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…
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Shock in Gaza as Trump appears to welcome Hamas response to US peace plan
Hamas agreed to release the hostages and to the idea of handing over governing Gaza to Palestinian technocrats, but did…
At least 30 injured in Russian strike on railway station, Zelensky says
Preliminary reports indicate that train staff and passengers were at the site of the strike, he says.
Can a Small Language Model Predict Kernel Latency, Memory, and Model Accuracy from Code? A New Regression Language Model (RLM) Says Yes
Researchers from Cornell and Google introduce a unified Regression Language Model (RLM) that predicts numeric outcomes directly from code strings—covering…
A Coding Guide to Build an Autonomous Agentic AI for Time Series Forecasting with Darts and Hugging Face
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agentic AI system that autonomously handles time series forecasting using the Darts library…
From data to culture: How international brands are trying to crack the code on the fickle Chinese consumer
Western brands are revamping efforts to reach the Chinese consumer despite the economic slowdown.
‘I love you, I’m sorry’: What Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs did the moment he learned his sentence
It was a more subdued message from three months ago when Combs told his family he was “coming home”.
AWS Open-Sources an MCP Server for Bedrock AgentCore to Streamline AI Agent Development
AWS released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, providing a direct path from natural-language prompts…
Unlock global AI inference scalability using new global cross-Region inference on Amazon Bedrock with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5
Organizations are increasingly integrating generative AI capabilities into their applications to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive innovation. As…
Secure ingress connectivity to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway using interface VPC endpoints
Agentic AI applications represent a significant development in enterprise automation, where intelligent agents autonomously execute complex workflows, access sensitive datasets,…
Microsoft Releases ‘Microsoft Agent Framework’: An Open-Source SDK and Runtime that Simplifies the Orchestration of Multi-Agent Systems
Microsoft released the Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview), an open-source SDK and runtime that unifies core ideas from AutoGen (agent…
Trump gives Hamas Sunday deadline to accept Gaza peace plan
The 20-point proposal seeks to end the fighting immediately in return for the release of hostages and detained Gazans.
Goldman boss David Solomon warns of a stock market drawdown: ‘People won’t feel good’
The Goldman Sachs CEO said AI presented opportunities but that some investors were overlooking “things you should be skeptical about.”
Jeff Bezos says AI is in an ‘industrial bubble’ but society to get ‘gigantic’ benefits from the tech
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that artificial intelligence is showing signs of being in an “industrial bubble.”
U.S. model upgrades are pushing AI startups to move fast – it’s unclear if Europe can keep up
Frequent updates of AI models like ChatGPT and Claude are pushing companies built on top of them to iterate faster…
Putin warns of ‘new stage of escalation’ if U.S. supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the prospect of the U.S. supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine would not change the situation…
Neuphonic Open-Sources NeuTTS Air: A 748M-Parameter On-Device Speech Language Model with Instant Voice Cloning
Neuphonic has released NeuTTS Air, an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) speech language model designed to run locally in real time on…
Thinking Machines Launches Tinker: A Low-Level Training API that Abstracts Distributed LLM Fine-Tuning without Hiding the Knobs
Thinking Machines has released Tinker, a Python API that lets researchers and engineers write training loops locally while the platform…
How to Build an Advanced Voice AI Pipeline with WhisperX for Transcription, Alignment, Analysis, and Export?
In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced implementation of WhisperX, where we explore transcription, alignment, and word-level timestamps in…
Trump wields axe over ‘Democrat Agencies’ as shutdown blame game rages
He said the shutdown could be an opportunity to “clear out dead wood”, giving no hint of concessions to Democrats.
Asia markets trade mixed after Wall Street gains as investors look past government shutdown
Investors in Asia are also looking to Japan’s September manufacturing purchasing managers’ index later in the day.
IBM Released new Granite 4.0 Models with a Novel Hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer Architecture: Drastically Reducing Memory Use without Sacrificing Performance
IBM just released Granite 4.0, an open-source LLM family that swaps monolithic Transformers for a hybrid Mamba-2/Transformer stack to cut…
Enhance agentic workflows with enterprise search using Kore.ai and Amazon Q Business
This post was written with Meghana Chintalapudi and Surabhi Sankhla of Kore.ai. As organizations struggle with exponentially growing volumes of…
Accelerate development with the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore MCP server
Today, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. With built-in support for runtime, gateway…
Hamas military leader in Gaza objects to ceasefire plan, BBC understands
President Trump’s proposal, accepted by Israel, stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.
Trump touts shutdown as ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to cut more Democratic priorities
Trump in a Truth Social post said he will meet with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to…
Treasury Secretary Bessent says U.S. GDP could take a hit from the government shutdown
The Cabinet official spoke on the second day of the government closure.
Tokenization of real world assets is an unstoppable ‘freight train’ coming to major markets: Robinhood CEO
The tokenization of real-world assets, from stocks to real estate, is coming to markets around the world, says Robinhood Markets…
Corporate borrowers face funding trade-off as PIMCO flags debt market ‘cracks’
The president of bond giant PIMCO highlighted direct lending pressures as borrowers seek out payment-in-kind agreements.
OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation
OpenAI has completed a $6.6 billion secondary share sale at a $500 billion valuation, cementing its status as the most…
ServiceNow AI Releases Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker: An Open-Weights Multimodal Reasoning Model that Hits Frontier-Level Performance on a Single-GPU Budget
ServiceNow AI Research Lab has released Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker, a 15-billion-parameter open-weights multimodal reasoning model trained with a data-centric mid-training recipe—continual pretraining…
White House says layoffs ‘imminent’ with no end to shutdown in sight
As a bitter standoff between Republicans and Democrats plays out, there is little sign that either side is willing to…
Taiwan rejects U.S. proposal of ’50-50′ chip production, says trade talks focused on tariffs
Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said the arrangement was “not discussed,” as she returned from trade talks in the U.S., according…
SK Hynix shares hit multidecade highs, Samsung also surges as chipmakers partner with OpenAI
The partnership will “focus on increasing the supply of advanced memory chips essential for next-generation AI and expanding data center…
The Trump crypto firm is planning expansion, from tokenized commodities to debit cards
World Liberty Financial is planning to launch new products, including a debit card and tokenized commodity assets, as the Trump…
Israeli naval ships intercept Gaza-bound flotilla
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla being taken to an Israeli port.
NASA employees on Artemis missions with SpaceX, Blue Origin to work through shutdown
NASA made an exception to allow work on Artemis missions with SpaceX and Blue Origin to continue during the government…
Four ways this US government shutdown could end
At some point, public pressure and political pain will see one side yield to bring this latest US government shutdown…
How Hapag-Lloyd improved schedule reliability with ML-powered vessel schedule predictions using Amazon SageMaker
This post is cowritten with Thomas Voss and Bernhard Hersberger from Hapag-Lloyd. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading shipping…
Liquid AI Released LFM2-Audio-1.5B: An End-to-End Audio Foundation Model with Sub-100 ms Response Latency
Liquid AI has released LFM2-Audio-1.5B, a compact audio–language foundation model that both understands and generates speech and text through a…
Microsoft wants to mainly use its own AI data center chips in the future
Microsoft has been developing its own chips for the data center designed to handle artificial intelligence workloads.
How a U.S. government shutdown could impact global markets
Global investors are weighing how much of an impact the shutdown may have on markets.
Data centers are a gold rush for global real estate — but can funding keep up?
“The world of real estate is changing from what I’d call the ‘visible’ to the ‘invisible,’” said Kishore Moorjani, CEO…
MLPerf Inference v5.1 (2025): Results Explained for GPUs, CPUs, and AI Accelerators
What MLPerf Inference Actually Measures? MLPerf Inference quantifies how fast a complete system (hardware + runtime + serving stack) executes…
What is the drone wall that Europe wants to deter Russia?
A number of European countries have reported airspace incursions involving either Russian jets or, allegedly, drones recently.
The Role of Model Context Protocol (MCP) in Generative AI Security and Red Teaming
Table of contents Overview What MCP standardizes? Normative authorization controls Where MCP supports security engineering in practice ? Case study:…
Google AI Proposes ReasoningBank: A Strategy-Level I Agent Memory Framework that Makes LLM Agents Self-Evolve at Test Time
How do you make an LLM agent actually learn from its own runs—successes and failures—without retraining? Google Research proposes ReasoningBank,…
Jobs, travel, national parks – what impact will US shutdown have?
Washington’s political gridlock could inflict wide-ranging miseries, as anything deemed non-essential will be put on hold.
The world’s first carbon border tax will soon go live — shaking up global trade
The European Union is poised to fully implement its carbon border tax from Jan. 1.
CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: AstraZeneca gets a shot on Wall Street
The British government should not get complacent about AstraZeneca’s U.S. listing, as it paves the way for a full one in New…