AI startup Nscale came out of nowhere and is blowing away Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nscale has quickly become an important part of the U.K.’s bid to become a global AI player.
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Cold shoulder: Why Beijing is freezing Nvidia’s access to the Chinese market
Beijing has put a freeze on Nvidia’s access to its market — a move industry experts say reflects growing confidence…
Bank of England holds rates steady, with a further 2025 cut hanging in the balance
The central bank kept rates at 4% as economists look ahead to the next meeting in November.
The pomp and pageantry ends as Trump’s state visit gets down to business
Trump is heading to Chequers, the official country residence of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for talks with the British leader…
H Company Releases Holo1.5: An Open-Weight Computer-Use VLMs Focused on GUI Localization and UI-VQA
H Company (A french AI startup) releases Holo1.5, a family of open foundation vision models purpose-built for computer-use (CU) agents…
Huawei touts ‘world’s most powerful’ AI chip cluster as Nvidia’s China challenges mount
The company said it plans to launch the new supercluster as soon as next year.
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
The late-night host said on Monday that Trump’s allies were “doing everything they can to score political points from” Kirk’s…
IBM AI Releases Granite-Docling-258M: An Open-Source, Enterprise-Ready Document AI Model
IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion. The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables,…
Supercharge your organization’s productivity with the Amazon Q Business browser extension
Generative AI solutions like Amazon Q Business are transforming the way employees work. Organizations in every industry are embracing these…
Israeli tanks push into major Gaza City residential area
The sight of tanks in Sheikh Radwan has caused widespread alarm among residents, with thousands fleeing south.
Fed approves quarter-point interest rate cut and sees two more coming this year
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released its decision on interest rates and updated its economic projections.
Meta AI Researchers Release MapAnything: An End-to-End Transformer Architecture that Directly Regresses Factored, Metric 3D Scene Geometry
A team of researchers from Meta Reality Labs and Carnegie Mellon University has introduced MapAnything, an end-to-end transformer architecture that…
How to Build an Advanced End-to-End Voice AI Agent Using Hugging Face Pipelines?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced voice AI agent using Hugging Face’s freely available models, and we keep the…
Tests show Navalny was poisoned in jail, his widow says
Yulia Navalnaya is urging the two laboratories she says found her husband was poisoned to release their findings.
Nvidia CEO says he’s ‘disappointed’ after report China has banned its AI chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang commented after a report that China has banned the use of the company’s AI chips.
Madeleine McCann suspect freed from German prison
Christian Brückner has never been charged with any crime in relation to the McCann case.
Alibaba’s shares jump after it lands a major customer for its AI chips
China Unicom will deploy Alibaba’s AI chips via the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing unit, according to state media CCTV.
Ai2 Researchers are Changing the Benchmarking Game by Introducing Fluid Benchmarking that Enhances Evaluation along Several Dimensions
A team of researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), University of Washington and CMU introduce Fluid Benchmarking, an adaptive…
Three things Britain wants from Trump’s state visit — aside from business deals
Aside from business deals, the U.K. wants more from the U.S. president’s whirlwind trip.
Sticky UK inflation unlikely to move the needle for Bank of England
The Bank of England is watching inflation data closely after forecasting the consumer price index could peak at 4% in September.
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: China’s attempt to pivot away from the U.S. starts with this trading hub
There’s little sign that Yiwu merchants will find it attractive to sell to the U.S. again soon.
China keeps tight grip on rare earths, costing at least one company ‘millions of euros’
The European Chamber of Commerce in China said that after a pickup in rare-earth export license approvals this summer, members…
Google AI Introduces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): An Open Protocol for Interoperable AI Agent Checkout Across Merchants and Wallets
Your shopping agent auto-purchases a $499 Pro plan instead of the $49 Basic tier—who’s on the hook: the user, the…
China keeps tight grip on rare earths, costing at least one company ‘millions of euros’
The European Chamber of Commerce in China said that after a pickup in rare-earth export license approvals this summer, members…
Charlie Kirk suspect confessed in hidden note to roommate, prosecutors allege
The 22-year-old has been charged with murder and is facing the death penalty if convicted at trial.
A Coding Guide to Implement Zarr for Large-Scale Data: Chunking, Compression, Indexing, and Visualization Techniques
In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the capabilities of Zarr, a library designed for efficient storage &…
Streamline access to ISO-rating content changes with Verisk rating insights and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Samit Verma, Eusha Rizvi, Manmeet Singh, Troy Smith, and Corey Finley from Verisk. Verisk Rating…
Google AI Ships TimesFM-2.5: Smaller, Longer-Context Foundation Model That Now Leads GIFT-Eval (Zero-Shot Forecasting)
Google Research has released TimesFM-2.5, a 200M-parameter, decoder-only time-series foundation model with a 16K context length and native probabilistic forecasting…
Acting legend Robert Redford dies aged 89
The acting star was famous for roles in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Bessent: Trump’s push to scrap quarterly company reports will be a win for investors
President Donald Trump had mooted scrapping quarterly company reports to allow CEOs to make better long-term decisions.
Bessent sees trade deal likely with China before November deadline on reciprocal tariffs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program.
‘The bombing has been insane’: Gaza City Palestinians scramble to flee Israeli assault
Palestinians tell the BBC whole residential blocks have been levelled as the Israeli army ramps up its offensive in the…
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians…
The UK is about to embrace Trump. The truth is, it needs him right now
The whirlwind trip comes at a torrid time for Prime Minister Keir Starmer who is facing questions over his leadership…
Stanford Researchers Introduced MedAgentBench: A Real-World Benchmark for Healthcare AI Agents
A team of Stanford University researchers have released MedAgentBench, a new benchmark suite designed to evaluate large language model (LLM)…
Israel escalates bombardment as defence minister says ‘Gaza is burning’
It came hours after US Secretary of State Rubio assured Israeli PM Netanyahu of unwavering US support.
Trump sues The New York Times for $15 billion, alleging defamation and libel
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would file a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times…
MoonshotAI Released Checkpoint-Engine: A Simple Middleware to Update Model Weights in LLM Inference Engines, Effective for Reinforcement Learning
MoonshotAI has open-sourced checkpoint-engine, a lightweight middleware aimed at solving one of the key bottlenecks in large language model (LLM)…
Building an Advanced Convolutional Neural Network with Attention for DNA Sequence Classification and Interpretability
In this tutorial, we take a hands-on approach to building an advanced convolutional neural network for DNA sequence classification. We…
Trump cannot fire Fed’s Lisa Cook before FOMC meeting, appeals court rules
Trump’s attorneys wanted a lower-court ruling, which temporarily barred Cook’s firing, stayed ahead of the Fed’s upcoming meeting on interest…
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5-Codex: An Advanced Version of GPT-5 Further Optimized for Agentic Coding in Codex
OpenAI has just released GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for “agentic coding” tasks within the Codex ecosystem. The…
US destroys alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing three
The attack came after the Venezuelan president said Caracas would defend itself against US “aggression”.
NVIDIA AI Open-Sources ViPE (Video Pose Engine): A Powerful and Versatile 3D Video Annotation Tool for Spatial AI
How do you create 3D datasets to train AI for Robotics without expensive traditional approaches? A team of researchers from…
Schedule topology-aware workloads using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
Today, we are excited to announce a new capability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance to help you optimize training…
Charlie Kirk suspect linked to crime scene by DNA, says FBI chief
Kash Patel says Tyler Robinson’s DNA was found on towel wrapping suspected murder weapon.
Bessent: TikTok deal ‘framework’ reached with China, Trump and Xi will finalize it Friday
The U.S. and China have a ‘framework’ deal for social media platform TikTok in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said…
Rubio meets Netanyahu to discuss fallout from Israel’s Qatar strike
Israel’s strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha last week drew international outrage and was publicly criticised by the US.
China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law after preliminary probe
China’s market regulator on Monday said that Nvidia violated the country’s anti-monopoly law in relation to its aquisition of Mellanox…
U.S. and Britain to sign flurry of major nuclear power deals during Trump’s state visit
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the proposed nuclear power pact would put the U.S. and U.K. “at the forefront…
Meta AI Released MobileLLM-R1: A Edge Reasoning Model with less than 1B Parameters and Achieves 2x–5x Performance Boost Over Other Fully Open-Source AI Models
Table of contents What architecture powers MobileLLM-R1? How efficient is the training? How does it perform against other open models?…