It’s probably quite difficult to wipe the smirk off Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s face at the moment, this as the arrival of China’s Deepseek AI model in January was touted as the death knell for Nvidia’s rampant growth forecasts. But yesterday Saudi Arabia committed to buying “several hundred thousand” of their most advanced GPU’s over the next five years which is a monster of an order.

It’s the end of an era as Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, confirmed that he will be stepping down as the head of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year. Seriously big shoes for his successor, Greg Abel, to fill even in he has been groomed for the job since 2021 and has spent 25 years working at Berkshire.

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the questionable thought processes of others. Japanese authorities recently had to rescue a Chinese student from Mount Fuji after he made an emergency call complaining of altitude sickness. Four days later they had to rescue him again as he went back up the mountain to find his phone.

It’s Wednesday morning and for those of you clever enough to have taken Friday off we’ve already arrived at the end of the week!!! April is always heavily disrupted by the barrage of public holidays but the last two weeks of the month have almost been a joke.

The VAT hike is no longer which is a welcomed headline in an environment where the cost of living is already a major challenge. Now if something can just be done about this incessant rain!!!