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.
Category: Business
Euro zone economy expands by better-than-expected 0.4% in the first quarter
The figure was ahead of the 0.2% forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, and comes amid severe tariff headwinds.
Germany’s economy expands by 0.2% in the first quarter, in line with expectations
A Reuters poll had projected 0.2% growth from the previous quarter.
Beyond the Hype: Google’s Practical AI Guide Every Startup Founder Should Read
In 2025, AI continues to reshape how startups build, operate, and compete. Google’s Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups report…
Tutorial on Seamlessly Accessing Any LinkedIn Profile with exa-mcp-server and Claude Desktop Using the Model Context Protocol MCP
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of the exa-mcp-server alongside Claude Desktop to access any LinkedIn…
British bank Barclays reports profit beat in the first quarter
British bank Barclays on Wednesday reported slight beats on revenue and profit, boosted by stronger investment bank performance.
Can Coding Agents Improve Themselves? Researchers from University of Bristol and iGent AI Propose SICA (Self-Improving Coding Agent) that Iteratively Enhances Its Own Code and Performance
The development of agentic systems—LLMs embedded within scaffolds capable of tool use and autonomous decision-making—has made significant progress. Yet, most…
Swiss giant UBS posts profit beat, warns of ‘material risk’ to global growth from U.S. tariffs
UBS on Wednesday beat bottom line expectations as the lender seeks to rein in steep share declines that have cost it the…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: A tech boom is underway
China’s tech world isn’t getting distracted by whether the U.S. and China will talk on trade.
China’s factory activity drops to a near two-year low in April as trade tariffs bite
Recent reports suggested some tariff relief on the ground as the U.S. and China sought to blunt the economic impacts…
Trump celebrates 100 days in office by touting record and blasting foes
He tells a crowd in Michigan that he is using his presidency to deliver “profound change”.
Reinforcement Learning for Email Agents: OpenPipe’s ART·E Outperforms o3 in Accuracy, Latency, and Cost
OpenPipe has introduced ART·E (Autonomous Retrieval Tool for Email), an open-source research agent designed to answer user questions based on…
Super Micro shares dive after server maker issues weak preliminary financials
Super Micro blamed lower-than-expected preliminary results on decisions from clients during the quarter.
How to Create a Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client Using Gemini
In this tutorial, we will be implementing a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client using Gemini. By the end of…
UniME: A Two-Stage Framework for Enhancing Multimodal Representation Learning with MLLMs
The CLIP framework has become foundational in multimodal representation learning, particularly for tasks such as image-text retrieval. However, it faces…
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says one trade deal is done, but waiting on approval from unnamed country’s leaders
Lutnick said a trade deal is “done, done, done, done” but declined to say which country he was talking about.
ThinkPRM: A Generative Process Reward Models for Scalable Reasoning Verification
Reasoning with LLMs can benefit from utilizing more test compute, which depends on high-quality process reward models (PRMs) to select…
Canada will deal with Trump ‘on our terms’, Carney tells BBC
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Canada’s PM says he will only visit the US when there is a “serious discussion…
UK announces draft rules for crypto industry, touts greater collaboration with U.S.
U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves on Tuesday announced plans for a “comprehensive regulatory regime for crypto assets.”
Responsible AI in action: How Data Reply red teaming supports generative AI safety on AWS
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping industries worldwide, empowering businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences, streamline processes, and push innovation at…
Spain rules out cyber attack – but what could have caused power cut?
The Spanish grid operator said the preliminary assessment suggests there was no cyber attack.
Adidas warns it will raise prices on all U.S. products due to tariffs
“Higher tariffs will eventually cause higher costs for all our products for the US market,” Adidas said in a statement.
Iran blames ‘negligence’ for port blast as death toll rises to 70
The interior minister said “some individuals deemed responsible” for Saturday’s blast at Shahid Rajaee are being questioned.
A Coding Guide to Different Function Calling Methods to Create Real-Time, Tool-Enabled Conversational AI Agents
Function calling lets an LLM act as a bridge between natural-language prompts and real-world code or APIs. Instead of simply…
Oil giant BP posts 49% drop in first-quarter profit on weaker crude prices
British oil giant BP on Tuesday posted slightly weaker-than-expected first-quarter net profit, following a recent strategic reset and a slump…
Deutsche Bank posts 39% jump in first-quarter profit, above expectations
German banks stand to benefit as the country’s political environment settles under the potential stewardship of a centrist coalition.
HSBC announces share buyback of up to $3 billion as first-quarter results top expectations
The bank’s profit declined 25% on a year-on-year basis. Revenue fell 15% from last year. Profit before tax, however, soared…
Alibaba Qwen Team Just Released Qwen3: The Latest Generation of Large Language Models in Qwen Series, Offering a Comprehensive Suite of Dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Models
Despite the remarkable progress in large language models (LLMs), critical challenges remain. Many models exhibit limitations in nuanced reasoning, multilingual…
China insists no tariff talks underway with Trump and Xi or top aides, despite U.S. claims
President Trump has held up tariffs as a negotiating tool with China and claimed talks are ongoing, but Beijing says…
‘Everything went off’: How Spain and Portugal’s massive power cut unfolded
Residents stuck on trains, phones not working, checkouts off: How a massive power cut caused chaos.
ViSMaP: Unsupervised Summarization of Hour-Long Videos Using Meta-Prompting and Short-Form Datasets
Video captioning models are typically trained on datasets consisting of short videos, usually under three minutes in length, paired with…
Customize Amazon Nova models to improve tool usage
Modern large language models (LLMs) excel in language processing but are limited by their static training data. However, as industries…
Power outage causes chaos in Spain and Portugal
Millions of people are without without electricity, while internet and phone networks are also down.
Evaluate Amazon Bedrock Agents with Ragas and LLM-as-a-judge
AI agents are quickly becoming an integral part of customer workflows across industries by automating complex tasks, enhancing decision-making, and…
Treasury Secretary Bessent says it’s up to China to de-escalate trade tensions
The comments come with markets on edge over the direction of tariffs.
Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
Ukraine has not yet responded to the ceasefire announcement, which the Kremlin says will run until 11 May.
Deliveroo shares soar to three-year high after U.S. giant DoorDash makes takeover bid
Deliveroo’s board received a cash offer of 180 pence per Deliveroo share, valuing the company at around $3.6 billion
Dozens killed in US strike on Yemen migrant centre, Houthis say
Houthi-run media report that the bodies of 68 people have been recovered from the centre, which was holding African migrants.
German fiscal boost won’t outweigh tariff drag for euro zone, IMF’s Europe head says
Following downgrades to its growth outlooks for the U.S., U.K. and many Asian countries, the International Monetary Fund last week…
A Coding Tutorial of Model Context Protocol Focusing on Semantic Chunking, Dynamic Token Management, and Context Relevance Scoring for Efficient LLM Interactions
Managing context effectively is a critical challenge when working with large language models, especially in environments like Google Colab, where…
Canada votes in pivotal election transformed by Trump
The US president came to dominate on the campaign trail, with the contest being viewed as a referendum on how…
Chinese factories are stopping production and looking for new markets as U.S. tariffs bite
Chinese manufacturers are pausing production and turning to new markets as the impact of U.S. tariffs sets in, according to…
Researchers from Sea AI Lab, UCAS, NUS, and SJTU Introduce FlowReasoner: a Query-Level Meta-Agent for Personalized System Generation
LLM-based multi-agent systems characterized by planning, reasoning, tool use, and memory capabilities form the foundation of applications like chatbots, code…
Death toll in Vancouver car ramming attack rises to 11
The unidentified 30-year-old suspect had a history of mental health issues, according to Vancouver police.
Americans are getting flashbacks to 2008 as tariffs stoke recession fears
‘It’s the old poors teaching the new poors,’ said one content creator.
‘Number of people’ dead after car driven into crowd in Canada, police say
A number of people have been killed and injured in an incident at a street festival in Vancouver, police say.
ByteDance Introduces QuaDMix: A Unified AI Framework for Data Quality and Diversity in LLM Pretraining
The pretraining efficiency and generalization of large language models (LLMs) are significantly influenced by the quality and diversity of the…
Implementing Persistent Memory Using a Local Knowledge Graph in Claude Desktop
A Knowledge Graph Memory Server allows Claude Desktop to remember and organize information about a user across multiple chats. It…
Google AI Unveils 601 Real-World Generative AI Use Cases Across Industries
Google Cloud has just released an extraordinary compendium of 601 real-world generative AI (GenAI) use cases from some of the…