Assassin’s Creed-maker Ubisoft’s shares surge 11% on deal to spin off top game franchises
Ubisoft shares surged on Friday after the French video game publisher announced a deal to spin out some of its…
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Russia’s Putin says it would be a ‘profound mistake’ to dismiss Trump’s push for Greenland
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned it would be foolish to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for control over Greenland.
Moment Bangkok high-rise under construction collapses
Workers are feared trapped following the collapse of a high-rise building in Thailand’s capital.
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with global executives as Beijing focuses on business outreach
U.S. President Donald Trump has raised tariffs by 20% on China since January over its alleged role in the U.S.…
Google AI Released TxGemma: A Series of 2B, 9B, and 27B LLM for Multiple Therapeutic Tasks for Drug Development Fine-Tunable with Transformers
Developing therapeutics continues to be an inherently costly and challenging endeavor, characterized by high failure rates and prolonged development timelines.…
Putin says Greenland ‘nothing to do with Russia’ in nod to US
Speaking in the Arctic, Russia’s president said Trump’s plans were “serious” but nothing to do with Moscow.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: What ails India’s manufacturing?
India wants to be a manufacturing powerhouse. A flagship scheme launched five years ago to help the country realize that…
Meet Open Deep Search (ODS): A Plug-and-Play Framework Democratizing Search with Open-source Reasoning Agents
The rapid advancements in search engine technologies integrated with large language models (LLMs) have predominantly favored proprietary solutions such as…
Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US ‘is over’
The Canadian leader said his country’s relationship with the US had changed due to Trump’s tariffs, jeopardising future cooperation.
A Code Implementation of Monocular Depth Estimation Using Intel MiDaS Open Source Model on Google Colab with PyTorch and OpenCV
Monocular depth estimation involves predicting scene depth from a single RGB image—a fundamental task in computer vision with wide-ranging applications,…
Australia to hold federal election on 3 May
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be seeking to fight off a resurgent opposition and win a second term.
Six dead after tourist submarine sinks in Red Sea
Another 39 people were rescued after the vessel sank in the Red Sea on Thursday morning.
Integrating custom dependencies in Amazon SageMaker Canvas workflows
When implementing machine learning (ML) workflows in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, organizations might need to consider external dependencies required for their…
Novo Nordisk says copycat compounders are hurting Wegovy sales, may take legal action
Novo Nordisk said Thursday that the rampant growth of the U.S.’ compounded drug industry was hurting Wegovy sales, and warned…
Egypt submarine sinking: What we know so far
Six people have died after the submarine sank near Hurghada, a popular tourist destination.
Enable Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference in multi-account environments
Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference capability that provides organizations with flexibility to access foundation models (FMs) across AWS Regions while maintaining…
Germany says it ‘will not give in’ as Trump announces 25% car tariffs
Major economies vow to retaliate, with China accusing Washington of violating international trade rules.
Germany slams Trump’s 25% auto tariffs as bad news for U.S., EU and global trade
The measures, which coincide with an even broader push on levies, represent a major escalation in an already brewing global…
Trump threatens ‘far larger’ tariffs if EU and Canada unite to do ‘economic harm’ to the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose far larger tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they work…
This AI Paper Introduces the Kolmogorov-Test: A Compression-as-Intelligence Benchmark for Evaluating Code-Generating Language Models
Compression is a cornerstone of computational intelligence, deeply rooted in the theory of Kolmogorov complexity, which defines the minimal program…
‘They invited me – now they’re attacking me’: Signal chat journalist speaks to BBC
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, was mistakenly added to a chat of senior Trump officials. Now he’s a…
Shares of Asia’s automakers fall as Trump announces 25% tariffs on car imports
Shares of Asia’s automakers fell after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he will impose tariffs on cars not made in…
Google DeepMind Researchers Propose CaMeL: A Robust Defense that Creates a Protective System Layer around the LLM, Securing It even when Underlying Models may be Susceptible to Attacks
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming integral to modern technology, driving agentic systems that interact dynamically with external environments. Despite…
Trump announces 25% tariffs on all cars ‘not made in the United States’
Trump had hinted that the auto tariffs could arrive prior to April 2, the day his sweeping “reciprocal tariff” plan…
Zelensky hopes US will ‘stay strong’ in face of Russian demands
The Ukrainian president was answering questions from a panel of European journalists in Paris.
Tesla shares drop on plunging European sales, concerns about Trump’s tariffs
Tesla shares slid on Wednesday, continuing their downward trajectory for the year, after a rally over the past few days.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds fine-tuning support for models in a private model hub
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub that provides pre-trained models, solution templates, and algorithms to help developers…
This AI Paper Introduces PLAN-AND-ACT: A Modular Framework for Long-Horizon Planning in Web-Based Language Agents
Large language models are powering a new wave of digital agents to handle sophisticated web-based tasks. These agents are expected…
Europe wants to pour billions of dollars into its own defense companies — but market watchers say it may not be able to shut American firms out
As Europe looks to hike defense spending, CNBC spoke to industry experts about how the money could be spent —…
Generative AI-powered game design: Accelerating early development with Stability AI models on Amazon Bedrock
In the competitive world of game development, staying ahead of technological advancements is crucial. Generative AI has emerged as a…
Russia says sanctions must be lifted before Ukraine maritime ceasefire can start
Moscow and Kyiv appear at odds over when and how the US-brokered deal will come into effect.
Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ for Signal group chat leak
But the US national security adviser said he could not explain how a journalist was added to a chat discussing…
U.K. expected to unveil more spending cuts amid troubled times for the economy
British lawmakers and the public are waiting to see if Reeves will stick to her self-imposed spending and debt rules.
U.K. inflation slows to cooler-than-expected 2.8% in February
The U.K.’s inflation rate fell slightly to 2.8% in February, coming in just below analyst expectations, according to the Office…
DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-V3-0324: Blazing Fast Performance on Mac Studio, Heating Up the Competition with OpenAI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in recent years, yet challenges persist in achieving efficient, cost-effective, and high-performance models.…
Helicopter crashes during South Korea’s ‘worst ever fires’
The wildfires are threatening cultural sites and “rewriting the record books”, according to authorities.
U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing’s AI, chip capabilities
The export restrictions come at a time when tensions between Washington and Beijing have been rising with the Trump administration…
Google AI Released Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental: An Advanced AI Model that Excels in Reasoning, Coding, and Multimodal Capabilities
In the evolving field of artificial intelligence, a significant challenge has been developing models that can effectively reason through complex…
Google quantum exec says tech is ‘5 years out from a real breakout’
Julian Kelly, Google Quantum AI’s director of hardware, told CNBC quantum computers may only be about five years from a…
Amazon Bedrock launches Session Management APIs for generative AI applications (Preview)
Amazon Bedrock announces the preview launch of Session Management APIs, a new capability that enables developers to simplify state and…
Enhance deployment guardrails with inference component rolling updates for Amazon SageMaker AI inference
Deploying models efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively is a critical challenge for organizations of all sizes. As organizations increasingly deploy foundation…
A Code Implementation for Advanced Human Pose Estimation Using MediaPipe, OpenCV and Matplotlib
Human pose estimation is a cutting-edge computer vision technology that transforms visual data into actionable insights about human movement. By…
Russia and Ukraine agree naval ceasefire in Black Sea
The two sides struck separate deals with the US after two days of talks in Saudi Arabia.
RWKV-7: Advancing Recurrent Neural Networks for Efficient Sequence Modeling
Autoregressive Transformers have become the leading approach for sequence modeling due to their strong in-context learning and parallelizable training enabled…
Evaluate and improve performance of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is a fully managed capability that helps implement entire Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows from ingestion…
Software giant SAP becomes Europe’s most valuable firm amid German stock market boom
Investors are excited about SAP’s ability to harness new artificial intelligence products to boost revenue.
Chinese EV giant BYD outpaces Tesla with annual sales of more than $100 billion
China’s BYD reported annual revenue of 777 billion yuan ($107 billion) for 2024, leapfrogging Tesla as competition between the two…
Five takeaways from leaked US top military chat group
What was discussed in the top-secret group that a journalist was accidentally added to?
Kremlin tight-lipped on ceasefire deal discussions with the U.S. — as Ukraine prepares for more talks
The Kremlin said that it would not disclose the content of ceasefire deal talks with the U.S. as Ukrainian diplomats…
Sixth night of protests in Turkey as Erdogan hits out at unrest
Thousands rally against the arrest of opposition politician Ekrem Imamoglu, but his party says their planned protests are coming to…