Rubio demands Panama ‘reduce China influence’ over canal
Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the country amid US threats to retake control of the Panama Canal.
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Trump warns the EU and UK are in line for tariffs — but a U.S. deal with Britain might be on the cards
U.S. President Donald Trump said trade tariffs would be imposed on the European Union and U.K., but he signaled that…
EU leaders meet to talk defense but Trump and his tariffs loom large
European leaders are gathering to discuss defense — but the latest moves by U.S. President Donald Trump will loom large…
EU kicks off landmark AI law enforcement as first batch of restrictions enter into force
On Sunday, the deadline for prohibitions on certain AI systems and staff technology literacy requirements officially lapsed.
OpenAI Introduces Deep Research: An AI Agent that Uses Reasoning to Synthesize Large Amounts of Online Information and Complete Multi-Step Research Tasks
OpenAI has introduced Deep Research, a tool designed to assist users in conducting thorough, multi-step investigations on a variety of…
Researchers from University of Waterloo and CMU Introduce Critique Fine-Tuning (CFT): A Novel AI Approach for Enhancing LLM Reasoning with Structured Critique Learning
Traditional approaches to training language models heavily rely on supervised fine-tuning, where models learn by imitating correct responses. While effective…
Trump tariffs-led spike in energy prices is temporary, oil prices could ‘plummet’ as global growth slows
Oil prices are likely to fall in the longer run after the initial jump following Donald Trump’s implementation of hefty…
Transformer-Based Modulation Recognition: A New Defense Against Adversarial Attacks
The fast development of wireless communication technologies has increased the application of automatic modulation recognition (AMR) in sectors such as…
China’s January factory growth misses expectations ahead of U.S. tariffs, Caixin PMI shows
The tariffs came as China’s economy has already been battling a grinding slowdown.
Canadian fans boo US anthem as tariffs spur ‘buy local’ pledge
Canadians have begun booing the US anthem at sports games, signalling the depth of anger at steep US tariffs.
Creating a Medical Question-Answering Chatbot Using Open-Source BioMistral LLM, LangChain, Chroma’s Vector Storage, and RAG: A Step-by-Step Guide
In this tutorial, we’ll build a powerful, PDF-based question-answering chatbot tailored for medical or health-related content. We’ll leveRAGe the open-source…
‘I don’t know how he survived’, says freed Israeli hostage’s niece
The niece of freed Israeli hostage Gadi Moses said he mostly ate bread and olives and did math to distract…
‘Is it for a day or four years?’ Tariff uncertainty spooks small businesses
Entrepreneurs in the US, Mexico and Canada worry that even a short trade war could push up prices and cost…
‘It doesn’t have to be this way’: Canada, Mexico and China respond to Trump’s tariffs
Canada, Mexico and China have responded to Trump’s long-promised tariffs on imports, with Canada immediately retaliating.
Creating an AI Agent-Based System with LangGraph: Adding Persistence and Streaming (Step by Step Guide)
In our previous tutorial, we built an AI agent capable of answering queries by surfing the web. However, when building…
Can AI Understand Subtext? A New AI Approach to Natural Language Inference
Understanding implicit meaning is a fundamental aspect of human communication. Yet, current Natural Language Inference (NLI) models struggle to recognize…
Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with long-threatened import tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China.
Trump hits China, Mexico and Canada with tariffs
The US president will tax imports from America’s three largest trading partners but retaliation is expected.
Trump’s tariffs hit China hard before – this time, it’s ready
Trump has threatened a 10% levy from 1 February – but his campaign included 60% tariffs against Chinese imports.
Creating an AI-Powered Tutor Using Vector Database and Groq for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Step by Step Guide
Currently, three trending topics in the implementation of AI are LLMs, RAG, and Databases. These enable us to create systems…
Researchers from Stanford, UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich Introduces WARP: An Efficient Multi-Vector Retrieval Engine for Faster and Scalable Search
Multi-vector retrieval has emerged as a critical advancement in information retrieval, particularly with the adoption of transformer-based models. Unlike single-vector…
Three Israeli hostages and dozens of Palestinian prisoners released
Saturday’s handover was less chaotic than the exchange a few days ago, after concerns were expressed over safety.
Medical jet with six on board crashes into Philadelphia neighbourhood
The Learjet was carrying four crew, a child patient and her mother when it crashed on Friday.
Intel Labs Explores Low-Rank Adapters and Neural Architecture Search for LLM Compression
Large language models (LLMs) have become indispensable for various natural language processing applications, including machine translation, text summarization, and conversational…
Mistral AI Releases the Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501: A Latency-Optimized 24B-Parameter Model Released Under the Apache 2.0 License
Developing compact yet high-performing language models remains a significant challenge in artificial intelligence. Large-scale models often require extensive computational resources,…
Canada, Mexico and China face tariffs on Saturday, White House says
Canadian oil will be hit with a lower levy of 10%, likely by mid-February, President Trump says.
Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback CD-RLHF: An AI Framework that Mitigates the Diversity Alignment Trade-off In Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly reliant on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for fine-tuning across various applications,…
Harnessing Amazon Bedrock generative AI for resilient supply chain
From pandemic shutdowns to geopolitical tensions, recent years have thrown our global supply chains into unexpected chaos. This turbulent period…
Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China begin Saturday, White House says
The White House confirmed Friday that the president will be leveling aggressive tariffs this weekend on major U.S. trading partners.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet with Trump at White House
Nvidia CEO is set to have his first meeting with President Donald Trump since the beginning of his second administration.
How Travelers Insurance classified emails with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering
This is a guest blog post co-written with Jordan Knight, Sara Reynolds, George Lee from Travelers. Foundation models (FMs) are…
Commerzbank posts 20% hike in annual profit and launches new share buyback as it wards off UniCredit
Commerzbank on Friday unexpectedly released quarterly results, touting “record” annual profit and announcing a new share buyback scheme.
Germany’s inflation steady at 2.8% in January ahead of February election
The reading was also in line with a forecast from economists polled by Reuters.
How DeepSeek and next-generation AI agents could erode value of language models
Executives at leading AI labs say that large language models like those from OpenAI and Big Tech firms risk becoming…
Meta AI Proposes EvalPlanner: A Preference Optimization Algorithm for Thinking-LLM-as-a-Judge
The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved their ability to generate long-form responses. However, evaluating these…
Agentic AI: The Foundations Based on Perception Layer, Knowledge Representation and Memory Systems
Agentic AI stands at the intersection of autonomy, intelligence, and adaptability, offering solutions that can sense, reason, and act in…
Black boxes found as officials examine staffing shortage in DC plane crash
The collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter is suspected to have killed all 67 onboard.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How China’s DeepSeek could benefit India
DeepSeek-R1, developed by a Chinese AI lab, is potentially highly competitive and shockingly cost-effective, and could be a boon to…
DeepSeek-R1 model now available in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are announcing that DeepSeek AI’s first-generation frontier model, DeepSeek-R1, is available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock…
Apple misses on iPhone revenue, sees 11% drop in China sales
Although Apple’s overall sales rose during the quarter, the company’s closely watched iPhone sales actually declined slightly on a year-over-year…
OpenAI in talks to raise funding that would value AI startup at up to $340 billion
SoftBank would contribute as much as $25 billion to OpenAI’s funding round and become the largest investor.
Open Thoughts: An Open Source Initiative Advancing AI Reasoning with High-Quality Datasets and Models Like OpenThoughts-114k and OpenThinker-7B
The critical issue of restricted access to high-quality reasoning datasets has limited open-source AI-driven logical and mathematical reasoning advancements. While…
Streamline grant proposal reviews using Amazon Bedrock
Government and non-profit organizations evaluating grant proposals face a significant challenge: sifting through hundreds of detailed submissions, each with unique…
Decoupling Tokenization: How Over-Tokenized Transformers Redefine Vocabulary Scaling in Language Models
Tokenization plays a fundamental role in the performance and scalability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite being a critical component,…
Yandex Develops and Open-Sources Perforator: An Open-Source Tool that can Save Businesses Billions of Dollars a Year on Server Infrastructure
Yandex, a global tech company, develops and open-sources Perforator, an innovative tool for continuous real-time monitoring and analysis of servers…
GDP grew at a 2.3% pace in the fourth quarter, less than expected
GDP was expected to grow at a seasonally adjusted 2.5% annualized pace in the fourth quarter of 2025.
DeepSeek’s AI claims have shaken the world — but not everyone’s convinced
DeepSeek claims its R1 outperforms OpenAI’s latest o1 model despite costing a fraction of the price the U.S. AI lab…
Euro zone economy flatlines in fourth quarter, missing expectations for slight expansion
Economists polled by Reuters had expected growth of 0.1% over the period, following a larger-than-expected 0.4% expansion in the third…
German economy shrinks by 0.2% in fourth quarter, more than expected
The German economy shrank by 0.2% quarter-on-quarter in fourth quarter of 2024, according to preliminary data released by Germany’s statistics…
What we know so far about Washington DC plane crash
The aircraft collided with a military helicopter that was on a training flight as it approached the runway.