Hamas rejects Gaza disarmament plan, Palestinian official says
The official tells the BBC that the armed group will not move forward with talks until Israel fully complies with…
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Iran war will hit UK growth the hardest of any rich economies, IMF says
The IMF said that the U.K. will be hardest hit out of all developed economies as a result of the…
The Iran war could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion, says Harvard academic
As efforts to reach a lasting settlement have so far proved unsuccessful, one Harvard academic estimates the total could end…
Spring AI SDK for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now Generally Available
Agentic AI is transforming how organizations use generative AI, moving beyond prompt-response interactions to autonomous systems that can plan, execute,…
China calls U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz ‘dangerous and irresponsible’
The Chinese foreign ministry said only a “comprehensive ceasefire” would help ease the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
NVIDIA and the University of Maryland Researchers Released Audio Flamingo Next (AF-Next): A Super Powerful and Open Large Audio-Language Model
Understanding audio has always been the multimodal frontier that lags behind vision. While image-language models have rapidly scaled toward real-world…
European markets set to rise on hopes that Iran peace talks can resume
European stocks are expected to open higher on Tuesday amid renewed hopes that Middle East peace talks could resume, despite…
China exports miss estimates in March, imports post best growth in more than four years
China’s export growth slowed in March as manufacturers grappled with surging energy costs, with the Iran war disrupting supplies, while…
Google ADK Multi-Agent Pipeline Tutorial: Data Loading, Statistical Testing, Visualization, and Report Generation in Python
In this tutorial, we build an advanced data analysis pipeline using Google ADK and organize it as a practical multi-agent…
Lebanon enters talks with Israel but with no cards to play
The Lebanese government go into peace talks with limited influence over the group.
Vance says ‘the ball is in Iran’s court’ to move peace talks further, as U.S. blockade takes effect
The U.S. team of Vance and special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made progress with Iran during the Islamabad…
Google AI Research Proposes Vantage: An LLM-Based Protocol for Measuring Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
Standardized tests can tell you whether a student knows calculus or can parse a passage of text. What they cannot…
Hungary’s next PM would pick up if Putin calls and tell him to stop Ukraine war
Russia has offered “pragmatic” relations, but Péter Magyar says he will not call Vladimir Putin himself.
A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial on NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo: Darcy Flow, FNOs, PINNs, Surrogate Models, and Inference Benchmarking
In this tutorial, we implement NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo on Colab and build a practical workflow for physics-informed machine learning. We start…
How to build effective reward functions with AWS Lambda for Amazon Nova model customization
Building effective reward functions can help you customize Amazon Nova models to your specific needs, with AWS Lambda providing the…
U.S. begins blockade of Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. blockade would apply to “any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” President…
UK ‘not supporting’ U.S. Iran blockade as France’s Macron confirms ‘multinational’ talks on the Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump had signaled that other countries would help the U.S. in its blockade.
Hormuz blockade could deepen world’s worst energy crisis — and risk a dangerous misstep
The U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to halt more tanker traffic, sending oil surging and risks…
An Implementation Guide to Building a DuckDB-Python Analytics Pipeline with SQL, DataFrames, Parquet, UDFs, and Performance Profiling
In this tutorial, we build a comprehensive, hands-on understanding of DuckDB-Python by working through its features directly in code on…
MiniMax Releases MMX-CLI: A Command-Line Interface That Gives AI Agents Native Access to Image, Video, Speech, Music, Vision, and Search
MiniMax, the AI research company behind the MiniMax omni-modal model stack, has released MMX-CLI — Node.js-based command-line interface that exposes…
From panic to pricing in: Are markets past ‘peak fear and sell-off’ despite oil price surge?
Investors appear to have already priced in much of the geopolitical risks and are growing less reactive to headlines.
Trump blasts Pope Leo for criticism of U.S. foreign policy
Leo, the first U.S.-born pope who hails from Chicago, has condemned Trump’s war effort with Iran.
Orbán era swept away by Péter Magyar’s Hungary election landslide
Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power is over, defeated by a 45-year-old ex-party insider who convinced a majority of Hungarians…
A Hands-On Coding Tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice Covering Speaker-Aware ASR, Real-Time TTS, and Speech-to-Speech Pipelines
In this tutorial, we explore Microsoft VibeVoice in Colab and build a complete hands-on workflow for both speech recognition and…
Oil prices surge above $100 as U.S. Navy to blockade Iran’s ports after peace talks fail
President Donald Trump said he ordered the U.S. Navy to find and interdict any ship in international waters that has…
Meta AI and KAUST Researchers Propose Neural Computers That Fold Computation, Memory, and I/O Into One Learned Model
Researchers from Meta AI and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have introduced Neural Computers (NCs) —…
A Coding Implementation of MolmoAct for Depth-Aware Spatial Reasoning, Visual Trajectory Tracing, and Robotic Action Prediction
In this tutorial, we walk through MolmoAct step by step and build a practical understanding of how action-reasoning models can…
Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade threat raises risks and leaves predicaments unchanged
The conflict is now a test of wills – Iran’s capacity to absorb strikes versus Trump’s tolerance for the war’s…
After Iran talks falter, the big question is ‘what happens next?’
Twenty-one hours was not enough to end 47 years of hostility between Iran and the US, writes the BBC’s Lyse…
Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail
Trump said the U.S. blockade is an effort to stop Iran from policing the strait and benefiting economically while the…
MiniMax Just Open Sourced MiniMax M2.7: A Self-Evolving Agent Model that Scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2
MiniMax has officially open-sourced MiniMax M2.7, making the model weights publicly available on Hugging Face. Originally announced on March 18,…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-450M: a 450M-Parameter Vision-Language Model with Bounding Box Prediction, Multilingual Support, and Sub-250ms Edge Inference
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-VL-450M, an updated version of its earlier LFM2-VL-450M vision-language model. The new release introduces bounding box…
Hungarians decide whether to end 16 years of Orbán rule and elect rival
Most polls favour Péter Magyar, who fronts a grassroots party, but PM Viktor Orbán has been in a defiant mood.
‘It’s a special thing to be on Planet Earth’: Artemis crew welcomed home in Houston
The four astronauts flew around the Moon in a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans…
Forget XRP Forecasts: The ‘Delusional’ Crowd Could Have The Last Laugh
Back in 2016 and 2017, when XRP was worth less than a penny, Ripple’s then-CTO David Schwartz laid out a…
Researchers from MIT, NVIDIA, and Zhejiang University Propose TriAttention: A KV Cache Compression Method That Matches Full Attention at 2.5× Higher Throughput
Long-chain reasoning is one of the most compute-intensive tasks in modern large language models. When a model like DeepSeek-R1 or…
How to Build a Secure Local-First Agent Runtime with OpenClaw Gateway, Skills, and Controlled Tool Execution
In this tutorial, we build and operate a fully local, schema-valid OpenClaw runtime. We configure the OpenClaw gateway with strict…
Artemis crew home safely after completing historic mission to the Moon
Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans.
Final push for votes as challenger to Hungary’s Orbán senses victory
As Péter Magyar’s opposition movement leads in the polls, tens of thousands of anti-Orbán supporters fill Heroes’ Square in Budapest.
U.S.-Iran talks set to begin in Pakistani capital after delegations arrive
Pakistan confirmed the arrival of Iran’s parliament speaker and foreign minister ahead of talks with a U.S. delegation led by…
How Knowledge Distillation Compresses Ensemble Intelligence into a Single Deployable AI Model
Complex prediction problems often lead to ensembles because combining multiple models improves accuracy by reducing variance and capturing diverse patterns.…
Historic Vance-Ghalibaf talks must bridge deep distrust
Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases VimRAG: a Multimodal RAG Framework that Uses a Memory Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard technique for grounding large language models in external knowledge — but the moment…
Lebanon and Israel officials to meet in US on Tuesday
A senior Lebanese official earlier told the BBC that Lebanon would only take part in talks if a ceasefire was…
A Coding Guide to Markerless 3D Human Kinematics with Pose2Sim, RTMPose, and OpenSim
In this tutorial, we build and run a complete Pose2Sim pipeline on Colab to understand how markerless 3D kinematics works…
NVIDIA Releases AITune: An Open-Source Inference Toolkit That Automatically Finds the Fastest Inference Backend for Any PyTorch Model
Deploying a deep learning model into production has always involved a painful gap between the model a researcher trains and…
Consumer sentiment hits record low, inflation fears rise amid Iran war
The university’s headline index of consumer sentiment tumbled to 47.6, down 10.7% from March to its lowest on record.
Ireland gridlocked by fuel protests as Iran War drives prices higher
Protestors are taking issue with the government’s response to the spike in fuel prices since the onset of the Iran…
U.S. oil climbs above $100 as U.S.-Iran ceasefire fails to boost tanker traffic via Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Iran to “stop now” if it was charging tankers to transit the Strait…
What this real-world oil price says about the level of stress in the energy market
Energy analysts warn that the Iran ceasefire is not likely to alleviate acute signs of stress in the physical oil…