Japan Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says he will step down after election setback
Ishiba had faced calls for his resignation after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party failed to secure a majority in the…
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Global week ahead: Volatile bonds, a confidence crunch and the ECB meets
Bond market volatility kept CNBC’s news desks busy this week — and there could be more to come.
Tilde AI Releases TildeOpen LLM: An Open-Source Large Language Model with Over 30 Billion Parameters and Support Most European Languages
Latvian language-tech firm Tilde has released TildeOpen LLM, an open-source foundational large language model (LLM) purpose-built for European languages, with…
From Pretraining to Post-Training: Why Language Models Hallucinate and How Evaluation Methods Reinforce the Problem
Large language models (LLMs) very often generate “hallucinations”—confident yet incorrect outputs that appear plausible. Despite improvements in training methods and…
Baby among two killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv, officials say
Several residential buildings are reported partially destroyed and still ablaze in Ukraine’s capital.
Implementing DeepSpeed for Scalable Transformers: Advanced Training with Gradient Checkpointing and Parallelism
In this advanced DeepSpeed tutorial, we provide a hands-on walkthrough of cutting-edge optimization techniques for training large language models efficiently.…
Israel destroys second high-rise as assault on Gaza City intensifies
Israel continues to expand its military operation in Gaza, urging Palestinians to leave Gaza City and move south.
Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be shot down if they endanger US ships
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says “differences” between the countries do not justify a “military conflict”.
Meet ARGUS: A Scalable AI Framework for Training Large Recommender Transformers to One Billion Parameters
Yandex has introduced ARGUS (AutoRegressive Generative User Sequential modeling), a large-scale transformer-based framework for recommender systems that scales up to…
Alibaba AI Unveils Qwen3-Max Preview: A Trillion-Parameter Qwen Model with Super Fast Speed and Quality
Alibaba’s Qwen Team unveiled Qwen3-Max-Preview (Instruct), a new flagship large language model with over one trillion parameters—their largest to date.…
Google AI Introduces Personal Health Agent (PHA): A Multi-Agent Framework that Enables Personalized Interactions to Address Individual Health Needs
Table of contents What is a Personal Health Agent? How does the PHA framework operate? How was the PHA evaluated?…
Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
Tech’s megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P…
How to Build a Complete End-to-End NLP Pipeline with Gensim: Topic Modeling, Word Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Advanced Text Analysis
In this tutorial, we present a complete end-to-end Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline built with Gensim and supporting libraries, designed…
Accelerating HPC and AI research in universities with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
This post was written with Mohamed Hossam of Brightskies. Research universities engaged in large-scale AI and high-performance computing (HPC) often…
Google hit with $3.45 billion antitrust EU fine amid U.S. trade tensions
The European Commission accused Google of distorting competition in the adtech market by unfairly favoring its own display advertising technology…
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.
Why Italy is bucking the super-rich clampdown
A long-time favorite of the rich and famous, Italy is now attracting a fresh influx of ultra-wealthy arrivals looking to…
Putin rejects Western security in Ukraine, warning troops would be target
The Russian leader’s refusal comes after 26 countries pledged to deploy troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
Meet Chatterbox Multilingual: An Open-Source Zero-Shot Text To Speech (TTS) Multilingual Model with Emotion Control and Watermarking
Table of contents What does Chatterbox Multilingual offer? How does it compare with commercial systems? How is expressive control implemented?…
‘I’m glad it’s over.’ Google CEO thanks Trump for antitrust ‘resolution’
President Donald Trump congratulated Google CEO Sundar Pichai on “big day” following antitrust ruling.
Trump warns ‘fairly substantial’ chip tariffs are coming; signals Apple, others will be safe
Trump has reiterated a warning that he will soon impose “fairly substantial” tariffs on semiconductor imports, but spare firms like…
Biomni-R0: New Agentic LLMs Trained End-to-End with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Expert-Level Intelligence in Biomedical Research
Table of contents The Growing Role of AI in Biomedical Research The Core Challenge: Matching Expert-Level Reasoning Why Traditional Approaches…
Trump finalizes Japan trade deal with 15% tariffs as Ishiba faces discontent from within party
The deal was agreed in July after months of talks, with Washington and Tokyo continuing to haggle over details for…
Rubio says US will ‘blow up’ foreign crime groups if needed
The secretary of state made the comments during a trip to Ecuador, where he announced new measures targeting criminal gangs.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How ‘Digital India’ is driving Big Tech investments into the country
India’s digital growth story is drawing investments and attracting global tech giants, fueled in large parts by a gigantic talent…
Google AI Releases EmbeddingGemma: A 308M Parameter On-Device Embedding Model with State-of-the-Art MTEB Results
EmbeddingGemma is Google’s new open text embedding model optimized for on-device AI, designed to balance efficiency with state-of-the-art retrieval performance.…
Boy, 3, pulled from funicular crash that has shocked Portugal
It is unclear what caused the crash in which 16 people died and more than 20 were injured, including many…
Broadcom earnings primer: AI chip demand and growth are key
Broadcom has been one of the biggest winners in the AI boom and investor expectations are growing.
Google DeepMind Finds a Fundamental Bug in RAG: Embedding Limits Break Retrieval at Scale
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems generally rely on dense embedding models that map queries and documents into fixed-dimensional vector spaces. While…
Build character consistent storyboards using Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
Although careful prompt crafting can yield good results, achieving professional-grade visual consistency often requires adapting the underlying model itself. Building…
Orsted sues to save offshore wind farm from Trump administration axe
Orsted asked the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to set aside the stop-work order, calling it…
‘Out of control’: Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash
The crash killed at least 17 people and injured 20 more, some critically, Portuguese authorities say.
Keep calm and carry on? It’s been a miserable week for the UK, but it’s not alone
A spike in long-term borrowing costs, concerns over the forthcoming Autumn Budget and political instability — it’s just another normal…
What is OLMoASR and How Does It Compare to OpenAI’s Whisper in Speech Recognition?
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has released OLMoASR, a suite of open automatic speech recognition (ASR) models that rival…
Huawei launches second trifold smartphone at $2,500 as it looks to cement comeback
Huawei’s Mate XTs will run HarmonyOS 5.1, the latest version of the company’s own operating system.
What we know about fatal Lisbon funicular derailment
At least 15 people have been killed and 20 more injured after a carriage on the Gloria funicular derailed and…
Italy used to be the bad boy of Europe. Now, France is taking the baton
The ongoing turmoil in France has led to it being called the “new Italy,” with Rome no stranger to political…
Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly hear appeal to save his tariffs
The fate of most of President Trump’s tariffs are at stake in the appeal, which seeks to overturn lower-court rulings…
Google Brings Gemini CLI to GitHub Actions: Secure, Free, and Enterprise-Ready AI Integration
How do devs integrate coding capabilities directly into their GitHub repositories? Google has recently introduced Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Coding the future… in Chinese?
As the U.S. wields a global tariff war and cuts China off from AI chips, Beijing is ramping up new…
AI and the Brain: How DINOv3 Models Reveal Insights into Human Visual Processing
Introduction Understanding how the brain builds internal representations of the visual world is one of the most fascinating challenges in…
At least 15 dead after Lisbon’s historic funicular derails
Lisbon’s mayor says the capital is in mourning, adding it was a “tragic moment for the city”.
Putin says Russia will achieve all aims militarily if Ukraine does not agree deal
The Russian leader has rejected calls for a ceasefire as his troops advance.
Authenticate Amazon Q Business data accessors using a trusted token issuer
Since its general availability in 2024, Amazon Q Business (Amazon Q) has enabled independent software vendors (ISVs) to enhance their…
China’s Xi steals the limelight in a defiant push against US-led world order
President Xi shows off his power and influence in an open challenge to US supremacy and the world order.
Xi, Putin and Kim show united front at huge Chinese military parade
Speaking during the spectacle in Beijing, China’s President Xi Jinping said the world faced a choice between peace and war.
What new weapons on show at huge parade say about China’s military strength
Beijing has unveiled a range of military hardware in a show of might to Western powers.
UK has weeks to solve fiscal puzzle as it sets date for Autumn Budget
The U.K. government has named the date of its forthcoming Autumn Budget amid heightened pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to…
‘Trump’s out, Xi’s in’: BBC correspondents react to China’s military parade
The display of might comes as Beijing positions itself as a global counterweight to the United States.
Trump says 11 killed in US strike on drug-carrying vessel from Venezuela
The Trump administration has signalled a willingness to use military force against drug cartels.