Trump says trade talks with Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariffs advert
The US president says he is axing negotiations over an advert that used Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
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Trump to meet China’s Xi for the first time in second term as trade deal remains elusive
The confirmation of a Trump-Xi meeting signaled an intent to de-escalate tensions and put negotiations back on track, analysts said.
NBA stars and mafia among dozens arrested in illegal gambling crackdown
It follows a sweeping FBI investigation into illegal sports betting and rigged, mafia-linked poker games.
China strikes conciliatory tone ahead of expected Trump-Xi meeting
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told reporters Friday that the U.S. and China can still find ways to work together,…
Trump terminates all U.S. trade negotiations with Canada over Reagan tariffs TV ad
President Trump claimed Canada had ran an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs to influence a pending…
China to bolster consumption, tech development as U.S. tensions simmer
China’s top leaders signaled their priorities for the next five years in a readout released Thursday at the end of…
Google AI Introduces FLAME Approach: A One-Step Active Learning that Selects the Most Informative Samples for Training and Makes a Model Specialization Super Fast
Open vocabulary object detectors answer text queries with boxes. In remote sensing, zero shot performance drops because classes are fine…
Generate Gremlin queries using Amazon Bedrock models
Graph databases have revolutionized how organizations manage complex, interconnected data. However, specialized query languages such as Gremlin often create a…
Chauncey Billups, others arrested in FBI probe linking NBA to Mafia gambling ring
Terry Rozier, a 10-year NBA veteran, joined the Miami Heat in 2024 from the Charlotte Hornets.
Ukraine urges EU to back loan using frozen Russian cash
EU ministers meet hours after the EU and the US announced new sanctions against Russia’s oil industry.
UltraCUA: A Foundation Computer-Use Agents Model that Bridges the Gap between General-Purpose GUI Agents and Specialized API-based Agents
Computer-use agents have been limited to primitives. They click, they type, they scroll. Long action chains amplify grounding errors and…
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
The pardon came nearly a week after President Trump commuted the 87-month prison sentence of former New York Rep. George…
A Coding Guide to Build a Fully Functional Multi-Agent Marketplace Using uAgent
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a small yet functional multi-agent system using the uAgents framework. We set…
Rivian plans to lay off more than 600 workers
Rivian and other EV manufacturers are facing a more challenging market than they did in recent years amid changing regulations…
European markets rise after major earnings reports; Gucci-owner Kering surges 9%
European stocks were higher Thursday as investors looked to earnings reports for clues on business activity and confidence in the…
Quantum computing stocks surge on report Trump administration seeking stakes, joining Intel, rare earths
The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with several quantum-computing firms about government taking equity stakes in exchange for funding.
China and India to face supply jolt as U.S. targets Russia’s oil giants
U.S. decision to sanction Russia’s two largest oil companies threatens to disrupt the energy lifeline of India and China, industry…
Anthrogen Introduces Odyssey: A 102B Parameter Protein Language Model that Replaces Attention with Consensus and Trains with Discrete Diffusion
Anthrogen has introduced Odyssey, a family of protein language models for sequence and structure generation, protein editing, and conditional design.…
PokeeResearch-7B: An Open 7B Deep-Research Agent Trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) and a Robust Reasoning Scaffold
Pokee AI has open sourced PokeeResearch-7B, a 7B parameter deep research agent that executes full research loops, decomposes a query,…
How to Design a Fully Functional Enterprise AI Assistant with Retrieval Augmentation and Policy Guardrails Using Open Source AI Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build a compact yet powerful Enterprise AI assistant that runs effortlessly on…
Oil jumps 3% after Trump administration sanctions big Russian oil companies
The new sanctions are related to plans for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin being…
Build scalable creative solutions for product teams with Amazon Bedrock
Creative teams and product developers are constantly seeking ways to streamline their workflows and reduce time to market while maintaining…
US announces sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies
The announcement comes as NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was due to meet with Donald Trump in Washington.
No camera covered Louvre wall where jewel thieves broke in, director says
Laurence des Cars said there was only one camera pointing on the gallery which was robbed.
Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit
The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI
Build a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
In Part 1 of our series, we introduced a proactive cost management solution for Amazon Bedrock, featuring a robust cost…
Google AI Introduces VISTA: A Test Time Self Improving Agent for Text to Video Generation
TLDR: VISTA is a multi agent framework that improves text to video generation during inference, it plans structured prompts as…
Metagenomi generates millions of novel enzymes cost-effectively using AWS Inferentia
This post was written with Audra Devoto, Owen Janson, and Christopher Brown of Metagenomi, and Adam Perry of Tennex. A…
Auto giant Volkswagen warns of output stoppages amid Nexperia chip disruption
Volkswagen on Wednesday warned of temporary production outages citing China’s export restrictions on semiconductors made by Nexperia.
European markets lose ground as earnings hold spotlight; L’Oreal down 6%
European stocks opened in negative territory on Wednesday as market momentum loses steam.
Six dead in Russian airstrikes, hours after Trump shelves bid for Putin talks
The drone and missile attacks on Ukraine came as the US president put on hold his plans for an imminent…
UK inflation holds steady at 3.8% in September, cooler than expected
The Bank of England had forecast earlier this year that the consumer price index would peak at 4% (double the…
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Atlas: A Chromium-based browser with a built-in AI agent
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Atlas, a new AI browser that embeds ChatGPT at the core of navigation, search, and on-page…
India to cut Russian oil purchases, U.S. to slash tariffs as they near trade deal: Indian media report
The India-U.S. trade talks collapsed earlier this year with New Delhi not agreeing to widen market access to its vast…
How I Built an Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen, LangChain, and Hugging Face to Demonstrate Practical Agentic AI Workflows
In this tutorial, we dive into the essence of Agentic AI by uniting LangChain, AutoGen, and Hugging Face into a…
Japan’s September exports rebound after four straight months of declines as shipments to Asia climb
Japanese exports in September snapped four months of declines, climbing 4.2% year on year, as shipments to Asia saw robust…
Serverless deployment for your Amazon SageMaker Canvas models
Deploying machine learning (ML) models into production can often be a complex and resource-intensive task, especially for customers without deep…
Building a multi-agent voice assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Nova Sonic is a foundation model that creates natural, human-like speech-to-speech conversations for generative AI applications, allowing users to…
No immediate plans for Trump-Putin meeting, White House official says
President Trump had said a summit would take place in Budapest on the war in Ukraine within two weeks.
Economist Explains The Reality Behind XRP Price Reaching $100,000, It Can’t Overtake Bitcoin
Economist and former forex analyst Moonchaser is explaining why expectations of the XRP price reaching $100,000 are not realistic. According…
Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister
A staunch conservative, she takes over as Japan grapples with rising cost-of-living and mounting debt.
China says U.S. and Australia ‘should play a proactive role’ to bolster rare earth supply chains
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said resource-rich countries should play a proactive role in bolstering their rare earth…
CoreWeave CEO says Core Scientific ‘not a need to have’ as shareholder opposition to deal rises
Shareholders have raised opposition to CoreWeave’s acquisition of Core Scientific saying the price is too low.
Former French President Sarkozy heads to jail over campaign financing
Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.
European markets set to open higher, building on positive momentum
European stocks are set to open higher on Tuesday, continuing positive momentum from the start of the week on the…
Google AI Research Releases DeepSomatic: A New AI Model that Identifies Cancer Cell Genetic Variants
A team of researchers from Google Research and UC Santa Cruz released DeepSomatic, an AI model that identifies cancer cell…
Amazon outage ‘resolved’ as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted
Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.
Japan makes history as Takaichi set to become the country’s first woman prime minister
Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday created history, winning Japan’s parliamentary vote to become the country’s first woman prime minister, with domestic…
Shares of Australian rare earth companies surge on $8.5 billion U.S. critical minerals deal
Australian critical metals and rare earths shares surged following the announcement of a massive minerals deal between Washington and Canberra.
DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion
DeepSeek-AI released 3B DeepSeek-OCR, an end to end OCR and document parsing Vision-Language Model (VLM) system that compresses long text…