In BIG PICTURE NEWS, Russia strikes Ukraine, Trump calls for Ukraine to stop hitting Russian oil refineries, Canada wants to deepen EU ties, Gulf states ditch Iran talks, Trump scraps tariffs on Irish whiskey, Le Pen launches her campaign and interest decisions are due. In TECH NEWS, everyone's calling for an AI slowdown (apart from Trump), Anthropic's heading for another profitable quarter whilst helping the Houthis, Texas resists data centres and Callosum aims to cut AI costs. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, the robotaxi revolution approaches (but Musk attacks our rules), Icicle ventures outside China and then we look at some anti-AI names.AND FINALLY, I bring you the multiple uses of chopsticks...