UniCredit CEO says taking control of Commerzbank ‘not the expected scenario’
The Italian lender is making a takeover bid for German rival Commerzbank, despite pushback in Germany.
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Why Gradient Descent Zigzags and How Momentum Fixes It
Gradient descent has a fundamental limitation: on most real-world loss surfaces, it is inefficient. When the surface has uneven curvature—steep…
HSBC shares drop as first-quarter pre-tax profit misses estimates on higher expected credit losses
Europe’s largest lender HSBC on Tuesday reported first-quarter pre-tax profit of $9.4 billion, marginally missing analysts’ estimates.
A Coding Guide to Survey Bias Correction Using Facebook Research Balance with IPW CBPS Ranking and Post Stratification Methods
In this tutorial, we walk through a complete, end-to-end workflow for correcting bias in survey data using the balance library.…
US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility
Meanwhile shipping company Maersk said one of its US-flagged commercial vessels had successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US…
Zyphra Introduces Tensor and Sequence Parallelism (TSP): A Hardware-Aware Training and Inference Strategy That Delivers 2.6x Throughput Over Matched TP+SP Baselines
Training and serving large transformer models at scale is fundamentally a memory management problem. Every GPU in a cluster has…
Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions
Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily.…
Top Search and Fetch APIs for Building AI Agents in 2026: Tools, Tradeoffs, and Free Tiers
Web search and content retrieval have quietly become the most critical infrastructure decisions in AI agent development. An agent without…
Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd in German city of Leipzig
Mayor Burkhard Jung said a suspect was detained and the motive was unclear.
Introducing the agent performance loop: AgentCore Optimization now in preview
Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that…
Ukrainian drone hits upmarket Moscow high-rise ahead of Victory Day celebrations
The attack comes as the Kremlin prepares to hold a scaled-back military parade on Saturday.
Denmark faces data center reckoning as power grid overwhelmed by surging demand
The data center industry is facing a reckoning as governments around the world consider imposing limits on the growth of…
The Iran war has strengthened Ukraine in surprising ways. Could a ceasefire with Russia be closer?
President Zelensky has been visiting the Gulf to demonstrate his country’s military nous.
Oil prices mixed in choppy trade as Trump plans to ‘free’ ships stranded due to Mideast conflict
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said Monday that a tanker was hit by projectiles north of the city…
Trump says U.S. will ‘free’ ships trapped in Persian Gulf by Strait of Hormuz closure
Vessels have been largely unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz for months, disrupting key supply chains.
A Developer’s Guide to Systematic Prompting: Mastering Negative Constraints, Structured JSON Outputs, and Multi-Hypothesis Verbalized Sampling
Most developers treat prompting as an afterthought—write something reasonable, observe the output, and iterate if needed. That approach works until…
A Coding Implementation to Explore and Analyze the TaskTrove Dataset with Streaming Parsing Visualization and Verifier Detection
In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the TaskTrove dataset on Hugging Face and build a complete, practical…
Calm Before A Major Move: XRP Leverage Flush Points To Possible Squeeze
XRP is trading in a quiet range between $1.38 and $1.40, but new derivatives data indicates the calm may be…
Iran says US has responded to its latest peace proposal
Before reviewing the proposal on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he could not imagine it “would be acceptable”.
OPEC+ announces 188,000 barrels-per-day output increase in first meeting without UAE
Concerns around production were amplified further last week with news of the UAE’s shock departure.
Germany troop cuts send wrong signal to Russia, say two top US Republicans
The chairs of the House and Senate armed services committees said withdrawing 5,000 service personnel risked undermining deterrence.
Sakana AI Introduces KAME: A Tandem Speech-to-Speech Architecture That Injects LLM Knowledge in Real Time
The fundamental tension in conversational AI has always been a binary choice: respond fast or respond smart. Real-time speech-to-speech (S2S)…
Mistral AI Launches Remote Agents in Vibe and Mistral Medium 3.5 with 77.6% SWE-Bench Verified Score
Mistral AI has been quietly building one of the more practical coding agent ecosystems in the open-source/weights AI space, and…
‘Godspeed my friend’: Inside the final hours of Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines ceased operations overnight after a failed government bailout.
Build a Multi-Agent AI Workflow for Biological Network Modeling, Protein Interactions, Metabolism, and Cell Signaling Simulation
In this tutorial, we build a multi-agent workflow for biological systems modeling and explore how different computational components work together…
Germany says US troop withdrawal ‘foreseeable’ as Nato seeks clarification
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the US decision to withdraw 5,000 troops was to be expected.
A Coding Implementation to Parsing, Analyzing, Visualizing, and Fine-Tuning Agent Reasoning Traces Using the lambda/hermes-agent-reasoning-traces Dataset
In this tutorial, we explore the lambda/hermes-agent-reasoning-traces dataset to understand how agent-based models think, use tools, and generate responses across…
Spirit Airlines begins orderly wind-down after failing to reach deal for bailout lifeline
Talks with bondholders for a government bailout this week failed to yield a deal.
A New NVIDIA Research Shows Speculative Decoding in NeMo RL Achieves 1.8× Rollout Generation Speedup at 8B and Projects 2.5× End-to-End Speedup at 235B
If you have been running reinforcement learning (RL) post-training on a language model for math reasoning, code generation, or any…
A Coding Implementation of End-to-End Brain Decoding from MEG Signals Using NeuralSet and Deep Learning for Predicting Linguistic Features
In this tutorial, we explore how we can decode linguistic features directly from brain signals using a modern neuroAI pipeline.…
US to cut troop levels in Germany by 5,000 amid Trump spat with Merz
The decision to reduce the US deployment to Germany comes amid a row between the two allies over Iran.
Meta Introduces Autodata: An Agentic Framework That Turns AI Models into Autonomous Data Scientists for High-Quality Training Data Creation
The bottleneck in building better AI models has never been compute alone — it has always been data quality. Meta…
Trump tells Congress ceasefire means he does not need their approval for Iran war
The president writes that hostilities “have terminated” because of the ceasefire, arguing he does not need congressional authorisation.
A Coding Guide on LLM Post Training with TRL from Supervised Fine Tuning to DPO and GRPO Reasoning
In this tutorial, we walk through a complete, hands-on journey of post-training large language models using the powerful TRL (Transformer…
AWS Transform now automates BI migration to Amazon Quick in days
Migrating to Amazon Quick doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch. Your dashboards encode hard-won domain knowledge: calculated fields your…
Hegseth says clock paused on deadline to seek approval for Iran war
The US defence secretary says the timer for the president to report to Congress “pauses or stops” in a ceasefire.
Billions of meals at risk due to Iran war, says fertiliser boss
A shortage of fertiliser due to the Iran conflict could reduce crop yields and push prices higher, says the boss…
Qwen AI Releases Qwen-Scope: An Open-Source Sparse AutoEncoders (SAE) Suite That Turns LLM Internal Features into Practical Development Tools
Large language models are remarkably capable, yet frustratingly opaque. When a model misbehaves — generating responses in the wrong language,…
Oil rises as White House says Iran ceasefire halts 60-day war deadline
Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, a U.S. president needs to withdraw troops 60 days after reporting their deployment to…
A Coding Deep Dive into Agentic UI, Generative UI, State Synchronization, and Interrupt-Driven Approval Flows
In this tutorial, we build the entire Agentic UI stack from the ground up using plain Python, without relying on…
Moonshot AI Open-Sources FlashKDA: CUTLASS Kernels for Kimi Delta Attention with Variable-Length Batching and H20 Benchmarks
The team behind Kimi.ai (Moonshot AI) just made a significant contribution to the open-source AI infrastructure space. The research team…
Violence in Australian town after arrest of man over girl’s murder
There has been violence outside hospital in Alice Springs, where a man suspected of murdering a five-year-old girl was being…
Reinforcement fine-tuning with LLM-as-a-judge
Large language models (LLMs) now drive the most advanced conversational agents, creative tools, and decision-support systems. However, their raw output…
Myanmar ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest, military says
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been in detention since she was ousted in a military coup in 2021.
AWS Generative AI Model Agility Solution: A comprehensive guide to migrating LLMs for generative AI production
Maintaining model agility is crucial for organizations to adapt to technological advancements and optimize their artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Whether…
A Coding Implementation on Pyright Type Checking Covering Generics, Protocols, Strict Mode, Type Narrowing, and Modern Python Typing
In this tutorial, we explore Pyright, Microsoft’s high-performance static type checker for Python, and walk through its most powerful features…
Trump said his blockade would cause Iran’s oil industry to ‘explode’ this week. Why that won’t happen
The U.S. and Iran are locked in a standoff that will only break when one side decides it can no…
IBM Releases Two Granite Speech 4.1 2B Models: Autoregressive ASR with Translation and Non-Autoregressive Editing for Fast Inference
IBM released two new open speech recognition models— Granite Speech 4.1 2B and Granite Speech 4.1 2B-NAR — and they…