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Amazon Launches Trainium3 Chips With Up to 50% Lower AI Training and Operating Costs

Amazon Launches Trainium3 Chips With Up to 50% Lower AI Training and Operating Costs

Amazon Web Services has announced the public release of its Trainium3 AI chip, a custom processor designed to reduce the cost and speed up the training of artificial-intelligence models — a move that positions Amazon as a growing competitor to Nvidia in the data-center chip market. AWS said the Trainium3 chip is up to four … Read more

Flexo Summit Asia 2025 Signals New Era of Innovation for Flexographic Industry

Flexo Summit Asia 2025 Signals New Era of Innovation for Flexographic Industry

Flexo Summit Asia 2025 delivered its strongest edition yet, drawing global leaders, technology innovators and packaging experts to Jaipur, India for two days of high-impact sessions, panels and workshops focused on the future of flexographic printing. The event, described by organizers as a milestone for the industry, showcased advances in sustainability, automation, hybrid technologies and … Read more

Skopje Hosts First-Ever AI Revolution Summit, Uniting Balkan Founders to Shape the Future

Skopje Hosts Landmark Startup AI Revolution Summit, Uniting Balkan Founders and Global Experts

More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and tech leaders from over 30 countries gathered in Skopje, Macedonia for the inaugural Startup AI Revolution Summit, a four-day event that organizers and attendees hailed as a turning point for the Balkan startup ecosystem. Organized by Startup Club Skopje under the leadership of Sasho Jovanovski, the summit featured more … Read more

UK and Switzerland Back Central Asia Startup Program Targeting 5,000 New Jobs

Entrepreneurs working on green business development in Central Asia

The Aga Khan Foundation, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are combining entrepreneurship programs across Central Asia in an effort to support more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, create more than 5,000 jobs and unlock $17 million in private investment. Implemented through Accelerate Prosperity, an initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network, the collaboration covers the Kyrgyz Republic, … Read more

Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL AI Pushes Past GPT-5, Gemini in Visual Math and Long-Video Analysis

Alibaba report shows its Qwen3-VL multimodal AI suite

A few months after launching its Qwen3-VL multimodal AI suite, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report showing the system outperforming leading commercial models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1, in a range of visual math, document comprehension and long-video analysis benchmarks. The findings highlight significant advances in open-source … Read more

U.S. Black Friday 2025 Online Sales Hit Record $11.8 Billion as AI and Amazon Drive Digital Shopping Boom

Black Friday 2025 Hits Record $8.6 Billion in U.S. Online Sales

U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online on Black Friday 2025, according to final figures released by Adobe Analytics — marking a 9.1% jump from last year and cementing Black Friday as the strongest digital shopping day in American retail history. The surge reflects a dramatic shift in consumer behavior as shoppers continue to … Read more

Social Media Platforms Held Liable for Financial Scams Under New EU Rules

Social Media Platforms Held Liable for Financial Scams Under New EU Rules

Social media giants including Meta and TikTok will face direct liability for financial scams under a new set of rules agreed to by European Union lawmakers early Thursday. After eight hours of negotiations, the European Parliament and Council struck a deal aimed at strengthening protections against payment fraud and expanding regulatory exposure for major U.S. … Read more

MIT Study Reveals AI Is Poised to Replace 11.7% of American Jobs

MIT Study Reveals AI Is Poised to Replace 11.7% of American Jobs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a study Wednesday showing that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, representing roughly $1.2 trillion in wages across finance, health care and professional services. According to CNBC, the findings are based on the Iceberg Index, a labor simulation tool built by MIT and Oak … Read more

Performance Learning Award 2025 Tokyo Showcases AI as Future of Corporate Training

Performance Learning Award 2025

The Performance Learning Award 2025, organized by Youm Technology Japan Co., Ltd., opened Wednesday at the Hilton Tokyo with an address by Dongshuo Li, founder, CEO and president of UMU. The event showcased case studies from award-winning companies and highlighted the growing influence of artificial intelligence in human resource development. Judges evaluated submissions from organizations … Read more

Dark Factory Revolution: How AI and Robotics Are Reinforcing China’s Global Manufacturing Supremacy

Dark Factory Revolution: How AI and Robotics Are Reinforcing China’s Global Manufacturing Supremacy

China is aggressively integrating artificial intelligence and robotics into its manufacturing backbone, using AI-powered dark factory, and “factory brains” to coordinate assembly lines and logistics. Massive government and private investments are driving the country’s industrial upgrade, helping it maintain a competitive edge even as labor costs rise and trade tensions simmer. Companies such as Midea … Read more

Bitcoin’s Crash Exposed How Crypto Stocks Amplify the Market’s Biggest Swings

Bitcoin’s Crash Exposed How Crypto Stocks Amplify the Market’s Biggest Swings

Bitcoin’s slide toward $80,000 in late 2025 initially looked like another violent cryptocurrency correction. What followed showed that the bigger story was not Bitcoin alone. After peaking above $126,000 in October, the cryptocurrency ended 2025 near $88,000 and continued falling in 2026, eventually reaching roughly $58,000 during the second quarter before recovering toward $80,000 by … Read more

Pornhub Urges Apple, Google, and Microsoft to Adopt Device-Based Age Verification to Protect Minors

Pornhub Urges Apple, Google, and Microsoft to Adopt Device-Based Age Verification

Pornhub’s parent company is pushing major technology companies to adopt device-level age verification systems, arguing that it is a more effective and privacy-preserving solution for keeping minors away from adult content. According to VIRED, Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, recently sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging them to support age authentication at … Read more

Uber Partners With Starship Technologies for Autonomous Robot Deliveries

Uber Partners with Starship Technologies for Autonomous Robot Deliveries

Following the rapid growth in use of artificial intelligence Uber announced a partnership Thursday with Starship Technologies to deploy autonomous sidewalk robots for Uber Eats food deliveries. The AI-powered robots will handle short-distance orders of up to 2 miles, aiming to complete them in under 30 minutes. The service launches in Leeds, United Kingdom, next … Read more

Google Introduces Gemini 3, Its Most Powerful AI Model Yet

Google Introduces Gemini 3, Its Most Powerful AI Model Yet

Google has released Gemini 3, its most advanced foundation model to date, positioning the system as a major leap in reasoning, coding assistance and real-world task handling. The launch comes just seven months after Gemini 2.5 and arrives amid rapid competition across the AI industry, following recent releases from OpenAI and Anthropic. The model is … Read more

Cloudflare Outage Disrupted Major Websites Including X, Zoom, ChatGpt, Upwork, Fiverr in Many Countries

Cloudflare Outage Disrupted Major Websites Including X, Zoom, ChatGpt, Upwork, Fiverr in Many Countries

A network issue at web security business Cloudflare has disrupted internet traffic and taken down sites such as Zoom, X, ChatGpt, Upwork, Fiverr and many other websites and Apps for users in several countries. What is Cloudflare Cloudflare is an internet infrastructure company that provides services to make websites and applications faster, more secure, and more … Read more

WeChat to Enable Virtual Payments on iOS as Apple Cuts Commission to 15%

WeChat will begin supporting virtual payments across its Mini Programs on iOS

Chinese popular messaging and payment app, WeChat will begin supporting virtual payments across its Mini Programs on iOS, following Apple’s decision to reduce its commission rate to 15%. The update ends years of limitations that prevented developers from offering virtual goods and services through WeChat’s iOS ecosystem. Apple’s shift comes through its newly launched Mini … Read more