Category: Business
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling
Why do current audio AI models often perform worse when they generate longer reasoning instead of grounding their decisions in…
Consider airspace around Venezuela closed, Trump says
The US cannot legally close another country’s airspace, but Trump’s comments could deter airlines from operating in Venezuela.
Silver hit record highs in 2025 – here’s why the ‘Devil’s metal’ has further to run
While industrial demand for silver is expected to decline slightly in 2025, the metal is increasingly used in electric vehicles,…
Flooding in southern Asia leaves hundreds dead
The region is hit by some of the worst floods in years, with millions affected in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and…
NVIDIA AI Releases Orchestrator-8B: A Reinforcement Learning Trained Controller for Efficient Tool and Model Selection
How can an AI system learn to pick the right model or tool for each step of a task instead…
Fall of Zelensky’s top aide – reboot for Kyiv or costly shake-up?
A widening corruption scandal forced Ukraine’s second most powerful person, Andriy Yermak, to resign.
Russian strikes cause power outages for more than 600,000 in Ukraine
The overnight attack kills at least three and leaves many in the Ukrainian capital in the dark.
Airbus A320 recall disrupts global travel after glitch linked to solar flares
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said in a directive that a JetBlue flight on Oct. 30 experienced an “uncommanded…
A Coding Guide to Design an Agentic AI System Using a Control-Plane Architecture for Safe, Modular, and Scalable Tool-Driven Reasoning Workflows
In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic AI using the control-plane design pattern, and we walk through each component…
US halts all asylum claim decisions in wake of National Guard shooting
The directive comes hours after President Trump said the US will pause migration from “third-world countries”.
Zelensky’s chief of staff resigns after Ukrainian anti-corruption raid on his home
Yermak, 54, has been Zelensky’s closest adviser throughout Russia’s full-scale war.
European markets mixed as choppy month draws to an end; Delivery Hero gains over 15%
November has been a volatile month for stocks as concerns of an AI bubble dominated conversation.
Hong Kong tower blocks fire death toll rises to 128
Authorities say 89 bodies are unintentified and 79 people remain injured after Wednesday’s blaze.
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeekMath-V2: The Open Weights Maths Model That Scored 118/120 on Putnam 2024
How can an AI system prove complex olympiad level math problems in clear natural language while also checking that its…
Fury and questions after Hong’s Kong deadliest blaze in decades
Questions are mounting as to how the deadly fire spread so rapidly – and who should be held responsible.
CME halts futures trading after ‘cooling issue’ at data center
A technical problem obstructed futures trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the early hours of Friday morning.
Trump says U.S. to ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries’ after DC shooting
The president said he would also terminate “millions” of admissions under his predecessor Joe Biden and remove “anyone who is…
Asia-Pacific stocks trade mixed as Tokyo inflation runs hotter than expected
Traders in Asia will assess key economic data, including inflation data from Tokyo and India’s GDP for its fiscal second…
Putin breaks his silence on Ukraine peace plan, says Moscow ready for ‘serious’ talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the outlines of a draft peace plan agreed by the U.S. and Ukraine could become…
Firefighters search for hundreds still missing in devastating Hong Kong tower blocks fire
Dozens of people have died and hundreds remain unaccounted for after Wednesday’s blaze.
Saba Capital activist Boaz Weinstein calls for removal of Baillie Gifford-run tech investment trust’s entire board
Activist hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein wants to replace the entire board of Baillie Gifford’s EWI trust.
‘I am devastated’: Hong Kong residents in disbelief after fire destroys blocks of flats
Efforts to control the blaze are continuing as locals wait for news of missing loved ones.
Puma shares pop 13% after report China’s Anta Sports is looking to buy the sportswear giant
China’s Anta Sports is among a number of firms looking to buy the German athletic brand, according to a media…
OceanBase Releases seekdb: An Open Source AI Native Hybrid Search Database for Multi-model RAG and AI Agents
AI applications rarely deal with one clean table. They mix user profiles, chat logs, JSON metadata, embeddings, and sometimes spatial…
European markets head for lackluster open as investors take a breath
European markets are expected to see a lackluster mixed open on Thursday as investors take stock of the regional and…
China industrial profits drop 5.5% in October, worst performance in five months
While manufacturers find some relief from the trade pact, weak domestic demand and uncertainties in global trade continue to cast…
How Myriad Genetics achieved fast, accurate, and cost-efficient document processing using the AWS open-source Generative AI Intelligent Document Processing Accelerator
This post was written with Martyna Shallenberg and Brode Mccrady from Myriad Genetics. Healthcare organizations face challenges in processing and managing…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China’s tech sector is far less,…
Tencent Hunyuan Releases HunyuanOCR: a 1B Parameter End to End OCR Expert VLM
Tencent Hunyuan has released HunyuanOCR, a 1B parameter vision language model that is specialized for OCR and document understanding. The…
Apply fine-grained access control with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptors
As enterprises rapidly adopt AI agents to automate workflows and enhance productivity, they face a critical scaling challenge: managing secure…
Building AI-Powered Voice Applications: Amazon Nova Sonic Telephony Integration Guide
Organizations are increasingly seeking to enhance customer experiences through natural, responsive voice interactions across their telephony systems. Amazon Nova Sonic…
Optimizing Mobileye’s REM™ with AWS Graviton: A focus on ML inference and Triton integration
This post is written by Chaim Rand, Principal Engineer, Pini Reisman, Software Senior Principal Engineer, and Eliyah Weinberg, Performance and…
Beyond the technology: Workforce changes for AI
Workplaces are increasingly integrating AI tools into daily operations, with AI assistants supporting teams, predictive analytics informing strategies, and automation…
Judge dismisses Trump election interference racketeering case in Georgia
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee’s ruling ends the final case against Trump that remained unresolved after he returned…
Enhanced performance for Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
You can now achieve significant performance improvements when using Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import, with reduced end-to-end latency, faster time-to-first-token,…
Apple iPhone shipments to beat Samsung for the first time in 14 years, report says
Apple’s success is being driven by its iPhone 17 series launched in September.
UK government borrowing costs seesaw as official economic forecasts released early
The Autumn Budget is due to be announced shortly.
At least four dead as fire engulfs Hong Kong tower blocks
Pictures show the flames spreading on bamboo scaffolding on the outside of the high-rise buildings in the Tai Po district.
All eyes on Russia as it eyes Ukraine peace plan with caution
There’s been little official comment from Moscow regarding a revised U.S.-brokered peace plan for Ukraine.
Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX.2: A 32B Flow Matching Transformer for Production Image Pipelines
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.2, its second generation image generation and editing system. FLUX.2 targets real world creative workflows…
Taiwan’s President Lai lashes out against Beijing, pledging $40 billion in additional defense budget
Beijing considers democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and regards its reunification with the mainland “a historical inevitability.” Taiwan rejects…
Australia’s consumer inflation accelerates to 3.8% in October, beating estimates
The largest contributor to consumer inflation was the housing sector that saw price growth of 5.9%, driven by higher costs…
Asia-Pacific markets track Wall Street gains on rising Fed rate-cut expectations
Overnight, key U.S. indexes rose on growing hopes for a U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut next month.
Amazon SageMaker AI introduces EAGLE based adaptive speculative decoding to accelerate generative AI inference
Generative AI models continue to expand in scale and capability, increasing the demand for faster and more efficient inference. Applications…
Train custom computer vision defect detection model using Amazon SageMaker
On October 10, 2024, Amazon announced the discontinuation of the Amazon Lookout for Vision service, with a scheduled shut down…
Practical implementation considerations to close the AI value gap
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how businesses operate. Gartner® predicts at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made…
Introducing bidirectional streaming for real-time inference on Amazon SageMaker AI
In 2025, generative AI has evolved from text generation to multi-modal use cases ranging from audio transcription and translation to…
Salesforce AI Research Introduces xRouter: A Reinforcement Learning Router for Cost Aware LLM Orchestration
When your application can call many different LLMs with very different prices and capabilities, who should decide which one answers…
Warner Bros. Discovery achieves 60% cost savings and faster ML inference with AWS Graviton
This post is written by Nukul Sharma, Machine Learning Engineering Manager, and Karthik Dasani, Staff Machine Learning Engineer, at Warner…