European banks seize on region’s nascent stablecoin market with new launch
A nine-bank consortium has unveiled plans for a new euro-backed stablecoin, which could boost appetite among risk-averse investors.
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Denmark says ‘professional actor’ behind drone incursions over its airports
But the defence minister says there is no evidence of Russian involvement after the latest incident.
European Commission launches antitrust probe into software giant SAP
SAP said it did not expect the investigation to have a material impact on its bottom line.
Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libya case
The former French president was accused of using funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.
Meta FAIR Released Code World Model (CWM): A 32-Billion-Parameter Open-Weights LLM, to Advance Research on Code Generation with World Models
Meta FAIR released Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter dense decoder-only LLM that injects world modeling into code generation by…
How to Build an End-to-End Data Science Workflow with Machine Learning, Interpretability, and Gemini AI Assistance?
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced end-to-end data science workflow where we combine traditional machine learning with the…
Colombia’s president calls US attacks on alleged drug boats ‘act of tyranny’
Gustavo Petro told the BBC that “there is no need to kill anyone” in efforts to crackdown on maritime drug…
U.S. expands tariff dragnet to masks, syringes and robotics in sweeping import probe
The Trump administration has launched investigations into imports of robotics, industrial machinery and medical devices, paving the way for fresh…
XRP Ledger Launches Its First Native Stablecoin: A Historic Milestone — Details
XRP Ledger has just reached a turning point in its history with the launch of its first native stablecoin. This…
Cardano (ADA) Oversold With RSI at 36.6: Is a Short-Term Rebound on the Horizon?
Cardano (ADA) slipped 1.38% today, trading at $0.816, below its 20-day moving average ($0.871) and 50-day moving average ($0.86). However,…
Vision-RAG vs Text-RAG: A Technical Comparison for Enterprise Search
Most RAG failures originate at retrieval, not generation. Text-first pipelines lose layout semantics, table structure, and figure grounding during PDF→text…
Russia will expand aggression beyond Ukraine if not stopped, Zelensky warns
Vladimir Putin “will keep driving the war forward wider and deeper”, the Ukrainian president tells the UN.
Israeli forces near Gaza City centre as Hamas reportedly prepares for street-to-street fighting
Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee Gaza City since Israel launched its ground offensive last week.
Chinese giant Xiaomi challenges Samsung with new smartphones and appliances
Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi 15T series which consists of two smartphones — the Xiaomi 15T and Xiaomi 15T Pro —…
Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max: Production-Ready Thinking Mode, 1T+ Parameters, and Day-One Coding/Agentic Bench Signals
Alibaba has released Qwen3-Max, a trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model positioned as its most capable foundation model to date, with an…
Italy condemns ‘drone attack’ on Gaza aid flotilla and deploys frigate
Italy’s defence minister directs a navy vessel to assist the flotilla’s boats after what he says was a drone attack…
Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in China after 17 killed in Taiwan
Ragasa is the world’s strongest storm this year and has been roaring over the South China Sea for days.
Lithium Americas soars 65% as Trump administration seeks equity stake in Canadian miner
It is the latest move by the White House to take direct ownership in the U.S. critical mineral supply chain.
Howling winds and sheets of rain: In the eye of a typhoon in China
The strong winds hit in waves – and standing upright is almost impossible, our correspondent writes.
Defense stocks rally as Trump, in a major shift, says Ukraine can win back territory from Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest comments.
European defense stocks rally after Trump comments on Ukraine; Saab adds 5%
European shares are poised to open lower on Wednesday.
Killed seeking food – Jeremy Bowen on Abdullah’s shooting and Gaza’s lethal aid system
Inside Panorama and BBC Eye’s investigation into hunger in Gaza and why so many are risking their lives for aid.
Alibaba shares rise over 6% after CEO unveils plans to boost AI spending; new data centers
Alibaba shares surged to their highest point since 2021 after it announced plans to boost spending on artificial intelligence and…
CloudFlare AI Team Just Open-Sourced ‘VibeSDK’ that Lets Anyone Build and Deploy a Full AI Vibe Coding Platform with a Single Click
CloudFlare AI team just open-sourced VibeSDK, a full-stack “vibe coding” platform that you can deploy end-to-end with a single click…
Startups and founders could be hardest hit by $100,000 H-1B visas
Startups across the U.S. have been left worrying about the implications of potential hefty fees on H-1B visas.
Google AI Research Introduce a Novel Machine Learning Approach that Transforms TimesFM into a Few-Shot Learner
Table of contents What pain point in forecasting is being eliminated? How does in-context fine-tuning work under the hood? What…
Coding Implementation to End-to-End Transformer Model Optimization with Hugging Face Optimum, ONNX Runtime, and Quantization
In this tutorial, we walk through how we use Hugging Face Optimum to optimize Transformer models and make them faster…
Altman, Huang and the last-minute negotiations that sealed the $100 billion OpenAI-Nvidia deal
The $100 billion deal between Nvidia and OpenAI was struck under the pressure of a looming deadline during President Trump’s…
Running deep research AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents are evolving beyond basic single-task helpers into more powerful systems that can plan, critique, and collaborate with other…
Kyiv can win all of Ukraine back from Russia, Trump says
He says Ukraine can win back land with support from Nato and Europe, marking a major shift in his position.
Google AI Introduces the Public Preview of Chrome DevTools MCP: Making Your Coding Agent Control and Inspect a Live Chrome Browser
Google has released a public preview of “Chrome DevTools MCP,” a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding…
Trump criticises countries’ migration and climate policies in scathing UN speech
The US president also takes aim at the UN itself in an address lasting almost an hour.
Integrate tokenization with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails for secure data handling
This post is co-written by Mark Warner, Principal Solutions Architect for Thales, Cyber Security Products. As generative AI applications make…
Europe’s work-life balance a key talent draw as Trump revamps H-1B visa
Research from recruitment company Randstad suggests work-life balance has soared in importance for employees worldwide.
Nvidia and OpenAI’s $100-billion deal sparks global chip stock rally
Key Nvidia-linked stocks including TSMC and SK Hynix were higher after the $100 billion OpenAI deal.
U.S. and global growth forecast lifted by OECD as economies surprise to the upside
The OECD noted that many economies have been more resilient than expected so far this year.
Meet VoXtream: An Open-Sourced Full-Stream Zero-Shot TTS Model for Real-Time Use that Begins Speaking from the First Word
Real-time agents, live dubbing, and simultaneous translation die by a thousand milliseconds. Most “streaming” TTS (Text to Speech) stacks still…
India is betting $18 billion to build a chip powerhouse. Here’s what it means
India dreams of being self-sufficient in terms of semiconductors has seen it invest heavily to attract global chip companies. But…
How to Create Reliable Conversational AI Agents Using Parlant?
Parlant is a framework designed to help developers build production-ready AI agents that behave consistently and reliably. A common challenge…
Microsoft Brings MCP to Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in Public Preview, Turning Connectors into Agent Tools
Microsoft has released a public preview that enables Azure Logic Apps (Standard) to run as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers,…
Perplexity Launches an AI Email Assistant Agent for Gmail and Outlook, Aimed at Scheduling, Drafting, and Inbox Triage
Perplexity introduced “Email Assistant,” an AI agent that plugs into Gmail and Outlook to draft replies in your voice, auto-label…
France formally recognises Palestinian state
Speaking at the UN in New York, President Emmanuel Macron said “the time for peace has come”.
Sarah Ferguson dropped from multiple charities over Epstein email
Seven charities, including the Teenage Cancer Trust, remove the former wife of Prince Andrew as a patron or ambassador.
Clashes break out as Italians strike demanding action over Gaza
Tens of thousands turn out and tensions erupt around Milan’s main station where 60 police are reported hurt.
Rapid ML experimentation for enterprises with Amazon SageMaker AI and Comet
This post was written with Sarah Ostermeier from Comet. As enterprise organizations scale their machine learning (ML) initiatives from proof…
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee sparks a global race to grab top talent
The six-figure H-1B visa fee has jolted companies that have long relied on the program to bring in top global…
Alibaba Qwen Team Just Released FP8 Builds of Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B (Instruct & Thinking), Bringing 80B/3B-Active Hybrid-MoE to Commodity GPUs
Alibaba’s Qwen team has just released FP8-quantized checkpoints for its new Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B models in two post-training variants—Instruct and Thinking—aimed at…
Top 15 Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers for Frontend Developers (2025)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the “USB-C” for agent/tool integrations, giving frontend teams a standard way to wire design…
How India will feel the sting of Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike
Investors shed shares of IT outsourcing firms of all sizes, including Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tata Consultancy…
MIT Researchers Enhanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) 64x Better at Planning, Achieving 94% Accuracy
Can a 8B-parameter language model produce provably valid multi-step plans instead of plausible guesses? MIT CSAIL researchers introduce PDDL-INSTRUCT, an…