Scalable voice agent design with Amazon Nova Sonic: multi-agent, tools, and session segmentation
Design patterns for scalable voice agents matter for organizations that need to deliver fast, natural, and reliable voice experiences. Many…
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Putin in Beijing: 3 things Russia needs from China
Russia will be looking for energy and trade deals with China, as well as continuing geopolitical support.
Japan, China lead foreign government retreat from U.S. Treasurys as Gulf War fallout stokes currency fears
The selloff came as the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran conflict and resulting surge in crude oil prices sent the Japanese…
Ebola may be spreading faster than first thought, WHO doctor warns
Hundreds of cases are suspected in central Africa but experts fear the actual number may be much higher.
U.S. Treasury sell-off eases, traders eye highest 30-year yield since 1999
Global bond markets remain on edge as traders monitor central banks’ responses to renewed inflation fears.
Best Enterprise Level Agentic AI Platforms for 2026
In 2026, enterprise agentic AI has moved from pilot budgets to production commitments. Salesforce is closing Agentforce deals at 29,000…
How to Build an Advanced Agentic AI System with Planning, Tool Calling, Memory, and Self-Critique Using OpenAI API
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI system using the OpenAI API and a hidden terminal prompt for…
Putin heads to Beijing days after Trump in test of China’s balancing act
Beijing walks into the summit with the stronger hand while Moscow seeks reassurance that China has not drifted toward Washington…
Trump says he called off new Iran attack at request of Gulf states
The US president says he is holding off on a US attack planned for Tuesday as “serious negotiations are now…
Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request
The U.S. and Iran are in a stalemate centered on the Strait of Hormuz, the global oil pathway whose closure…
Meet MemPrivacy: An Edge-Cloud Framework that Uses Local Reversible Pseudonymization to Protect User Data Without Breaking Memory Utility
As LLM-powered agents move from research to production, one design tension is becoming harder to ignore: the more useful cloud-hosted…
Prompting Amazon Nova 2 for content moderation
If you moderate user-generated content at scale, you need a system that catches policy violations accurately without over-flagging legitimate posts.…
Aderant transforms cloud operations with Amazon Quick
This guest post is co-written by Angela Mapes and Adam Walker of Aderant. Aderant, a leading global provider of comprehensive…
Judge rules gun, writings are admissible in Luigi Mangione’s New York murder trial
Other items found with Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s will not be allowed to be presented in court, the judge…
The EU will cut growth outlook, raise inflation forecast as Iran war drives ‘stagflationary shock’
The commission’s forthcoming spring forecast, released later this week, will see economic growth figures adjusted down and inflation figures up.
Build custom code-based evaluators in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this launch: Stephanie Yuan, Lefan Zhang, Ritvika Pillai, Irene Wang, Carter Williams, T.J…
At least six Americans exposed to Ebola during DR Congo outbreak
One of the six Americans believed to have been exposed is experiencing symptoms, according to media reports.
Berkshire has revamped its portfolio — here’s how the new stocks are trading
Berkshire Hathaway took a $2.6 billion stake in Delta Airlines and increased its shares in Alphabet by 224%.
Treasury yields rise as inflation fears drive global bond rout
Global bond yields rose on Monday as fears of resurgent inflation grip financial markets.
Britain’s prospective next PM tries to placate bond markets after sell-off, gilts steady
The U.K.’s would-be prime minister, Andy Burnham, is being closely watched by bond markets.
NVIDIA Introduces a 4-Bit Pretraining Methodology Using NVFP4, Validated on a 12B Hybrid Mamba-Transformer at 10T Token Horizon
Pretraining frontier-scale LLMs in FP8 is now standard practice, but moving to 4-bit floating point has remained an open research…
Ryanair has plans for ‘armageddon’ scenario as CFO warns weaker European carriers may not survive jet fuel crunch
Ryanair said it has plans for an “armageddon situation,” amid the jet fuel crisis.
White House touts deals on soybeans and rare earths after Trump-Xi summit, while China talks up tariff cuts
The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week yielded new pacts, though the sides…
China’s April economic data underwhelms, with retail sales growth slowing to lowest since 2022
China’s economy stumbled in April with consumption, industrial output and investment growth missing expectations.
Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran as peace progress stalls
Iranian media reports the US has not made concrete concessions in response to Tehran’s latest proposals.
Asia-Pacific markets fall as Trump’s Iran warning stokes fresh oil supply fears
Asia-Pacific markets fell as investors weighed renewed geopolitical tensions after Donald Trump warned Iran to “get moving, FAST.”
A Coding Implementation to Compress and Benchmark Instruction-Tuned LLMs with FP8, GPTQ, and SmoothQuant Quantization using llmcompressor
In this tutorial, we explore how to apply post-training quantization to an instruction-tuned language model using llmcompressor. We start with…
Bitcoin LTH Supply Climbs Back To August 2025 Levels As 316K BTC Move Into Strong Hands
Bitcoin’s latest on-chain picture is beginning to look less like panic and more like patience. Data from CryptoQuant, highlighted by…
G7 finance ministers to meet amid warning of economic consequences of prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure
G7 finance ministers are due to meet in Paris on Monday and Tuesday as long-term borrowing costs surge.
Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs
Most programming languages were designed for humans who read error messages, interpret warnings, and manually trace through stack output to…
WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a global health emergency
The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 cases and 80 deaths, does not meet the criteria of pandemic…
Global oil stockpiles could hit record lows if Strait of Hormuz remains closed
The world’s oil stockpiles could approach all-time lows by the end of May due to the Strait of Hormuz closure,…
What Solana’s 108% Growth Means For Its Price Outlook
The latest shareholder letter from DeFi Development Corp., a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, shows that its fully converted SOL per…
Hezbollah drone strike videos show evolving tactics against Israel
BBC Verify has examined dozens of videos of fibre-optic drone attacks carried out by the Lebanese armed group.
Nous Research Proposes Lighthouse Attention: A Training-Only Selection-Based Hierarchical Attention That Delivers 1.4–1.7× Pretraining Speedup at Long Context
Training large language models on long sequences has a well-known problem: attention is expensive. The scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) at…
Meet LiteLLM Agent Platform: A Kubernetes-Based, Self-Hosted Infrastructure Layer for Isolated Agent Sandboxes and Persistent Session Management in Production
Running AI agents in a local script is straightforward. Running them reliably in production across teams, across restarts, with isolated…
Taiwan insists it is independent after Trump warning
Fresh from his summit in Beijing, the US president warned against a formal declaration of independence by the island.
Senior IS leader killed by US and Nigerian forces
US President Donald Trump said the joint operation eliminated “the most active terrorist in the world”, Abu-Bilal al-Minuki.
Why Taiwan became the defining issue in the Trump-Xi talks
U.S. President Donald Trump had said arms sales to Taiwan would be on the agenda for his talks with Chinese…
NVIDIA Introduces SANA-WM: A 2.6B-Parameter Open-Source World Model That Generates Minute-Scale 720p Video on a Single GPU
World models (systems that synthesize realistic video sequences from an initial image and a set of actions) are becoming central…
How to Build an MCP Style Routed AI Agent System with Dynamic Tool Exposure Planning, Execution, and Context Injection
In this tutorial, we build a fully functional MCP-style routed agent system from scratch, combining tool discovery, intelligent routing, structured…
Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview: The First MoE Diffusion Model Converted From an Autoregressive LLM With Up to 7.7x Speedup
Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI lab behind the ZAYA1 model family, released ZAYA1-8B-Diffusion-Preview — a preview of its early work…
Trump says he ‘made no commitment either way’ to Xi on Taiwan
Trump said Xi Jinping had asked directly if the US would defend Taiwan, and he had responded, “I don’t talk…
How China and U.S. eased the Middle East oil shock and kept prices from spiking even higher
China and the U.S., the world’s two largest economies, wield great influence over the oil market and are using it…
Restrict access to sensitive documents in your Amazon Quick knowledge bases for Amazon S3
Organizations that must restrict access to sensitive documents increasingly rely on AI-driven search and chat to help employees find answers…
Nvidia’s Future in China Remains Unclear After Trump-Xi Summit
The standoff comes as Chinese firms increasingly turn to domestic chipmakers like Huawei, in a drive to reduce China’s dependence…
Trump and Xi conclude ‘very successful’ talks but no deals announced
There were plenty of choreographed ceremonies but no trade breakthroughs after the two-day visit.
Trump told Xi ‘I don’t talk about’ whether U.S. would defend Taiwan from China
President Donald Trump spoke about Taiwan after a two-day visit to China, where he said he discussed Iran, and trade…
Xi takes Trump on tour of Communist Party’s seat of power as China visit ends
Trump and Xi toured Zhongnanhai, the heavily guarded compound where China’s top leaders live and work.
Trump-Xi summit: the 3 big takeaways from historic meeting in Beijing
The two-day meeting wrapped up Friday, setting the tone for further U.S.-China talks this year.