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…
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.
Why Italy is bucking the super-rich clampdown
A long-time favorite of the rich and famous, Italy is now attracting a fresh influx of ultra-wealthy arrivals looking to…
Putin rejects Western security in Ukraine, warning troops would be target
The Russian leader’s refusal comes after 26 countries pledged to deploy troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
Meet Chatterbox Multilingual: An Open-Source Zero-Shot Text To Speech (TTS) Multilingual Model with Emotion Control and Watermarking
Table of contents What does Chatterbox Multilingual offer? How does it compare with commercial systems? How is expressive control implemented?…
‘I’m glad it’s over.’ Google CEO thanks Trump for antitrust ‘resolution’
President Donald Trump congratulated Google CEO Sundar Pichai on “big day” following antitrust ruling.
Trump warns ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs are coming; signals Apple, others will be safe
Trump has reiterated a warning that he will soon impose “fairly substantial” tariffs on semiconductor imports, but spare firms like…
Biomni-R0: New Agentic LLMs Trained End-to-End with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Expert-Level Intelligence in Biomedical Research
Table of contents The Growing Role of AI in Biomedical Research The Core Challenge: Matching Expert-Level Reasoning Why Traditional Approaches…
Trump finalizes Japan trade deal with 15% tariffs as Ishiba faces discontent from within party
The deal was agreed in July after months of talks, with Washington and Tokyo continuing to haggle over details for…
Rubio says US will ‘blow up’ foreign crime groups if needed
The secretary of state made the comments during a trip to Ecuador, where he announced new measures targeting criminal gangs.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How ‘Digital India’ is driving Big Tech investments into the country
India’s digital growth story is drawing investments and attracting global tech giants, fueled in large parts by a gigantic talent…
Google AI Releases EmbeddingGemma: A 308M Parameter On-Device Embedding Model with State-of-the-Art MTEB Results
EmbeddingGemma is Google’s new open text embedding model optimized for on-device AI, designed to balance efficiency with state-of-the-art retrieval performance.…
Boy, 3, pulled from funicular crash that has shocked Portugal
It is unclear what caused the crash in which 16 people died and more than 20 were injured, including many…
Broadcom earnings primer: AI chip demand and growth are key
Broadcom has been one of the biggest winners in the AI boom and investor expectations are growing.
Google DeepMind Finds a Fundamental Bug in RAG: Embedding Limits Break Retrieval at Scale
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems generally rely on dense embedding models that map queries and documents into fixed-dimensional vector spaces. While…
Build character consistent storyboards using Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
Although careful prompt crafting can yield good results, achieving professional-grade visual consistency often requires adapting the underlying model itself. Building…
Orsted sues to save offshore wind farm from Trump administration axe
Orsted asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to set aside the stop-work order, calling it…
‘Out of control’: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash
The crash killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, Portuguese authorities say.
Keep calm and carry on? It’s been a miserable week for the UK, but it’s not alone
A spike in long-term borrowing costs, concerns over the forthcoming Autumn Budget and political instability — it’s just another normal…
What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival…
Huawei launches second trifold smartphone at $2,500 as it looks to cement comeback
Huawei’s Mate XTs will run HarmonyOS 5.1, the latest version of the company’s own operating system.
What we know about fatal Lisbon funicular derailment
At least 15 people have been killed and 20 more injured after a carriage on the Gloria funicular derailed and…
Italy used to be the bad boy of Europe. Now, France is taking the baton
The ongoing turmoil in France has led to it being called the “new Italy,” with Rome no stranger to political…
Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly hear appeal to save his tariffs
The fate of most of President Trump’s tariffs are at stake in the appeal, which seeks to overturn lower-court rulings…
Google Brings Gemini CLI to GitHub Actions: Secure, Free, and Enterprise-Ready AI Integration
How do devs integrate coding capabilities directly into their GitHub repositories? Google has recently introduced Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Coding the future… in Chinese?
As the U.S. wields a global tariff war and cuts China off from AI chips, Beijing is ramping up new…
AI and the Brain: How DINOv3 Models Reveal Insights into Human Visual Processing
Introduction Understanding how the brain builds internal representations of the visual world is one of the most fascinating challenges in…
At least 15 dead after Lisbon’s historic funicular derails
Lisbon’s mayor says the capital is in mourning, adding it was a “tragic moment for the city”.
Putin says Russia will achieve all aims militarily if Ukraine does not agree deal
The Russian leader has rejected calls for a ceasefire as his troops advance.
Authenticate Amazon Q Business data accessors using a trusted token issuer
Since its general availability in 2024, Amazon Q Business (Amazon Q) has enabled independent software vendors (ISVs) to enhance their…
China’s Xi steals the limelight in a defiant push against US-led world order
President Xi shows off his power and influence in an open challenge to US supremacy and the world order.
Xi, Putin and Kim show united front at huge Chinese military parade
Speaking during the spectacle in Beijing, China’s President Xi Jinping said the world faced a choice between peace and war.
What new weapons on show at huge parade say about China’s military strength
Beijing has unveiled a range of military hardware in a show of might to Western powers.
UK has weeks to solve fiscal puzzle as it sets date for Autumn Budget
The U.K. government has named the date of its forthcoming Autumn Budget amid heightened pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to…
‘Trump’s out, Xi’s in’: BBC correspondents react to China’s military parade
The display of might comes as Beijing positions itself as a global counterweight to the United States.
Trump says 11 killed in US strike on drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela
The Trump administration has signalled a willingness to use military force against drug cartels.
Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B: A State-of-the-Art Multilingual Translation Models
Introduction Tencent’s Hunyuan team has released Hunyuan-MT-7B (a translation model) and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B (an ensemble model). Both models are designed specifically…
China’s Xi says the world faces ‘peace or war’ as Trump claims Beijing conspiring against U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un are among the leaders from more than 20 countries attending…
In photos: China’s military might on display with Putin and Kim Jong Un in attendance
President Xi Jinping delivered an opening speech at the reviewing stand overlooking Tiananmen Square, before reviewing the troops.
Shut windows and empty offices: China’s massive military parade is closed to the public
President Xi Jinping has invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to attend as part of Beijing’s…
Train and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod using the new HyperPod CLI and SDK
Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for…
Google AI Introduces Stax: A Practical AI Tool for Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is not straightforward. Unlike traditional software testing, LLMs are probabilistic systems. This means they can…
Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case
The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core…
Build a serverless Amazon Bedrock batch job orchestration workflow using AWS Step Functions
As organizations increasingly adopt foundation models (FMs) for their artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, managing large-scale inference operations…
North Korea’s Kim arrives in Beijing with daughter to attend massive military parade
The “Victory Day” parade on Wednesday will see Kim rub shoulders with China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and others.
Apple Released FastVLM: A Novel Hybrid Vision Encoder which is 85x Faster and 3.4x Smaller than Comparable Sized Vision Language Models (VLMs)
Table of contents Introduction Existing VLM Architectures Apple’s FastVLM Benchmark Comparisons Conclusion Introduction Vision Language Models (VLMs) allow both text…
What Trump’s tariff loss in court means for shippers and the billions in trade duties collected by U.S. government
President Trump’s court loss adds another layer of uncertainty to global shipping, from questions about refunds to status of trade…
Natural language-based database analytics with Amazon Nova
In this post, we explore how natural language database analytics can revolutionize the way organizations interact with their structured data…
How to Build an Advanced AI Agent with Summarized Short-Term and Vector-Based Long-Term Memory
In this tutorial, we walk you through building an advanced AI Agent that not only chats but also remembers. We…
Announcing the new cluster creation experience for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Today, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is announcing a new one-click, validated cluster creation experience that accelerates setup and prevents common misconfigurations,…