HSBC annual pre-tax profit drops over 7%, revenue jumps as bank’s results top estimates
Europe’s largest lender HSBC on Wednesday reported annual pre-tax profit of $29.91 billion, beating the bank’s estimates.
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U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling will likely allow India to keep buying Russian oil
India is unlikely to eliminate Russian oil imports and the U.S. may not have enough leverage to push New Delhi…
South Korea and Japan stocks hit fresh highs amid regional gains after Wall Street’s AI relief rally
Asia-Pacific markets rose, tracking Wall Street gains after after investors’ concerns around AI disruption to select industries eased.
Meta AI Open Sources GCM for Better GPU Cluster Monitoring to Ensure High Performance AI Training and Hardware Reliability
While the tech folks obsesses over the latest Llama checkpoints, a much grittier battle is being fought in the basements…
A Coding Implementation to Simulate Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Asyncio, Malicious Nodes, and Latency Analysis
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) simulator using asyncio. We model a realistic distributed…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series: A Production Powerhouse Proving that Smaller AI Models are Smarter
The development of large language models (LLMs) has been defined by the pursuit of raw scale. While increasing parameter counts…
Build an intelligent photo search using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Bedrock
Managing large photo collections presents significant challenges for organizations and individuals. Traditional approaches rely on manual tagging, basic metadata, and…
Classic ‘TACO’? Investors shrug off Trump’s latest tariff announcement
Global equity markets were muted as Trump’s latest tariffs came into effect at 10%, a lower-than-expected rate.
Train CodeFu-7B with veRL and Ray on Amazon SageMaker Training jobs
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has created unprecedented demand for specialized models capable of complex reasoning tasks, particularly…
Novo Nordisk to slash GLP-1 list prices by up to 50% in U.S. to cut costs for insured patients
The cuts aim to make the drugs more accessible to insured patients, particularly people with high-deductible health plans or co-insurance…
Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging ‘industrial-scale’ distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms
Anthropic accused three Chinese artificial intelligence enterprises of engaging in coordinated distillation campaigns, the latest American tech firm to do…
Tesla’s Europe problem keeps getting worse. Here’s why
Tesla’s new car registrations fell 17% year-on-year in January, marking the 13th consecutive month in which sales have shrunk across…
Google DeepMind Researchers Apply Semantic Evolution to Create Non Intuitive VAD-CFR and SHOR-PSRO Variants for Superior Algorithmic Convergence
In the competitive arena of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), progress has long been bottlenecked by human intuition. For years, researchers…
European stocks lose ground as traders assess tariff landscape
European stocks were broadly lower on Tuesday as investors assessed the new global trading landscape after President Donald Trump’s tariffs…
RAG vs. Context Stuffing: Why selective retrieval is more efficient and reliable than dumping all data into the prompt
Large context windows have dramatically increased how much information modern language models can process in a single prompt. With models…
Russia soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders’ orders
Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being…
Composio Open Sources Agent Orchestrator to Help AI Developers Build Scalable Multi-Agent Workflows Beyond the Traditional ReAct Loops
For the past year, AI devs have relied on the ReAct (Reasoning + Acting) pattern—a simple loop where an LLM…
Bitcoin extends decline, falling over 5% to below $64,000
Bitcoin tumbled more than 5% to around $63,000 on Tuesday as investors continued to grapple with escalating tariff tensions and…
China leaves benchmark lending rates unchanged as Beijing signals tolerance for stronger yuan
China’s central bank kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged as Beijing manages a balancing act of supporting a slowing economy…
Bitcoin Wipes Out Gains, Sentiment Sinks To Historic Fear: Analysts
Bitcoin’s recent wobble has traders on edge, but the picture is not all one-way. Reports note heavy losses for late…
Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears
Cybersecurity stocks are the latest to see sell-off pressure as AI threatens to upend software companies.
Scaling data annotation using vision-language models to power physical AI systems
Critical labor shortages are constraining growth across manufacturing, logistics, construction, and agriculture. The problem is particularly acute in construction: nearly…
Beyond Simple API Requests: How OpenAI’s WebSocket Mode Changes the Game for Low Latency Voice Powered AI Experiences
In the world of Generative AI, latency is the ultimate killer of immersion. Until recently, building a voice-enabled AI agent…
Mexico sends thousands of soldiers to stop violence after death of drug lord
A wave of violence has erupted across Mexico since a powerful drug cartel boss died following his capture by special…
How Sonrai uses Amazon SageMaker AI to accelerate precision medicine trials
In precision medicine, researchers developing diagnostic tests for early disease detection face a critical challenge: datasets containing thousands of potential…
Four years into its full-scale war in Ukraine, Russia is feeling the effects
Steve Rosenberg reports on the economic consequences of Russia’s war, and how people are coping.
Europe hits back at ‘pure tariff chaos’ from the U.S., warning trade deals are at risk
European officials have reacted with disbelief to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff policy, warning that trade deals could be at…
Taalas is replacing programmable GPUs with hardwired AI chips to achieve 17,000 tokens per second for ubiquitous inference
In the high-stakes world of AI infrastructure, the industry has operated under a singular assumption: flexibility is king. We build…
Trump’s latest tariff salvos leave markets unfazed: ‘Sit still and do nothing,’ analysts say
Asia stocks were mostly higher, safe-haven assets stayed firm, with yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury little changed, while gold…
VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex: Achieving 98.7% Financial RAG Accuracy with a New Open-Source Vectorless Tree Indexing.
Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline is easy; building one that doesn’t hallucinate during a 10-K audit is nearly impossible.…
Bitcoin falls below $65,000 as Trump tariff moves raise uncertainty
Bitcoin fell more than 5% to below $65,000 after President Donald Trump announced plans to raise global tariffs to 15%,…
Zelensky tells BBC Putin has started WW3 and must be stopped
Ukraine’s president sat down with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen in Kyiv days before the four-year anniversary of the war.
Mexico’s most wanted drug lord ‘El Mencho’ killed in military operation
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, headed one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.
Forget Keyword Imitation: ByteDance AI Maps Molecular Bonds in AI Reasoning to Stabilize Long Chain-of-Thought Performance and Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training
ByteDance Seed recently dropped a research that might change how we build reasoning AI. For years, devs and AI researchers…
Armed man killed after entering secure perimeter of Trump’s residence, Secret Service says
The suspect was carrying a shotgun and fuel can when he was killed, officers said. Trump was in Washington DC…
Pakistan launches deadly strikes on Afghanistan
Pakistan says the strikes were retaliation for recent suicide bombings in the country.
India delays Washington trade visit as U.S. tariff policy shifts, source tells CNBC
The negotiators want to ‘evaluate the latest developments’, the source says, following the U.S.’s move to raise its global import…
A New Google AI Research Proposes Deep-Thinking Ratio to Improve LLM Accuracy While Cutting Total Inference Costs by Half
For the last few years, the AI world has followed a simple rule: if you want a Large Language Model…
How to Design an Agentic Workflow for Tool-Driven Route Optimization with Deterministic Computation and Structured Outputs
In this tutorial, we build a production-style Route Optimizer Agent for a logistics dispatch center using the latest LangChain agent…
Is There a Community Edition of Palantir? Meet OpenPlanter: An Open Source Recursive AI Agent for Your Micro Surveillance Use Cases
The balance of power in the digital age is shifting. While governments and large corporations have long used data to…
Iran students stage first anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
The student protesters honoured thousands of those killed when nationwide mass protests were put down last month.
Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices over tariffs ruling
The six justices who voted against the tariffs, dealing a major blow to his signature economic policy, should be “absolutely…
Trump to hike global tariffs to 15% from 10%, ‘effective immediately’
Trump also warned: “During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and…
Trump ups tariffs day after Supreme Court ruling against him
The president will increase import taxes to 15% on most products coming into the US from Tuesday.
U.S. trading partners cheer Supreme Court tariff ruling — but businesses must still navigate ‘murky waters’
The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to strike down large parts of President Trump’s tariff policies Friday.
A Coding Guide to High-Quality Image Generation, Control, and Editing Using HuggingFace Diffusers
In this tutorial, we design a practical image-generation workflow using the Diffusers library. We start by stabilizing the environment, then…
Trump brings in new 10% tariff as Supreme Court rejects his global import taxes
The Supreme Court decision striking down some of Trump’s most sweeping tariffs injects new uncertainty into global trade.
How to Design a Swiss Army Knife Research Agent with Tool-Using AI, Web Search, PDF Analysis, Vision, and Automated Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a “Swiss Army Knife” research agent that goes far beyond simple chat interactions and actively…
Trump announces new 10% global tariff after raging over Supreme Court loss
President Donald Trump spoke hours after the Supreme Court ruled against his global tariffs that he imposed without Congress.
Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 1: Flexible Training Plans and improvements to price performance for inference workloads
In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI saw dramatic improvements to core infrastructure offerings along four dimensions: capacity, price performance, observability, and…