Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chips
The Chinese AI company said it had already launched the model globally in stealth mode for a week.
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Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring. Its core move is…
China industrial profit growth in July slumps to 7-month low of 11.2%
Industrial corporate profitability has seen a notable turnaround, swinging from years of declines since 2021 and barely positive growth last…
Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hikes as core inflation stays elevated
The Bank of Korea hiked rates by 25 basis points to 3%, its highest since January 2025 and in line…
Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series and the cheapest capable coding model the…
Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
AI teams building production agents face a frustrating asymmetry: the diversity of agent frameworks keeps growing, but evaluation tooling has…
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick
GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and…
Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3
In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script…
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for cost per token. The checkpoint pairs a…
Heart, hope and a steely determination: Dolly Parton’s musical legacy
BBC music correspondent Mark Savage looks back on the legacy of the “irreplaceable” late singer.
Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
Meta and state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that company misrepresented the extent of child-related mental…
What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers
I read every major model release. Most of them ship a coding number. The number goes up. The conclusion everyone…
Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say
A hospital official told the BBC that the door to the ward was not locked, but manned with security guards,…
Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows core prices rose 3.3% annually in July
The personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to rise 0.1% monthly and 3.6% on a 12-month basis, according to…
Iran and Oman prepare Hormuz deal as U.S. holds back on secondary sanctions
Iran and Oman are approaching a deal to secure safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz and future administration of…
Oil falls as the U.S. pivots to economic pressure on Iran
Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add…
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike…
Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal reaches Congress as experts warn of proliferation risk
Some Democratic lawmakers and nonproliferation advocates have criticized the pact for not including a permanent prohibition on enrichment or reprocessing.
HP partners with U.S.-blacklisted Huawei for licensing the Chinese company’s WiFi tech
It’s a sign of adoption of Huawei technology outside China, despite the U.S. restricting the company from working with American…
Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone.…
Canada announces ‘dollar-for-dollar’ retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from…
Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps
Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The…
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner,…
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP…
Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce…
Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods
Canadian trade negotiators left the U.S. last week after failing to clinch a trade deal that would stop President Donald…
China needs U.S. dollars but is building a hedge against Washington’s sanctions
The U.S. can pressure Chinese banks over Iran through access to its financial system, while Beijing is building alternatives such…
China warns it will safeguard its interests after US widens sanctions against Iran
The US has threatened to isolate nations that continue to do business with Tehran, which sells much of its oil…
The ‘debasement trade’ returns after Bessent bond maneuver. Crypto and gold are back in style
Concern over the size and the cost of U.S. government spending has given new life to the debasement trade.
Trump targets Iran’s trade lifelines — here are the countries most exposed
Washington’s threat of “economic D-Day” collides with a small group of governments that account for most of what remains of…
Trump admin unveils anti-Iran global sanctions plan, signals China not exempt
The Trump administration unveiled a plan to isolate Iran’s economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s…
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible…
Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod
Today, we are announcing new Ray capabilities on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that integrate Ray with the HyperPod purpose-built infrastructure for…
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents As organizations scale…
Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary
Scott Bessent says the US will sever all economic ties with the country and that any nation partnering with Iran…
Trump says U.S. will hike Canada auto tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will raise tariffs on imports of cars, trucks and auto parts from Canada to…
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop…
Russia’s second-biggest online retailer targeted in Ukrainian strikes
Ozon says its warehouses across southern Russia, including in Dagestan and Krasnodar, were hit in the overnight strikes.
Bessent could tap near $1 trillion Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks, sources said
Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term bond yields.
Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
The tech giant says it does not sell the devices in Russia, but they are widely available on resale markets.…
‘They asked too much’: Canadian dollar slides as Ottawa and Washington head for all-out trade war
“As a smaller, more open economy, Canada has more to lose from this,” ING strategists said Monday.
Divorce, smartphones and control – BBC sees how Taliban run Afghanistan
Five years after the Taliban’s return, the BBC follows senior figures as the group reshapes the country.
Burnham to visit Kyiv on first foreign trip and reaffirm UK support for Ukraine
It comes after Moscow warned of “consequences” over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine.
U.S. to unveil ‘greatest financial offensive’ against Iran as Tehran threatens ship seizures
The escalation came as both sides have missed a 60-day ceasefire window to reach a deal, closing off the formal…
Treasury Secretary to announce Iran sanctions as Tehran dismisses economic warfare threat
Bessent told CNBC that the sanctions will be the “toughest” in history.
Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey has released Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained model, as a research preview as of today. Tenet is a Kimi…
Zelensky should be asked what he knew about government corruption, sacked minister tells BBC
Mykhailo Fedorov has also called for wartime elections to be held in Ukraine.
After 10 years at United, CEO Scott Kirby is thinking big about the future of his airline from JFK to AI
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby talked to CNBC in a wide-ranging interview about his proposed airline megadeals, AI and the…
Meet FreeToken: An Edge-Native MoE Serving Engine that Runs 753B GLM-5.2 on a Single Workstation GPU
Frontier open-weight models are shipping faster than the hardware assumptions around them. Kimi-K3, GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash are closing the capability…
Building an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with deepDoctection
In this tutorial, we implement a document intelligence pipeline with deepDoctection 1.2.x that combines layout detection, table structure recognition, OCR,…