Warren Buffett says he is ‘disappointed’ in Kraft Heinz split; shares fall 3%
Buffett said his chosen successor Greg Abel expressed Berkshire Hathaway’s disappointment to Kraft Heinz.
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Klarna aims to raise up to $1.27 billion in U.S. IPO
Swedish fintech firm Klarna is aiming to raise up to $1.27 billion in its long-awaited U.S. initial public offering, according…
British Pound slides 0.9% against U.S. dollar as U.K. fiscal concerns mount
European stocks open lower on Tuesday as tariff uncertainty causes global markets to waver.
Euro zone inflation rises to hotter-than-expected 2.1% in August
Economists polled by Reuters had expected the rate to remain unchanged from July, at 2%.
Russia’s Putin hails ‘unprecedented’ ties with China as talks begin
The two leaders are seeking to promote “a more just and reasonable global governance system”.
Aerial search for survivors after Afghan quake kills 800 people
Rescuers are hampered by mountainous terrain and roads strewn with debris.
‘Covered in dust and too shocked to speak’: Afghan villagers reel at scale of quake’s devastation
Cut off by rock falls in the mountains, locals who survived the tremors help pull injured and dead from the…
Meet Elysia: A New Open-Source Python Framework Redefining Agentic RAG Systems with Decision Trees and Smarter Data Handling
If you’ve ever tried to build a agentic RAG system that actually works well, you know the pain. You feed…
Trump calls India-U.S. trade relationship ‘a totally one sided disaster’ after Modi visits China
In a post on Truth Social, the U.S. president called the trade relationship with India “a totally one sided relationship.”
Implementing OAuth 2.1 for MCP Servers with Scalekit: A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to implement OAuth 2.1 for MCP servers step by step. To keep things practical,…
More than 800 killed after strong quake hits Afghanistan
There are fears the death toll will rise significantly as the area is remote and mountainous, making rescue operations difficult.
Behind the Beijing smiles with Putin, Modi and Xi
A viral photo of Modi, Xi and Putin at the SCO summit highlights shifting power, unresolved tensions and the limits…
EU chief von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming
The European Commission said the plane’s navigation was disrupted in Bulgaria on Sunday.
Trump keeps threatening to punish Putin. Here’s what’s holding him back
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll punish Russia if Moscow doesn’t agree to peace talks with Ukraine. Yet, he hasn’t…
Putin says he reached ‘understandings’ with Trump over end of Ukraine war
The Russian president also defended his decision to invade Ukraine, once again blaming the war on the West.
Thailand could face more chaos after its prime minister’s removal
More political and economic uncertainty, and even a coup, may be on the horizon after the removal of Prime Minister…
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio 2 Mini: An Open-Source 8B Speech-to-Speech AI Model that Surpasses GPT-4o-Audio
The StepFun AI team has released Step-Audio 2 Mini, an 8B parameter speech-to-speech large audio language model (LALM) that delivers…
China’s Xi urges AI cooperation, rejects ‘Cold War mentality’ at SCO summit
It is unclear if the SCO summit will pave the way for any breakthroughs in easing tensions, though Beijing has…
Step-by-Step Guide to AI Agent Development Using Microsoft Agent-Lightning
In this tutorial, we walk through setting up an advanced AI Agent using Microsoft’s Agent-Lightning framework. We are running everything…
Asia markets set to open mostly lower as investors assess U.S. court ruling on Trump tariffs
Investors will also be assessing the developments in India and China relations, after leaders from both countries agreed that they…
NVIDIA AI Team Introduces Jetson Thor: The Ultimate Platform for Physical AI and Next-Gen Robotics
Last week, the NVIDIA robotics team released Jetson Thor that includes Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit and the Jetson T5000…
Understanding OAuth 2.1 for MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers: Discovery, Authorization, and Access Phases
OAuth 2.1 is the officially mandated authorization standard in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specifications. According to the official documentation,…
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida killed in Gaza, Israel says
Israel says the military spokesman was killed in a strike on Saturday – Hamas has not confirmed the death.
The man behind OpenAI’s global expansion and its effort to win the enterprise
OpenAI is expanding globally and building an enterprise business that’s fueling tension with its biggest backer and cloud partner, Microsoft.
Here’s what it really means for Trump to get control of the Federal Reserve board
Since taking office in January, Trump has placed the Fed directly in the crosshairs of executive power.
What is AI Agent Observability? Top 7 Best Practices for Reliable AI
What is Agent Observability? Agent observability is the discipline of instrumenting, tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents across their full…
How to Build a Conversational Research AI Agent with LangGraph: Step Replay and Time-Travel Checkpoints
In this tutorial, we aim to understand how LangGraph enables us to manage conversation flows in a structured manner, while…
Putin and Modi in China for summit overshadowed by trade wars with US
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China for the first time in seven years.
Thousands demonstrate across Mexico for the 130,000 missing
Thousands march through Mexico’s cities urging more government action against enforced disappearances – a problem often linked to drug cartels.
Chunking vs. Tokenization: Key Differences in AI Text Processing
Table of contents Introduction What is Tokenization? What is Chunking? The Key Differences That Matter Why This Matters for Real…
Trump tariffs that are voided by — and ones that are safe from — Friday’s appeals court ruling
If the Supreme Court upholds the ruling, President Donald Trump would lose some, but not all, of his broad tariff…
A Coding Guide to Building a Brain-Inspired Hierarchical Reasoning AI Agent with Hugging Face Models
In this tutorial, we set out to recreate the spirit of the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) using a free Hugging…
Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike
Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi and several other Houthi officials were killed in the attack, the Iran-backed movement says.
Russia launches massive attack on Ukraine, as Kyiv hits oil refineries
One woman was killed in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, with 28 people injured, according to local officials.
Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv
President Zelensky said the killing of Parubiy was an “horrific murder” and promised an investigation.
Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy
The appeals court stayed its ruling until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to…
Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Frontier-Level Performance
Table of contents The Problem with “Thinking Longer” The Agentic Approach Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions GRPO-RoC: Learning from High-Quality Examples…
US court rules many of Trump’s global tariffs are illegal
The tariffs can remain in place until mid-October to allow the Trump administration time to request the Supreme Court take…
Top 20 Voice AI Blogs and News Websites 2025: The Ultimate Resource Guide
Voice AI technology has experienced unprecedented growth in 2025, with revolutionary breakthroughs in real-time conversational AI, emotional intelligence, and voice…
Microsoft AI Lab Unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: New In-House Models for Voice AI
Microsoft AI lab officially launched MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, marking a new phase for the company’s artificial intelligence research and development…
Retail panic: What the end of the ‘de minimis’ exemption means for brands across the globe
The de minimis exemption, an obscure trade law provision, came to an end globally on Friday, setting off a panic…
Zelensky rejects proposals for buffer zone to end Ukraine war
Ukraine’s president says those suggesting a buffer zone do not understand the realities of modern warfare.
Detect Amazon Bedrock misconfigurations with Datadog Cloud Security
This post was co-written with Nick Frichette and Vijay George from Datadog. As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Bedrock for generative…
Building and Optimizing Intelligent Machine Learning Pipelines with TPOT for Complete Automation and Performance Enhancement
We begin this tutorial to demonstrate how to harness TPOT to automate and optimize machine learning pipelines practically. By working…
Introducing auto scaling on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports managed node automatic scaling with Karpenter, so you can…
Court hearing on Lisa Cook’s bid to block Trump firing of Fed governor begins
President Trump has sharply escalated his pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, which he says will boost…
German inflation rises to hotter-than-expected 2.1% in August
Markets and economists are closely watching inflation figures around the world to assess the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Thai court removes PM over leaked phone call with Cambodian leader
Court rules Paetongtarn Shinawatra breached ethics in call where she called Hun Sen “uncle” shortly before border conflict.
The State of Voice AI in 2025: Trends, Breakthroughs, and Market Leaders
The year 2025 marks a turning point for Voice AI Agents, with technology reaching levels of naturalness, context-awareness, and commercial…
How a leaked phone call derailed the Thai PM’s career – and the Shinawatra dynasty
Thailand’s Constitutional Court strikes again, removing yet another prime minister from office.