Madeleine McCann suspect freed from German prison
Christian Brückner has never been charged with any crime in relation to the McCann case.
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Alibaba’s shares jump after it lands a major customer for its AI chips
China Unicom will deploy Alibaba’s AI chips via the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing unit, according to state media CCTV.
Ai2 Researchers are Changing the Benchmarking Game by Introducing Fluid Benchmarking that Enhances Evaluation along Several Dimensions
A team of researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), University of Washington and CMU introduce Fluid Benchmarking, an adaptive…
Three things Britain wants from Trump’s state visit — aside from business deals
Aside from business deals, the U.K. wants more from the U.S. president’s whirlwind trip.
Sticky UK inflation unlikely to move the needle for Bank of England
The Bank of England is watching inflation data closely after forecasting the consumer price index could peak at 4% in September.
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: China’s attempt to pivot away from the U.S. starts with this trading hub
There’s little sign that Yiwu merchants will find it attractive to sell to the U.S. again soon.
China keeps tight grip on rare earths, costing at least one company ‘millions of euros’
The European Chamber of Commerce in China said that after a pickup in rare-earth export license approvals this summer, members…
Google AI Introduces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): An Open Protocol for Interoperable AI Agent Checkout Across Merchants and Wallets
Your shopping agent auto-purchases a $499 Pro plan instead of the $49 Basic tier—who’s on the hook: the user, the…
China keeps tight grip on rare earths, costing at least one company ‘millions of euros’
The European Chamber of Commerce in China said that after a pickup in rare-earth export license approvals this summer, members…
Charlie Kirk suspect confessed in hidden note to roommate, prosecutors allege
The 22-year-old has been charged with murder and is facing the death penalty if convicted at trial.
A Coding Guide to Implement Zarr for Large-Scale Data: Chunking, Compression, Indexing, and Visualization Techniques
In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the capabilities of Zarr, a library designed for efficient storage &…
Streamline access to ISO-rating content changes with Verisk rating insights and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Samit Verma, Eusha Rizvi, Manmeet Singh, Troy Smith, and Corey Finley from Verisk. Verisk Rating…
Google AI Ships TimesFM-2.5: Smaller, Longer-Context Foundation Model That Now Leads GIFT-Eval (Zero-Shot Forecasting)
Google Research has released TimesFM-2.5, a 200M-parameter, decoder-only time-series foundation model with a 16K context length and native probabilistic forecasting…
Acting legend Robert Redford dies aged 89
The acting star was famous for roles in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Bessent: Trump’s push to scrap quarterly company reports will be a win for investors
President Donald Trump had mooted scrapping quarterly company reports to allow CEOs to make better long-term decisions.
Bessent sees trade deal likely with China before November deadline on reciprocal tariffs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program.
‘The bombing has been insane’: Gaza City Palestinians scramble to flee Israeli assault
Palestinians tell the BBC whole residential blocks have been levelled as the Israeli army ramps up its offensive in the…
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians…
The UK is about to embrace Trump. The truth is, it needs him right now
The whirlwind trip comes at a torrid time for Prime Minister Keir Starmer who is facing questions over his leadership…
Stanford Researchers Introduced MedAgentBench: A Real-World Benchmark for Healthcare AI Agents
A team of Stanford University researchers have released MedAgentBench, a new benchmark suite designed to evaluate large language model (LLM)…
Israel escalates bombardment as defence minister says ‘Gaza is burning’
It came hours after US Secretary of State Rubio assured Israeli PM Netanyahu of unwavering US support.
Trump sues The New York Times for $15 billion, alleging defamation and libel
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would file a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times…
MoonshotAI Released Checkpoint-Engine: A Simple Middleware to Update Model Weights in LLM Inference Engines, Effective for Reinforcement Learning
MoonshotAI has open-sourced checkpoint-engine, a lightweight middleware aimed at solving one of the key bottlenecks in large language model (LLM)…
Building an Advanced Convolutional Neural Network with Attention for DNA Sequence Classification and Interpretability
In this tutorial, we take a hands-on approach to building an advanced convolutional neural network for DNA sequence classification. We…
Trump cannot fire Fed’s Lisa Cook before FOMC meeting, appeals court rules
Trump’s attorneys wanted a lower-court ruling, which temporarily barred Cook’s firing, stayed ahead of the Fed’s upcoming meeting on interest…
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5-Codex: An Advanced Version of GPT-5 Further Optimized for Agentic Coding in Codex
OpenAI has just released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for “agentic coding” tasks within the Codex ecosystem. The…
US destroys alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing three
The attack came after the Venezuelan president said Caracas would defend itself against US “aggression”.
NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ViPE (Video Pose Engine): A Powerful and Versatile 3D Video Annotation Tool for Spatial AI
How do you create 3D datasets to train AI for Robotics without expensive traditional approaches? A team of researchers from…
Schedule topology-aware workloads using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
Today, we are excited to announce a new capability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance to help you optimize training…
Charlie Kirk suspect linked to crime scene by DNA, says FBI chief
Kash Patel says Tyler Robinson’s DNA was found on towel wrapping suspected murder weapon.
Bessent: TikTok deal ‘framework’ reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
The U.S. and China have a ‘framework’ deal for social media platform TikTok in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said…
Rubio meets Netanyahu to discuss fallout from Israel’s Qatar strike
Israel’s strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha last week drew international outrage and was publicly criticised by the US.
China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe
China’s market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country’s anti-monopoly law in relation to its aquisition of Mellanox…
U.S. and Britain to sign flurry of major nuclear power deals during Trump’s state visit
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the proposed nuclear power pact would put the U.S. and U.K. “at the forefront…
Meta AI Released MobileLLM-R1: A Edge Reasoning Model with less than 1B Parameters and Achieves 2x–5x Performance Boost Over Other Fully Open-Source AI Models
Table of contents What architecture powers MobileLLM-R1? How efficient is the training? How does it perform against other open models?…
Kirk suspect ‘not co-operating’ with authorities, governor says
He adds that “much more evidence and information” will become available once charges are filed in the case.
Beyond the Black Box: Architecting Explainable AI for the Structured Logic of Law
The Epistemic Gap: Why Standard XAI Fails in Legal Reasoning The core problem is that AI explanations and legal justifications…
China’s slowdown deepens in August with retail sales, industrial output missing expectations
Industrial output growth slowed to 5.2% in August, compared to the 5.7% jump in July, marking its weakest level since…
Asia markets open mixed as investors watch U.S.-China talks in Spain
U.S. and Chinese officials began talks in Madrid Sunday to discuss key national security, economic, and trade issues.
‘My wife died giving birth after Trump cut funding to our clinic’
The BBC hears devastating accounts of Afghan mothers and babies dying after US-backed clinics shut.
Top 5 No-Code Tools for AI Engineers/Developers
In today’s AI-driven world, no-code tools are transforming how people create and deploy intelligent applications. They empower anyone—regardless of coding…
Romania becomes second Nato country to detect Russian drone in its airspace
Ukraine’s President Zelensky called the incursion “an obvious expansion of the war by Russia”.
Software Frameworks Optimized for GPUs in AI: CUDA, ROCm, Triton, TensorRT—Compiler Paths and Performance Implications
Table of contents What actually determines performance on modern GPUs CUDA: nvcc/ptxas, cuDNN, CUTLASS, and CUDA Graphs ROCm: HIP/Clang toolchain,…
UT Austin and ServiceNow Research Team Releases AU-Harness: An Open-Source Toolkit for Holistic Evaluation of Audio LLMs
Voice AI is becoming one of the most important frontiers in multimodal AI. From intelligent assistants to interactive agents, the…
Global week ahead: From royal pomp to tech deals as Trump visits the U.K.
With state banquets and country-house visits, U.S. President Donald Trump has a busy few days planned as he embarks on…
Netanyahu is only obstacle to bringing hostages home, families say
Israel’s strike on Qatar shows that “every time a deal approaches, Netanyahu sabotages it”, the group says.
Top 12 Robotics AI Blogs/NewsWebsites 2025
Robotics and artificial intelligence are converging at an unprecedented pace, driving breakthroughs in automation, perception, and human-machine collaboration. Staying current…
How to Build a Robust Advanced Neural AI Agent with Stable Training, Adaptive Learning, and Intelligent Decision-Making?
In this tutorial, we explore the design and implementation of an Advanced Neural Agent that combines classical neural network techniques…
Google AI Releases VaultGemma: The Largest and Most Capable Open Model (1B-parameters) Trained from Scratch with Differential Privacy
Google AI Research and DeepMind have released VaultGemma 1B, the largest open-weight large language model trained entirely with differential privacy…
Chinese EV players take fight to legacy European automakers on their home turf
Chinese electric carmakers Xpeng and GAC this week signalled aggressive expansion plans in Europe.