Trump says he authorised CIA in Venezuela as Maduro says ‘no to regime change’
Trump would not be drawn on whether the CIA was seeking to topple Maduro.
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Top European Central Bank board members see sticky inflation but clear rate path
ECB board members speak exclusively to CNBC at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington about the interest…
Nestle gains 6% after consumer goods giant announces plans to slash 16,000 jobs
Nestle said Thursday it will cut 16,000 jobs as the firm’s new CEO Philipp Navratil looks to accelerate a turnaround…
‘Worse than starting from scratch’: How big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.
Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions
Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class…
QeRL: NVFP4-Quantized Reinforcement Learning (RL) Brings 32B LLM Training to a Single H100—While Improving Exploration
What would you build if you could run Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training on a 32B LLM in 4-bit NVFP4—on a…
Building a Context-Folding LLM Agent for Long-Horizon Reasoning with Memory Compression and Tool Use
In this tutorial, we explore how to build a Context-Folding LLM Agent that efficiently solves long, complex tasks by intelligently…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Beijing gears up for a big strategy meeting as tensions with Washington deepen
Beijing will discuss goals for tech and economic development at a five-year planning meeting next week.
Hamas returns two more bodies but says it cannot retrieve remaining dead hostages
The group’s armed wing says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can reach in the ruins of…
UN humanitarian chief urges Israel to open more crossings into Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza are reported to be stockpiling food, amid anxiety that the ceasefire will unravel.
Transforming enterprise operations: Four high-impact use cases with Amazon Nova
Since the launch of Amazon Nova at AWS re:Invent 2024, we have seen adoption trends across industries, with notable gains…
Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 4.5: Small AI Model that Delivers Sonnet-4-Level Coding Performance at One-Third the Cost and more than Twice the Speed
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a latency-optimized “small” model that delivers similar levels of coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4…
Configure and verify a distributed training cluster with AWS Deep Learning Containers on Amazon EKS
Training state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) demands massive, distributed compute infrastructure. Meta’s Llama 3, for instance, ran on 16,000 NVIDIA…
Treasury Secretary Bessent says a stock market decline won’t deter the U.S. from taking strong action against China
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent insisted that the U.S. won’t change its negotiating stance on China due to stock market volatility.
France’s PM skirts another crisis and markets like it — but it comes at a price
The axing of the 2023 reform — which would have seen the retirement age raised from 62 to 64 —…
Auto industry raises the alarm as China tightens export rules for rare earths
Automotive industry groups have sounded the alarm over China’s latest move to impose restrictions on the export of rare earths.
Meta AI’s ‘Early Experience’ Trains Language Agents without Rewards—and Outperforms Imitation Learning
How would your agent stack change if a policy could train purely from its own outcome-grounded rollouts—no rewards, no demos—yet…
Tax rises and spending cuts in the cards, UK finance minister hints
Labour had pledged in its 2024 election manifesto that it would not raise raise taxes on working people
LVMH pops 13% after posting growth for the first time this year
The luxury goods giant’s brands include Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co. and Moet & Chandon.
ASML looks to calm fears over 2026 growth as it warns of China sales decline
ASML on Wednesday looked to allay concerns over 2026 growth as net sales for the third quarter came in slightly…
Hamas returns four more bodies of hostages, Israeli military says
Israel warns it will restrict aid convoys into Gaza because of delays returning the remaining bodies.
Alibaba’s Qwen AI Releases Compact Dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct & Thinking) With FP8 Checkpoints
Do you actually need a giant VLM when dense Qwen3-VL 4B/8B (Instruct/Thinking) with FP8 runs in low VRAM yet retains…
China consumer prices drop more than expected in September, staying in deflationary territory
Weak consumer demand has weighed on China’s economy that’s struggling from a prolonged housing downturn while U.S. tariffs have pressured…
As Japan’s opposition circles around a unity bid, Takaichi’s route to power narrows
Sanae Takaichi, the woman poised to become the first prime minister of Japan, faces an increasingly tricky path to power.
Trump threatens China with cooking oil embargo over soybean snub
President Donald Trump said the U.S. is considering ending its cooking oil trade with China in retaliation for Beijing refusing…
Bowen: Trump’s role in Gaza ceasefire was decisive, but not a roadmap to peace
Trump’s Middle East visit was a victory lap – but peace does not emerge just because a president decides it.
Andrej Karpathy Releases ‘nanochat’: A Minimal, End-to-End ChatGPT-Style Pipeline You Can Train in ~4 Hours for ~$100
Andrej Karpathy has open-sourced nanochat, a compact, dependency-light codebase that implements a full ChatGPT-style stack—from tokenizer training to web UI…
Build a device management agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has transformed how we interact with our environments, from homes to industrial…
A Coding Implementation of Advanced PyTest to Build Customized and Automated Testing with Plugins, Fixtures, and JSON Reporting
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced capabilities of PyTest, one of the most powerful testing frameworks in Python. We…
‘It’s not over,’ says son of hostage whose body remains in Gaza
Rotem Cooper, whose father Amiram’s body has not been returned, calls on mediators to put pressure on Hamas to release…
Bessent tells the FT that struggling China wants ‘to pull everybody else down with them’
Bessent accused China of trying to weaken the global economy by slapping export controls on resources vital for technology.
French PM backs suspending Macron’s pension reform in bid to save government
The changes, which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, were seen as signature reforms in Emmanuel Macron’s presidency.
Global bonds rally as fresh trade tensions send investors flocking to safety
Money markets have been shaken by a reignited U.S.-China trade row.
NVIDIA Researchers Propose Reinforcement Learning Pretraining (RLP): Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective for Building Reasoning During Pretraining
NVIDIA AI has introduced Reinforcement Learning Pretraining (RLP), a training objective that injects reinforcement learning into the pretraining stage rather…
Rare earth stocks rally in premarket, extending gains amid renewed U.S.-China trade spat
Shares of U.S. rare earth miners rallied in premarket trade on Tuesday, extending sharp gains from the previous session.
7 LLM Generation Parameters—What They Do and How to Tune Them?
Tuning LLM outputs is largely a decoding problem: you shape the model’s next-token distribution with a handful of sampling controls—max…
European markets fall as positive sentiment vanishes; Michelin sheds 9% as tariffs weigh
European stocks were lower on Tuesday morning, reversing largely positive sentiment at the start of the week.
ServiceNow AI Research Releases DRBench, a Realistic Enterprise Deep-Research Benchmark
ServiceNow Research has released DRBench, a benchmark and runnable environment to evaluate “deep research” agents on open-ended enterprise tasks that…
China targets five U.S. subsidiaries of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, sending shares down 8%
The order, which took effect immediately, will prohibit Chinese organizations and individuals from doing business with the sanctioned companies.
LG Electronics India shares surge 50% on market debut after bumper initial public offering
LG Electronics India is the second major South Korean company that has tapped Indian markets in about a year, after…
Ivy Framework Agnostic Machine Learning Build, Transpile, and Benchmark Across All Major Backends
In this tutorial, we explore Ivy’s remarkable ability to unify machine learning development across frameworks. We begin by writing a…
Tata Electronics acquires Chinese iPhone supplier Justech’s India unit for about $100 million, sources say
Tata Electronics seeks to expand iPhone manufacturing capacity as Apple aims to make all of the iPhones intended for the…
Meta’s ARE + Gaia2 Set a New Bar for AI Agent Evaluation under Asynchronous, Event-Driven Conditions
Meta AI has introduced Agents Research Environments (ARE), a modular simulation stack for creating and running agent tasks, and Gaia2,…
Microsoft AI Debuts MAI-Image-1: An In-House Text-to-Image Model that Enters LMArena’s Top-10
Microsoft AI introduced MAI-Image-1, its first image generation model developed entirely in-house at Microsoft. The model has debuted in the…
Retaliation or escalation? Trust between the U.S. and China is fading fast, analysts say
The flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and China over the weekend points to deteriorating trust between the world’s two…
Transforming the physical world with AI: the next frontier in intelligent automation
The convergence of artificial intelligence with physical systems marks a pivotal moment in technological evolution. Physical AI, where algorithms transcend…
How to Evaluate Your RAG Pipeline with Synthetic Data?
Evaluating LLM applications, particularly those using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), is crucial but often neglected. Without proper evaluation, it’s almost impossible…
Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees freed as Trump hails ‘historic dawn’ in Middle East
A major hostage and prisoner exchange marks a significant step towards ending two years of war in Gaza.
Medical reports analysis dashboard using Amazon Bedrock, LangChain, and Streamlit
In healthcare, the ability to quickly analyze and interpret medical reports is crucial for both healthcare providers and patients. While…
‘You’re my life, my hero’: Hostages reunite with families after two years
Families say it ends “two years of hell” and a journey of “healing and rehabilitation” will now begin.