentum and support higher EBITDA and ROCE:1Q 2026 capex of $1.3bn includes $0.2bn payment on signing new Mineral Development Agreement in Liberia11. 2026 capex guidance remains unchanged at $4.5bn-$5.0bn and includes $1.7-$2.0bn of strategic capex on high return projects. The potential incremental EBITDA impact of strategic capex projects (including completed M&A) is now $1.8bn6and includes the benefits of the recently approved electric arc furnace at Dunkirk and previously announced EAF investments at Sestao and Gijón Financial highlights (on the basis of IFRS1): Commenting, Aditya Mittal, ArcelorMittal Chief Executive Officer, said: “Performance in the first quarter was resilient despite the unsettled backdrop in the Middle East with profitability of $131/t EBITDA reflecting the benefits of our global diversified asset portfolio and the consistent application of our strategy. We also continued to improve our safety performance with the lowest quarterly LTIFR in the history of the Group, showing the tangible results of our sustained focus in this area. “The fundamentals of the business have improved over the past three months, driven in particular by the favourable structural reset in the European policy environment, including CBAM and the new tariff rate quota (TRQ) which is expected to significantly reduce imports into Europe from July 1. ArcelorMittal is well positioned to capture this upside through existing capacity and by re-starting idled capacity. In Europe, this will result in higher domestic capacity utilization and restore profitability and ROCE to healthy, sustainable levels. “This will be also an important year for the Company’s strategic growth projects, which reflect the depth of the Company’s opportunity set across diverse growth vectors. Our investments, which ultimately will add an incremental $1.8 billion EBITDA, include the expansion of AM/NS India’s plant in Hazira, the ramp-up of mining in Liberia, the ramp up of the new EAF at Calvert to full capacity, as well as various opportunities related to the energy transition. We are also pleased that we have been able to take final investment decision on the new EAF in Dunkirk, supported by various policy initiatives at the European and French levels. “We remain confident in ArcelorMittal’s prospects for the balance of the year, with the expected favourable impacts of new policy including a materially improved pricing and volume environment. Combined with the impact of our strategic investments, this supports ArcelorMittal’s free cash flow outlook and the delivery of consistent capital returns to shareholders.” Safety and sustainable development Health and safety: Protecting employee health and well-being is a core value of the Company. The Group’s multi‑year safety transformation continues to deliver measurable improvements, with LTIF rate improving to 0.45x in 1Q’26 (from 0.63x in 1Q’25). In 2026, the program entered its implementation and scale-up phase, with a strong focus on strengthening execution discipline and delivering consistent, high-quality safety performance across all regions through the safety roadmaps. Efforts have centered on reinforcing key enablers such as health and safety leadership capabilities, robust risk management, process safety management, and effective contractor integration. Together, these actions contribute to achieving our overarching ambition of zero fatalities and serious injuries through sustained improvement. For further details on the progress to date on our safety transformation program, see the 2025 Sustainability report available on the Company's website. Own personnel and contractors – Lost time injury frequency rate Sustainable development highlights: Analysis of results for 1Q 2026 versus 4Q 2025 Sales increased by 3.2% to $15.5 billion in 1Q 2026 as compared to $15.0 billion in 4Q 2025, primarily reflecting higher average steel prices. Operating income increased to $0.8 billion in 1Q 2026 as compared to $0.3 billion in 4Q 2025, which had included $194 million of exceptional charges3. Depreciation cost for 1Q 2026 was $749 million, lower than $856 million in 4Q 2025 which was impacted by certain assets reaching end of life. 12M 2026 depreciation guidance remains unchanged at approximately $3.0 billion. EBITDA increased by 5.4% to $1,679 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $1,593 million in 4Q 2025, primarily driven by improved performance in the North America segment. Foreign exchange and other net financial charges amounted to $80 million in 1Q 2026, lower than $450 million in 4Q 2025, primarily reflecting lower foreign exchange charges. The prior period also included a non-recurring cost of $0.1 billion related to the extension of the mandatory convertible bond10. Net interest cost increased to $133 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $91 million in 4Q 2025, primarily due to higher gross debt and lower interest income. Income tax expense of $136 million in 1Q 2026 compares with an income tax benefit of $201 million in 4Q 2025. 4Q 2025 was impacted by recognition of deferred tax assets following revised expectations of future profitability, primarily in Europe. Net income in 1Q 2026 increased to $575 million (EPS of $0.76/sh) compared with $177 million (EPS of $0.23/sh) in 4Q 2025. Adjusted net income of $654 million was higher in 4Q 2025 primarily on account of higher deferred tax benefits partially offset by higher foreign exchange and other net financial charges. Net cash used in operating activities in 1Q 2026 amounted to $9 million and includes a $1.5 billion seasonal investment in working capital. Capex totalled $1.3 billion for 1Q 2026 (including a $0.2 billion payment on signing new Mineral Development Agreement in Liberia)11. Net debt increased to $9.3 billion as at March 31, 2026, as compared to $7.9 billion on December 31, 2025. Analysis of operations North America Crude steel production increased by 18.3% to 2.1Mt in 1Q 2026, as compared with 1.8Mt in 4Q 2025, primarily driven by the successful restart of the Mexico Long products blast furnace following preventive maintenance. Sales increased by 8.3% in 1Q 2026 to $3.3 billion, as compared to $3.0 billion in 4Q 2025, primarily reflecting higher steel shipments (+5.2%) and higher average steel selling prices (+3.5%). Operating income improved to $206 million in 1Q 2026 as compared with an operating loss of $21 million in 4Q 2025. EBITDA in 1Q 2026 increased to $383 million as compared to $204 million in 4Q 2025, driven mainly by a positive price-cost effect and higher steel shipments. Brazil9 Sales in 1Q 2026 decreased by 3.2% to $2.8 billion as compared to $2.9 billion in 4Q 2025, driven by lower steel shipments (-8.8%), largely reflecting seasonality and timing of slab export volume, partially offset by higher average steel selling prices (reflecting a richer mix). Operating income was broadly stable at $223 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $229 million in 4Q 2025. EBITDA in 1Q 2026 of $334 million was stable as compared to $341 million in 4Q 2025, primarily due to lower steel shipments, partially offset by a richer mix (lower slab exports). Europe Crude steel production totaled 6.8Mt in 1Q 2026, representing a 6.8% increase compared to 6.4Mt in 4Q 2025. Production in 1Q 2026 nevertheless remained impacted by ongoing maintenance ahead of planned restarts in 2Q 2026. Compared to 1Q 2025, crude steel production was also impacted by the sale of the company’s Bosnian operations. Sales increased by 10.6% to $7.4 billion in 1Q 2026 as compared to $6.7 billion in 4Q 2025, primarily reflecting higher steel shipments (+8.1%), with Flat products up 12.1% and Long products down 2.1% and higher average steel selling prices. Operating income in 1Q 2026 was $239 million as compared to $49 million in 4Q 2025, which primarily included $166 million of exceptional charges3. EBITDA in 1Q 2026 of $501 million compared to $518 million in 4Q 2025, with the benefits of higher steel shipments offset by a negative price cost effect including the impact of reduced free CO2 allocations. With CBAM in place, the additional CO2 cost is expected to be recovered via steel prices from 2Q 2026 onwards. Sustainable Solutions Sales in 1Q 2026 were broadly stable at $2.6 billion as compared to 4Q 2025. Operating income improved to $69 million in 1Q 2026 from an operating loss of $10 million in 4Q 2025, which included $28 million of exceptional charges related to restructuring costs and impairments of $17 million. EBITDA increased to $124 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $106 million in 4Q 2025 with improved performance of the downstream businesses. Mining Note: Mining segment comprises iron ore operations of ArcelorMittal Mines Canada (AMMC) and ArcelorMittal Liberia. Sales in 1Q 2026 were broadly stable at $0.9 billion as compared to 4Q 2025. Iron ore production totalled 9.7Mt in 1Q 2026, 3.2% lower versus 10.1Mt in 4Q 2025, driven by seasonally lower volumes at ArcelorMittal Mines Canada (AMMC) offset by higher output in Liberia. Liberia delivered another record quarter for iron ore production and shipments. The continued concentrator capacity ramp‑up is expected to support higher sinter feed shipments with higher price realizations. Liberia shipment guidance remains unchanged at >18Mt in 2026. Operating income increased to $215 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $198 million in 4Q 2025. EBITDA of $299 million in 1Q 2026 was 4.8% lower as compared to $314 million in 4Q 2025 primarily due to higher freight costs. India and JVs Income from associates, joint ventures and other investments declined to $177 million in 1Q 2026, as compared to $206 million in 4Q 2025, due to weaker Chinese investee performance partly offset by stronger AMNS India results. ArcelorMittal has investments in various joint ventures and associate entities globally. The Company considers AMNS India (60% equity interest) joint venture to be of particular strategic importance, warranting more detailed disclosures to improve the understanding of its operational performance and value to the Group. AMNS India Sales increased by 1.6% to $1.6 billion in 1Q 2026 as compared to 4Q 2025, driven by higher average steel selling prices offset in part by 12% decrease in steel shipment volumes due to planned maintenance. EBITDA increased by 17.9% to $195 million in 1Q 2026 as compared to $166 million in 4Q 2025, primarily due to a positive price-cost effect, partially offset by lower steel shipment volumes. Recent development ArcelorMittal Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Position1 ArcelorMittal Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations1 ArcelorMittal Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash flows1 Appendix 1: Capital expenditures1 Appendix 2: Debt repayment schedule as of March 31, 2026 As of March 31, 2026, the average debt maturity is 7.5 years. Appendix 3: Reconciliation of gross debt to net debt Appendix 4: Adjusted net income and adjusted basic EPS Appendix 5: Terms and definitions Unless indicated otherwise, or the context otherwise requires, references in this earnings release to the following terms have the meanings set out next to them below: Adjusted basic EPS:refers to adjusted net income divided by the weighted average common shares outstanding. Adjusted net income:refers to reported net income less impairment items and exceptional items and related tax impacts and one-off tax charges. Apparent steel consumption:calculated as the sum of production plus imports minus exports. Average steel selling prices:calculated as steel sales divided by steel shipments. Cash and cash equivalents: represent cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments. Capex:represents the purchase of property, plant and equipment and intangibles. The Group’s capex figures do not include capex at the JVs level (i.e. AM/NS Calvert until June 18, 2025 and AMNS India). Crude steel production:steel in the first solid state after melting, suitable for further processing or for sale. Depreciation:refers to amortization and depreciation. EPS:refers to basic or diluted earnings per share. EBITDA:defined as operating income (loss) plus depreciation, impairment items and exceptional items and income (loss) from associates, joint ventures and other investments (excluding impairments and exceptional items if any). EBITDA/tonne:calculated as EBITDA divided by total steel shipments. Exceptional items:income / (charges) relate to transactions that are significant, infrequent or unusual and are not representative of the normal course of business of the period. Free cash flow (FCF): refers to net cash provided by operating activities less capex less dividends paid to minority shareholders. The term free cash outflow is used when the difference is negative (i.e. negative free cash flow) Foreign exchange and other net financing income/(loss): include foreign currency exchange impact, bank fees, interest on pensions, impairment of financial assets, revaluation of derivative instruments and other charges that cannot be directly linked to operating results. Gross debt: long-term debt and short-term debt. Impairment items:refers to impairment charges net of reversals. Income from associates, joint ventures and other investments: refers to income from associates, joint ventures and other investments (excluding impairments and exceptional items, if any). Investable cash flow:refers to net cash provided by operating activities less maintenance/normative capex. Iron ore reference prices:refers to iron ore prices for 62% Fe CFR China. Pricing is generally linked to market price indexes and uses a variety of mechanisms, including current spot prices and average prices over specified periods. Therefore, there may not be a direct correlation between market reference prices and actual selling prices in various regions at a given time. Kt:refers to thousand metric tonnes. Liquidity:defined as cash and cash equivalents (included cash held as part of assets held for sale) plus available revolving credit facilities LTIF:refers to lost time injury ("LTI") frequency rate equals lost time injuries per 1,000,000 worked hours (own personnel and contractors) and includes fatalities; an LTI is an incident that causes an injury that prevents the person from returning to his/her next scheduled shift or work period. Maintenance/normative capex:refers to capital expenditures outside of strategic capital expenditures projects (and includes cost reduction plans and environment projects as well as general maintenance capital expenditures). Mt:refers to million metric tonnes. Net debt:long-term debt and short-term debt less cash and cash equivalents (including cash and cash equivalents held as part of assets held for sale) Net interest expense:includes interest expense less interest income. Operating results:refers to operating income/(loss). Operating segments:North America segment includes the Flat, Long and Tubular operations of US, Canada and Mexico; and also includes all Mexico mines. The Brazil segment includes the Flat, Long and Tubular operations of Brazil and its neighboring countries including Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela; and also includes Andrade and Serra Azul captive iron ore mines. The Europe segment includes Flat and Long operations, and through October 30, 2025, included Bosnia and Herzegovina captive iron ore mines; Sustainable Solutions division includes Downstream Solutions and Tubular operations of the European business and our renewables operations in India. The Others segment includes the Flat, Long and Tubular operations of Ukraine and South Africa, the captive iron ore mines in Ukraine, holding companies and intragroup stock margin eliminations. Mining segment includes iron ore operations of ArcelorMittal Mines Canada and ArcelorMittal Liberia. Own iron ore production:includes total of all finished production of fines, concentrate, pellets and lumps and includes share of production. Price-cost effect:a lack of correlation or a lag in the corollary relationship between raw material and steel prices, which can either have a positive (i.e. increased spread between steel prices and raw material costs) or negative effect (i.e. a squeeze or decreased spread between steel prices and raw material costs). ROCE (Return on capital employed):refers to operating income, excluding impairment and exceptional items, plus income from associates, JVs and other investments (excluding impairments and exceptional items, if any), minus income taxes (excluding one-off tax charges) divided by the average equity plus net debt for the period. Shipments:information at segment and Group level eliminates intra-segment shipments (which are primarily between Flat/Long plants and Tubular plants) and inter-segment shipments respectively. Shipments of Downstream Solutions are excluded. Working capital change (working capital investment / release):refers to movement of change in working capital - trade accounts receivable plus inventories less trade and other accounts payable. Footnotes First quarter 2026 earnings analyst conference call ArcelorMittal Management will host a conference call for members of the investment community to present and comment on the three-month period ended March 31, 2026 on:Thursday April 30, 2026, at 9.30 US Eastern time, 14.30 London time and 15.30 CET. To access via the conference call and ask a question during the Q&A, please register in advance:https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BI1a2bb6183076462ea977c387e5eb4d3c Alternatively, the webcast can be accessed at:https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/a3gekyiy A copy of the earnings call transcript will also be available on the website. Forward-Looking Statements This document contains forward-looking information and statements about ArcelorMittal and its subsidiaries. These statements include financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements regarding plans, objectives and expectations with respect to future operations, products and services, and statements regarding future performance. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the words “believe”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “target”, "projected", "potential", "intend" or similar expressions. Although ArcelorMittal’s management believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, investors and holders of ArcelorMittal’s securities are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of ArcelorMittal, that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements. These risks and uncertainties include those discussed or identified in the filings with the Luxembourg Stock Market Authority for the Financial Markets (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier) and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) made or to be made by ArcelorMittal, including ArcelorMittal’s latest Annual Report on Form 20-F on file with the SEC. ArcelorMittal undertakes no obligation to publicly update its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Non-GAAP/Alternative Performance Measures This press release also includes certain non-GAAP financial/alternative performance measures. ArcelorMittal presents EBITDA, EBITDA/tonne, free cash flow (FCF), adjusted net income and adjusted basic earnings per share which are non-GAAP financial/alternative performance measures, as additional measures to enhance the understanding of its operating performance. The definition of EBITDA includes income from share of associates, JVs and other investments (excluding impairments and exceptional items if any, of associates, JVs and other investments) because the Company believes this information provides investors with additional information to understand its results, given the increasing significance of its joint ventures. ArcelorMittal believes such indicators are relevant to provide management and investors with additional information. ArcelorMittal also presents net debt, liquidity and change in working capital as additional measures to enhance the understanding of its financial position, changes to its capital structure and its credit assessment. Investable cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less maintenance/normative capex, and the Company thus believes that it represents a cash flow that is available for allocation at management’s discretion. The Company’s guidance as to free cash flow and additional EBITDA estimated to be generated from certain projects is based on the same accounting policies as those applied in the Company’s financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. ArcelorMittal is unable to reconcile, without unreasonable effort, such guidance to the most directly comparable IFRS financial measure, due to the uncertainty and inherent difficulty of predicting the occurrence and the financial impact of items impacting comparability. For the same reasons, ArcelorMittal is unable to address the significance of the unavailable information. Non-GAAP financial/alternative performance measures should be read in conjunction with, and not as an alternative to, ArcelorMittal's financial information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Comparable IFRS measures and reconciliations of non-GAAP financial/alternative performance measures are presented herein. About ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal is one of the world's leading steel and mining companies, with a presence in 60 countries and primary steelmaking facilities in 14 countries. In 2025, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $61.4 billion and crude steel production of 55.6 million metric tonnes, while iron ore production reached 48.8 million metric tonnes. Our goal is to help build a better world with smarter steels. Steels made using innovative processes which use less energy, emit significantly less carbon and reduce costs. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. Steels for electric vehicles and renewable energy infrastructure that will support societies as they transform through this century. With steel at our core, our inventive people and an entrepreneurial culture at heart, we will support the world in making that change. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future. 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The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language. That was the striking message I took away from a talk by translation studies scholar Professor Susan Bassnett at the British Shakespeare Conference in Hull in 2016. Her point was simple but powerful:Shakespeare’s worksare likely to survive and flourish not only in English, but through translation, adaptation and reinvention across the world. Inspired by this, I asked six of my colleagues around the globe to share some Shakespeare adaptations in other languages that you might enjoy. Hindi, based on Romeo and Juliet Ram‑Leela is as heady a mix asShakespeare’s own play, in equal parts comic and tragic, tender and flamboyant. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali relocates the action of Verona to an Indian town riven by two criminal clans: Rajadis and Sanedas. Violence saturates daily life. Bullets spill from spice jars and a Rajadi child urinating on Saneda territory ignites a vicious brawl. In such a world, can love bring peace? The leads’ scorching chemistry makes us hope. My students practically swooned during a screening. At the end, soulful lyrics such as “Tera naam ishq/Mera naam ishq” (“Your name is love / My name is love”) frame the film’s Romeo and Juliet – Ram and Leela – through love rather than their hate-fuelled lineage. The film also gives depth to its Lady Capulet and nurse figures, while Leela is sensual, witty and brave. Juliet exactly as Shakespeare imagined her. Varsha Panjwani teaches at New York University, London, and is the creator and host of the podcastWomen and Shakespeare. Catalan, based on Othello An award-winning work ofCatalan cinema, Otel·lo transposesShakespeare’s playto a contemporary film studio. Such a meta-narrative approach feels in line with the play’s focus on the enticing power of storytelling – famously embodied in the character of Iago as its arch-villain. Blending documentary, mockumentary and thriller aesthetics, the film turns Iago into an unscrupulous filmmaker willing to cross every boundary in the name of art. With his role played by the actual director of the film (Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font), the adaptation skilfully integrates form and content. We are, like Othello, manipulated into thinking that the fiction he has created is reality. The film asks: To what extent are the images we absorb real? What purpose do they serve? And how do theyaffect our views on gendered and racialised minorities? Inma Sánchez García is a lecturer in European languages and culture at the University of Edinburgh. Japanese, based on Macbeth The genius of Throne of Blood is that despite being set in 16th century Japan and changing almost everything about the original, it is immediately recognisable asthe Scottish play. It’s considered by many to be the greatest Shakespeare film ever made. The mist-swirled locations, the screeching flute and ominous drumbeats, the spooky old lady in the forest, and above all the samurai, barking orders and getting lost on their horses, can mean only that “Macbeth doth come”. The final scene when Washizu’s (Macbeth’s) soldiers turn on him with a hail of arrows may even represent an improvement on Shakespeare. Meanwhile his poker-faced lady clearly wears the kimono-trousers in their marriage. Daniel Gallimore is a professor of literature and linguistics at Kwansei Gakuin University Bengali, based on Comedy of Errors If you asked me to pick a favourite Shakespeare film, I’d probably surprise people by saying Bhrantibilas. It’s one of the earliest filmed Shakespeare adaptations in Indian cinema. It was also the inspiration for the globally popular film Angoor (1982). What I love about it is how confidently it relocatesShakespeare’s farceinto a Bengali urban world without ever feeling like a dutiful “literary” exercise. A huge part of its lasting appeal is Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar. It’s pure pleasure watching him play the twin roles – Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus, identical twins separated at birth, whose accidental reunion causes chaos. His comic timing is razor-sharp, and there’s also an ease and charm that makes the confusion feel human, never mechanical. Decades on, audiences still return to Bhrantibilas, often knowing every gag by heart, which says a lot about its cultural afterlife. For me, it’s a perfect example of how Shakespeare survives not through reverence but through reinvention – absorbed into popular cinema and kept alive by star power, humour and sheer re-watchability. Koel Chatterjee is a lecturer in English at Regent College, and the creator and host ofThe Shakespop PodcastandThe Shakesfic Podcast. Urdu, based on Measure for Measure Measure for Measurehas long been regarded as a“problem play”. Disfavoured among Shakespeare’s works for centuries, it hit stages again in the 20th-century and reached new audiences through its resonances with the #MeToo movement. A local leader tells a devout woman that if she loses her virginity to him, he will spare her imprisoned brother’s life. This film shifts the action from early modern, Catholic Vienna to an ambiguous period in Islamic Lahore. Moderate and extremist versions of faith contend, against the backdrop of the city. This film’s billing as a thriller, and status as the only big screen version of the play, help raise it from obscurity. Sarah Olive is a senior lecturer in English literature at Aston University. Arabic, based on Sonnet 116 Thisfreely availableshort film expands on one of Shakespeare’s shortest forms:the sonnet. It riffs onSonnet 116, heard at countless weddings: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds … admit impediments.” Here, its Arabic translation provides both the back story to – and future hope for – an asylum-seeking couple in a same-sex relationship, Falah (Amir Boutrous) and Hayder (Waleed Elgadi). The story of their journey by sea, and shots of a tossed-about paper boat reference the poem’s sea-voyage imagery. Over 12 tense minutes, we hold our breath to see whether the Iraqi poet and his childhood beloved will overcome the impediments of religious conservatism, on one shore, and an apparently hostile asylum system on the other. Sarah Olive is a senior lecturer in English literature at Aston University. This article features references to books that have been included for editorial reasons, and may contain links to bookshop.org. If you click on one of the links and go on to buy something from bookshop.org The Conversation UK may earn a commission.

ATHENS, Greece, April 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), (the “Company”), a global shipping company specializing in the ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels, today announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Refined Success Limited, for one of its Capesize dry bulk vessels, the m/v New York. The gross charter rate is US$27,500 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties, for a period until minimum February 1, 2028 up to maximum March 31, 2028. The charter is expected to commence on May 1, 2026. The m/v New York is currently chartered, as previously announced, at a gross charter rate of US$17,600 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties. The “New York” is a 177,773 dwt Capesize dry bulk vessel built in 2010. The Company also announced that, through a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, it has entered into a time charter contract with Oldendorff GmbH & Co. KG, for one of its Ultramax dry bulk vessels, the m/v DSI Pyxis. The gross charter rate is US$16,000 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties, for a period until minimum June 15, 2027 up to maximum August 15, 2027. The charter is expected to commence on May 3, 2026. The m/v DSI Pyxis is currently chartered, as previously announced, at a gross charter rate of US$13,100 per day, minus a 5.00% commission paid to third parties. The “DSI Pyxis” is a 60,362 dwt Ultramax dry bulk vessel built in 2018. The employments of “New York” and “DSI Pyxis” are anticipated to generate approximately US$23.76 million of gross revenue for the minimum scheduled period of the time charters. Diana Shipping Inc.’s fleet currently consists of 36 dry bulk vessels (4 Newcastlemax, 8 Capesize, 4 Post-Panamax, 6 Kamsarmax, 5 Panamax and 9 Ultramax). The Company also expects to take delivery of two methanol dual fuel new-building Kamsarmax dry bulk vessels by the second half of 2027 and the first half of 2028, respectively. As of today, the combined carrying capacity of the Company’s fleet, excluding the two vessels not yet delivered, is approximately 4.1 million dwt, with a weighted average age of 12.43 years. A table describing the current Diana Shipping Inc. fleet can be found on the Company’s website, www.dianashippinginc.com. Information contained on the Company’s website does not constitute part of this press release. About the Company Diana Shipping Inc. is a global provider of shipping transportation services through its ownership and bareboat charter-in of dry bulk vessels. The Company’s vessels are employed primarily on short to medium-term time charters and transport a range of dry bulk cargoes, including such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and other materials along worldwide shipping routes. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor protections for forward-looking statements in order to encourage companies to provide prospective information about their business. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. The Company desires to take advantage of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is including this cautionary statement in connection with this safe harbor legislation. The words “believe,” “anticipate,” “intends,” “estimate,” “forecast,” “project,” “plan,” “potential,” “may,” “should,” “expect,” “pending” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon various assumptions, many of which are based, in turn, upon further assumptions, including without limitation, Company management’s examination of historical operating trends, data contained in the Company’s records and other data available from third parties. Although the Company believes that these assumptions were reasonable when made, because these assumptions are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond the Company’s control, the Company cannot assure you that it will achieve or accomplish these expectations, beliefs or projections. In addition to these important factors, other important factors that, in the Company’s view, could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include the strength of world economies and currencies, general market conditions, including fluctuations in charter rates and vessel values, changes in demand for dry bulk shipping capacity, changes in the Company’s operating expenses, including bunker prices, drydocking and insurance costs, the market for the Company’s vessels, availability of financing and refinancing, changes in governmental rules and regulations or actions taken by regulatory authorities, tariff policies and other trade restrictions, potential liability from pending or future litigation, general domestic and international political conditions, including risks associated with the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine and related sanctions, potential disruption of shipping routes due to accidents or political events, including the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, vessel breakdowns and instances of off-hires and other factors. Please see the Company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a more complete discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement, or to make any other forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Corporate Contact:Margarita VeniouChief Corporate Development, Governance &Communications Officer and SecretaryTelephone: + 30-210-9470-100Email:mveniou@dianashippinginc.comWebsite:www.dianashippinginc.comX: @DianashipInvestor Relations/Media Contact:Nicolas Bornozis / Daniela GuerreroCapital Link, Inc.230 Park Avenue, Suite 1540New York, N.Y. 10169Tel.: (212) 661-7566Email:diana@capitallink.com

“Somehow all of the interesting energy for discussions about the long-range future of humanity is concentrated on the right,”wroteJoshua Achiam, head of mission alignment at OpenAI, on X last year. “The left has completely abdicated their role in this discussion. A decade from now this will be understood on the left to have been a generational mistake.” It’s a provocative claim: that while many sectors of the world, from politics to business to labor, have begun engaging with what artificial intelligence might soon mean for humanity, the left has not. And it seems to be right. As a movement, it appears the left has not been willing to engage seriously with AI — despite its potential to affect the lives and livelihoods of billions of people in ways that would normally make it just the kind of threat, and opportunity, left politics would concern itself with. Instead, the left has, for a mix of reasons good and bad, convinced itself that AI is at the same time something to hate, to mock, and to ignore. “The GenAI sector’s foremost feat of marketing has been the termintelligenceitself,”N+1, one of America’s foremost left publications, recently wrote. “A much more important question: What if China develops time travel or warp speed before we do?” asked Will Menaker, a host of the popular left podcast Chapo Trap House, when responding on X in December to a discussion of the possibilities of advanced AI. “Large language models do not, cannot, and will not ‘understand’ anything at all,”arguedTyler Austin Harper, the self-described “leftist, sort of Marxist-skewing” former professor, nowThe Atlanticstaff writer, last summer. Whether you hate AI or not — that’s up to you. There are many things to dislike about how it’s currently being developed, and valid reasons to dislike its very existence. But disliking something and ignoring it are different activities, and only one positions you to do anything about it. There are, of course, high-profile voices on the left who talk about AI; perhaps the most famous American leftist, Bernie Sanders, is nowwarningabout its dangers. But just as he has often been a lonely voice in Congress, on AI he stands apart from those within his own part of the political spectrum. Take another high-profile voice associated with the left, at least when it comes to tech, Cory Doctorow, one of the world’s most esteemed sci-fi and technology writers. In December, Doctorow published thetext of a speechgiven to the University of Washington called “The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI.” His purpose was to “explain what I think is going on here with this AI bubble, and sort out the bullshit from the material reality.” At its heart is the claim that “AI is just a word guessing program, because all it does is calculate the most probable word to go next.” In case you missed the point, Doctorow repeated it elsewhere in plainer words: AI is merely a “spicy autocomplete machine.” This idea, that large-language models merely produce statistically plausible word sequences based on training data, without having any idea about what the words refer to, has become the baseline across much of the left-intellectual landscape. Thanks to it, fundamental questions about AI’s capabilities, now and in the future, are considered settled. The publications that play a key (if diminished) role in the left-wing argumentative ecosystem have converged on this line. Here are four. The Nation: “AI only ‘knows’ anything in the same way that a calculator knows that 2 plus 3 is 5, which is why it cannot be counted on to learn and develop in the same way that a human would.” The New Republic: “Generative AI chatbots simply ‘predict’ the next word in a sequence using methods that require vast computational resources, data, and labor. . . they cannot ‘think’ or ‘understand’ language. . .” The New York Review of Books: “Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them.” N+1: “Large language models, which promise so much today, do not offer judgment, let alone intelligence, but unrivaled pattern-processing power, based on a vast corpus of precedents.” Social media reinforces this consensus, so that anyone who turns from theNYRBto Reddit or Bluesky, or the remaining left corners of X, will see the same thing. “Ppl don’t know how ChatGPT works,” one recent post said. “It doesn’t ‘know’ things. It autocompletes sentences. It makes things up.” The post has more than 70,000 likes. As with many left ideas these days, the autocomplete view of AI is a popular adaptation of the views held by critical academics. People who follow AI closely will know this, though they may not know how deeply embedded in left discourse in particular these views have become. “If you take the phrase ‘artificial intelligence,’ in a sentence like ‘does AI understand?’ or ‘can AI help us make better decisions?’, and you replace it with ‘mathy maths’ or ‘SALAMI’ [an acronym for Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences], it’s immediately obvious how ridiculous it is. You know, does the SALAMI understand?” Theaboveis from Emily Bender, a University of Washington computational linguist and the person probably most responsible for the autocomplete view and its adoption in left circles. Except she gives it another name, the “stochastic parrots” hypothesis, which explains the impression of intelligence that LLMs offer in the immediately graspable image of a bird that talks but doesn’t know anything. This was a stroke of mimetic genius: the 2021paperit was coined for, written by Bender with Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell, has been cited around 8,000 times. From there, it’s echoed throughThe NationandN+1and Bluesky, sometimes without attribution. In 2023, when chatbots were more toy than tool, AI-as-autocomplete was maybe a defensible position. But now? That view takes next-token prediction, the technical process at the heart of large-language models, and makes it sound like a simple thing — so simple it’s deflating. And taken in isolation, next-token prediction is a relatively simple process: do some math to predict and then output what word is likely to come next, given everything that’s come before it, based on the huge amounts of human writing the system has trained on. But when that operation is done millions, and billions, and trillions of times, as it is when these models are trained? Suddenly the simple next token isn’t so simple anymore. Instead, a web of associations grows so complex and so clearly productive it reminds one of Stalin’s apocryphal comment that quantity has a quality all its own. Yet the properties of scale do not often enter the left conversation. Nor do several other factors. Factors such as the likelihood that training a system to predict across millions of different cases forces it to build representations of the world that then, even if you want to reserve the word “understanding” for beings that walk around talking out of mouths, produce outputs that look a lot like understanding. Or that reserving words like “understanding” for humans depends on eliding the fact that nobody agrees on what it or “intelligence” or “meaning” actually mean. And that, if you’re arguing for human uniqueness, you need to show that the trillions of neuron-connections in the brain aren’t also doing next-token prediction, or something like it. As if that weren’t enough, it’s now debated whether “predicts the next token” remains an accurate and comprehensive description of what current systems are up to. Reinforcement learning has shifted the training objective from “what word would appear next on the internet” to “what response would a human prefer” — and today’s reasoning models are trained to work through problems step by step rather than answer in a single pass. Given all this, the fraction of meaning in the autocomplete view of current AI is alarmingly akin to the random, not always incorrect observations about temperature cycles conservatives used to throw around in debates about climate change. In both cases, a debatable description of mechanism is mistaken for proof of (in)significance. CO2 makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere, which sounds much too little for it to drive global warming — until you learn CO2’s molecular structure lets it absorb infrared radiation in ways nitrogen and oxygen can’t. Similarly, “AI just predicts the next token” sounds deflating — until you consider what predicting the next token involves and start to ask if there’s really such a difference between predicting and learning. Indeed, it’s a little disturbing how closely this discourse follows climate-debate patterns set down 20 years ago by the right. Either a man-made phenomenon isn’t happening or, if it is, it’s not important. The common words in those articles, “just,” “simply,” “only,” are there because the argument doesn’t stand up without them. As it has for conservatives and climate change, dismissing a phenomenon that is already showing evidence of significant impact on the world puts a fair amount of epistemic stress on the people who do it. If AI is just “spicy autocomplete,” then what’s responsible for the current frenzy of attention? Autocorrect could explain away pre-ChatGPT interest levels without too much trouble. But it doesn’t come close to accounting for the trillions now invested, the data centers appearing around every corner, or the daily reports of AI automating task after task. Another piece of framing is therefore needed to shore the argument up. What’s responsible for the AI frenzy? False consciousness and trickery. “Artificial intelligence, if we’re being frank, is a con: a bill of goods you are being sold to line someone’s pockets,” write Bender and Alex Hanna in their bookThe AI Con, published in 2025 to grateful reviews in literary and intellectual quarters. In this view, the money and attention flowing into AI aren’t reflections of anything real, they’re simply the con in action. This belief is echoed in Doctorow’s essay. To him, tech CEOs are hucksters trying to Ponzi in more investment. “The primary goal is to keep the market convinced that your company will continue to grow, and to remain convinced until the next bubble comes along,” he writes. Of course, the 5-10x annual increases in AI lab revenues, that ChatGPT was the most rapidly adopted consumer technology in history, that consumer is another word for ordinary person and not tycoon — nowhere do these facts enter the picture. What’s left is a view of capitalism not as a system that can unfairly externalize harm, or as a negative system altogether, but as essentially a fake one. This impression is enhanced by the bizarre way the issue of AI taking human jobs comes up in these discussions. The left hates tech CEOs and knows they’re out to get the ordinary worker, but the left also thinks the CEOs are idiots and can’t actually pull it off. Thus, Doctorow claims, “Bosses are mass-firing productive workers and replacing them with janky AI, and when the janky AI is gone, no one will be able to find and re-hire most of those workers, we’re going to go from dysfunctional AI systems to nothing.” Or, in Bender and Hanna’s words, “AI is not going to replace your job. But it will make your job a lot shittier.” The picture is practically Cubist: management is trying to fill your role — with something that’s not real and can’t do it. Right at this mystifying point is where some understandable reasons for skepticism enter. It’s not as if the tech world hasn’t spent billions of dollars on iffy technologies before. Matt Bruenig, the left writer, founder of the People’s Policy Project, and someone who doesn’t share the autocorrect view of AI, explained those reasons sympathetically in an email. “The tech sector has a credibility problem as well because, in the decade or so prior to LLMs,” he wrote, “it seemed to be primarily fixated on blockchain and cryptocurrencies which do appear to be completely useless, at least as far as production goes.” It is hard to argue with that. Likewise, there are clear contradictions in how tech talks about AI. Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, director of the AI: Futures and Responsibility Programme at the University of Cambridge and someone who has decades of experience trying to discuss advanced AI in left-leaning intellectual circles, described the skepticism that results from these contradictions. “CEOs say, ‘We think our technology might destroy the world,’ and then they go and build it,” he said. “To people coming to this topic fresh, those actions don’t match up with the belief. If they think what they’re doing is destroying the world, why are they doing it? Either they’re complete psychopaths or they don’t really believe that.” There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of the motivations and claims of the people in charge of AI companies. The question that the left seems determined to avoid, however, is why that necessarily means you should dismiss the underlying technology, especially given the evidence so far. The gap between what AI systems can do now and what previously hyped technologies ever delivered is already vast. Crypto, for all its flaws,becauseof all its flaws, never got a fraction of the energy and attention from non-boosters AI now gets; to take another example, the metaverse remains a joke to everyone except for Mark Zuckerberg. But try to point this out in these circles and it might not go well. In May, Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and a measured voice on AI, announced he was limiting his posts on Bluesky because “talking about AI here is just really fraught.” In reply, a reasonably well-known left journalist said, “Maybe we can chase him off the goddamn earth too.” Ó hÉigeartaigh, for his part, said he regularly gets called a useful idiot running interference for Big Tech. No one person designed the system of buttressed beliefs that’s built up across left-intellectual discourse; no doubt it grew together because each has trouble carrying weight on its own. But it does come from somewhere. As the Bender and Mollick and Ó hÉigeartaigh examples suggest, the closer to academia one gets, it seems, the more surrounded by this thinking — which is a bit strange, since, as the many alarmed reports of students handing over their studies to ChatGPT indicate, the university is one of the places AI has already affected most. On the other hand, it’s a bit less strange if you consider it as an example of an intellectual war that’s escaping into the world from academia. Here Bender is again the way to understanding. Her view of AI is based on a firm belief about the nature of knowledge that comes from her work in linguistics. “The language modeling task, because it only uses form as training data, cannot in principle lead to learning of meaning,” she writes in one paper, meaning, basically, that because LLMs are disembodied, they cannot connect words to the things in the world they describe — which is a problem, since connecting words to things is the essence of meaning. The key term in that claim is “in principle.” It means that no amount of improvement in LLM ability could ever change the claim, and indeed, as LLMs have improved, Bender has shown little sign of altering her view. This description of how AI works is in other words more a philosophical definition than an empirical description. That’s why the main energy of her work lately is to reframe — to drag things from process and output back to philosophy. That’s why “understanding” becomes “parroting,” “neural networks” become “mathy maths,” “LLMs” become “synthetic text extruding machines.” She who best changes the terms wins the debate is the approach, and Bender has in many ways done just that. (Of course, that “Can mathy maths help us make better decisions?” is a perfectly cogent question, to which the answer is almost certainly yes, shows the limits of this approach.) Bender is entitled to her philosophy. She knows what she’s committing to and what risks she’s running. And, to be fair, she doesn’t think that AI is always useless. “There are applications of machine learning that are well scoped,” she’s written. “These include such everyday things as spell-checkers.” But, for the most part, the people who parrot the parrots hypothesis thirdhand don’t know this. They don’t know they’ve signed up in a long-running philosophical war. They think they are talking about capabilities, about scientific measurement. And that mismatch is leading them into worrying places. In part, they’re not aware of this because an opaque sorting has happened in academic AI research in recent years. “The people who are most optimistic about rapid progress,” said Ó hÉigeartaigh, have “disproportionately seen industry as a place to do their work, in part because you need a lot of compute and resources to do it.” The bullish ones have left academia, which means those who remain are by definition more bearish. Academic practices play into this process too. Publishing in journals requires peer review, and peer review is slow. As Zvi Mowshowitz, who writes perhaps the world’s most exhaustive newsletter on AI, said, “Nobody in real academia can adhere to their norms and actually be in the conversation, because by the time you’re publishing, everything you were trying to say is irrelevant,” a generation or two behind the cutting edge. Another incentive for researchers to leave for industry, then. This splitting of a field that once would have been forced to coexist has probably made industry too optimistic about the pace of progress and made academia too skeptical. That then skews what’s heard by people who listen to academia but not industry — and nearly everyone with that tendency, today, is on the left. They hear only the skeptics, unaware that real science is taking place in the AI labs too (or especially), done by PhD’d researchers they might trust if only they sat in a faculty office. How long can this situation hold? The example of climate change shows such attitudes can linger for quite a long time in a rump group dedicated to them. So perhaps it’s better to ask how long these attitudes will continue to spread outside that group. Here, things look brighter. Epistemic distress is not the whole story of the left-of-center world. Though sometimes you can hear parrots squawking in the background, the left-leaning, general-interest outlets that tend to have New York in the name —TheNew YorkerandNew YorkandThe New York Times, for instance — are much more willing to consider a wide range of views about what’s happening with AI. And AI is entering left electoral discussion in a meaningful way. The Biden administration took AI seriously in its last years. Bernie Sanders is suddenly frantic. “Despite the extraordinary importance of this issue and the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress,” hewroteinThe Guardianrecently. “Right now, there is an amazing lack of political discourse for something that will be a very high priority later,” a Sanders adviser and founder of More Perfect UniontoldAxiosthis fall. A strategist for Zohran Mamdani said that “every candidate should be embracing an aggressive vision” on AI regulation. On the whole, then, and refreshingly, given the low view of politicians these days, the politicians left of center are in better shape on “take AI seriously, please” than the intellectuals. Alex Bores, a New York state assemblymember running for Congress on a platform heavy on AI regulation, ascribes that to daily contact with the public. When people come up to him now, he hears worry about AI’s capabilities, not dismissal of them. “We’re hearing it from our constituents. This is a concern that is brought up to me,” he said. “When you see things happening quickly, when you see your neighbors being impacted, our job is to take action. This has moved very, very quickly from the theoretical to the real.” Still, despite the relative alertness from political quarters, it’s hard to avoid the impression that the right is more alert, both to AI’s opportunity and its danger. That doesn’t mean they are masters of wise AI policy. Both the accelerationists and the industrialists influential in the current administration show it is alarmingly often the opposite. It simply means that, between them and the Steve Bannon anti-tech wing, more or less the entirety of the movement agrees AI is not a fake technology. One key sign: conservative intellectual magazines are in better shape than their left counterparts, generally blending a reasonably accurate grasp of the technology with concerns about social costs, along with — and this is something missing from nearly any portion of the left — some hope for what AI might mean for humanity. Take this, fromCommentary: “As we learn to live with AI, I believe we’ll become more comfortable with the notion that these models ‘think.’ After all, the LLMs are getting better all the time.” OrAmerican Affairs: “AI may serve as a powerful force multiplier for a well-honed native intelligence, or as a substitute for developing it in the first place.” And there’s really nothing on the left compared to the philosophical depth with whichThe New Atlantishas approached AI over the last few years. There are many costs of the left-intellectual world not taking AI seriously, and they will be paid by many quarters — with the left first in line. As Achiamput it, “when there’s a Big Problem that is going to be top of mind for everyone in a decade, whoever is first to the Big Problem gets to set all the rules for discussion and debate about it. In politics it’s a miss if you sit that out.” More concretely, not taking AI seriously might blind the left to its political uses. “One possible concern might be the left-wing abstaining from using the tools when the right-wing does not, in politics, campaigning, policy,” Bruenig worried. There is already some data to this effect: 44% of Republican political consultants use AI for work daily, compared to 28% of Democratic ones, according to the American Association of Political Consultants. Then there are the costs beyond the left — costs to the public and policy. The left’s current stance leads to a focus not on dealing with AI by regulating it wisely or preparing for it but on popping the economic bubble, which here is a baked-in fact of history and not a possibility of the future. After all, if AI is fake, nothing needs to be done except dispel the myth that it is real. And sometimes even that isn’t required: the bubble will pop itself; AI development is always already stopping. “The AI bubble . . . will burst,”N+1writes. “The technology’s dizzying pace of improvement, already slowing with the release of GPT-5, will stall.” This stirring call to non-action was published in fall 2025 — in other words, weeks before the release of the three models, Gemini 3, GPT 5.1, and Opus 4.5, that pulled AI capable of changing daily life from the future into the present. (Since it must be said: it is entirely possible a bubble-popping crash happens — but even that likely won’t stop AI development.) So it’s probably not ideal that just before what might — or might not — be the moment of greatest job dispossession in history, or of democratic dispossession, or worse, or better, part of the group historically most concerned with such things is plugging its ears. What should it be doing instead? There’s a huge amount of open room for left contributions to shaping the near and far futures. These are more the subject for another essay, but it’s worth gesturing to a few, in order from most concrete to most exotic. On the near future, Dean W. Ball, until recently one of the White House’s key AI policy writers, is adamant that by not taking AI abilities seriously, the left is going to miss important ways of improving government. “The left persuasion requires a state that’s good at doing things,” he said. “If I were the left, the first thing I would be doing” would be to ask, “How can we use this to massively advance state capacity and massively expand the ability of the government to deliver public services to people?” Bores thinks AI offers an opportunity to speed the US to cleaner energy. “We desperately need to upgrade our electric grid,” he said. “Now we have a system where you have basically unlimited private capital willing to invest in our electric grid, but the incentives right now are to turn on or buy power privately from old coal or oil places, because it’s just quicker to get approval for that than it is to hook up a renewable source.” As for the far or more exotic futures: what’s the best shape to universal basic income if it’s needed? What if it’s wanted? Can treaties be designed to slow a race to superintelligence and reduce the risk of a catastrophe? What is the ethical view of post-humanism? Hardly any on the left is considering these questions in ways worth agreeing or disagreeing with. Aaron Bastani, the hard left British journalist, is one exception. His 2019 bookFully Automated Luxury Communismenvisions the ways technological development could eventually abolish material scarcity and free humanity from toil. “The demand would be a 10- or 12-hour working week, a guaranteed social wage, universally guaranteed housing, education, healthcare and so on,” hesaidin 2015. Far from revealing a thrall to capitalism, these attitudes reflect a belief in industrial power that goes all the way back to Karl Marx. But who’s listening? Instead, you sometimes get the discomfiting sense you’re watching ghosts — people who were so unprepared for the future, because they were so certain they knew it, that they were already out of it. Tempering that feeling is one thing the AI observers spoken to here emphasized: it isn’t yet too late to change direction. How much time, who knows. Ball, who doesn’t believe AI poses a strong risk to human civilization, thinks “there’ll always be time” to catch up. Mowshowitz, who does believe that, said, “I don’t think it’s too late. The world yearns for more and better thoughts.” Ó hÉigeartaigh was more urgent. “There’s potentially a narrowing window to really engage on this,” he said. “It would be really nice to get perspectives across the political spectrum just in case this giant transformation in human society does come along.” Share

Unlike most airplanes or helicopters, I saw the all-electric Joby Air Taxi long before I heard it. It was cruising silently around Governor's Island and past the Brooklyn Bridge in New York as it made its approach to the NYC Downtown Skyport in Lower Manhattan. When it touched down moments later, it made history, completing the first point-to-point EV air taxi demonstration in New York City history. As someone who's been following the growing eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) industry for almost a decade, this was a watershed moment for me, too. Never, in all that time, had I seen one in flight. Yes, I missed the smaller New York City Joby prototype demonstration in 2023. Still, the truth is, these EV vehicles, which can perform vertical takeoffs before converting into basically airplane mode, have yet to receive the necessary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) clearance. And with how slowly bureaucracy moves, I assumed it might be another decade before I'd see one in flight outside of a highly controlled test, airfield. Yet here I stood under partly cloudy skies with minimal wind, watching the Joby drop down from the sky, its 6 propellers guiding it to a perfect three-point landing. Pilot Buddy Denham hopped out wearing a snappy, blue Joby's jump suit and greeted me warmly. I asked about how hard it is to fly what looks like a cross between a giant drone and a classic airplane. The EV, which will fly four passengers and a pilot once certified by the FAA, is "highly augmented fly by wire," explained Denham. This means that while he controls speed and altitude with physical controllers, much of what happens is when he tells the flight control system what he wants, and it carries it out. Denham should know. Before joining Joby seven years ago, he was with the Navy, where he helped develop a unified control concept for the F-35 fighter jet's hover system, essentially the same system the Joby aircraft uses today. While Denham described the Joby Air Taxi as "easy to fly," it is a complex air vehicle that does the neat trick of converting back and forth from hovercraft to, basically, aircraft. Denham gestured toward the two most forward of the six propellers and explained how they start facing up to support vertical liftoff and then automatically tip down to face forward to support airplane-like flight. Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. "We're excited that this is going to transform how people move around New York and the world." Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt told me shortly after the flight demonstration. That transformation is about noise and air pollution. As an all-electric vehicle capable of traveling up to 200mph, the Joby Air Taxi produces zero emissions and, unlike the majority of helicopters flying over and around New York, it is whisper-quiet when in the air. While the noise level rises appreciably as the eVTOL is lifting off or landing, it's by no means ear-piercing. One company representative told me its in-flight "acoustic profile is 100 times lower than a helicopter." Perhaps nothing drove that point home more forcefully than when Bevirt was speaking to the assembled crowd as a large helicopter inexplicably (or purposely) pulled up to the skyport and hovered in space for a minute, essentially drowning out Bevirt's speech. Bevirt later told me that this is a pivotal moment for Joby and the industry and believes the day's flight is "a good indication of where we are going." It's notable, though, that the pilot flew alone and only over water. Without FAA approval, the Joby Air Taxi, which could just as easily land in your backyard as this skyport, cannot fly over land. Joby's efforts, though, were fast-tracked by a recentFAA eIPP(eVTOL Integration Pilot Program). Triggered by an order from US President Donald Trump, the eIPP helps foster public-private partnerships and made the day's flight, a joint operation between Joby and the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, possibly. Full FAA clearance will still be necessary before you catch a Joby from JFK. In the meantime, Joby's latest production prototype is jam-packed with safety features, including multiple redundancies that make it possible to continue flying if one of the six propellers fails. Even inside each propeller is a dual system to prevent failure. Joby representatives believe they may get FAA clearance to fly as early as next year. If so, customers will use the Joby app to book flights, much like they would an Uber. In fact, Joby and Uber are partners, and the idea is that you could book one trip that includes a Joby flight out of JFK and an Uber to pick you up at the skyport. There's an undeniable cool factor to vertical liftoff from JFK and touching down at your destination, but from a practical perspective, you have to ask why. What's the benefit of living this George Jetson existence? Why not just take an Uber from JFK to Midtown Manhattan? Joby CEO Bevirt has the obvious answer: "5 minutes instead of an hour," he grinned. While this day's flight took 10 minutes from point to point, a Joby that's allowed to fly over land will get the job done in as little as five minutes. That sounds amazing, but one can only imagine the costs will be sky (ahem) high. A Joby spokesperson admitted to me that "initially the price might be a bit higher," but they "want to make this accessible to all." Ultimately, it should cost no more than a comparable Uber Black ride. So figure, if and when this operation gets off the ground, $150 per ride. With a spacious cabin, four leather seats, and big windows, the Joby EV air Taxi could someday be the perfect New York City sightseeing vehicle, but first, the company has to build its EVs. This production prototype is close to the final EV, but Joby still has to build more — a lot more. Even here, though, the company is bullish. As a vertically aligned company, it builds the components it needs in Ohio and assembles the EV Air Taxis in California. A Joby spokesperson told me that by 2027, they hope to eventually build four aircraft a month. When Joby has enough Air Taxis and is certified to fly, its first passenger will be CEO Joben Bevirt. When I asked if the vehicles were safe, he said, "Absolutely," and when I followed with if he would be the first passenger, he quickly added, "I am." Follow TechRadar on Google Newsandadd us as a preferred sourceto get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. A 38-year industry veteran andaward-winning journalist, Lance has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases and “on line” meant “waiting.” He’s a former Lifewire Editor-in-Chief, Mashable Editor-in-Chief, and, before that, Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for Ziff Davis, Inc. He also wrote a popular, weekly tech column for Medium called The Upgrade. Lance Ulanoffmakes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Live with Kelly and Mark, theToday Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and the BBC. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.