Tesla stock closes at record as investors rally around Musk’s robotaxi hype despite slow EV sales
Wall Street’s bullishness on Tesla has returned after the stock had its worst performance since 2022 in the first quarter…
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Governance by design: The essential guide for successful AI scaling
Picture this: Your enterprise has just deployed its first generative AI application. The initial results are promising, but as you…
How Tata Power CoE built a scalable AI-powered solar panel inspection solution with Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Vikram Bansal from Tata Power, and Gaurav Kankaria, Omkar Dhavalikar from Oneture. The global adoption…
Vibe coding startup Lovable’s latest funding round values it at $6.6 billion, sources say
Accel is participating in the round, the sources said, adding it would more than triple the valuation it achieved with…
Ukraine struggling to keep lights on under Russian attack, says energy boss
DTEK boss Maxim Timchenko says the intensity of Russian strikes is so frequent there is no time to recover.
Payrolls rose by 64,000 in November after falling by 105,000 in October, delayed jobs numbers show
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 45,000 in November as the unemployment rate rose to 4.5%.
China lowers anti-dumping tariffs on European pork exporters
China on Tuesday announced lower duties on pork imports and pig by-products from the European Union.
Korea Zinc sinks 13% as largest shareholder group challenges U.S.-backed plans for Tennessee smelter
Korea Zinc’s largest shareholder group is reportedly opposing plans to create a U.S.-backed joint venture that will see a dilution…
Asia-Pacific markets opened mostly lower as AI sell-off on Wall Street continues
Markets in Australia started the day higher, while markets in Japan and South Korea fell.
How to Design a Gemini-Powered Self-Correcting Multi-Agent AI System with Semantic Routing, Symbolic Guardrails, and Reflexive Orchestration
In this tutorial, we explore how we design and run a full agentic AI orchestration pipeline powered by semantic routing,…
Checkpointless training on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: Production-scale training with faster fault recovery
Foundation model training has reached an inflection point where traditional checkpoint-based recovery methods are becoming a bottleneck to efficiency and…
How Bondi’s Hanukkah festival turned from joy to horror within minutes
Videos and eyewitness accounts reveal how Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades unfolded.
Adaptive infrastructure for foundation model training with elastic training on SageMaker HyperPod
Modern AI infrastructure serves multiple concurrent workloads on the same cluster, from foundation model (FM) pre-training and fine-tuning to production…
European defense stocks slide as Zelenskyy ditches Ukraine NATO membership bid
Defense companies sold off Monday after Kyiv offered to drop its NATO ambitions during negotiations in Berlin.
Ukraine gives up joining NATO in bid to shift the dial in Russia peace talks
Russia’s opposition made NATO membership unlikely for Ukraine, but it’s a major policy shift to publicly abandon the goal.
Hong Kong court finds pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai guilty of sedition and collusion with foreign forces
The 78-year-old was charged under Hong Kong’s controversial national security law, enacted by Beijing in 2020.
A 10-year-old, two rabbis and a Holocaust survivor – Who are the Bondi shooting victims?
Authorities say two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims.
China’s retail sales growth sharply misses estimates in November, deepening consumption worries
China’s retail sales growth and industrial production missed estimates in November while investment declined more than expected.
South Korea stocks lead losses in Asia-Pacific ahead of key data from China
China will release its November retail sales, fixed asset investment and industrial output numbers.
Eyewitness captures moment man tackles and disarms Bondi shooter
New South Wales Police say that 11 people were killed, plus one gunman, in a shooting at Bondi Beach targeting…
Manhunt continues after two killed in shooting at Brown University
The gunman is at large after opening fire in a building where exams were taking place at the campus in…
End of ‘The Berkshire Way’? Combs’ departure isn’t only big change as Buffett transition nears
There were several additional personnel changes in Monday’s three-page news release that signal the company is moving toward a more…
OpenAI has Released the ‘circuit-sparsity’: A Set of Open Tools for Connecting Weight Sparse Models and Dense Baselines through Activation Bridges
OpenAI team has released their openai/circuit-sparsity model on Hugging Face and the openai/circuit_sparsity toolkit on GitHub. The release packages the…
Three Americans killed by IS gunman in Syria, US military says
Two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in the attack, according to the US Central Command.
Belarus frees 123 prisoners as US lifts sanctions
Opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova is among those released in exchange for a deal with the US.
Thailand-Cambodia fighting continues after Trump says countries agree to ceasefire
Thai PM says he told US president a ceasefire is only possible after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces.
5 AI Model Architectures Every AI Engineer Should Know
Everyone talks about LLMs—but today’s AI ecosystem is far bigger than just language models. Behind the scenes, a whole family…
Witkoff to meet Zelensky for latest Ukraine war talks
Donald Trump’s envoy will meet the Ukrainian president and European leaders in Berlin to discuss the latest peace plan.
EU backs indefinite freeze on Russia’s frozen cash ahead of loan plan for Ukraine
After almost four years of Russia’s full-scale war, Kyiv is running out of cash, and needs an estimated €135.7bn over…
How to Design a Fully Local Agentic Storytelling Pipeline Using Griptape Workflows, Hugging Face Models, and Modular Creative Task Orchestration
In this tutorial, we build a fully local, API-free agentic storytelling system using Griptape and a lightweight Hugging Face model.…
Broadcom tumbles 11% despite blockbuster earnings as ‘AI angst’ weighs on Oracle, Nvidia
Even with better-than-expected earnings and revenue, Broadcom slid on Friday as investors continued to grow concerned about the AI trade.
Building a voice-driven AWS assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic
As cloud infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, the need for intuitive and efficient management interfaces has never been greater. Traditional command-line…
Putin can fund Ukraine war for years to come, ex-official says as Trump’s resolve is tested
Ukraine and its allies are scrambling to keep Trump onside as the U.S. piles pressure on Kyiv to make a…
Germany accuses Russia of 2024 cyber-attack and disinformation
The Russian ambassador is summoned over a cyber attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference.
AI-led tech slide extends into third day as Oracle, Nvidia, fall in premarket trading
AI-related names have made losses since Oracle’s mixed results on Wednesday.
UK economy unexpectedly shrunk before Budget
The U.K. economy unexpectedly contracted in the three months to October, according to official figures released Friday.
Flood misery for Gazans awaiting next stage of peace plan
Gazans in tents have been hit by heavy rain as failure to find last Israeli hostage risks derailing peace plan.
Thailand dissolves parliament, heightening political turmoil as Trump seeks to salvage ceasefire with Cambodia
The escalation broke the ceasefire brokered in July by Trump who threatened to halt trade talks with the two countries…
US sanctions six more ships after seizing oil tanker off Venezuela
The White House plans to move the tanker to a US port and seize the oil on board, a move…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: India’s $3.3 trillion opportunity for global fund houses
Indian retail investor-driven mutual fund assets are expected to touch $3.3 trillion by 2035, according to a Bain & Company…
‘Spoof’ ship: Seized oil tanker Skipper hid location data, visited Iran and Venezuela
The seizure of the oil tanker Skipper comes as President Donald Trump has escalated pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro…
OpenAI Introduces GPT 5.2: A Long Context Workhorse For Agents, Coding And Knowledge Work
OpenAI has just introduced GPT-5.2, its most advanced frontier model for professional work and long running agents, and is rolling…
How Harmonic Security improved their data-leakage detection system with low-latency fine-tuned models using Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Nova Pro
This post was written with Bryan Woolgar-O’Neil, Jamie Cockrill and Adrian Cunliffe from Harmonic Security Organizations face increasing challenges protecting…
CopilotKit v1.50 Brings AG-UI Agents Directly Into Your App With the New useAgent Hook
Agent frameworks are now good at reasoning and tools, but most teams still write custom code to turn agent graphs…
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns ‘act of piracy’
The move is a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government.
Disney making $1 billion investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI video generator
Disney is investing in OpenAI and has licensed its iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, Ariel and Iron Man to be…
Oracle shares plummet 11% in premarket, dragging down AI stocks
Shares in Nvidia, Micron and Microsoft were also lower in premarket trade on Thursday.
AI defense booms in UK and Germany as new wave of billion-dollar startups emerge
The UK and Germany have become key hubs for defense startups in Europe and the U.S.
Why Big Tech is doubling down on India with billions in investment
Despite being a laggard in some key areas of artificial intelligence, India is becoming a major investment destination for Big…
The Whale Who Can’t Stop Buying: BitcoinOG Scales Ethereum Long To $280M After Price Surge
Ethereum is trading with renewed strength after breaking above the $3,300 level and briefly pushing toward $3,400, signaling a potential…