The behaviour of information released during black hole evaporation represents a fundamental challenge to modern physics, and recent research by Yipeng Liu, Wei Xu, and Baocheng Zhang from China University of Geosciences sheds new light on…
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Pak: TTP No. 2 killed during infiltration bid in Khyber
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s second-in-command Amjad was among four militants killed by security forces while…
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Laurent Mekies explains why Red Bull will ‘take more time’ to decide 2026 driver line-up
Red Bull Team Principal Laurent Mekies has stated that the squad will “take a bit more time” before settling on their driver line-up for 2026, with the futures of Yuki Tsunoda and the Racing Bulls pairing yet to be decided.
After a swap saw
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Cavs’ Jarrett Allen suffers finger injury, questionable Friday
Cavs center Jarrett Allen earned his 1st All-Star appearance during the 2024-25 season.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen is listed as questionable for Friday’s NBA Cup game against Toronto after breaking the ring finger on his…
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Oil Falls Ahead of OPEC+ Meeting – The Wall Street Journal
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China manufacturing slump deepens to 6-month low in October, as PMI misses estimates
Chinese-made automobiles and construction machinery are assembled and shipped for export at Yantai Port in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China, on October 21, 2025.
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China’s manufacturing activity in October contracted more than expected, shrinking to the lowest level in six months, an official survey showed on Friday, as trade tensions with Washington reignited during the month.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.0, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, missing economists’ expectations for 49.6 in a Reuters poll. A reading above the 50 benchmark indicates growth while one below that suggests contraction.
The latest reading reversed the recovery in recent months, after the PMI rose to a six-month high of 49.8 in September, compared to 49.4 in August and 49.3 in July.
The country’s manufacturing activity has remained in contraction since April, when U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign pressured Chinese factories as well as global demand.
China’s economy expanded 4.8% in the third quarter, marking the slowest growth in a year. Adding to the constraint on the economy, fixed-asset investment unexpectedly contracted 0.5% in the first nine months of the year — the first such decline since 2020 during the pandemic — according to data going back to 1992 from Wind Information.
Large industrial firms saw their profits surge the most in nearly two years, rising 21.6% in October from the same period a year earlier, as declines in factory-gate prices eased amid Beijing’s campaign to rein in a bruising price war and excess capacity.
Domestic demand has remained sluggish, with a protracted property slump and soft labor-market conditions eroding households’ spending power.
China and the U.S. reached a trade truce on Thursday after months of rising tensions, de-escalating the situation that had threatened to push the world’s two largest economies into a full-blown trade war.
Trump said the U.S. would immediately cut the 20% fentanyl-linked tariffs on Chinese goods by half, and in turn, Beijing would resume “massive” purchases of American soybeans and other farm products. China also agreed to pause its sweeping rare-earth controls for a year while taking steps to stem the flow of precursor chemicals used in fentanyl production. Both sides agreed to suspend fees for one year on ships that dock at each other’s ports.
But analysts cautioned that the meeting fell short of a comprehensive pact that addresses issues core to the U.S.-China rivalry and other contentious issues, including Taiwan, making the deal vulnerable to another escalation in the delicate detente.
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Pakistan Engineering Council Partners with MindHYVE.ai™ to Launch Pakistan’s First AI-Driven Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Ecosystem
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — With AI-powered education forecast to exceed USD 50 billion globally by 2030 and adoption in professional training accelerating at 45 percent annually (HolonIQ 2025), the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has signed a landmark collaboration with MindHYVE.ai™, to bring adaptive, data-driven learning to Pakistan’s engineering community.
The agreement establishes the country’s first AI-enabled national CPD framework, using ArthurAI™, MindHYVE’s adaptive educational intelligence platform, to transform how more than 250,000 engineers engage in lifelong professional learning.
“This partnership marks a defining step in transforming engineering education for the AI era,” said Bill Faruki, Founder & CEO of MindHYVE.ai™. “By combining PEC’s national mandate with MindHYVE’s adaptive technologies, we’re laying the foundation for scalable, measurable, and ethical lifelong learning in Pakistan.”
Engr. Khalid H. Abdul, Registrar, Pakistan Engineering Council, added: “As engineering moves into an era of intelligent systems and automation, this initiative equips Pakistani engineers with the digital fluency and ethical grounding they need to compete globally.”
The World Economic Forum 2025 Future of Jobs Report lists AI literacy among the top three skills required in STEM roles worldwide. UNESCO (2024) reports that adaptive-learning frameworks increase skill retention by 35 percent in professional training. McKinsey Global Institute (2024) finds that economies integrating AI into technical education achieve three-to-five-fold productivity gains across industrial sectors. Against this backdrop, PEC becomes the first regulatory body in South Asia to embed AI-adaptive professional learning within a national licensing and accreditation framework.
Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Islamabad on October 17, 2025, PEC and MindHYVE will jointly:
- Modernize PEC’s CPD infrastructure through phased deployment of ArthurAI™ to deliver personalized, analytics-driven learning.
- Integrate curated modules from The Dawn Directive™ by the California Institute of Artificial Intelligence (CIAI), an 18-course AI-fluency program—to strengthen engineers’ digital and ethical competencies.
- Co-design pilot programs that assess performance, scalability, and impact before expanding nationally.
- Uphold data privacy, security, and ethical-AI principles, ensuring transparency and institutional integrity.
About the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
Established under the PEC Act 1976, the Pakistan Engineering Council regulates engineering education, accreditation, and professional practice across Pakistan. It represents over 250,000 engineers and works to align national engineering standards with international best practice.
About MindHYVE.ai™
MindHYVE.ai™ is redefining the boundaries of intelligence by engineering autonomous systems and deploying domain-specific AGI agents across real-world sectors. Powered by the Ava-Fusion™ large reasoning model and architected for agent coordination, swarm intelligence, and adaptive autonomy, MindHYVE’s technology stack is revolutionizing law, medicine, finance, education, and governance.
With operations in North America, Asia, and in Africa, MindHYVE.ai™ is on a mission to democratize access to transformative intelligence and architect the infrastructure for post-scarcity economies. Backed by HYVE Labs, the company continues to shape the future of agentic systems on a global scale.
Website: www.mindhyve.ai | Email:[email protected] | Contact: +1 (949) 200-8668
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Email: [email protected]SOURCE MindHYVE.ai, Inc.
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Chinese yuan weakens to 7.088 against USD Friday-Xinhua
BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) — The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 16 pips to 7.088 against the U.S. dollar Friday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.
The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day. ■
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[Research Press Release] Palaeontology: How ammolite gemstones get their vivid colours (Scientific Reports)
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Teenage Australian cricketer dies after being hit by ball – Dawn
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