JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says markets are too complacent on tariffs, expects S&P 500 earnings growth to collapse
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said markets and central bankers underappreciate the risks created by record U.S. deficits, tariffs and…
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Russia and Ukraine to ‘immediately’ start ceasefire talks, says Trump
The US president holds talks with leaders of both countries in the latest efforts to end the fighting.
HERE Technologies boosts developer productivity with new generative AI-powered coding assistant
This blog post is co-written with Jonas Neuman from HERE Technologies. HERE Technologies, a 40-year pioneer in mapping and location…
Israel orders Khan Younis evacuation ahead of ‘unprecedented attack’
Residents have been told to move to western Gaza in one of the largest evacuation orders of recent months.
30-year Treasury passes 5% after Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating
U.S. Treasury yields spiked on Monday after Moody’s downgraded the U.S.’ credit rating, citing fiscal concerns.
UK and European Union agree to post-Brexit reset deal, sources tell CNBC
The U.K. and European Union finally agreed to reset relations Monday, sources told CNBC, after Britain’s acrimonious exit from the…
BBC uncovers child sex abuse in South Africa’s illegal mines
An investigation into the illicit mining sector reveals a world of child exploitation.
Qualcomm to launch data center processors that link to Nvidia chips
Qualcomm on Monday said it plans to launch processors designed for data centers to power artificial intelligence, which will link…
Critical Security Vulnerabilities in the Model Context Protocol (MCP): How Malicious Tools and Deceptive Contexts Exploit AI Agents
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a powerful paradigm shift in how large language models interact with tools, services, and…
Reinforcement Learning Makes LLMs Search-Savvy: Ant Group Researchers Introduce SEM to Optimize Tool Usage and Reasoning Efficiency
Recent progress in LLMs has shown their potential in performing complex reasoning tasks and effectively using external tools like search…
China’s April retail sales growth of 5.1% misses expectations as consumption remains a worry
Industrial output grew 6.1% in April, stronger than analysts’ expectations for a 5.5% rise, indicating the impact from U.S. tariffs…
LLMs Struggle to Act on What They Know: Google DeepMind Researchers Use Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning to Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap
Language models trained on vast internet-scale datasets have become prominent language understanding and generation tools. Their potential extends beyond language…
Big Chinese companies like Alibaba show that AI-powered ads are giving shopping a boost
Alibaba, Tencent and JD.com reported earnings that showed better Chinese consumer spending — and the growing benefits of artificial intelligence…
Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive’ prostate cancer, his office says
Biden, 82, was diagnosed on Friday after seeing a doctor for urinary symptoms.
All hospitals in north Gaza out of service, says health ministry
Hamas-run ministry says Indonesian hospital besieged by Israeli forces.
Wealthy shoppers are splashing the cash on jewelry — so long as it’s the right brand
The world’s wealthiest are continuing to adorn themselves with the finest jewelry even as broader luxury shoppers pull back.
Mexican Navy ship crashes into New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge
Multiple injuries are reported by US media, after towering masts of the Cuauhtémoc sailboat clip the famous bridge.
How to Build a Powerful and Intelligent Question-Answering System by Using Tavily Search API, Chroma, Google Gemini LLMs, and the LangChain Framework
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build a powerful and intelligent question-answering system by combining the strengths of Tavily…
AWS Open-Sources Strands Agents SDK to Simplify AI Agent Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has open-sourced its Strands Agents SDK, aiming to make the development of AI agents more accessible…
Google Researchers Introduce LightLab: A Diffusion-Based AI Method for Physically Plausible, Fine-Grained Light Control in Single Images
Manipulating lighting conditions in images post-capture is challenging. Traditional approaches rely on 3D graphics methods that reconstruct scene geometry and…
Trump says he will call Putin, Zelenskyy, and NATO members on Monday to talk ceasefire, trade
Trump told reporters on Friday that he would speak with Putin after the Russian president skipped peace talks between Russia and…
Israel launches major offensive to ‘seize and control’ areas of Gaza
IDF says “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” aims to defeat Hamas, as Hamas-run health ministry says hundreds of people killed since Thursday.
This AI paper from DeepSeek-AI Explores How DeepSeek-V3 Delivers High-Performance Language Modeling by Minimizing Hardware Overhead and Maximizing Computational Efficiency
The growth in developing and deploying large language models (LLMs) is closely tied to architectural innovations, large-scale datasets, and hardware…
Moody’s downgrades United States credit rating, citing growth in government debt
Moody’s had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the highest credit rating possible, and brings the 116-year-old…
Nvidia, Cisco and OpenAI are backing the UAE Stargate data center project
President Donald Trump was in the UAE as part of a first foreign trip abroad in his second term. Trump…
Ukraine and Russia far apart in direct talks, but prisoner swap agreed
The talks lasted just over 90 minutes and there were few signs of any progress on ending the war.
Salesforce AI Releases BLIP3-o: A Fully Open-Source Unified Multimodal Model Built with CLIP Embeddings and Flow Matching for Image Understanding and Generation
Multimodal modeling focuses on building systems to understand and generate content across visual and textual formats. These models are designed…
Set up a custom plugin on Amazon Q Business and authenticate with Amazon Cognito to interact with backend systems
Businesses are constantly evolving, and leaders are challenged every day to meet new requirements and are seeking ways to optimize…
Accelerate edge AI development with SiMa.ai Edgematic with a seamless AWS integration
This post is co-authored by Manuel Lopez Roldan, SiMa.ai, and Jason Westra, AWS Senior Solutions Architect. Are you looking to…
Nearly 100 people killed in Israeli attack on north Gaza, Hamas-run civil defence says
It marks the largest ground assault on north Gaza since Israel resumed its offensive in March.
Novo Nordisk CEO to step down as competition weighs on Wegovy maker’s share price
The Danish pharmaceutical giant said Fruergaard Jørgensen would remain in his post “for a period to support a smooth transition…
Fortnite is now offline on iOS worldwide as Apple blocks game, Epic Games says
Fortnite is now unavailable on iOS globally, Epic Games said Friday, after Apple blocked a bid to reinstate the popular…
U.S., UAE agree on path for Emirates to buy top American AI chips, Trump says
The U.S. and United Arab Emirates are working on a path to allow Abu Dhabi to purchase some of the…
Qatari cybertrucks, elite camels and historic mega-deals: Why Gulf countries are going all out for Trump’s visit
“We appreciate those camels,” Trump told the Qatari emir. “I haven’t seen camels like that in a long time.”
Meet LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm: A Python Library for Creating Swarm-Style Multi-Agent Systems Using LangGraph
LangGraph Multi-Agent Swarm is a Python library designed to orchestrate multiple AI agents as a cohesive “swarm.” It builds on…
Japan assets saw record inflows in April as investors fled U.S. markets — their promise still holds
Japan markets saw a record month of foreign purchases of its equities and bonds in April, but some market watchers…
DanceGRPO: A Unified Framework for Reinforcement Learning in Visual Generation Across Multiple Paradigms and Tasks
Recent advances in generative models, especially diffusion models and rectified flows, have revolutionized visual content creation with enhanced output quality…
Japan’s economy contracts by a more than expected 0.2% from prior three months
On an annualized basis, Japan’s GDP contracted 0.7% in the first quarter, also more than the 0.2% fall expected by…
ByteDance Introduces Seed1.5-VL: A Vision-Language Foundation Model Designed to Advance General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
VLMs have become central to building general-purpose AI systems capable of understanding and interacting in digital and real-world settings. By…
How Apoidea Group enhances visual information extraction from banking documents with multimodal models using LLaMA-Factory on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
This post is co-written with Ken Tsui, Edward Tsoi and Mickey Yip from Apoidea Group. The banking industry has long…
US says Trump and Putin needed for breakthrough in Ukraine peace talks
Marco Rubio says he does not have high expectations for Ukraine-Russia peace talks due to be held in Turkey.
Hugging Face Introduces a Free Model Context Protocol (MCP) Course: A Developer’s Guide to Build and Deploy Context-Aware AI Agents and Applications
Hugging Face has released a free/open-source course on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open approach developed by Anthropic to…
Stability AI Introduces Adversarial Relativistic-Contrastive (ARC) Post-Training and Stable Audio Open Small: A Distillation-Free Breakthrough for Fast, Diverse, and Efficient Text-to-Audio Generation Across Devices
Text-to-audio generation has emerged as a transformative approach for synthesizing sound directly from textual prompts, offering practical use in music…
Exclusive Talk: Joey Conway of NVIDIA on Llama Nemotron Ultra and Open Source Models
Today, MarkTechPost had the pleasure of interviewing Joey Conway from NVIDIA to discuss their exciting work on open-source large language…
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 103 people, Civil Defence says
Fifty-six were killed in the south when homes and tents sheltering displaced families were bombed overnight, a hospital says.
Trump says he doesn’t want Apple building products in India: ‘I had a little problem with Tim Cook’
Apple has been ramping up production in India with the aim of making around 25% of global iPhones in the…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Build an Automated Knowledge Graph Pipeline Using LangGraph and NetworkX
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to construct an automated Knowledge Graph (KG) pipeline using LangGraph and NetworkX. The pipeline…
Putin and Trump leave Zelenskyy in the dust, skipping peace talks in Turkey
Neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor U.S. President Donald Trump look likely to attend peace talks that were due to…
Georgia Tech and Stanford Researchers Introduce MLE-Dojo: A Gym-Style Framework Designed for Training, Evaluating, and Benchmarking Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) Agents
Machine learning engineering (MLE) involves developing, tuning, and deploying machine learning systems that require iterative experimentation, model optimization, and robust…
Beginning of the end? Ukraine’s front-line soldiers eye Russia talks with hope
There is cautious optimism in eastern Ukraine as talks are set to take place in Istanbul.