US announces sanctions on Russia’s largest oil companies
The announcement comes as NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was due to meet with Donald Trump in Washington.
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No camera covered Louvre wall where jewel thieves broke in, director says
Laurence des Cars said there was only one camera pointing on the gallery which was robbed.
Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit
The cuts come as Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into AI
Build a proactive AI cost management system for Amazon Bedrock – Part 2
In Part 1 of our series, we introduced a proactive cost management solution for Amazon Bedrock, featuring a robust cost…
Google AI Introduces VISTA: A Test Time Self Improving Agent for Text to Video Generation
TLDR: VISTA is a multi agent framework that improves text to video generation during inference, it plans structured prompts as…
Metagenomi generates millions of novel enzymes cost-effectively using AWS Inferentia
This post was written with Audra Devoto, Owen Janson, and Christopher Brown of Metagenomi, and Adam Perry of Tennex. A…
Auto giant Volkswagen warns of output stoppages amid Nexperia chip disruption
Volkswagen on Wednesday warned of temporary production outages citing China’s export restrictions on semiconductors made by Nexperia.
European markets lose ground as earnings hold spotlight; L’Oreal down 6%
European stocks opened in negative territory on Wednesday as market momentum loses steam.
Six dead in Russian airstrikes, hours after Trump shelves bid for Putin talks
The drone and missile attacks on Ukraine came as the US president put on hold his plans for an imminent…
UK inflation holds steady at 3.8% in September, cooler than expected
The Bank of England had forecast earlier this year that the consumer price index would peak at 4% (double the…
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Atlas: A Chromium-based browser with a built-in AI agent
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Atlas, a new AI browser that embeds ChatGPT at the core of navigation, search, and on-page…
India to cut Russian oil purchases, U.S. to slash tariffs as they near trade deal: Indian media report
The India-U.S. trade talks collapsed earlier this year with New Delhi not agreeing to widen market access to its vast…
How I Built an Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems with AutoGen, LangChain, and Hugging Face to Demonstrate Practical Agentic AI Workflows
In this tutorial, we dive into the essence of Agentic AI by uniting LangChain, AutoGen, and Hugging Face into a…
Japan’s September exports rebound after four straight months of declines as shipments to Asia climb
Japanese exports in September snapped four months of declines, climbing 4.2% year on year, as shipments to Asia saw robust…
Serverless deployment for your Amazon SageMaker Canvas models
Deploying machine learning (ML) models into production can often be a complex and resource-intensive task, especially for customers without deep…
Building a multi-agent voice assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Nova Sonic is a foundation model that creates natural, human-like speech-to-speech conversations for generative AI applications, allowing users to…
No immediate plans for Trump-Putin meeting, White House official says
President Trump had said a summit would take place in Budapest on the war in Ukraine within two weeks.
Economist Explains The Reality Behind XRP Price Reaching $100,000, It Can’t Overtake Bitcoin
Economist and former forex analyst Moonchaser is explaining why expectations of the XRP price reaching $100,000 are not realistic. According…
Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister
A staunch conservative, she takes over as Japan grapples with rising cost-of-living and mounting debt.
China says U.S. and Australia ‘should play a proactive role’ to bolster rare earth supply chains
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday said resource-rich countries should play a proactive role in bolstering their rare earth…
CoreWeave CEO says Core Scientific ‘not a need to have’ as shareholder opposition to deal rises
Shareholders have raised opposition to CoreWeave’s acquisition of Core Scientific saying the price is too low.
Former French President Sarkozy heads to jail over campaign financing
Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.
European markets set to open higher, building on positive momentum
European stocks are set to open higher on Tuesday, continuing positive momentum from the start of the week on the…
Google AI Research Releases DeepSomatic: A New AI Model that Identifies Cancer Cell Genetic Variants
A team of researchers from Google Research and UC Santa Cruz released DeepSomatic, an AI model that identifies cancer cell…
Amazon outage ‘resolved’ as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted
Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.
Japan makes history as Takaichi set to become the country’s first woman prime minister
Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday created history, winning Japan’s parliamentary vote to become the country’s first woman prime minister, with domestic…
Shares of Australian rare earth companies surge on $8.5 billion U.S. critical minerals deal
Australian critical metals and rare earths shares surged following the announcement of a massive minerals deal between Washington and Canberra.
DeepSeek Just Released a 3B OCR Model: A 3B VLM Designed for High-Performance OCR and Structured Document Conversion
DeepSeek-AI released 3B DeepSeek-OCR, an end to end OCR and document parsing Vision-Language Model (VLM) system that compresses long text…
U.S. and Australia sign critical minerals agreement with $8.5 billion project pipeline
The projects include rare earths processing, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at the White House during a meeting with…
Lisbon funicular crash initial report reveals litany of failings
A preliminary report says a cable that broke on the Glória funicular last month had never been certified, and mentions…
The Local AI Revolution: Expanding Generative AI with GPT-OSS-20B and the NVIDIA RTX AI PC
The landscape of AI is expanding. Today, many of the most powerful LLMs (large language models) reside primarily in the…
Thyssenkrupp warship spinoff TKMS taps into Europe’s defense boom with Frankfurt IPO
Thyssenkrupp spin-off TKMS is looking to raise capital and expand capacity amid a ramp-up in defense spending in Europe.
Deadly Gaza flare-up tests Israel-Hamas ceasefire
The deadliest day of attacks since the truce took effect on 10 October raises questions as to whether it will…
Meet LangChain’s DeepAgents Library and a Practical Example to See How DeepAgents Actually Work in Action
While a basic Large Language Model (LLM) agent—one that repeatedly calls external tools—is easy to create, these agents often struggle…
Zelensky ready to join Trump-Putin talks after ‘frank’ White House meeting
The US and Russian presidents announced on Thursday that they planned to meet in Budapest.
A Guide for Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents
Anthropic recently released a guide on effective Context Engineering for AI Agents — a reminder that context is a critical…
Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites
Amazon Web Services, a major player in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday.
European markets set to start the week higher, shrugging off credit concerns
European stocks are expected to start the new trading week on a positive note after a volatile few days.
Giuffre thought she might ‘die a sex slave’ at hands of Epstein and his circle, memoir reveals
The BBC obtained a copy of Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir ahead of its publication on Tuesday.
Trump’s 100% movie tariff threat risks dealing a heavy blow to Britain’s already struggling film industry
Britain’s film sector, already struggling with slow box office recovery and rising costs, faces fresh uncertainty if U.S. tariffs target…
Two dead after cargo plane skids off Hong Kong runway into sea
The Emirates flight hit a vehicle on the ground as it landed at the international airport early on Monday.
China’s economic growth likely slowed in third quarter
China’s National Bureau of Statistics is set to release the third-quarter GDP and economic data for September on Monday.
The alleged ‘sweeping betrayal of trust’ that rocked Zions bank and spooked Wall Street
Zions Bancorporation lost $1 billion of its valuation in a single day on Thursday after disclosing $60 million worth of…
Companies are blaming AI for job cuts. Critics say it’s a ‘good excuse’
Workers are spooked as firms declare AI-driven layoffs, but some critics say the current reductions may be a “market clearance”…
An Implementation to Build Dynamic AI Systems with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Real-Time Resource and Tool Integration
In this tutorial, we explore the Advanced Model Context Protocol (MCP) and demonstrate how to use it to address one…
Israel launches air strikes in Gaza, accusing Hamas of ‘blatant violation of ceasefire’
Hamas said it was “unaware of any events or clashes” in Rafah. It remains unclear if this will affect the…
Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French culture minister says
French media say jewellery has been stolen, after three masked men used a freight lift to access the world’s most-visited…
Weak-for-Strong (W4S): A Novel Reinforcement Learning Algorithm that Trains a weak Meta Agent to Design Agentic Workflows with Stronger LLMs
Researchers from Stanford, EPFL, and UNC introduce Weak-for-Strong Harnessing, W4S, a new Reinforcement Learning RL framework that trains a small…
Microsoft AI Proposes BitNet Distillation (BitDistill): A Lightweight Pipeline that Delivers up to 10x Memory Savings and about 2.65x CPU Speedup
Microsoft Research proposes BitNet Distillation, a pipeline that converts existing full precision LLMs into 1.58 bit BitNet students for specific…
Global week ahead: ‘Cockroaches’ crawling toward Europe?
Europe’s banks take center stage this week as earnings season gets underway.