European defense stocks slide as U.S., Ukraine make progress on peace plan
The U.S. said Sunday that there had been progress in talks at the weekend but that no agreement was reached…
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European stocks set to start the week higher, following global market positivity
European stocks are expected to start the new trading week on a positive note, following their global counterparts higher as…
Chinese consumer brands flood into Africa as old investment model fades and exports jump 28%
Chinese firms are shifting from big infrastructure to consumer goods in Africa, driven by demand, adventurous entrepreneurs and pressure to…
Singapore inflation climbs to a near 1-year high as October price growth sharply exceeds estimates
After hitting a four-year low in August, consumer prices rose 1.2%, compared with the average 0.9% estimated by economists polled…
Australia’s Qube Holdings’ shares jump 20% as Macquarie proposes $7.5 billion takeover deal
Macquarie has offered to acquire Qube for AU$5.2 in cash per share, representing a nearly 28% premium to Qube’s closing…
Rubio hails ‘tremendous progress’ at Ukraine peace talks
The top US diplomat says more work is needed to finalise a US-Ukraine deal that will then need Russia’s agreement.
Israel says it killed top Hezbollah official in first attack on Beirut in months
Israel has escalated its campaign on targets it says are linked to Hezbollah, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities.
Microsoft faces uphill climb to turn enterprise dominance into widespread AI chatbot adoption
At Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference this week, IT buyers explained why Microsoft isn’t seeing runaway success with its Copilot AI…
Global week ahead: Which tail is wagging the market dog?
After a wave of volatility roiled global stocks this week, investors want to know which tail is wagging the market…
Moonshot AI Researchers Introduce Seer: An Online Context Learning System for Fast Synchronous Reinforcement Learning RL Rollouts
How do you keep reinforcement learning for large reasoning models from stalling on a few very long, very slow rollouts…
US insists it authored Ukraine peace plan ahead of talks on ending war
A group of US lawmakers say the secretary of state told them the draft did not reflect Washington’s position. Marco…
UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
Does Berkshire’s big tech bet signal a new risk tolerance in Omaha?
Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of Alphabet shares may signal a new acceptance of greater risk for greater reward.
Ukraine’s allies voice concerns over US plan to end war
Leaders from Europe, Canada and Japan say the plan needs “additional work” but includes elements “essential for a just and…
Google DeepMind Introduces Nano Banana Pro: the Gemini 3 Pro Image Model for Text Accurate and Studio Grade Visuals
Nano Banana Pro, also called Gemini 3 Pro Image, is Google DeepMind’s new image generation and editing model built on…
What we know about leaked US draft plan to end Russia’s Ukraine war
There are 28 key points and while several on the face of it could be acceptable to Ukraine, others cross…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign after fallout with Trump
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the DOJ, putting her…
Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan
Vladimir Putin says the plan could be the “basis” for peace but warns Russia is prepared to fight on.
Streamline AI operations with the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture
As organizations increasingly adopt AI capabilities across their applications, the need for centralized management, security, and cost control of AI…
Deploy geospatial agents with Foursquare Spatial H3 Hub and Amazon SageMaker AI
Organizations have used geospatial machine learning (ML) for property risk assessment, disaster response, and infrastructure planning. These systems worked well…
Steve Rosenberg: Kremlin tight-lipped on leaked plan – but advises Kyiv to accept
Russia and Ukraine may be about to enter a period of intense diplomacy, writes the BBC’s Russia editor.
How Wipro PARI accelerates PLC code generation using Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Rejin Surendran from Wipro Enterprises Limited and Bakrudeen K from ShellKode. In manufacturing environments, industrial…
Eli Lilly hits $1 trillion market value, a first for a health-care company
The pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s stock has been riding the skyrocketing demand for its weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes…
Russia yet to receive anything official from US on Ukraine peace plan, Kremlin says
The draft provisions come across as heavily slanted towards Moscow, but Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to work with…
Oil prices and energy stocks fall sharply on Trump’s new Ukraine peace plan
Oil prices and energy stocks fell sharply on Friday morning as the U.S. pushed for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.
Perplexity AI Releases TransferEngine and pplx garden to Run Trillion Parameter LLMs on Existing GPU Clusters
How can teams run trillion parameter language models on existing mixed GPU clusters without costly new hardware or deep vendor…
Global investors battle between long- and short-term wins amid Nvidia volatility
The market is “quite confused” over the dramatic rally and reversal, one fund manager said.
An Implementation of Fully Traced and Evaluated Local LLM Pipeline Using Opik for Transparent, Measurable, and Reproducible AI Workflows
In this tutorial, we implement a complete workflow for building, tracing, and evaluating an LLM pipeline using Opik. We structure…
European stocks poised for negative open as global volatility drags on
Stocks across the globe have been on a volatile ride this week as AI bubble fears weighed on sentiment.
SoftBank sinks over 10% as Nvidia-fueled rout sweeps Asian chip names
Asian chip stocks fell in early trading, tracking Nvidia’s losses in the U.S., despite the American AI chip darling posting…
Japan October exports massively beat estimates on robust growth in shipments to Asia and Europe
Exports grew 3.6% year on year compared with expectations of a 1.1% growth by economists polled by Reuters.
Japan’s core inflation in October rises to a 3-month high, supporting the case for rate hikes
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, came in at 3% as expected by economists polled by Reuters.
Meta AI Releases Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) for Promptable Concept Segmentation in Images and Videos
How do you reliably find, segment and track every instance of any concept across large image and video collections using…
Zelensky to speak with Trump after US proposes Russia-Ukraine peace plan
The plan was reportedly drafted by US and Russian officials, without Ukraine’s involvement.
MSD explores applying generative Al to improve the deviation management process using AWS services
This post is co-written with Hossein Salami and Jwalant Vyas from MSD. In the biopharmaceutical industry, deviations in the manufacturing…
How Care Access achieved 86% data processing cost reductions and 66% faster data processing with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching
This post is co-written with Michelle Tat, Christopher Penrose, Rasmus Buchmann, and Daniel Hansen from Care Access. Organizations operating in…
Ray Dalio says we are definitely in a bubble, but that doesn’t mean you should sell yet
The billionaire investor also said the bubble needs to be popped.
Obesity-drugmaker Novo Nordisk helps drive Denmark’s fastest growth in years
Denmark’s GDP grew by the most in four years as Novo Nordisk continues to boost the small Nordic country’s economy.
Ukraine under pressure amid reports Russia and U.S. have devised a secret peace plan
Senior U.S. military officials are in Ukraine on Thursday — a day after reports emerged that Washington and Moscow had…
CEO Cuts Cardano Founder’s Bitcoin Price Forecast, Warns Bear Market Just Starting
Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson previously projected that the Bitcoin price could reach an impressive price of $250,000 as early…
Global tech stocks climb as Nvidia results spark relief rally soothing AI bubble concerns
Nvidia’s strong third-quarter earnings come as appetite for AI appeared to be cooling.
Nvidia stock pops 5% in premarket trading after stronger-than-expected results
The AI chipmaker’s strong quarterly earnings have boosted global AI stocks.
European markets open 1% higher as Nvidia results ease investor concerns over AI bubble
European stocks started the Thursday trading session higher, mirroring market moves in Asia.
Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files
The bill gives the US Justice Department 30 days to release all the files in a searchable format.
Asian chip names rally as Nvidia forecasts hotter-than-expected sales after earnings beat
Asian chip stocks rose in early trading after American AI chip darling Nvidia beat earnings expectations in a strong sign…
Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company’s current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are “off the charts.”
Google Antigravity Makes the IDE a Control Plane for Agentic Coding
Google has introduced Antigravity as an agentic development platform that sits on top of Gemini 3. It is not only…
US military officials in Ukraine for talks on ending war
It comes amid reports the US and Russia have prepared a 28-point peace plan, allegedly containing major concessions for Ukraine.
Claude Code deployment patterns and best practices with Amazon Bedrock
Claude Code is an AI-powered coding assistant from Anthropic that helps developers write, review, and modify code through natural language…
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails expands support for code domain
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports protection against undesirable content within code elements including user prompts, comments, variables, function names, and…