China’s Xi says the world faces ‘peace or war’ as Trump claims Beijing conspiring against U.S.
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In photos: China’s military might on display with Putin and Kim Jong Un in attendance
President Xi Jinping delivered an opening speech at the reviewing stand overlooking Tiananmen Square, before reviewing the troops.
Shut windows and empty offices: China’s massive military parade is closed to the public
President Xi Jinping has invited Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to attend as part of Beijing’s…
Train and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod using the new HyperPod CLI and SDK
Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for…
Google AI Introduces Stax: A Practical AI Tool for Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is not straightforward. Unlike traditional software testing, LLMs are probabilistic systems. This means they can…
Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case
The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core…
Build a serverless Amazon Bedrock batch job orchestration workflow using AWS Step Functions
As organizations increasingly adopt foundation models (FMs) for their artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, managing large-scale inference operations…
North Korea’s Kim arrives in Beijing with daughter to attend massive military parade
The “Victory Day” parade on Wednesday will see Kim rub shoulders with China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and others.
Apple Released FastVLM: A Novel Hybrid Vision Encoder which is 85x Faster and 3.4x Smaller than Comparable Sized Vision Language Models (VLMs)
Table of contents Introduction Existing VLM Architectures Apple’s FastVLM Benchmark Comparisons Conclusion Introduction Vision Language Models (VLMs) allow both text…
What Trump’s tariff loss in court means for shippers and the billions in trade duties collected by U.S. government
President Trump’s court loss adds another layer of uncertainty to global shipping, from questions about refunds to status of trade…
Natural language-based database analytics with Amazon Nova
In this post, we explore how natural language database analytics can revolutionize the way organizations interact with their structured data…
How to Build an Advanced AI Agent with Summarized Short-Term and Vector-Based Long-Term Memory
In this tutorial, we walk you through building an advanced AI Agent that not only chats but also remembers. We…
Announcing the new cluster creation experience for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Today, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is announcing a new one-click, validated cluster creation experience that accelerates setup and prevents common misconfigurations,…
Warren Buffett says he is ‘disappointed’ in Kraft Heinz split; shares fall 3%
Buffett said his chosen successor Greg Abel expressed Berkshire Hathaway’s disappointment to Kraft Heinz.
Klarna aims to raise up to $1.27 billion in U.S. IPO
Swedish fintech firm Klarna is aiming to raise up to $1.27 billion in its long-awaited U.S. initial public offering, according…
British Pound slides 0.9% against U.S. dollar as U.K. fiscal concerns mount
European stocks open lower on Tuesday as tariff uncertainty causes global markets to waver.
Euro zone inflation rises to hotter-than-expected 2.1% in August
Economists polled by Reuters had expected the rate to remain unchanged from July, at 2%.
Russia’s Putin hails ‘unprecedented’ ties with China as talks begin
The two leaders are seeking to promote “a more just and reasonable global governance system”.
Aerial search for survivors after Afghan quake kills 800 people
Rescuers are hampered by mountainous terrain and roads strewn with debris.
‘Covered in dust and too shocked to speak’: Afghan villagers reel at scale of quake’s devastation
Cut off by rock falls in the mountains, locals who survived the tremors help pull injured and dead from the…
Meet Elysia: A New Open-Source Python Framework Redefining Agentic RAG Systems with Decision Trees and Smarter Data Handling
If you’ve ever tried to build a agentic RAG system that actually works well, you know the pain. You feed…
Trump calls India-U.S. trade relationship ‘a totally one sided disaster’ after Modi visits China
In a post on Truth Social, the U.S. president called the trade relationship with India “a totally one sided relationship.”
Implementing OAuth 2.1 for MCP Servers with Scalekit: A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to implement OAuth 2.1 for MCP servers step by step. To keep things practical,…
More than 800 killed after strong quake hits Afghanistan
There are fears the death toll will rise significantly as the area is remote and mountainous, making rescue operations difficult.
Behind the Beijing smiles with Putin, Modi and Xi
A viral photo of Modi, Xi and Putin at the SCO summit highlights shifting power, unresolved tensions and the limits…
EU chief von der Leyen’s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming
The European Commission said the plane’s navigation was disrupted in Bulgaria on Sunday.
Trump keeps threatening to punish Putin. Here’s what’s holding him back
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll punish Russia if Moscow doesn’t agree to peace talks with Ukraine. Yet, he hasn’t…
Putin says he reached ‘understandings’ with Trump over end of Ukraine war
The Russian president also defended his decision to invade Ukraine, once again blaming the war on the West.
Thailand could face more chaos after its prime minister’s removal
More political and economic uncertainty, and even a coup, may be on the horizon after the removal of Prime Minister…
StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio 2 Mini: An Open-Source 8B Speech-to-Speech AI Model that Surpasses GPT-4o-Audio
The StepFun AI team has released Step-Audio 2 Mini, an 8B parameter speech-to-speech large audio language model (LALM) that delivers…
China’s Xi urges AI cooperation, rejects ‘Cold War mentality’ at SCO summit
It is unclear if the SCO summit will pave the way for any breakthroughs in easing tensions, though Beijing has…
Step-by-Step Guide to AI Agent Development Using Microsoft Agent-Lightning
In this tutorial, we walk through setting up an advanced AI Agent using Microsoft’s Agent-Lightning framework. We are running everything…
Asia markets set to open mostly lower as investors assess U.S. court ruling on Trump tariffs
Investors will also be assessing the developments in India and China relations, after leaders from both countries agreed that they…
NVIDIA AI Team Introduces Jetson Thor: The Ultimate Platform for Physical AI and Next-Gen Robotics
Last week, the NVIDIA robotics team released Jetson Thor that includes Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit and the Jetson T5000…
Understanding OAuth 2.1 for MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers: Discovery, Authorization, and Access Phases
OAuth 2.1 is the officially mandated authorization standard in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specifications. According to the official documentation,…
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida killed in Gaza, Israel says
Israel says the military spokesman was killed in a strike on Saturday – Hamas has not confirmed the death.
The man behind OpenAI’s global expansion and its effort to win the enterprise
OpenAI is expanding globally and building an enterprise business that’s fueling tension with its biggest backer and cloud partner, Microsoft.
Here’s what it really means for Trump to get control of the Federal Reserve board
Since taking office in January, Trump has placed the Fed directly in the crosshairs of executive power.
What is AI Agent Observability? Top 7 Best Practices for Reliable AI
What is Agent Observability? Agent observability is the discipline of instrumenting, tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents across their full…
How to Build a Conversational Research AI Agent with LangGraph: Step Replay and Time-Travel Checkpoints
In this tutorial, we aim to understand how LangGraph enables us to manage conversation flows in a structured manner, while…
Putin and Modi in China for summit overshadowed by trade wars with US
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in China for the first time in seven years.
Thousands demonstrate across Mexico for the 130,000 missing
Thousands march through Mexico’s cities urging more government action against enforced disappearances – a problem often linked to drug cartels.
Chunking vs. Tokenization: Key Differences in AI Text Processing
Table of contents Introduction What is Tokenization? What is Chunking? The Key Differences That Matter Why This Matters for Real…
Trump tariffs that are voided by — and ones that are safe from — Friday’s appeals court ruling
If the Supreme Court upholds the ruling, President Donald Trump would lose some, but not all, of his broad tariff…
A Coding Guide to Building a Brain-Inspired Hierarchical Reasoning AI Agent with Hugging Face Models
In this tutorial, we set out to recreate the spirit of the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) using a free Hugging…
Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike
Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi and several other Houthi officials were killed in the attack, the Iran-backed movement says.
Russia launches massive attack on Ukraine, as Kyiv hits oil refineries
One woman was killed in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, with 28 people injured, according to local officials.
Prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv
President Zelensky said the killing of Parubiy was an “horrific murder” and promised an investigation.
Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy
The appeals court stayed its ruling until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to…
Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Frontier-Level Performance
Table of contents The Problem with “Thinking Longer” The Agentic Approach Infrastructure Challenges and Solutions GRPO-RoC: Learning from High-Quality Examples…