China expands rare earth export restrictions ahead of possible Trump-Xi meeting
China has leveraged its control of the sector in trade talks with the U.S. by threatening a disruptive global shortage…
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RA3: Mid-Training with Temporal Action Abstractions for Faster Reinforcement Learning (RL) Post-Training in Code LLMs
TL;DR: A new research from Apple, formalizes what “mid-training” should do before reinforcement learning RL post-training and introduces RA3 (Reasoning…
Hang Seng Bank shares jump 30% on parent HSBC’s privatization bid, valuing it at over $37 billion
HSBC said it has asked the board of Hang Seng Bank to put forward a privatization proposal to shareholders via…
Stanford Researchers Released AgentFlow: In-the-Flow Reinforcement Learning RL for Modular, Tool-Using AI Agents
TL;DR: AgentFlow is a trainable agent framework with four modules—Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator—coordinated by an explicit memory and toolset. The…
SoftBank shares soar 13% after it agrees to buy ABB robotics unit for $5.4 billion
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite scored new intraday and closing highs Wednesday stateside.
Trump says Israel and Hamas ‘sign off’ on first phase of Gaza peace plan
The US president says the first phase of the deal secures the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and…
Macron will nominate new French prime minister in 48 hours
Sébastien Lecornu, the outgoing prime minister, said MPs recognise the pressing need to pass a budget by the end of…
Divided Fed officials saw another two interest rate cuts by the end of 2025, minutes show
Officials were strongly inclined to lower rates, with the only dispute seeming to be over how many cuts were coming.
Anthropic AI Releases Petri: An Open-Source Framework for Automated Auditing by Using AI Agents to Test the Behaviors of Target Models on Diverse Scenarios
How do you audit frontier LLMs for misaligned behavior in realistic multi-turn, tool-use settings—at scale and beyond coarse aggregate scores?…
Vxceed builds the perfect sales pitch for sales teams at scale using Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written with Cyril Ovely from Vxceed. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies face a critical challenge in emerging…
Bank of England warns of ‘sharp market correction’ if AI bubble bursts
The Bank of England has warned that risk of a sharp market correction has increased, amid stretched AI-related valuations.
France’s crisis takes an unexpected turn as Macron’s allies defy him
The most notable criticism has come from former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, once Macron’s protégé.
$140K Or Bust? Simulation Says Bitcoin’s Odds Are Now 50-50
According to economist Timothy Peterson, Bitcoin has a 50% chance of topping $140,000 before the month ends. He posted that…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs Function Calling vs OpenAPI Tools — When to Use Each?
Table of contents Comparison Table Strengths and Limits Security and Governance Ecosystem Signals (Portability/Adoption) Decision Rules (When to Use Which)…
Auto giant shares tumble as European Union’s new steel tariffs spark industry panic
Shares of Europe’s biggest automakers fell on Wednesday, amid industry concern about the impact of the European Union’s new steel…
Steel industry in UK warns of ‘biggest crisis’ ever as EU hikes tariffs
The tariffs hike provoked an immediate outcry in the U.K., and automakers in Europe are not too pleased, either.
Meta AI Open-Sources OpenZL: A Format-Aware Compression Framework with a Universal Decoder
How much compression ratio and throughput would you recover by training a format-aware graph compressor and shipping only a self-describing…
SoftBank to buy ABB robotics unit for $5.4 billion as it boosts its AI play
SoftBank Group on Monday said it had agreed to buy the robotics division of Swiss engineering firm ABB for $5.4…
US special envoy and Trump’s son-in-law to join Gaza peace talks in Egypt
The arrival of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner comes as a second day of talks ended without tangible results, a…
An Intelligent Conversational Machine Learning Pipeline Integrating LangChain Agents and XGBoost for Automated Data Science Workflows
In this tutorial, we combine the analytical power of XGBoost with the conversational intelligence of LangChain. We build an end-to-end…
Ray Dalio says today is like the early 1970s and investors should hold more gold than usual
“Gold is the only asset that somebody can hold and you don’t have to depend on somebody else to pay…
Israelis mark 7 October anniversary as talks on Gaza peace plan continue
“The horror of that dark day will be forever seared in the memories of us all,” UN Secretary General Antonio…
Automate Amazon QuickSight data stories creation with agentic AI using Amazon Nova Act
Amazon QuickSight data stories support global customers by transforming complex data into interactive narratives for faster decisions. However, manual creation…
Mother of Israeli hostage says she still doesn’t know if he’s alive or dead
Two years on from Hamas’ attack on 7 October, Herut Nimrodi says she is clinging to hope that her son…
Gold price reaches $4,000 an ounce for the first time ever
Gold futures have gained more than 50% this year as the dollar has weakened and President Donald Trump threatens Federal…
WTO hikes global trade forecast for 2025 — but next year doesn’t look so good
Global trade volumes rose sharply in the first half of 2025 as businesses front-loaded imports ahead of higher tariffs.
Trilogy Metals shares soar nearly 200% in premarket after U.S. takes stake in minerals explorer
The stock was seen trading 171% higher in premarket deals at 11:00 a.m. London time (6:00 a.m. ET).
Jeremy Bowen: Two years on, will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war?
There is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli…
Google DeepMind Introduces CodeMender: A New AI Agent that Uses Gemini Deep Think to Automatically Patch Critical Software Vulnerabilities
What if an AI agent could localize a root cause, prove a candidate fix via automated analysis and testing, and…
France is plunged further into political crisis. Here’s what could happen next
Macron now has to choose a new PM, opt for new parliamentary elections or resign.
Building a Human Handoff Interface for AI-Powered Insurance Agent Using Parlant and Streamlit
Human handoff is a key component of customer service automation—it ensures that when AI reaches its limits, a skilled human…
Japan’s Nikkei 225 hits record high for second straight day after Wall Street gains on AMD rally
Overnight, shares of AMD skyrocketed almost 24% after it announced a deal with OpenAI, which could see the latter take…
Israel and Hamas begin indirect talks in Egypt on Trump’s Gaza peace plan
The talks are expected to be among the most consequential since the start of the war two years ago.
Responsible AI: How PowerSchool safeguards millions of students with AI-powered content filtering using Amazon SageMaker AI
This post is cowritten with Gayathri Rengarajan and Harshit Kumar Nyati from PowerSchool. PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based…
A New Agency-Focused Supervision Approach Scales Software AI Agents With Only 78 Examples
Do curated, tool-grounded demonstrations build stronger software agents than broad piles of generic instruction data? A team of researchers from…
AMD stock skyrockets 35% as OpenAI looks to take stake in AI chipmaker
OpenAI will deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years, beginning with a 1-gigawatt rollout in…
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigns after less than a month
The shock move comes 26 days after his appointment following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou.
France’s new PM resigns sparking fresh political chaos
France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned just weeks after his appointment to the role, plunging the country into…
StreamTensor: A PyTorch-to-Accelerator Compiler that Streams LLM Intermediates Across FPGA Dataflows
Why treat LLM inference as batched kernels to DRAM when a dataflow compiler can pipe tiles through on-chip FIFOs and…
Who is Sanae Takaichi? The first woman set to helm the Japanese government
Takaichi’s victory follows Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation after bruising electoral losses for the LDP in 2024 and 2025.
Japan stocks hit record high after ruling party picks pro-stimulus Sanae Takaichi
Japan equities jumped after the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected staunch conservative Sanae Takaichi as its new leader Saturday.
Salesforce AI Research Releases CoDA-1.7B: a Discrete-Diffusion Code Model with Bidirectional, Parallel Token Generation
Salesforce AI Research released CoDA-1.7B, a diffusion-based language model for code that generates by denoising whole sequences with bidirectional context,…
Foreign investors eye China once again — but capital controls and policy risks keep them on edge
Foreign investors remain wary of Beijing’s iron grip on capital flows as China seeks to lure foreign capital to return…
Agentic Design Methodology: How to Build Reliable and Human-Like AI Agents using Parlant
Building robust AI agents differs fundamentally from traditional software development, as it centers on probabilistic model behavior rather than deterministic…
Eyes on Egypt ahead of crucial Gaza peace talks
Strikes have continued in Gaza as mediators prepare to head to Egypt for talks starting on Monday.
How to Evaluate Voice Agents in 2025: Beyond Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Word Error Rate (WER) to Task Success, Barge-In, and Hallucination-Under-Noise
Table of contents Why WER Isn’t Enough ? What to Measure (and How) ? Benchmark Landscape: What Each Covers Filling…
A Coding Implementation to Build a Transformer-Based Regression Language Model to Predict Continuous Values from Text
We will build a Regression Language Model (RLM), a model that predicts continuous numerical values directly from text sequences in…
Global week ahead: Bull markets, bubbles and ‘Swiftonomics’
The U.S. government shutdown has stoked worries about its adverse impact globally, but it has not hit the risk-on sentiment…
Google Proposes TUMIX: Multi-Agent Test-Time Scaling With Tool-Use Mixture
What if, instead of re-sampling one agent, you could push Gemini-2.5 Pro to 34.1% on HLE by mixing 12–15 tool-using…
Netanyahu says he hopes to announce hostage release in the ‘coming days’
Hamas will disarm “the easy way or the hard way”, Israel’s PM says after the group gave its response to…