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…
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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…
Consumer confidence hits lowest point since April as job worries grow
The board’s Consumer Confidence Index slumped to 88.7, a drop of 6.8 points from the prior month for its lowest…
HyperPod now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for generative AI tasks
We are excited to announce the general availability of GPU partitioning with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, using NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG). With…
Ukraine reportedly agrees to U.S.-brokered peace proposal
Ukraine has reportedly agreed to a potential peace deal with Russia in what could be a massive step towards bringing…
The UK’s Autumn Budget is coming: Here’s what it could mean for your money
It’s tricky to guage exactly what we’re going to get when Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally unveils her spending and taxation…
Alibaba shares rise as AI drives 34% cloud sales jump
Alibaba reported a 34% year-on-year rise in cloud computing revenue to 39.8 billion yuan.
Nvidia shares fall 3% on report Meta will use Google AI chips
Nvidia shares fell on Tuesday after The Information reported that Meta is considering using chips designed by Google.
European stocks open slightly higher, tracking Wall Street rebound
European stocks opened slightly higher on Tuesday as regional markets followed a Wall Street rebound.
Russia and Ukraine trade deadly strikes overnight
The attacks hit several residential buildings in Kyiv and killed two people, while Russia’s Rostov region reported three deaths.
Agent0: A Fully Autonomous AI Framework that Evolves High-Performing Agents without External Data through Multi-Step Co-Evolution
Large language models need huge human datasets, so what happens if the model must create all its own curriculum and…
‘Takaichi cannot retract her statement and Beijing knows that’: Why China-Japan spat unlikely to be resolved soon
Trump’s back-to-back calls with Xi and Takaichi did nothing to temper Beijing’s pressure campaign on Tokyo over Taiwan.
Accelerate generative AI innovation in Canada with Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference
Generative AI has created unprecedented opportunities for Canadian organizations to transform their operations and customer experiences. We are excited to…
Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met last month in South Korea, where they reached some agreements on…
Power up your ML workflows with interactive IDEs on SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) orchestration now support creating and managing interactive development environments such as JupyterLab and…
Tesla fans told by Dutch safety regulator to stop pressuring agency on ‘FSD Supervised’
Dutch automotive safety regulator RDW said that Tesla is working to gain approval to make its “FSD Supervised” systems available…
Claude Opus 4.5 now in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s newest foundation model, Claude Opus 4.5, is now available in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers a…
Deploy GPT-OSS models with Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports OpenAI models with open weights, including GPT-OSS variants with 20-billion and 120-billion parameters.…
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Elastic-12B: A Single AI Model that Gives You 6B/9B/12B Variants without Extra Training Cost
Why are AI dev teams still training and storing multiple large language models for different deployment needs when one elastic…
Zelensky warns against giving away territory as latest Ukraine talks end
Talks in Geneva between US and Ukrainian officals have ended with “progress” made – but sticking points remain.
Ukraine desperate to keep Trump on its side in peace talks, while saving its sovereignty
Talks between U.S. and Ukrainian officials were held this weekend after it emerged that Russia and the White House had…
Novo Nordisk shares plunge 9% after Alzheimer’s drug trial fails to hit key target
Shares of Novo Nordisk plunged after the Danish drug pharmaceutical company said a highly-anticipated trial for Alzheimer’s disease failed to…
Markets are on tenterhooks over the UK’s budget plans, here’s what’s at stake
Strategists also want to see spending cuts, growth-boosting proposals and inflation-busting measures, however.
European defense stocks slide as U.S., Ukraine make progress on peace plan
The U.S. said Sunday that there had been progress in talks at the weekend but that no agreement was reached…
European stocks set to start the week higher, following global market positivity
European stocks are expected to start the new trading week on a positive note, following their global counterparts higher as…
Chinese consumer brands flood into Africa as old investment model fades and exports jump 28%
Chinese firms are shifting from big infrastructure to consumer goods in Africa, driven by demand, adventurous entrepreneurs and pressure to…
Singapore inflation climbs to a near 1-year high as October price growth sharply exceeds estimates
After hitting a four-year low in August, consumer prices rose 1.2%, compared with the average 0.9% estimated by economists polled…
Australia’s Qube Holdings’ shares jump 20% as Macquarie proposes $7.5 billion takeover deal
Macquarie has offered to acquire Qube for AU$5.2 in cash per share, representing a nearly 28% premium to Qube’s closing…
Rubio hails ‘tremendous progress’ at Ukraine peace talks
The top US diplomat says more work is needed to finalise a US-Ukraine deal that will then need Russia’s agreement.
Israel says it killed top Hezbollah official in first attack on Beirut in months
Israel has escalated its campaign on targets it says are linked to Hezbollah, raising fears of a resumption of hostilities.
Microsoft faces uphill climb to turn enterprise dominance into widespread AI chatbot adoption
At Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference this week, IT buyers explained why Microsoft isn’t seeing runaway success with its Copilot AI…
Global week ahead: Which tail is wagging the market dog?
After a wave of volatility roiled global stocks this week, investors want to know which tail is wagging the market…
Moonshot AI Researchers Introduce Seer: An Online Context Learning System for Fast Synchronous Reinforcement Learning RL Rollouts
How do you keep reinforcement learning for large reasoning models from stalling on a few very long, very slow rollouts…
US insists it authored Ukraine peace plan ahead of talks on ending war
A group of US lawmakers say the secretary of state told them the draft did not reflect Washington’s position. Marco…
UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
Does Berkshire’s big tech bet signal a new risk tolerance in Omaha?
Berkshire Hathaway’s purchase of Alphabet shares may signal a new acceptance of greater risk for greater reward.
Ukraine’s allies voice concerns over US plan to end war
Leaders from Europe, Canada and Japan say the plan needs “additional work” but includes elements “essential for a just and…
Google DeepMind Introduces Nano Banana Pro: the Gemini 3 Pro Image Model for Text Accurate and Studio Grade Visuals
Nano Banana Pro, also called Gemini 3 Pro Image, is Google DeepMind’s new image generation and editing model built on…
What we know about leaked US draft plan to end Russia’s Ukraine war
There are 28 key points and while several on the face of it could be acceptable to Ukraine, others cross…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign after fallout with Trump
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene supported a bill compelling the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the DOJ, putting her…
Zelensky warns Ukraine risks losing US support over White House peace plan
Vladimir Putin says the plan could be the “basis” for peace but warns Russia is prepared to fight on.
Streamline AI operations with the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture
As organizations increasingly adopt AI capabilities across their applications, the need for centralized management, security, and cost control of AI…