Trump presses European Union to impose 100% tariffs on India and China to squeeze Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the European Union to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100%…
Category: Business
MBZUAI Researchers Release K2 Think: A 32B Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning and Outperforms 20x Larger Reasoning Models
A team of researchers from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and G42 released K2 Think, is a 32B-parameter open reasoning…
Powering innovation at scale: How AWS is tackling AI infrastructure challenges
As generative AI continues to transform how enterprises operate—and develop net new innovations—the infrastructure demands for training and deploying AI…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the economy ‘is weakening’
Labor Department data showing the U.S. added fewer jobs than thought confirm the world’s biggest economy is slowing down says…
Israeli strike targets senior Hamas leadership in Qatar
A Hamas official says the group’s negotiating team was targeted during a meeting in Doha.
Job growth revised down by 911,000 through March, signaling economy on shakier footing than realized
The total revision was on the high end of Wall Street expectations, which ranged from a low around 600,000 to…
Accelerate your model training with managed tiered checkpointing on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
As organizations scale their AI infrastructure to support trillion-parameter models, they face a difficult trade-off: reduced training time with lower…
‘A colossal train wreck’: U.S. energy chief slams odds of net zero by 2050
Net zero by 2050 is “a monstrous human impoverishment program and of course there is no way it is going…
Nebius shares soar 55% in premarket on Microsoft AI deal
The pact between Nebius and Microsoft suggests demand for the powerful infrastructure needed to train and run AI models remains…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-ASR: A New Speech Recognition Model Built Upon Qwen3-Omni Achieving Robust Speech Recogition Performance
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3-ASR Flash, an all-in-one automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (available as API service) built upon…
France’s political crisis deepens as another PM is axed: Here’s what happens next
CNBC takes a look at what could happen next in France after the ousting of yet another prime minister.
US lawmakers release Epstein ‘birthday book’ with alleged Trump note
The White House says the president did not draw the picture or sign the note, after it was published on…
AI firm Mistral valued at $14 billion as chip giant ASML takes major stake
ASML pumped 1.3 billion euros in Mistral AI’s 1.7 billion-euro funding round as lead investor, gaining a 11% shareholding in…
India urges BRICS partners to address trade deficits as China calls on bloc members to unite
China has racked up a $77.7 billion trade surplus with India this year as of August, 16% higher compared to…
ParaThinker: Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute with Native Parallel Thinking to Overcome Tunnel Vision in Sequential Reasoning
Why Do Sequential LLMs Hit a Bottleneck? Test-time compute scaling in LLMs has traditionally relied on extending single reasoning paths.…
Performative or pragmatic? Why Boeing planes feature so much in Trump trade deals
Since Trump announced tariffs in April, a pattern has emerged: Countries that strike trade deals with the U.S. often announce…
Japan’s Nikkei crosses 44,000 to hit fresh highs, extending rally after Ishiba’s resignation announcement
Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Tuesday, tracking gains on Wall Street.
How to Build a Complete Multi-Domain AI Web Agent Using Notte and Gemini
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete, advanced implementation of the Notte AI Agent, integrating the Gemini API to power…
Private equity giants raid Wall Street as fundraising talent wars heat up
Private equity firms are ramping up hiring despite a deal drought as they remain optimistic about a rebound in activity.
Maximize HyperPod Cluster utilization with HyperPod task governance fine-grained quota allocation
We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained compute and memory quota allocation with HyperPod task governance. With this capability,…
GibsonAI Releases Memori: An Open-Source SQL-Native Memory Engine for AI Agents
When we think about human intelligence, memory is one of the first things that comes to mind. It’s what enables…
France in fresh political crisis after MPs oust prime minister
François Bayrou is out, and President Emmanuel Macron now faces the same problem four prime ministers have failed to solve.
Build and scale adoption of AI agents for education with Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat
Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with…
The power of AI in driving personalized product discovery at Snoonu
This post was written with Felipe Monroy, Ana Jaime, and Nikita Gordeev from Snoonu. Managing a massive product catalog in…
Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026
Xpeng plans to launch its mass-market Mona brand outside of China, CEO He Xiaopeng told CNBC.
A New MIT Study Shows Reinforcement Learning Minimizes Catastrophic Forgetting Compared to Supervised Fine-Tuning
Table of contents What is catastrophic forgetting in foundation models? Why does online reinforcement learning forget less than supervised fine-tuning?…
Four killed in Jerusalem shooting attack, paramedics say
Israeli police say two gunmen were “neutralised” after the attack, in which five other people were shot and wounded.
French prime minister faces the axe as lawmakers prepare to hold confidence vote
Prime Minister Bayrou has failed to win over enough opposition lawmakers to his proposals to make around 44 billion euros…
Palestinian prisoners not being given adequate food, Israel top court says
The court said the state is legally obligated to provide enough food to ensure “a basic level of existence.”
European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says
Trump’s comments came as he signalled his administration would impose a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.
China exports growth in August hits a 6-month low, missing expectations
China’s exports growth missed expectations in August as businesses’ front-loading activity lost momentum while imports grew less than expected on…
How to Create a Bioinformatics AI Agent Using Biopython for DNA and Protein Analysis
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an advanced yet accessible Bioinformatics AI Agent using Biopython and popular Python…
Asia markets mostly higher as investors assess Japan PM resignation, eye China trade data
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba over the weekend announced he will resign.
Meta Superintelligence Labs Introduces REFRAG: Scaling RAG with 16× Longer Contexts and 31× Faster Decoding
Table of contents Why is long context such a bottleneck for LLMs? How does REFRAG compress and shorten context? How…
Treasury Secretary Bessent warns of massive refunds if the Supreme Court voids Trump tariffs
Bessent has warned that a delayed ruling “could result in a scenario in which $750 billion-$1 trillion in tariffs have…
Japan Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will step down after election setback
Ishiba had faced calls for his resignation after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to secure a majority in the…
Global week ahead: Volatile bonds, a confidence crunch and the ECB meets
Bond market volatility kept CNBC’s news desks busy this week — and there could be more to come.
Tilde AI Releases TildeOpen LLM: An Open-Source Large Language Model with Over 30 Billion Parameters and Support Most European Languages
Latvian language-tech firm Tilde has released TildeOpen LLM, an open-source foundational large language model (LLM) purpose-built for European languages, with…
From Pretraining to Post-Training: Why Language Models Hallucinate and How Evaluation Methods Reinforce the Problem
Large language models (LLMs) very often generate “hallucinations”—confident yet incorrect outputs that appear plausible. Despite improvements in training methods and…
Baby among two killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv, officials say
Several residential buildings are reported partially destroyed and still ablaze in Ukraine’s capital.
Implementing DeepSpeed for Scalable Transformers: Advanced Training with Gradient Checkpointing and Parallelism
In this advanced DeepSpeed tutorial, we provide a hands-on walkthrough of cutting-edge optimization techniques for training large language models efficiently.…
Israel destroys second high-rise as assault on Gaza City intensifies
Israel continues to expand its military operation in Gaza, urging Palestinians to leave Gaza City and move south.
Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be shot down if they endanger US ships
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says “differences” between the countries do not justify a “military conflict”.
Meet ARGUS: A Scalable AI Framework for Training Large Recommender Transformers to One Billion Parameters
Yandex has introduced ARGUS (AutoRegressive Generative User Sequential modeling), a large-scale transformer-based framework for recommender systems that scales up to…
Alibaba AI Unveils Qwen3-Max Preview: A Trillion-Parameter Qwen Model with Super Fast Speed and Quality
Alibaba’s Qwen Team unveiled Qwen3-Max-Preview (Instruct), a new flagship large language model with over one trillion parameters—their largest to date.…
Google AI Introduces Personal Health Agent (PHA): A Multi-Agent Framework that Enables Personalized Interactions to Address Individual Health Needs
Table of contents What is a Personal Health Agent? How does the PHA framework operate? How was the PHA evaluated?…
Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
Tech’s megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P…
How to Build a Complete End-to-End NLP Pipeline with Gensim: Topic Modeling, Word Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Advanced Text Analysis
In this tutorial, we present a complete end-to-end Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline built with Gensim and supporting libraries, designed…
Accelerating HPC and AI research in universities with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
This post was written with Mohamed Hossam of Brightskies. Research universities engaged in large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC) often…
Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions
The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology…