Japan’s Nikkei 225 hits a new high as SoftBank surges nearly 10%
U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours, as Wall Street awaited a key consumer inflation gauge for…
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Emergence of an ‘anti-Western alliance’ raises questions about a new axis of power
Analysts see the apparent strengthening of ties between China, Russia and North Korea as “worrisome” and part of a long-term…
Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at Utah university event, Trump says
Kirk, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, was known for his controversial speeches at US college campuses.
Building Advanced MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agents with Multi-Agent Coordination, Context Awareness, and Gemini Integration
In this tutorial, we are walking through the process of building an advanced MCP (Model Context Protocol) Agent that runs…
‘Netanyahu, we’re not leaving’: Defiance in Gaza City as Israel shows aid sites planned for evacuees
As Israel insists the whole population of Gaza City must leave, the BBC visits new aid sites the army claims…
NVIDIA AI Releases Universal Deep Research (UDR): A Prototype Framework for Scalable and Auditable Deep Research Agents
Why do existing deep research tools fall short? Deep Research Tools (DRTs) like Gemini Deep Research, Perplexity, OpenAI’s Deep Research,…
Klarna opens at $52 per share in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above range
Klarna priced its IPO at $40 on Tuesday in an offering that valued the company at about $15 billion.
TII Falcon-H1 models now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
This post was co-authored with Jingwei Zuo from TII. We are excited to announce the availability of the Technology Innovation…
Poland says it shot down Russian drones after airspace violation
Nato jets were also deployed to respond to drones that entered Polish airspace during Russian strikes on Ukraine.
Oracle stock booms 40%, on pace for best day since 1992
The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1999, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion…
No honeymoon period for France’s new PM as protests erupt
France’s new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has been put in charge of a fragile minority government prone to challenges, demands…
European shares rise ahead of key U.S. inflation data; Zara owner Inditex jumps 6%
Inditex moved up the pan-European Stoxx 600 index on Wednesday, as regional stocks moved broadly higher.
Poland shoots down Russian drones as Ukraine warns Putin is ‘testing the West’
The incident marks the first time the NATO member has directly engaged Russian assets in its airspace since Russia’s full-scale…
Baidu Releases ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking: A Compact MoE Model for Deep Reasoning
Baidu AI Research team has just released ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking, a new reasoning-focused large language model designed around efficiency, long-context reasoning, and…
MCP Team Launches the Preview Version of the ‘MCP Registry’: A Federated Discovery Layer for Enterprise AI
Table of contents The Registry as DNS for AI Context Why the Federated Model Works ? Architecture, Moderation, and Open…
Trump presses European Union to impose 100% tariffs on India and China to squeeze Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the European Union to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100%…
MBZUAI Researchers Release K2 Think: A 32B Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning and Outperforms 20x Larger Reasoning Models
A team of researchers from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and G42 released K2 Think, is a 32B-parameter open reasoning…
Powering innovation at scale: How AWS is tackling AI infrastructure challenges
As generative AI continues to transform how enterprises operate—and develop net new innovations—the infrastructure demands for training and deploying AI…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the economy ‘is weakening’
Labor Department data showing the U.S. added fewer jobs than thought confirm the world’s biggest economy is slowing down says…
Israeli strike targets senior Hamas leadership in Qatar
A Hamas official says the group’s negotiating team was targeted during a meeting in Doha.
Job growth revised down by 911,000 through March, signaling economy on shakier footing than realized
The total revision was on the high end of Wall Street expectations, which ranged from a low around 600,000 to…
Accelerate your model training with managed tiered checkpointing on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
As organizations scale their AI infrastructure to support trillion-parameter models, they face a difficult trade-off: reduced training time with lower…
‘A colossal train wreck’: U.S. energy chief slams odds of net zero by 2050
Net zero by 2050 is “a monstrous human impoverishment program and of course there is no way it is going…
Nebius shares soar 55% in premarket on Microsoft AI deal
The pact between Nebius and Microsoft suggests demand for the powerful infrastructure needed to train and run AI models remains…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-ASR: A New Speech Recognition Model Built Upon Qwen3-Omni Achieving Robust Speech Recogition Performance
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team unveiled Qwen3-ASR Flash, an all-in-one automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (available as API service) built upon…
France’s political crisis deepens as another PM is axed: Here’s what happens next
CNBC takes a look at what could happen next in France after the ousting of yet another prime minister.
US lawmakers release Epstein ‘birthday book’ with alleged Trump note
The White House says the president did not draw the picture or sign the note, after it was published on…
AI firm Mistral valued at $14 billion as chip giant ASML takes major stake
ASML pumped 1.3 billion euros in Mistral AI’s 1.7 billion-euro funding round as lead investor, gaining a 11% shareholding in…
India urges BRICS partners to address trade deficits as China calls on bloc members to unite
China has racked up a $77.7 billion trade surplus with India this year as of August, 16% higher compared to…
ParaThinker: Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute with Native Parallel Thinking to Overcome Tunnel Vision in Sequential Reasoning
Why Do Sequential LLMs Hit a Bottleneck? Test-time compute scaling in LLMs has traditionally relied on extending single reasoning paths.…
Performative or pragmatic? Why Boeing planes feature so much in Trump trade deals
Since Trump announced tariffs in April, a pattern has emerged: Countries that strike trade deals with the U.S. often announce…
Japan’s Nikkei crosses 44,000 to hit fresh highs, extending rally after Ishiba’s resignation announcement
Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Tuesday, tracking gains on Wall Street.
How to Build a Complete Multi-Domain AI Web Agent Using Notte and Gemini
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete, advanced implementation of the Notte AI Agent, integrating the Gemini API to power…
Private equity giants raid Wall Street as fundraising talent wars heat up
Private equity firms are ramping up hiring despite a deal drought as they remain optimistic about a rebound in activity.
Maximize HyperPod Cluster utilization with HyperPod task governance fine-grained quota allocation
We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained compute and memory quota allocation with HyperPod task governance. With this capability,…
GibsonAI Releases Memori: An Open-Source SQL-Native Memory Engine for AI Agents
When we think about human intelligence, memory is one of the first things that comes to mind. It’s what enables…
France in fresh political crisis after MPs oust prime minister
François Bayrou is out, and President Emmanuel Macron now faces the same problem four prime ministers have failed to solve.
Build and scale adoption of AI agents for education with Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat
Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with…
The power of AI in driving personalized product discovery at Snoonu
This post was written with Felipe Monroy, Ana Jaime, and Nikita Gordeev from Snoonu. Managing a massive product catalog in…
Chinese EV maker Xpeng eyes global launch of mass-market Mona brand in 2026
Xpeng plans to launch its mass-market Mona brand outside of China, CEO He Xiaopeng told CNBC.
A New MIT Study Shows Reinforcement Learning Minimizes Catastrophic Forgetting Compared to Supervised Fine-Tuning
Table of contents What is catastrophic forgetting in foundation models? Why does online reinforcement learning forget less than supervised fine-tuning?…
Four killed in Jerusalem shooting attack, paramedics say
Israeli police say two gunmen were “neutralised” after the attack, in which five other people were shot and wounded.
French prime minister faces the axe as lawmakers prepare to hold confidence vote
Prime Minister Bayrou has failed to win over enough opposition lawmakers to his proposals to make around 44 billion euros…
Palestinian prisoners not being given adequate food, Israel top court says
The court said the state is legally obligated to provide enough food to ensure “a basic level of existence.”
European leaders to visit US to discuss war in Ukraine, Trump says
Trump’s comments came as he signalled his administration would impose a second phase of sanctions on Moscow.
China exports growth in August hits a 6-month low, missing expectations
China’s exports growth missed expectations in August as businesses’ front-loading activity lost momentum while imports grew less than expected on…
How to Create a Bioinformatics AI Agent Using Biopython for DNA and Protein Analysis
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an advanced yet accessible Bioinformatics AI Agent using Biopython and popular Python…
Asia markets mostly higher as investors assess Japan PM resignation, eye China trade data
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba over the weekend announced he will resign.
Meta Superintelligence Labs Introduces REFRAG: Scaling RAG with 16× Longer Contexts and 31× Faster Decoding
Table of contents Why is long context such a bottleneck for LLMs? How does REFRAG compress and shorten context? How…
Treasury Secretary Bessent warns of massive refunds if the Supreme Court voids Trump tariffs
Bessent has warned that a delayed ruling “could result in a scenario in which $750 billion-$1 trillion in tariffs have…