Australian PM wins second term with increased majority
Anthony Albanese’s Labor has seen swings towards it in almost every area of the country.
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Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings drop more than expected as Buffett warns of tariff uncertainty
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter results on Saturday that showed a steep drop in earnings from the year-earlier period.
LLMs Can Now Reason in Parallel: UC Berkeley and UCSF Researchers Introduce Adaptive Parallel Reasoning to Scale Inference Efficiently Without Exceeding Context Windows
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in reasoning capabilities, exemplified by breakthrough systems like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeekR1,…
LLMs Can Learn Complex Math from Just One Example: Researchers from University of Washington, Microsoft, and USC Unlock the Power of 1-Shot Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
Recent advancements in LLMs such as OpenAI-o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi-1.5 have significantly improved their performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks.…
Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’
Germany’s foreign office says history shows that right-wing extremism “needs to be stopped”, after criticism from the White House.
Building a Zapier AI-Powered Cursor Agent to Read, Search, and Send Gmail Messages using Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) alongside Zapier AI to…
Subject-Driven Image Evaluation Gets Simpler: Google Researchers Introduce REFVNLI to Jointly Score Textual Alignment and Subject Consistency Without Costly APIs
Text-to-image (T2I) generation has evolved to include subject-driven approaches, which enhance standard T2I models by incorporating reference images alongside text…
Temu halts shipping direct from China as de minimis tariff loophole is cut off
Earlier this week, Temu increased prices and added “import charges” ranging from 130% to 150% on products shipped direct from…
From ELIZA to Conversation Modeling: Evolution of Conversational AI Systems and Paradigms
TL;DR: Conversational AI has transformed from ELIZA’s simple rule-based systems in the 1960s to today’s sophisticated platforms. The journey progressed…
Build a gen AI–powered financial assistant with Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration
The Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration feature gives developers the flexibility to create and coordinate multiple AI agents, each specialized for…
WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
In this post, we showcase how Dr. Kori Ramajoo, Dr. Sonia Brownsett, Prof. David Copland, from QARC, and Scott Harding,…
London’s FTSE 100 is on track for record-breaking gains — and market watchers think it may have further to run
The blue-chip index is on course for its longest-ever run of daily gains.
Trump calls on Fed once again to lower rates after solid April jobs report
President Donald Trump issued his latest call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, following a better-than-expected jobs…
Ireland fines TikTok 530 million euros for sending EU user data to China
Ireland’s privacy regulator said Friday that TikTok infringed the bloc’s GDPR data protection law over transfers of European user data…
Euro zone inflation unchanged at 2.2% in April, missing expectations for a move lower
Economists polled by Reuters had been expecting the reading to come in at 2.1% in April.
Gaza activist ship ‘attacked by drones’ off coast of Malta, NGO says
The Maltese government said a fire onboard the ship was “brought under control overnight” and that it was being monitored…
Inside the deal: Roche and Zealand Pharma’s $5.3 billion obesity drug gambit
The ballooning obesity drug market may have a new contender after Roche struck a $5.3 billion deal to develop Danish biotech Zealand…
JetBrains Open Sources Mellum: A Developer-Centric Language Model for Code-Related Tasks
JetBrains has officially open-sourced Mellum, a purpose-built 4-billion-parameter language model tailored for software development tasks. Developed from the ground up,…
Training LLM Agents Just Got More Stable: Researchers Introduce StarPO-S and RAGEN to Tackle Multi-Turn Reasoning and Collapse in Reinforcement Learning
Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when trained as autonomous agents in interactive environments. Unlike static tasks, agent settings…
Standard Chartered first-quarter profits beat expectations on strong growth in wealth management
Standard Chartered’s reported profit before taxation for the three months ended in March was $2.103 billion, up from $1.91 billion…
Xiaomi introduced MiMo-7B: A Compact Language Model that Outperforms Larger Models in Mathematical and Code Reasoning through Rigorous Pre-Training and Reinforcement Learning
With rising demand for AI systems that can handle tasks involving multi-step logic, mathematical proofs, and software development, researchers have…
Tracking a smuggler behind deadly Atlantic migrant crossing
BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost…
Building a REACT-Style Agent Using Fireworks AI with LangChain that Fetches Data, Generates BigQuery SQL, and Maintains Conversational Memory
In this tutorial, we will explore how to leverage the capabilities of Fireworks AI for building intelligent, tool-enabled agents with…
China says it’s evaluating U.S. overtures to initiate talks on trade
The development could potentially pave the way for the world’s two largest economies to start talks to resolve a trade…
Apple shares fall as Cook says ‘very difficult’ to predict tariff costs beyond June
Apple expects tariffs to add $900 million to its costs for the current quarter, assuming no other major changes occur,…
Best practices for Meta Llama 3.2 multimodal fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock
Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual…
DeepSeek-AI Released DeepSeek-Prover-V2: An Open-Source Large Language Model Designed for Formal Theorem, Proving through Subgoal Decomposition and Reinforcement Learning
Formal mathematical reasoning has evolved into a specialized subfield of artificial intelligence that requires strict logical consistency. Unlike informal problem…
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling ‘tall tales’ in its defense of U.S. AI chip restrictions on China
President Donald Trump is reportedly working on updating the chip restrictions, adding another layer of uncertainty to the already contentious…
Salesforce AI Research Introduces New Benchmarks, Guardrails, and Model Architectures to Advance Trustworthy and Capable AI Agents
Salesforce AI Research has outlined a comprehensive roadmap for building more intelligent, reliable, and versatile AI agents. The recent initiative…
Extend large language models powered by Amazon SageMaker AI using Model Context Protocol
Organizations implementing agents and agent-based systems often experience challenges such as implementing multiple tools, function calling, and orchestrating the workflows…
Meta AI Introduces First Version of Its Llama 4-Powered AI App: A Standalone AI Assistant to Rival ChatGPT
Meta has officially entered the standalone AI assistant arena with the launch of its new Meta AI app, unveiled at…
Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble
Initial unemployment claims posted an unexpected increase last week in a potential trouble sign for the wobbling U.S. economy.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to leave role, US media reports
Waltz was under pressure after a journalist was mistakenly added to a group chat in which senior officials were discussing…
UK stocks choppy amid best run in 8 years; Novo Nordisk jumps 5%
The FTSE 100 ended Wednesday 0.37% higher, continuing its longest winning run since late 2016 into early 2017.
Seven takeaways from US-Ukraine resources deal
What this will and won’t change for US assistance to Ukraine, three years into the war.
Microsoft AI Released Phi-4-Reasoning: A 14B Parameter Open-Weight Reasoning Model that Achieves Strong Performance on Complex Reasoning Tasks
Despite notable advancements in large language models (LLMs), effective performance on reasoning-intensive tasks—such as mathematical problem solving, algorithmic planning, or…
Auto giants ditch financial guidance as industry reels from Trump tariff chaos
The corporate updates come shortly after Trump imposed a 25% tariff on automotive imports into the U.S. earlier in the…
Meta AI Introduces ReasonIR-8B: A Reasoning-Focused Retriever Optimized for Efficiency and RAG Performance
Addressing the Challenges in Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval Despite notable progress in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, retrieving relevant information for complex, multi-step…
A Step-by-Step Coding Guide to Integrate Dappier AI’s Real-Time Search and Recommendation Tools with OpenAI’s Chat API
In this tutorial, we will learn how to harness the power of Dappier AI, a suite of real-time search and…
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation: Boost function calling accuracy while reducing cost and latency
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is generally available, and it addresses the fundamental challenge many organizations face when deploying generative AI:…
US and Ukraine inch towards critical minerals deal
Ukraine’s deputy leader is heading to Washington to sign an agreement the White House has been pushing for.
Multimodal AI on Developer GPUs: Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B with 50% Lower VRAM Usage and Nearly-7B Model Performance
Multimodal foundation models have shown substantial promise in enabling systems that can reason across text, images, audio, and video. However,…
Microsoft shares jump on earnings, revenue beat as Azure cloud business grows 33%
The company’s Azure cloud growth exceeded Wall Street consensus.
Mem0: A Scalable Memory Architecture Enabling Persistent, Structured Recall for Long-Term AI Conversations Across Sessions
Large language models can generate fluent responses, emulate tone, and even follow complex instructions; however, they struggle to retain information…
Build public-facing generative AI applications using Amazon Q Business for anonymous users
Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that answers question, provides summaries, generates content, and securely completes tasks based…
Trump blames Biden after GDP shrinks in first quarter, says growth will ‘take a while’
President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor and defended his sweeping tariffs after new data showed the U.S. economy contracting last…
Diagnosing and Self- Correcting LLM Agent Failures: A Technical Deep Dive into τ-Bench Findings with Atla’s EvalToolbox
Deploying large language model (LLM)-based agents in production settings often reveals critical reliability issues. Accurately identifying the causes of agent…
Toxic mushroom meal was ‘terrible accident’, says woman on trial for murder
Erin Patterson admits lying to police about her relatives’ deaths, but will argue they were a “terrible accident”.
Life inside Iraq’s ‘Forbidden Zone’ controlled by Turkey
Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.