Bitcoin Crash Linked To BlackRock IBIT Hedging, Arthur Hayes Claims
Arthur Hayes, co‑founder of BitMEX, has pointed to hedging tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) as a major driver…
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Breathe… XRP Is The ‘Oxygen’ Of The New Financial System, CEO Says
XRP is being talked about in a different way now — not just as a token to trade, but as…
US wants Russia and Ukraine to end war by June, says Zelensky
The Ukrainian leader says difficult issues remain, as Russia carries out further strikes on energy facilities.
Pressure mounts on American Airlines CEO as carrier lags rivals
American Airlines made $111 million last year, while rivals Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, brought in $5 billion and…
Tech AI spending may approach $700 billion this year, but the blow to cash raises red flags
Tech’s megacaps announced major increases in capex spend for 2026, and now investors are preparing for cash to dwindle.
Trump removes video with racist clip depicting Obamas as apes
The US president said he “didn’t make a mistake”, adding he had only seen the beginning of the video before…
Bitcoin Sell-Off May Be Done, Analyst Flags Recovery Signs
According to Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, much of the crypto complex already went through a…
Trump signs executive order threatening tariffs for countries trading with Iran
The order did not specify the rate that could be imposed, but used 25% as an example.
Structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock: Schema-compliant AI responses
Today, we’re announcing structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock—a capability that fundamentally transforms how you can obtain validated JSON responses from…
Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters using the HyperPod CLI and SDK
Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for…
Russian general shot several times in Moscow
Lt Gen Vladimir Alexeyev is a senior figure in the main directorate of Russia’s military general staff.
Evaluate generative AI models with an Amazon Nova rubric-based LLM judge on Amazon SageMaker AI (Part 2)
In the post Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI, we introduced the Amazon Nova…
Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech’s $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off
Fears over AI spending have sparked a sell-off among tech stocks.
More than 30 killed in blast at Pakistan mosque, officials say
The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear, however reports have suggested it was carried out by a suicide…
Bitcoin narrowly avoids falling under $60,000 as it bounces off lows
Some market analysts have suggested bitcoin could fall further, potentially hitting between $40,000 to $50,000.
Stellantis shares plunge 20% after automaker announces $26 billion hit from business overhaul
Stellantis said it expects to take a 22-billion-euro ($26 billion) as it overhauls its business to accelerate the rollout of…
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.6 With 1M Context, Agentic Coding, Adaptive Reasoning Controls, and Expanded Safety Tooling Capabilities
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.6, its most capable model to date, focused on long-context reasoning, agentic coding, and high-value…
AI fears pummel software stocks: Is it ‘illogical’ panic or a SaaS apocalypse?
The software space is facing serious market concerns this week, after the release of new AI tools from AI triggered…
India is reportedly ‘ready’ to buy up to $80 billion in Boeing aircraft following trade deal with U.S.
Indian minister shares details about India-U.S. deal timeline and New Delhi’s potential to buy more American goods.
US and Iran talks to begin as fears of direct conflict continue
The US has built up its military presence in the Middle East in response to Iran’s violent crackdown on protests.
Amazon stock falls 10% on $200 billion spending forecast, earnings miss
The company also said it expects capital expenditures to hit roughly $200 billion in 2026, compared with analysts estimated $146.6…
How Associa transforms document classification with the GenAI IDP Accelerator and Amazon Bedrock
This is a guest post co-written with David Meredith and Josh Zacharias from Associa. Associa, North America’s largest community management…
OpenAI Just Launched GPT-5.3-Codex: A Faster Agentic Coding Model Unifying Frontier Code Performance And Professional Reasoning Into One System
OpenAI has just introduced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new agentic coding model that extends Codex from writing and reviewing code to handling…
Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners as peace talks end without breakthrough
The swap – the first since October – sees 157 Ukrainians and 160 Russians returned home.
Solana Price Drops, But Open Interest Signals Growing Activity
Solana’s market looks like a tightly wound spring right now. Prices have been slipping while futures activity is picking up,…
Naked images remained in Epstein files despite outcry
Four images seen by BBC Verify show partially clothed women with their faces and bodies unredacted.
Bitcoin drops below $70,000 as sell-off continues and pessimism grows
Some market watchers have suggested $70,000 is a key level to watch and a break below that could lead bitcoin…
Bank of England holds rates for now — so when’s the next cut coming?
Economists give their forecasts for when the next rate cut could take place in 2026.
Sweden’s Volvo Cars on track for worst trading day ever as shares plunge over 18%
The Sweden-based automaker posted a substantial drop in fourth-quarter profit, citing tariffs, currency effects and weak demand.
Mistral AI Launches Voxtral Transcribe 2: Pairing Batch Diarization And Open Realtime ASR For Multilingual Production Workloads At Scale
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is becoming a core building block for AI products, from meeting tools to voice agents. Mistral’s…
US must be prudent when supplying arms to Taiwan, Xi tells Trump
Wednesday’s call comes in the wake of a flurry of visits by Western leaders to China in recent months.
Silver resumes its slide, plunging 13%, after short-lived rebound
Silver prices slid as much as 16% on Thursday, snapping a two-day rebound as investors continued to unwind positions.
Oil slides in volatile trading as upcoming U.S.-Iran talks revive de-escalation hopes
Oil prices fell on Thursday after Washington and Tehran agreed to hold talks in Oman on Friday, even as differences…
Fearing Russia will seize her town, war widow moves husband’s grave to Kyiv
Russia’s gains on the battlefield have forced Natalia to rebury her husband in Kyiv.
Google parent beats on revenue, projects significant AI spending increase
Alphabet beat on the top and bottom lines in its fourth-quarter earnings report, and said it expects to significantly increase spending…
Hedge funds made $24 billion shorting software stocks so far in 2026 — And they are increasing the bet
Hedge funds are increasing their short bets against software stocks, contributing to the brutal sell-off in the space so far…
Google Introduces Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash for Active Image Understanding
Frontier multimodal models usually process an image in a single pass. If they miss a serial number on a chip…
AMD’s Lisa Su says demand for advanced chips is still accelerating, as stock plummets 16%
The CEO said that the data center business has risen from the fourth to first quarter and demand for the…
Accelerating your marketing ideation with generative AI – Part 2: Generate custom marketing images from historical references
Marketing teams face major challenges creating campaigns in today’s digital environment. They must navigate through complex data analytics and rapidly…
AMD stock sinks 12% after earnings. Here’s why
The chipmaker’s stock has surged over the past year amid the AI boom.
China ramps up threats over Panama Canal ruling that handed Trump a major victory
The Panama Canal has been thrust into the middle of a power struggle between the U.S. and China, the world’s…
Gold and silver extend rebound but concerns over volatility linger
Gold and silver climb with further gains seen determined by rate expectations
Novo Nordisk shares tumble 18% as CEO warns it will get worse before it gets better
Just as Novo Nordisk showed signs of a recovery, another cold shower hit investors as the drugmaker surprise prereleased its…
Russian attacks on Ukraine energy sites ‘particularly depraved’, UK PM Starmer says
The UK leader’s comments came after Russia renewed its attacks on power plants and critical infrastructure in Ukraine.
Asian software stocks plunge after U.S. peers decline on fears over AI-led disruption
Wall Street’s fears around artificial intelligence-driven disruption affecting software companies have made their way into Asia.
UBS beats expectations with $1.2 billion fourth-quarter profit, plans $3 billion buyback
UBS reported its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday.
A Coding Implementation to Train Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning Agents Offline Using Conservative Q-Learning with d3rlpy and Fixed Historical Data
In this tutorial, we build a safety-critical reinforcement learning pipeline that learns entirely from fixed, offline data rather than live…
Nintendo shares sink 10% as gaming giant faces memory shortage concerns
Nintendo is facing pressure this year from a shortage in memory chips — a key component in its gaming consoles…
Asia-Pacific markets mostly fall, tracking Wall Street losses after a tech-led pullback
Asia-Pacific markets mostly fell, tracking Wall Street losses as a sell-off in U.S. technology stocks weighed on sentiment.