How Saudi Arabia is diversifying away from oil — and betting big on AI
While oil is the primary driver of Saudi Arabia’s economy, the kingdom is now diversifying into areas such as artificial…
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Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, according to a person…
Jamaica in path of ‘life-threatening’ category five Hurricane Melissa
Melissa, which has already been blamed for the deaths of four people, could become the strongest hurricane ever to hit…
Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%
The AI200, expected in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, both can come in a system that fills up…
Global stocks rally as investors are upbeat on U.S.-China trade pact prospects
Global markets rallied at the start of the week as investors were buoyed by growing optimism that the U.S. and…
Trump says U.S., China close to trade deal ahead of Xi talks, TikTok decision
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a whirlwind weeklong trip to Asia aimed at strengthening his position ahead of an expected meeting…
How to Build an Agentic Decision-Tree RAG System with Intelligent Query Routing, Self-Checking, and Iterative Refinement?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design…
International troops won’t want to enforce Gaza peace, says King of Jordan
King Abdullah tells the BBC there would need to be peace in Gaza before any international forces were deployed.
Inside Syria’s jail for IS suspects as officials say attacks by group are rising
Kurdish counter-terrorism officials tell the BBC so-called Islamic State cells in Syria are regrouping and increasing attacks.
China’s industrial profits surge 21.6% in September, biggest jump in nearly two years
That sharp jump extended a strong rebound since August and represented the biggest jump since November 2023.
Meet ‘kvcached’: A Machine Learning Library to Enable Virtualized, Elastic KV Cache for LLM Serving on Shared GPUs
Large language model serving often wastes GPU memory because engines pre-reserve large static KV cache regions per model, even when…
5 Common LLM Parameters Explained with Examples
Large language models (LLMs) offer several parameters that let you fine-tune their behavior and control how they generate responses. If…
Two arrested over theft of jewels at Louvre, French media report
Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight, stealing eight items described as of inestimable…
How to Build, Train, and Compare Multiple Reinforcement Learning Agents in a Custom Trading Environment Using Stable-Baselines3
In this tutorial, we explore advanced applications of Stable-Baselines3 in reinforcement learning. We design a fully functional, custom trading environment,…
Trump presides over Thai-Cambodia ‘peace deal’ – but what does it mean?
Trump calls it historic, Thailand only calls is “a pathway to peace”, but all sides hope the agreement will stick.
Meta’s co-founder says being a CEO for 13 years was exhausting: I ‘put on this face day after day’
“I’d intended to be more of a independent or head of engineering,” Dustin Moskovitz, Asana’s co-founder and chairman said about…
A New AI Research from Anthropic and Thinking Machines Lab Stress Tests Model Specs and Reveal Character Differences among Language Models
AI companies use model specifications to define target behaviors during training and evaluation. Do current specs state the intended behaviors…
Trump’s week in Asia: BBC correspondents on the wins and potential losses
Here’s what you should know as the US president arrives for a whirlwind week of diplomacy.
Trump raises tariffs on Canadian goods in response to Reagan advert
Saying that airing the advert was a hostile act, Trump announced an additional 10% “over and above what they are…
Trump hopes China will help push Russia towards Ukraine peace talks
Struggling to broker a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump hopes Xi Jinping could influence Vladimir Putin.
‘I am not done’ – Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again
The former US vice-president made her strongest suggestion to date she will make another bid for the White House
How to Build a Fully Functional Computer-Use Agent that Thinks, Plans, and Executes Virtual Actions Using Local AI Models
In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using…
Trump blasts ‘dirty play’ by Ontario in waiting to pause Reagan trade ad after World Series
Ontario has been running a TV ad featuring Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. That led President Trump to terminate trade talks…
US sends world’s largest warship towards Caribbean as it ramps up military presence
The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford marks a major escalation in what the US says is a campaign…
Liquid AI’s LFM2-VL-3B Brings a 3B Parameter Vision Language Model (VLM) to Edge-Class Devices
Liquid AI released LFM2-VL-3B, a 3B parameter vision language model for image text to text tasks. It extends the LFM2-VL…
An Implementation on Building Advanced Multi-Endpoint Machine Learning APIs with LitServe: Batching, Streaming, Caching, and Local Inference
In this tutorial, we explore LitServe, a lightweight and powerful serving framework that allows us to deploy machine learning models…
Ukraine allies pledge to take Russian oil and gas off global market
A “coalition of the willing” meeting in London seeks to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
Responsible AI design in healthcare and life sciences
Generative AI has emerged as a transformative technology in healthcare, driving digital transformation in essential areas such as patient engagement…
Gaza doctors struggle to investigate ‘signs of torture’ on unnamed dead returned by Israel
Photographs show bodies with multiple signs of injury and wrists tied behind their backs.
Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production
The era of perpetual AI pilots is over. This year, 65% of AWS Generative AI Innovation Center customer projects moved…
Inflation rate hit 3.0% in September, lower than expected, long-awaited CPI report shows
The annual inflation rate as measured by the CPI was expected to be 3.1% in September, according to the Dow…
What a cut in Reliance’s Russian crude purchases would mean for India
Reliance cutting back on Russian crude import may impact the firm, but could smooth the way for a U.S.-India trade…
EU says TikTok and Meta broke transparency rules under landmark tech law
The European Commission said it had preliminarily found that both tech giants had breached their obligations under the Digital Services Act.
Salesforce AI Research Introduces WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools): Enabling LLM agents to Automatically Discover Reusable Tools from Any Website
A team of Salesforce AI researchers introduced WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools), a framework that reverse-engineers latent website functionality…
Trump says trade talks with Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariffs advert
The US president says he is axing negotiations over an advert that used Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
Trump to meet China’s Xi for the first time in second term as trade deal remains elusive
The confirmation of a Trump-Xi meeting signaled an intent to de-escalate tensions and put negotiations back on track, analysts said.
NBA stars and mafia among dozens arrested in illegal gambling crackdown
It follows a sweeping FBI investigation into illegal sports betting and rigged, mafia-linked poker games.
China strikes conciliatory tone ahead of expected Trump-Xi meeting
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told reporters Friday that the U.S. and China can still find ways to work together,…
Trump terminates all U.S. trade negotiations with Canada over Reagan tariffs TV ad
President Trump claimed Canada had ran an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs to influence a pending…
China to bolster consumption, tech development as U.S. tensions simmer
China’s top leaders signaled their priorities for the next five years in a readout released Thursday at the end of…
Google AI Introduces FLAME Approach: A One-Step Active Learning that Selects the Most Informative Samples for Training and Makes a Model Specialization Super Fast
Open vocabulary object detectors answer text queries with boxes. In remote sensing, zero shot performance drops because classes are fine…
Generate Gremlin queries using Amazon Bedrock models
Graph databases have revolutionized how organizations manage complex, interconnected data. However, specialized query languages such as Gremlin often create a…
Chauncey Billups, others arrested in FBI probe linking NBA to Mafia gambling ring
Terry Rozier, a 10-year NBA veteran, joined the Miami Heat in 2024 from the Charlotte Hornets.
Ukraine urges EU to back loan using frozen Russian cash
EU ministers meet hours after the EU and the US announced new sanctions against Russia’s oil industry.
UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents
Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and…
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
The pardon came nearly a week after President Trump commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former New York Rep. George…
A Coding Guide to Build a Fully Functional Multi-Agent Marketplace Using uAgent
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a small yet functional multi-agent system using the uAgents framework. We set…
Rivian plans to lay off more than 600 workers
Rivian and other EV manufacturers are facing a more challenging market than they did in recent years amid changing regulations…
European markets rise after major earnings reports; Gucci-owner Kering surges 9%
European stocks were higher Thursday as investors looked to earnings reports for clues on business activity and confidence in the…
Quantum computing stocks surge on report Trump administration seeking stakes, joining Intel, rare earths
The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with several quantum-computing firms about government taking equity stakes in exchange for funding.