‘We saw people murdered in front of us’ – Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC
Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher.
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Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser
AI agents need to browse the web on your behalf. When your agent visits a website to gather information, complete…
Ant Group Releases Ling 2.0: A Reasoning-First MoE Language Model Series Built on the Principle that Each Activation Enhances Reasoning Capability
How do you build a language model that grows in capacity but keeps the computation for each token almost unchanged? The…
Trump caps refugee admissions at 7,500 – mostly white South Africans
The move, which will apply for the next fiscal year, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000.
Trump hails ‘amazing’ meeting with China’s Xi but no formal trade deal agreed
The US president and his Chinese counterpart met face-to-face for the first time in six years.
The biggest takeaways from the Trump-Xi meeting — what the truce covers and what is still unclear
President Donald Trump said the rare earths agreement is a one year deal that will be “very routinely extended as…
European Central Bank holds rates steady as economy shows resilience
Top ECB board members told CNBC this month that the easing cycle is close to, or at its end.
Rare earths stocks rally as China delays export controls after Trump-Xi meeting
Shares of U.S.-listed rare earths miners rallied on Thursday after China agreed to delay the introduction of export controls.
Five new suspects arrested over Louvre jewellery theft
They were arrested on Wednesday night in the Paris region, Laure Beccuau’s office said.
Dutch centrist liberals neck and neck with populist Wilders in tight election
Rob Jetten’s D66 party celebrates but with 90% of votes counted the result is too close to call.
How to Build Ethically Aligned Autonomous Agents through Value-Guided Reasoning and Self-Correcting Decision-Making Using Open-Source Models
In this tutorial, we explore how we can build an autonomous agent that aligns its actions with ethical and organizational…
Trump cuts fentanyl tariffs on China to 10%, says U.S. reached rare earths deal with Beijing
Trump said he will be going to China in April, followed by a trip by Xi to the U.S. without…
IBM AI Team Releases Granite 4.0 Nano Series: Compact and Open-Source Small Models Built for AI at the Edge
Small models are often blocked by poor instruction tuning, weak tool use formats, and missing governance. IBM AI team released…
Trump and Xi land in Busan for highly anticipated meeting over trade
The high-stakes meeting comes as tensions between the world’s two largest economies have escalated this year.
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Five things Beijing wants from a Trump-Xi meeting
What China asks of the U.S. this week can reveal the extent to which Beijing has assessed the transformation of…
Microsoft Releases Agent Lightning: A New AI Framework that Enables Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based Training of LLMs for Any AI Agent
How do you convert real agent traces into reinforcement learning RL transitions to improve policy LLMs without changing your existing…
Fed cuts rates for the second time this year, will end balance sheet run-off in December
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released its interest decision following a two-day meeting.
Fiserv stock craters 44%, on pace for worst day ever after company slashes guidance
Fiserv said it will move its stock from the NYSE to the Nasdaq next month, where it will trade under…
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund returns 5.8% amid AI optimism
The fund, the largest of its kind in the world, said its value grew 854 billion Norweigan kroner in the…
Jamaicans wake to devastation as hurricane causes floods, power cuts and splits city in two
With communication networks in Jamaica crippled, the true scale of the disaster remains unknown.
Nvidia shares pop 3% in premarket as tech giant nears historic $5 trillion valuation
Nvidia is on track to become the first company to cross the $5 trillion market value threshold.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starts a key trip to South Korea — here’s what he might be up to
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is headed to South Korea where he is expected to meet President Donald Trump and the…
UBS CEO says strategic investments are paying off as third-quarter profit surges 74%
Swiss banking giant UBS on Wednesday reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter net profit, citing significant momentum in its core businesses.
Tight race in Dutch election as anti-Islam populist Wilders’ hope of power declines
Wilders was the clear winner last time Dutch voters went to the polls in November 2023, but this time the…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2-ColBERT-350M: A New Small Model that brings Late Interaction Retrieval to Multilingual and Cross-Lingual RAG
Can a compact late interaction retriever index once and deliver accurate cross lingual search with fast inference? Liquid AI released…
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder says Unilever blocked Palestine-themed ice cream
Ben Cohen says he will independently create the new watermelon flavour in support of “permanent peace in Palestine”.
Trump says he expects to lower fentanyl-related tariffs on Beijing, discuss ‘farmers’ with China’s Xi
Trump said he expects to lower fentanyl-linked tariffs on China ahead of a much-anticipated meeting with Chinese Xi Jinping in…
At least 64 killed in Rio’s largest police raid on gangs
Fierce clashes erupted in the Brazilian city, with the Red Command gang dropping bombs with drones.
How Exploration Agents like Q-Learning, UCB, and MCTS Collaboratively Learn Intelligent Problem-Solving Strategies in Dynamic Grid Environments
In this tutorial, we explore how exploration strategies shape intelligent decision-making through agent-based problem solving. We build and train three…
Nvidia-supplier SK Hynix third-quarter profit jumps 62% to a record high on AI-fueled memory demand
SK Hynix posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in…
Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of ceasefire violations
Hamas denies it was behind an attack on Israeli forces inside an area of Gaza under their control and condemns…
MiniMax Open-Sources MiniMax M2: A Mini Model Built for Max Coding and Agentic Workflows at 8% Claude Sonnet Price and ~2x Faster
Can an open source MoE truly power agentic coding workflows at a fraction of flagship model costs while sustaining long-horizon…
Hosting NVIDIA speech NIM models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Parakeet ASR
This post was written with NVIDIA and the authors would like to thank Adi Margolin, Eliuth Triana, and Maryam Motamedi…
Nvidia takes $1 billion stake in Nokia, sending the 5G equipment maker’s shares up 20%
Nokia is best known for its early cell phones, but in recent years has primarily been a supplier of 5G…
Apple crosses $4 trillion market cap for the first time
Apple reports fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Microsoft reports earnings on Wednesday.
US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats in Pacific
It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both…
Sudan’s army loses key city of el-Fasher to paramilitary RSF after 18-month siege
The UN has raised the alarm over reports of “atrocities” committed by the RSF.
European stocks turn negative as earnings, Fed decision hold spotlight; Novartis falls 3%
European stocks fell into negative territory on Tuesday, amid a flurry of corporate earnings.
Zhipu AI Releases ‘Glyph’: An AI Framework for Scaling the Context Length through Visual-Text Compression
Can we render long texts as images and use a VLM to achieve 3–4× token compression, preserving accuracy while scaling…
Cathie Wood says humanoid robots will be the ‘biggest of all’ AI opportunities
Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood on Tuesday singled out the potential for artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of humanoid…
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood flags AI market correction risk: ‘We think there will be a reality check’
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood on Tuesday pushed back on fears of an artificial intelligence bubble.
Meet Pyversity Library: How to Improve Retrieval Systems by Diversifying the Results Using Pyversity?
Pyversity is a fast, lightweight Python library designed to improve the diversity of results from retrieval systems. Retrieval often returns…
HSBC’s third-quarter profit drops 14%, but beats expectations as net interest income rises
The bank’s profit before tax for the three months ended in September was $7.3 billion, down nearly 14% from a…
How Saudi Arabia is diversifying away from oil — and betting big on AI
While oil is the primary driver of Saudi Arabia’s economy, the kingdom is now diversifying into areas such as artificial…
Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says
The layoffs will amount to the largest cuts to Amazon’s corporate workforce in the company’s history, according to a person…
Jamaica in path of ‘life-threatening’ category five Hurricane Melissa
Melissa, which has already been blamed for the deaths of four people, could become the strongest hurricane ever to hit…
Qualcomm announces AI chips to compete with AMD and Nvidia — stock soars 15%
The AI200, expected in 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, both can come in a system that fills up…
Global stocks rally as investors are upbeat on U.S.-China trade pact prospects
Global markets rallied at the start of the week as investors were buoyed by growing optimism that the U.S. and…
Trump says U.S., China close to trade deal ahead of Xi talks, TikTok decision
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a whirlwind weeklong trip to Asia aimed at strengthening his position ahead of an expected meeting…
How to Build an Agentic Decision-Tree RAG System with Intelligent Query Routing, Self-Checking, and Iterative Refinement?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design…