CNBC Daily Open: Investors dismiss Trump administration’s beef with the Fed — S&P 500 hits new high
The S&P 500’s record close comes despite the Trump administration’s beef with threats on the Fed and its use of…
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Meet WrenAI: The Open-Source AI Business Intelligence Agent for Natural Language Data Analytics
WrenAI is an open-source Generative Business Intelligence (GenBI) agent developed by Canner, designed to enable seamless, natural-language interaction with structured…
UK and 27 other nations condemn Israel over ‘inhumane killing’ of Gaza civilians seeking aid
Israel rejects a joint statement which says the suffering of civilians has “reached new depths”.
This AI Paper from Alibaba Introduces Lumos-1: A Unified Autoregressive Video Generator Leveraging MM-RoPE and AR-DF for Efficient Spatiotemporal Modeling
Autoregressive video generation is a rapidly evolving research domain. It focuses on the synthesis of videos frame-by-frame using learned patterns…
Build an AI-powered automated summarization system with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Transcribe using Terraform
Extracting meaningful insights from unstructured data presents significant challenges for many organizations. Meeting recordings, customer interactions, and interviews contain invaluable…
Kyruus builds a generative AI provider matching solution on AWS
This post was written with Zach Heath of Kyruus Health. When health plan members need care, they shouldn’t need a…
At least 16 dead after military plane crashes into Dhaka school
The air force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka.
Victims’ families decry report blaming pilot error for Jeju Air crash
The families accused investigators of pinning the blame on the pilot while ignoring other factors.
U.S. plays hardball on tariffs deadline as EU battles for a deal
The U.S. is keeping up the pressure on the Aug. 1 deadline for higher tariffs for the EU.
TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization
Introduction As large language models (LLMs) advance in software engineering tasks—ranging from code generation to bug fixing—performance optimization remains an…
Allen Institute for AI-Ai2 Unveils AutoDS: A Bayesian Surprise-Driven Engine for Open-Ended Scientific Discovery
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has introduced AutoDS (Autonomous Discovery via Surprisal), a groundbreaking prototype engine for open-ended…
Japan’s PM vows to stay on despite bruising election loss
The result could destabilise Japan’s government at a pivotal moment in trade negotiations with the US.
Brexit made businesses abandon the UK. Trump’s hefty EU tariffs could bring them back
President Trump’s threatened 30% tariffs on the EU might prompt some businesses to take another look at the U.K.
Singapore dollar exhibits safe-haven currency features. But it’s no yen or Swiss franc — yet
Experts agreed that Singapore’s currency holds potential to gradually acquire the status equivalent to that of the Swiss franc if…
How Huawei ascended from telecoms to China’s ‘jack of all trades’ AI leader
Despite being hindered by years of U.S. trade restrictions, Huawei has quietly emerged as one of the fiercest competitors across…
Building a Smart Python-to-R Code Converter with Gemini AI-Powered Validation and Feedback
In this tutorial, we delve into the creation of an intelligent Python-to-R code converter that integrates Google’s free Gemini API…
MIRIX: A Modular Multi-Agent Memory System for Enhanced Long-Term Reasoning and Personalization in LLM-Based Agents
Recent developments in LLM agents have largely focused on enhancing capabilities in complex task execution. However, a critical dimension remains…
China holds key lending rates as softening consumer sentiment persists in world’s second largest economy
The People’s Bank of China held the 1-year loan prime rate at 3.0% and 5-year LPR at 3.5%.
Can LLM Reward Models Be Trusted? Master-RM Exposes and Fixes Their Weaknesses
Generative reward models, where large language models (LLMs) serve as evaluators, are gaining prominence in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards…
Aug. 1 is ‘hard deadline’ for Trump’s tariffs, Commerce Secretary Lutnick says
President Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal” tariff deadline has shifted since April 2, but White House officials insist that Aug. 1 is…
Israel issues new evacuation orders in crowded central Gazan city
People in Deir al-Balah are told to leave, as the IDF prepares to launch its first ground offensive in the…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Enterprises: Secure Integration with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud- 2025 Update
Table of contents 1. MCP Overview & Ecosystem 2. AWS: MCP at Cloud Scale 3. Microsoft Azure: MCP in Copilot…
At least 14 dead in South Korea floods and landslides
There are fears the death toll will rise after raging floods destroyed roads, submerged buildings and ravaged farmland.
Global week ahead: Banking bellwethers and a tariffs waiting game
From Frankfurt to Milan, and Paris to London, next week it’s all about the banks.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares
It comes as part of a pre-planned arrangement on the heels of surging AI demand
At least 37 dead as tourist boat capsizes in Vietnam
The incident happened in Vietnam’s popular Ha Long Bay during bad weather, with five people still missing, local reports say.
NVIDIA AI Releases OpenReasoning-Nemotron: A Suite of Reasoning-Enhanced LLMs Distilled from DeepSeek R1 0528
NVIDIA AI has introduced OpenReasoning-Nemotron, a family of large language models (LLMs) designed to excel in complex reasoning tasks across…
Maybe Physics-Based AI Is the Right Approach: Revisiting the Foundations of Intelligence
Over the past decade, deep learning has revolutionized artificial intelligence, driving breakthroughs in image recognition, language modeling, and game playing.…
Deep Research Agents: A Systematic Roadmap for LLM-Based Autonomous Research Systems
A team of researchers from University of Liverpool, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, University of Oxford and University College London presents…
Syrian presidency announces ceasefire after deadly sectarian clashes in south
The move comes after days of clashes between Bedouin and Druze fighters in Suweida that have reportedly left hundreds dead.
The Definitive Guide to AI Agents: Architectures, Frameworks, and Real-World Applications (2025)
Table of contents What is an AI Agent? Why AI Agents Matter in 2025 Types of AI Agents Key Components…
‘30% is untenable’: From Irish whiskey to Italian cheese, Trump’s tariff threat rattles EU exporters
“At that 30% level … it will be a lose-lose situation,” one distillery boss told CNBC.
Building a Multi-Agent AI Research Team with LangGraph and Gemini for Automated Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a complete multi-agent research team system using LangGraph and Google’s Gemini API. We utilize role-specific…
You Don’t Need to Share Data to Train a Language Model Anymore—FlexOlmo Demonstrates How
The development of large-scale language models (LLMs) has historically required centralized access to extensive datasets, many of which are sensitive,…
AegisLLM: Scaling LLM Security Through Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems at Inference Time
The Growing Threat Landscape for LLMs LLMs are key targets for fast-evolving attacks, including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and sensitive data…
Trump sues Murdoch for libel over Jeffrey Epstein letter story
Trump had threatened to force Murdoch to “testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper”.
Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support
The change follows a ProPublica report that outlined how Microsoft’s use of Chinese engineers left U.S. defense clients vulnerable to…
Three killed in explosion at Los Angeles police training facility
Federal agents are investigating, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blast.
Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth
“Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” global affairs chief Joel Kaplan wrote in a post on LinkedIn…
Build real-time travel recommendations using AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI is transforming how businesses deliver personalized experiences across industries, including travel and hospitality. Travel agents are enhancing their…
‘There were bodies everywhere’: Druze residents describe ‘bloodbath’ in Syrian city Suweida
One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and “decide whether we should…
How the EU is preparing to reach a tariff deal in Trump’s game of chicken
The European Union is pushing to secure a trade deal with the U.S. ahead of President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1…
EU lowers price cap for Russian crude under new sanctions package
EU policymakers on Friday signaled that the price at which non-G7 countries could purchase Russian crude and access G7 logistics…
Fighter jet maker Saab pops 12% on profit beat amid European defense splurge
Saab reported better-than-expected sales growth and income for the second quarter.
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Agent: From Research to Real-World Automation
On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, transforming ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a unified AI agent capable of autonomously executing…
Israel’s stock market outperforms Middle East counterparts despite multi-front wars
Israel’s markets have been lifted by significant foreign investment and more recently by renewed investor confidence following its 12-day conflict…
Trump orders officials to ‘produce’ more Epstein documents after mounting pressure
Trump’s supporters and opponents alike have demanded more disclosures related to the disgraced financier.
GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Advancing General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
Vision-language models (VLMs) play a crucial role in today’s intelligent systems by enabling a detailed understanding of visual content. The…
Japan’s core inflation cools in June as expected, coming down from 29-month high as rice prices ease
Headline inflation in the country dropped to 3.3%, coming down from 3.5% in May.
Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI
Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) goes beyond statistical metrics like perplexity or bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) scores.…