Here are the news items: 

• An influential analyst is extremely bullish on Tesla’s energy generation and storage business. 
• Microsoft will spend about $16 billion acquiring Nuance, the voice tech company behind Apples’s Siri. Its big focus: health care.
• A former US commander says Russian provocations at the Ukrainian border are all about taking control of the Black Sea. 
• The Biden administration proposes a budget windfall for federal science agencies. 
• Artificial intelligence may soon surpass our understanding of the cellular processes that lead to brain disease. 

PLUS: Rebecca interviews oil and gas industry expert Andy Lebow about the the oil market’s wild ride and how China’s sanctioned purchases of Iranian oil may affect the global market.

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