Evaluate healthcare generative AI applications using LLM-as-a-judge on AWS
In our previous blog posts, we explored various techniques such as fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and Retrieval…
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Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs will start March 4, plus additional 10% on China
President Donald Trump said his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will go into effect on March 4, and that…
Nvidia’s auto segment revenue surges to record high on demand for driver-assist tech
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia’s auto segment revenue doubled in the latest quarter to its highest on record as demand for driver-assist…
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa found dead at their home
Local police said they didn’t believe any foul play was involved in the death of the couple, found alongside their…
Shares of British aerospace giant Rolls-Royce jump 15% on upbeat outlook, profit beat
Rolls-Royce on Thursday posted stronger-than-expected full-year earnings after making what it described as “significant” transformation progress.
Trump threatens to slap 25% tariffs on EU, says bloc was always meant to hurt the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union, claiming that the bloc was formed…
Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after Hamas hands over four hostages’ bodies
Israel is due to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return as part of an exchange.
Meta AI Introduces SWE-RL: An AI Approach to Scale Reinforcement Learning based LLM Reasoning for Real-World Software Engineering
Modern software development faces a multitude of challenges that extend beyond simple code generation or bug detection. Developers must navigate…
China likely to cut inflation outlook to two-decade low, lay out stimulus plans at ‘Two Sessions’ meet
Beijing is expected to revise down its annual consumer price inflation target to around 2% — the lowest in more…
Seven & i shares plunge over 12% as management buyout falls through
Seven & i in 2024 rejected two buyout bids from Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard.
Hume Introduces Octave TTS: A New Text-to-Speech Model that Creates Custom AI Voices with Tailored Emotions
In the rapidly evolving field of digital communication, traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems have often struggled to capture the full range…
Zelensky to meet Trump in Washington to sign minerals deal
President Trump says the pair are poised to sign a “very big agreement”, which Zelensky described as a “framework”.
Nvidia sales grow 78% on AI demand, company gives strong guidance
Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. The company also provided strong guidance for the current quarter.
Allen Institute for AI Released olmOCR: A High-Performance Open Source Toolkit Designed to Convert PDFs and Document Images into Clean and Structured Plain Text
Access to high-quality textual data is crucial for advancing language models in the digital age. Modern AI systems rely on…
What we know about US-Ukraine minerals deal
A Ukrainian official says Kyiv has agreed to the terms of a deal which would give the US access to…
The Federal Reserve’s favorite recession indicator is flashing a danger sign again
The 10-year yield fell below that of the 3-month note, marking an “inverted yield curve” that has a sterling recession…
How Pattern PXM’s Content Brief is driving conversion on ecommerce marketplaces using AI
Brands today are juggling a million things, and keeping product content up-to-date is at the top of the list. Between…
Ukraine reportedly agrees to critical rare minerals deal with the U.S.
Ukraine and the United States reached an agreement over access to Kyiv’s deposits of rare earth minerals, according to media…
Oil major BP boosts annual fossil fuel spending to $10 billion in strategy reset
British oil major BP on Wednesday announced plans to increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion as part…
Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.
Jeep, Dodge maker Stellantis posts 70% drop in full-year profit
Stellantis on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in full-year earnings as the company scrambles to take measures to improve its…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepGEMM: An FP8 GEMM Library that Supports both Dense and MoE GEMMs Powering V3/R1 Training and Inference
Efficient matrix multiplications remain a critical component in modern deep learning and high-performance computing. As models become increasingly complex, conventional…
Optimizing Imitation Learning: How X‑IL is Shaping the Future of Robotics
Designing imitation learning (IL) policies involves many choices, such as selecting features, architecture, and policy representation. The field is advancing…
CoSyn: An AI Framework that Leverages the Coding Capabilities of Text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) to Automatically Create Synthetic Text-Rich Multimodal Data
Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in general image understanding, but face significant challenges when processing text-rich visual content…
The record-breaking run of ‘Ne Zha 2’ may seem like a surprise. It shouldn’t be
For someone who’s lived in China since before the pandemic, the success of the animated film “Ne Zha 2” marks…
Ukraine official says minerals deal agreed with US
A senior Ukrainian official tells the BBC “a number of good amendments” have been agreed, while the US is yet…
Tesla’s market cap sinks below $1 trillion as stock slumps more than 8%
Tesla shares have dropped dramatically since peaking in December, and Tuesday’s decline pushed the company’s market cap below $1 trillion.
Convergence Releases Proxy Lite: A Mini, Open-Weights Version of Proxy Assistant Performing Pretty Well on UI Navigation Tasks
In today’s digital landscape, automating interactions with web content remains a nuanced challenge. Many existing solutions are resource-intensive and tailored…
FinData Explorer: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using BeautifulSoup, yfinance, matplotlib, ipywidgets, and fpdf for Financial Data Extraction, Interactive Visualization, and Dynamic PDF Report Generation
In this tutorial, we will guide you through building an advanced financial data reporting tool on Google Colab by combining…
Enhancing Instruction Tuning in LLMs: A Diversity-Aware Data Selection Strategy Using Sparse Autoencoders
Pre-trained LLMs require instruction tuning to align with human preferences. Still, the vast data collection and rapid model iteration often…
How IDIADA optimized its intelligent chatbot with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Xavier Vizcaino, Diego Martín Montoro, and Jordi Sánchez Ferrer from Applus+ Idiada. In 2021, Applus+…
Researchers from Moonshot AI Introduce Muon and Moonlight: Optimizing Large-Scale Language Models with Efficient Training Techniques
Optimizing large-scale language models demands advanced training techniques that reduce computational costs while maintaining high performance. Optimization algorithms are crucial…
Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US
The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.
‘It’s the beginning’: Kremlin plays it cool ahead of more U.S. talks, says Biden ‘messed things up badly’
The Kremlin is keen to play it cool as efforts continue to restore bilateral relations that it said were badly…
Accelerate IaC troubleshooting with Amazon Bedrock Agents
Troubleshooting infrastructure as code (IaC) errors often consumes valuable time and resources. Developers can spend multiple cycles searching for solutions…
Unilever CEO Schumacher to step down after less than two years in the job
Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher is stepping down after less than two years in the job, the company said Tuesday.
Macron walks tightrope with Trump as he makes Europe’s case on Ukraine
As the first European leader to visit Trump since his inauguration, Macron navigated potentially testing talks.
Markets relieved by German election result, but key industries remain mired in uncertainty
The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow…
Open-Reasoner-Zero: An Open-source Implementation of Large-Scale Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Training
Large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) training of language models on reasoning tasks has become a promising technique for mastering complex problem-solving…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepEP: An Open-Source EP Communication Library for MoE Model Training and Inference
Large language models that use the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture have enabled significant increases in model capacity without a corresponding rise…
This AI Paper from Menlo Research Introduces AlphaMaze: A Two-Stage Training Framework for Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
Artificial intelligence continues to advance in natural language processing but still faces challenges in spatial reasoning tasks. Visual-spatial reasoning is…
US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine
The UK and France abstain as the UN Security Council passes a text that does not criticise Moscow.
Bank of Korea slashes rates to lowest since August 2022 on economic worries, cuts growth forecast
The Bank of Korea cut rates to 2.75% from 3%, in line with expectations from economists polled by Reuters, trimming…
Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’
President Donald Trump said sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico “will go forward” when a month-long delay on their implementation…
Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 is now available on SageMaker Jumpstart and Amazon Bedrock Marketplace
Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501—a twenty-four billion parameter large language model (LLM) from Mistral AI that’s optimized for low…
Optimizing LLM Reasoning: Balancing Internal Knowledge and Tool Use with SMART
Recent advancements in LLMs have significantly improved their reasoning abilities, enabling them to perform text composition, code generation, and logical…
Microsoft reiterates plan to invest $80 billion in AI, but may ‘adjust our infrastructure in some areas’
Microsoft hasn’t backed off its plan for the current fiscal year but acknowledged that it may makes some infrastructure adjustments.
Five key takeaways from the German election
Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won, but the vote has thrown up some fascinating stories.
‘Uphill battle’ ahead: Trump, business leaders and economists react to German election result
As a new chapter in German politics begins on Monday following the federal election at the weekend, there’s a distinct…
Voters flock to political extremes in Germany as the centrist parties stumble
Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular parties…