Scotland to launch ‘kilt’ bonds as it seeks to become an investor friendly destination
Scotland’s government has been granted the same credit rating as the United Kingdom.
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European markets higher as U.S. government shutdown ends; Burberry jumps 7%
European stocks were higher on Thursday morning, tracking their global counterparts as the U.S. government shutdown came to an end.
Chinese tech giant Tencent’s quarterly revenue rises 15%, fueled by AI
Tencent on Thursday posted 15% year-on-year revenue growth, with AI boosting the Chinese tech giant’s performance in advertising targeting and…
How to Build a Fully Functional Custom GPT-style Conversational AI Locally Using Hugging Face Transformers
In this tutorial, we build our own custom GPT-style chat system from scratch using a local Hugging Face model. We…
I can’t take any more of this, Andrew told Epstein, released emails show
The former prince’s reaction when he heard about a newspaper inquiry was among more than 20,000 pages of documents from…
UK economy grows by a meager 0.1% in the third quarter, missing expectations
The data comes ahead of the British government’s highly anticipated Autumn Budget later this month.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5.1: Combining Adaptive Reasoning, Account Level Personalization, And Updated Safety Metrics In The GPT-5 Stack
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1 as the next iteration in the GPT-5 family, with 2 core variants, GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1…
House passes funding bill to end record-long government shutdown, Trump set to sign
Most Democrats, who are in the minority in Congress, oppose the funding bill because it does not include extending enhanced…
Anthropic to spend $50 billion on U.S. AI infrastructure, starting with Texas, New York data centers
Anthropic rival OpenAI has secured more than $1.4 trillion worth of deals with Nvidia, Broadcom, Oracle and the major cloud…
Italy investigates claim that tourists paid to go to Bosnia to kill besieged civilians
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo.
Howard Marks highlights credit ‘carelessness’ but says issues are not systemic
The Oaktree Capital co-founder examined the recent credit market upheaval in his latest client memo.
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
Several Palestinians were also injured when settlers launched arson attacks targeting an industrial area, a Bedouin village, and farmland east…
The sharks are circling UK PM Keir Starmer’s leadership, with crunch points coming
The Autumn Budget on Nov.26 could prove pivotal, or politically fatal, for the PM.
‘Godfathers of wind’ raise alarm as Trump urges countries to abandon climate fight
Two European pioneers of the modern wind power industry have issued a warning over the Trump administration’s clean energy cutbacks.
Trump says he has ‘obligation’ to sue BBC over speech edit
The US president indicates he will go ahead with a lawsuit against the BBC over how his speech was presented…
How to Build an End-to-End Interactive Analytics Dashboard Using PyGWalker Features for Insightful Data Exploration
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced capabilities of PyGWalker, a powerful tool for visual data analysis that integrates seamlessly…
Nvidia supplier Foxconn third-quarter profit beats expectations, rising 17% on AI demand
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, reported Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% from a year earlier.
Tariffs thaw, rivalry simmers: U.S.–China trade truce enters uneasy phase
Even as a U.S.–China trade truce appears to be holding, analysts caution that the détente remains fragile in a rivalry…
SoftBank shares plunge as much as 10% after selling Nvidia stake
SoftBank Group shares fell as much as 10% Wednesday after the conglomerate revealed it had offloaded its entire stake in…
Introducing agent-to-agent protocol support in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
We recently announced the support for Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. With this addition, agents can discover…
Powering enterprise search with the Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model in Amazon Bedrock
The Cohere Embed 4 multimodal embeddings model is now available as a fully managed, serverless option in Amazon Bedrock. Users can…
‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings
Burry alleged that “hyperscalers” are artificially boosting earnings by extending the useful life of their computer equipment.
Suicide bombing in Islamabad kills 12, says Pakistan’s interior minister
Mohsin Naqvi says the bomber tried to gain entry to a court complex but was unable to get inside.
British assets wobble as weak jobs data fuels bets on a Christmas rate cut
Yields on British government bonds fell notably as data showed the U.K. unemployment rate rose to 5%.
Meta AI Releases Omnilingual ASR: A Suite of Open-Source Multilingual Speech Recognition Models for 1600+ Languages
How do you build a single speech recognition system that can understand 1,000’s of languages including many that never had…
US Senate passes funding bill as historic shutdown nears likely end
It will need to be approved by the House and then signed into law by the president before the government…
SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion
The Japanese conglomerate said Tuesday it sold 32.1 million shares of Nvidia in October.
A Coding Implementation to Build and Train Advanced Architectures with Residual Connections, Self-Attention, and Adaptive Optimization Using JAX, Flax, and Optax
In this tutorial, we explore how to build and train an advanced neural network using JAX, Flax, and Optax in…
Sony raises profit forecast after earnings beat, lifted by music and imaging divisions
Sony Group on Tuesday reported a increase in its second-quarter operating profit that beat expectations on strength from its Music and Imaging divisions.
Asia-Pacific markets rise, tracking Wall Street gains on revived AI trade
Overnight, Wall Street gained on a revived AI trade and hopes that the U.S. government shutdown would end soon.
Moonshot AI Releases Kosong: The LLM Abstraction Layer that Powers Kimi CLI
Modern agentic applications rarely talk to a single model or a single tool, so how do you keep that stack…
Gelato-30B-A3B: A State-of-the-Art Grounding Model for GUI Computer-Use Tasks, Surpassing Computer Grounding Models like GTA1-32B
How do we teach AI agents to reliably find and click the exact on screen element we mean when we…
Fine-tune VLMs for multipage document-to-JSON with SageMaker AI and SWIFT
Extracting structured data from documents like invoices, receipts, and forms is a persistent business challenge. Variations in format, layout, language,…
How Clario automates clinical research analysis using generative AI on AWS
Clinical outcome assessment (COA) interviews are important instruments in clinical trials for evaluating the efficacy and safety of treatments. In…
At least eight killed after car explodes near Delhi’s Red Fort
Nineteen more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say.
Russia is late to the party, but it’s still preparing to enter the rare earths fray
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week ordered his officials to complete a road map for the extraction of rare earths…
Global stocks rally on hopes the U.S. shutdown is nearing an end
Global equities traded higher on Monday morning amid reports that the protracted U.S. government shutdown may be nearing an end.
China suspends some critical mineral export curbs to the U.S. as trade truce takes hold
China has rolled back a number of restrictions on its export of critical minerals and rare earth materials to the…
Comparing Memory Systems for LLM Agents: Vector, Graph, and Event Logs
Table of contents High-Level Comparison 1. Vector Memory Systems 1.1 Plain Vector RAG 1.2 Tiered Vector Memory (MemGPT-Style Virtual Context)…
US Senate passes deal aimed at ending government shutdown
The measure signals a major breakthrough but the deal still needs to get over more hurdles in Congress.
Government shutdown could be headed for end as Senate passes first stage of new deal
The U.S. government shutdown has dragged on for weeks because of the refusal by Democrats in the Senate to approve…
A Coding Implementation to Build Neural Memory Agents with Differentiable Memory, Meta-Learning, and Experience Replay for Continual Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how neural memory agents can learn continuously without forgetting past experiences. We design a memory-augmented…
Asia-Pacific markets mostly rise after AI-fueled rout last week
Investors in Asia are also assessing October inflation data out from China over the weekend, which came in above expectations.
AI Interview Series #1: Explain Some LLM Text Generation Strategies Used in LLMs
Every time you prompt an LLM, it doesn’t generate a complete answer all at once — it builds the response…
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-EditX: A New Open-Source 3B LLM-Grade Audio Editing Model Excelling at Expressive and Iterative Audio Editing
How can speech editing become as direct and controllable as simply rewriting a line of text? StepFun AI has open…
Storm declared ‘super typhoon’ as it hits Philippines
Typhoon Fung Wong is already bringing “life threatening conditions” to one eastern island, with widespread disruption expected later.
Syria’s Sharaa arrives in US for Trump talks after sanctions lifted
The Syrian leader will meet the US President at the White House on Monday for security talks.
How to Build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant that Understands, Reasons, Plans, and Responds through Autonomous Multi-Step Intelligence
In this tutorial, we explore how to build an Agentic Voice AI Assistant capable of understanding, reasoning, and responding through…
China consumer prices return to growth in October, producer price slump extends to three years
Deflation pressures in China alleviated in October, as consumer prices returned to growth after falling for two straight months, though…
Six dead as Russia hits energy and residential sites in Ukraine
Overnight, 25 locations including Kyiv were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating.