China accuses US of ‘double standards’ over tariff threat
Beijing says it could introduce “countermeasures” if the US President imposes an an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports.
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Sentient AI Releases ROMA: An Open-Source and AGI Focused Meta-Agent Framework for Building AI Agents with Hierarchical Task Execution
Sentient AI has released ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent), an open-source meta-agent framework for building high-performance multi-agent systems. ROMA structures agentic…
China defends rare earth export curbs as ‘legitimate,’ hits back at U.S. tariffs ahead of possible Trump-Xi meeting
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said the controls, issued Oct. 9, were part of Beijing’s effort to “better safeguard world…
A Coding Guide to Master Self-Supervised Learning with Lightly AI for Efficient Data Curation and Active Learning
In this tutorial, we explore the power of self-supervised learning using the Lightly AI framework. We begin by building a…
Israelis praise Trump at huge rally ahead of expected hostage release by Hamas in Gaza
Hundreds of thousands gather in Tel Aviv as Palestinians continue to return to Gaza City after the Israeli withdrawal.
Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day
The unraveling shows the sway the president’s one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.
Hamas presses Israel to free prominent prisoners as part of Gaza deal
It is unclear if disagreement over the list of Palestinian prisoners will affect the release of hostages within the agreed…
Trump threatens to impose additional 100% tariff on China
The S&P 500 closed down 2.7%, its steepest fall since April, after the US president hit out at China.
Denmark to boost Arctic defence with new ships, jets and HQ
Denmark will buy US F-35 fighter jets and new ships to defend the Arctic, including Greenland.
Macron reappoints Lecornu as French PM after days of turmoil
Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday after 26 days in the job and he said two days later his “mission is…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-8B-A1B: An On-Device Mixture-of-Experts with 8.3B Params and a 1.5B Active Params per Token
How much capability can a sparse 8.3B-parameter MoE with a ~1.5B active path deliver on your phone without blowing latency…
Trump puts extra 100% tariff on China imports, adds export controls on ‘critical software’
President Trump retaliated against China’s export controls on rare earths after suggesting he also would cancel a meeting with Chinese…
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ MetaEmbed Rethinks Multimodal Embeddings and Enables Test-Time Scaling with Flexible Late Interaction
What if you could tune multimodal retrieval at serve time—trading accuracy, latency, and index size—simply by choosing how many learnable…
Ceasefire comes into force as IDF pulls out of parts of Gaza
Thousands of displaced Palestinians are making their way to their homes in the north of the territory.
Trump threatens ‘massive’ tariff hike on China over rare earths dispute
Stock markets dropped on Trump’s bellicose Truth Social post that said China is “becoming very hostile” in seeking tough export…
China retaliates against U.S. port fees with new charges on American ships
The move comes a day after China ramped up restrictions on rare earths exports amid ongoing tensions with the U.S.
Agentic Context Engineering (ACE): Self-Improving LLMs via Evolving Contexts, Not Fine-Tuning
TL;DR: A team of researchers from Stanford University, SambaNova Systems and UC Berkeley introduce ACE framework that improves LLM performance…
Qualcomm shares fall after China opens antitrust probe into the U.S. chip giant
Qualcomm has a big business in China selling its smartphone chips to some of the biggest players in the country…
US to send 200 troops to Israel to monitor Gaza ceasefire
The US will establish a multinational force in Israel, likely to include troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the UAE,…
Google Open-Sources an MCP Server for the Google Ads API, Bringing LLM-Native Access to Ads Data
Google has open-sourced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes read-only access to the Google Ads API for agentic…
Google search comes under renewed scrutiny in UK as competition watchdog flexes new powers
Britain’s competition regulator activated new powers to regulate Google’s search activities, putting the tech giant in the firing line for…
What are ‘Computer-Use Agents’? From Web to OS—A Technical Explainer
TL;DR: Computer-use agents are VLM-driven UI agents that act like users on unmodified software. Baselines on OSWorld started at 12.24%…
‘Bitcoin is not an asset class’: UK’s biggest investment platform has a stark warning for investors
“We do not think cryptocurrency has characteristics that mean it should be included in portfolios for growth or income,” Hargreaves…
China’s property slump this year is looking much worse than expected, S&P says
China’s real estate market is on track to drop more than previously expected this year due to the lack of…
Microsoft Research Releases Skala: a Deep-Learning Exchange–Correlation Functional Targeting Hybrid-Level Accuracy at Semi-Local Cost
TL;DR: Skala is a deep-learning exchange–correlation functional for Kohn–Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) that targets hybrid-level accuracy at semi-local cost,…
How Trump secured a Gaza breakthrough which eluded Biden
Trump’s unique style and his relationships with key players helped but there were also factors beyond his control.
China’s Golden Week travel boom masks a bruising price war
China’s last public holiday of the year reinforced a nationwide trend: more people and businesses flocking toward an industry —…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: From X to TikTok clones, and now a ‘WhatsApp killer’: India’s search for indigenous apps
Can Arattai, the latest Indian messaging app, finally break the hold of American tech giant WhatsApp’s or will it be…
Use Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Anyscale for next-generation distributed computing
This post was written with Dominic Catalano from Anyscale. Organizations building and deploying large-scale AI models often face critical infrastructure…
Tiny Recursive Model (TRM): A Tiny 7M Model that Surpass DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at Reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2
Can an iterative draft–revise solver that repeatedly updates a latent scratchpad outperform far larger autoregressive LLMs on ARC-AGI? Samsung SAIT…
Rare earths stocks surge after China tightens grip on global supplies
Rare earths stocks were jumping Thursday
‘Focus on value creation; the stock market will settle itself,’ says Snowflake CEO amid bubble fears
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said his company is focused on working on adding value as talk of an AI bubble…
Ferrari shares plunge 16% as guidance update falls short of expectations
Analysts said the targets, which were announced as part of the firm’s Capital Markets Day event, fell short of expectations.
Orsted to cut 2,000 jobs as Trump’s offshore wind battle continues
Orsted has faced headwinds this year as President Donald Trump’s administration clamped down on wind power generation in the United…
China expands rare earth export restrictions ahead of possible Trump-Xi meeting
China has leveraged its control of the sector in trade talks with the U.S. by threatening a disruptive global shortage…
RA3: Mid-Training with Temporal Action Abstractions for Faster Reinforcement Learning (RL) Post-Training in Code LLMs
TL;DR: A new research from Apple, formalizes what “mid-training” should do before reinforcement learning RL post-training and introduces RA3 (Reasoning…
Hang Seng Bank shares jump 30% on parent HSBC’s privatization bid, valuing it at over $37 billion
HSBC said it has asked the board of Hang Seng Bank to put forward a privatization proposal to shareholders via…
Stanford Researchers Released AgentFlow: In-the-Flow Reinforcement Learning RL for Modular, Tool-Using AI Agents
TL;DR: AgentFlow is a trainable agent framework with four modules—Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator—coordinated by an explicit memory and toolset. The…
SoftBank shares soar 13% after it agrees to buy ABB robotics unit for $5.4 billion
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite scored new intraday and closing highs Wednesday stateside.
Trump says Israel and Hamas ‘sign off’ on first phase of Gaza peace plan
The US president says the first phase of the deal secures the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and…
Macron will nominate new French prime minister in 48 hours
Sébastien Lecornu, the outgoing prime minister, said MPs recognise the pressing need to pass a budget by the end of…
Divided Fed officials saw another two interest rate cuts by the end of 2025, minutes show
Officials were strongly inclined to lower rates, with the only dispute seeming to be over how many cuts were coming.
Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios
How do you audit frontier LLMs for misaligned behavior in realistic multi-turn, tool-use settings—at scale and beyond coarse aggregate scores?…
Vxceed builds the perfect sales pitch for sales teams at scale using Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written with Cyril Ovely from Vxceed. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies face a critical challenge in emerging…
Bank of England warns of ‘sharp market correction’ if AI bubble bursts
The Bank of England has warned that risk of a sharp market correction has increased, amid stretched AI-related valuations.
France’s crisis takes an unexpected turn as Macron’s allies defy him
The most notable criticism has come from former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, once Macron’s protégé.
$140K Or Bust? Simulation Says Bitcoin’s Odds Are Now 50-50
According to economist Timothy Peterson, Bitcoin has a 50% chance of topping $140,000 before the month ends. He posted that…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs Function Calling vs OpenAPI Tools — When to Use Each?
Table of contents Comparison Table Strengths and Limits Security and Governance Ecosystem Signals (Portability/Adoption) Decision Rules (When to Use Which)…
Auto giant shares tumble as European Union’s new steel tariffs spark industry panic
Shares of Europe’s biggest automakers fell on Wednesday, amid industry concern about the impact of the European Union’s new steel…
Steel industry in UK warns of ‘biggest crisis’ ever as EU hikes tariffs
The tariffs hike provoked an immediate outcry in the U.K., and automakers in Europe are not too pleased, either.