Neuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning
Neuphonic has released NeuTTS Air, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) speech language model designed to run locally in real time on…
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Thinking Machines Launches Tinker: A Low-Level Training API that Abstracts Distributed LLM Fine-Tuning without Hiding the Knobs
Thinking Machines has released Tinker, a Python API that lets researchers and engineers write training loops locally while the platform…
How to Build an Advanced Voice AI Pipeline with WhisperX for Transcription, Alignment, Analysis, and Export?
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced implementation of WhisperX, where we explore transcription, alignment, and word-level timestamps in…
Trump wields axe over ‘Democrat Agencies’ as shutdown blame game rages
He said the shutdown could be an opportunity to “clear out dead wood”, giving no hint of concessions to Democrats.
Asia markets trade mixed after Wall Street gains as investors look past government shutdown
Investors in Asia are also looking to Japan’s September manufacturing purchasing managers’ index later in the day.
IBM Released new Granite 4.0 Models with a Novel Hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer Architecture: Drastically Reducing Memory Use without Sacrificing Performance
IBM just released Granite 4.0, an open-source LLM family that swaps monolithic Transformers for a hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer stack to cut…
Enhance agentic workflows with enterprise search using Kore.ai and Amazon Q Business
This post was written with Meghana Chintalapudi and Surabhi Sankhla of Kore.ai. As organizations struggle with exponentially growing volumes of…
Accelerate development with the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server
Today, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. With built-in support for runtime, gateway…
Hamas military leader in Gaza objects to ceasefire plan, BBC understands
President Trump’s proposal, accepted by Israel, stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.
Trump touts shutdown as ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut more Democratic priorities
Trump in a Truth Social post said he will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to…
Treasury Secretary Bessent says U.S. GDP could take a hit from the government shutdown
The Cabinet official spoke on the second day of the government closure.
Tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable ‘freight train’ coming to major markets: Robinhood CEO
The tokenization of real-world assets, from stocks to real estate, is coming to markets around the world, says Robinhood Markets…
Corporate borrowers face funding trade-off as PIMCO flags debt market ‘cracks’
The president of bond giant PIMCO highlighted direct lending pressures as borrowers seek out payment-in-kind agreements.
OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation
OpenAI has completed a $6.6 billion secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation, cementing its status as the most…
ServiceNow AI Releases Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker: An Open-Weights Multimodal Reasoning Model that Hits Frontier-Level Performance on a Single-GPU Budget
ServiceNow AI Research Lab has released Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal reasoning model trained with a data-centric mid-training recipe—continual pretraining…
White House says layoffs ‘imminent’ with no end to shutdown in sight
As a bitter standoff between Republicans and Democrats plays out, there is little sign that either side is willing to…
Taiwan rejects U.S. proposal of ’50-50′ chip production, says trade talks focused on tariffs
Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said the arrangement was “not discussed,” as she returned from trade talks in the U.S., according…
SK Hynix shares hit multidecade highs, Samsung also surges as chipmakers partner with OpenAI
The partnership will “focus on increasing the supply of advanced memory chips essential for next-generation AI and expanding data center…
The Trump crypto firm is planning expansion, from tokenized commodities to debit cards
World Liberty Financial is planning to launch new products, including a debit card and tokenized commodity assets, as the Trump…
Israeli naval ships intercept Gaza-bound flotilla
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla being taken to an Israeli port.
NASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdown
NASA made an exception to allow work on Artemis missions with SpaceX and Blue Origin to continue during the government…
Four ways this US government shutdown could end
At some point, public pressure and political pain will see one side yield to bring this latest US government shutdown…
How Hapag-Lloyd improved schedule reliability with ML-powered vessel schedule predictions using Amazon SageMaker
This post is cowritten with Thomas Voss and Bernhard Hersberger from Hapag-Lloyd. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading shipping…
Liquid AI Released LFM2-Audio-1.5B: An End-to-End Audio Foundation Model with Sub-100 ms Response Latency
Liquid AI has released LFM2-Audio-1.5B, a compact audio–language foundation model that both understands and generates speech and text through a…
Microsoft wants to mainly use its own AI data center chips in the future
Microsoft has been developing its own chips for the data center designed to handle artificial intelligence workloads.
How a U.S. government shutdown could impact global markets
Global investors are weighing how much of an impact the shutdown may have on markets.
Data centers are a gold rush for global real estate — but can funding keep up?
“The world of real estate is changing from what I’d call the ‘visible’ to the ‘invisible,’” said Kishore Moorjani, CEO…
MLPerf Inference v5.1 (2025): Results Explained for GPUs, CPUs, and AI Accelerators
What MLPerf Inference Actually Measures? MLPerf Inference quantifies how fast a complete system (hardware + runtime + serving stack) executes…
What is the drone wall that Europe wants to deter Russia?
A number of European countries have reported airspace incursions involving either Russian jets or, allegedly, drones recently.
The Role of Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Generative AI Security and Red Teaming
Table of contents Overview What MCP standardizes? Normative authorization controls Where MCP supports security engineering in practice ? Case study:…
Google AI Proposes ReasoningBank: A Strategy-Level I Agent Memory Framework that Makes LLM Agents Self-Evolve at Test Time
How do you make an LLM agent actually learn from its own runs—successes and failures—without retraining? Google Research proposes ReasoningBank,…
Jobs, travel, national parks – what impact will US shutdown have?
Washington’s political gridlock could inflict wide-ranging miseries, as anything deemed non-essential will be put on hold.
The world’s first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade
The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.
CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: AstraZeneca gets a shot on Wall Street
The British government should not get complacent about AstraZeneca’s U.S. listing, as it paves the way for a full one in New…
How to Build an Advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System with Dynamic Strategy and Smart Retrieval?
In this tutorial, we walk through the implementation of an Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. We design it so that…
Asia markets trade mixed after Wall Street gains ahead of a potential U.S. government shutdown
In Asia, investors will look toward the Reserve Bank of India’s rate decision.
Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.6: Achieving Enhancements in Real-World Coding, Long-Context Processing, Reasoning, Searching and Agentic AI
Zhipu AI has released GLM-4.6, a major update to its GLM series focused on agentic workflows, long-context reasoning, and practical…
Bowen: Momentum is the strength of Trump’s Gaza plan, but lack of detail is its weakness
The plan is a significant moment – but it lacks the nuts and bolts that determine whether diplomatic agreements hold…
Modernize fraud prevention: GraphStorm v0.5 for real-time inference
Fraud continues to cause significant financial damage globally, with U.S. consumers alone losing $12.5 billion in 2024—a 25% increase from the…
OpenAI Launches Sora 2 and a Consent-Gated Sora iOS App
OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video-and-audio model focused on physical plausibility, multi-shot controllability, and synchronized dialogue/SFX. The OpenAI team has…
For Netanyahu, avoiding a peace deal may now be worse than agreeing one
Trump is asking the Israeli PM to risk his government but dangling the prospect of a historic legacy, writes Lucy…
Government shutdown: ‘Democrats should do the right thing,’ Speaker Johnson says
Democrats insist that any stopgap funding bill included an extension of enhance Affordable Care Act tax credits due to expire…
European stocks up as U.S. trade policy comes back into focus; Pandora falls as CEO announces retirement
European stocks edged higher on Tuesday as investors kept an eye on Trump’s trade tariffs and another political impasse in…
Entire Ukrainian family killed in Russian drone strike, officials say
The bodies of two young boys and their parents were recovered from their destroyed home in the Sumy region, rescuers…
Three dead, dozens trapped after Indonesian school collapses on students
The rescue was temporarily halted on Tuesday as authorities say the building is at risk of further collapse.
Delinea Released an MCP Server to Put Guardrails Around AI Agents Credential Access
Delinea released an Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that let AI-agent access to credentials stored in Delinea Secret Server and…
Afghan women lose their ‘last hope’ as Taliban shuts down internet
For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.
China’s DeepSeek launches next-gen AI model. Here’s what makes it different
The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has now released DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an experimental version of its current model DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus.
DeepSeek V3.2-Exp Cuts Long-Context Costs with DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) While Maintaining Benchmark Parity
Table of contents FP8 index → top-k selection → sparse core attention Lets Talk about it’s efficiency and accuracy Summary…
UK PM Starmer prepares for critical address — and so much is riding on what he says
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will address the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday.