Biden attacks Trump in first speech since leaving White House
The ex-president uses the speech to criticise the Trump administration’s cuts to the welfare agency.
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Google faces £5 billion lawsuit in the UK for abusing ‘near-total dominance’ in search
A class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal claims Google abused its position to restrict competing…
MIT Researchers Introduce DISCIPL: A Self-Steering Framework Using Planner and Follower Language Models for Efficient Constrained Generation and Reasoning
Language models predict sequences of words based on vast datasets and are increasingly expected to reason and perform complex linguistic…
China replaces top international trade negotiator as talks with Washington stall
The appointment makes Li a key member of China’s trade negotiation team as Beijing deals with trade disputes with the…
Critical chip firm ASML posts lower-than-expected net bookings in first quarter
ASML reported net bookings of 3.94 billion euros ($4.47 billion) for the first quarter, versus a Reuters reported forecast of…
China’s first-quarter GDP tops estimates at 5.4% as growth momentum continues amid tariff worries
Several investment banks have moved to slash China’s growth forecasts this year, with most doubting Beijing can achieve the official target of…
‘This is so hard’: The Chinese small businesses brought to a standstill by Trump’s tariffs
Stock is piling up in warehouses as exporters grapple with new levies that total up to 145%, reports the BBC’s…
Transformers Can Now Predict Spreadsheet Cells without Fine-Tuning: Researchers Introduce TabPFN Trained on 100 Million Synthetic Datasets
Tabular data is widely utilized in various fields, including scientific research, finance, and healthcare. Traditionally, machine learning models such as…
Nvidia says it will record $5.5 billion charge tied to H20 processors exported to China
Nvidia will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and…
SQL-R1: A Reinforcement Learning-based NL2SQL Model that Outperforms Larger Systems in Complex Queries with Transparent and Accurate SQL Generation
Natural language interface to databases is a growing focus within artificial intelligence, particularly because it allows users to interact with…
Clario enhances the quality of the clinical trial documentation process with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Kim Nguyen and Shyam Banuprakash from Clario. Clario is a leading provider of endpoint data…
From Logic to Confusion: MIT Researchers Show How Simple Prompt Tweaks Derail LLM Reasoning
Large language models are increasingly used to solve math problems that mimic real-world reasoning tasks. These models are tested for…
U.S.’ inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS
As China imposes rare earths export controls, the U.S. is unable to make up the shortfall, according to the Center…
Sudan’s years of war – BBC smuggles in phones to reveal hunger and fear
Rare accounts of life in el-Fasher – the last major city in Darfur controlled by the Sudanese army.
Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack
The US president said that you “don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size” and hope people give…
‘Good chance’ of UK-U.S. trade deal, JD Vance says, as Trump ‘really loves’ Britain
“I think there’s a good chance that, yes, we’ll come to a great agreement that’s in the best interest of…
Luxury bellwether LVMH drops 8% on sales miss, dragging peers down
Sales were “overall below the most conservative buyside expectations,” Citi analysts said, with wines and spirits suffering the sharpest decline.
A Coding Guide to Build a Finance Analytics Tool for Extracting Yahoo Finance Data, Computing Financial Analysis, and Creating Custom PDF Reports
Extracting and analyzing stock data is key to informed decision-making in the financial landscape. This tutorial offers a comprehensive guide…
Traditional RAG Frameworks Fall Short: Megagon Labs Introduces ‘Insight-RAG’, a Novel AI Method Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation through Intermediate Insight Extraction
RAG frameworks have gained attention for their ability to enhance LLMs by integrating external knowledge sources, helping address limitations like…
Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funds after university rejects demands
The White House had sent a sweeping list of requirements it said were designed to fight antisemitism on campus.
Trump tariffs won’t lead supply chains back to U.S., companies will go low-tariff globe-hopping: CNBC survey
A U.S. manufacturing boom is an unlikely result of Trump’s tariffs, with costs too high and a global hunt for…
Good cops, bad cops – how Trump’s shifting tariff team kept world guessing
Competing voices from the White House fuelled uncertainty before the president announced a sweeping pause, experts say.
THUDM Releases GLM 4: A 32B Parameter Model Competing Head-to-Head with GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3
In the rapidly evolving landscape of large language models (LLMs), researchers and organizations face significant challenges. These include enhancing reasoning…
El Salvador’s leader will not return man deported from the US in error
Nayib Bukele has won praise from Donald Trump for imprisoning some “very bad people” deported from the US.
Multimodal Models Don’t Need Late Fusion: Apple Researchers Show Early-Fusion Architectures are more Scalable, Efficient, and Modality-Agnostic
Multimodal artificial intelligence faces fundamental challenges in effectively integrating and processing diverse data types simultaneously. Current methodologies predominantly rely on…
Fed Governor Waller sees tariff inflation as ‘transitory’ in ‘Tush Push’ comparison
The central banker embraced. a term that got the central bank in trouble during the last bout of inflation.
Build multi-agent systems with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock
Large language models (LLMs) have raised the bar for human-computer interaction where the expectation from users is that they can…
Small Models, Big Impact: ServiceNow AI Releases Apriel-5B to Outperform Larger LLMs with Fewer Resources
As language models continue to grow in size and complexity, so do the resource requirements needed to train and deploy…
UK retailers warn of Chinese ‘dumping’ amid tariffs, call for end to tax loophole
British retailers have warned that Chinese companies risk flooding the U.K. with low cost goods amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
Why Trump’s nuclear talks with Iran could be far more successful than Biden’s
“The Iranians are, I think, a little bit more desperate than they were in 2022, and they are faced with…
Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them
President Trump says Chinese-made electronics are simply moving to a different levy “bucket”.
Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in Europe citing ‘challenging’ economic environment
Sony said it has made the “tough decision” to raise prices against the “backdrop of a challenging economic environment.”
A Coding Implementation for Advanced Multi-Head Latent Attention and Fine-Grained Expert Segmentation
In this tutorial, we explore a novel deep learning approach that combines multi-head latent attention with fine-grained expert segmentation. By…
China exports skyrocket over 12% in March while imports extend declines as trade war worsens
China has set an ambitious growth target of “around 5%” — a goal seen harder to achieve given the prospects…
Ukraine’s allies condemn Russia over deadly missile attack
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Sunday’s attack, which killed 34 people and injured 117, as “horrifying”.
Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right: NYU Researchers Introduce a Hidden-State Probe That Enables Efficient Self-Verification and Reduces Token Usage by 24%
Artificial intelligence systems have made significant strides in simulating human-style reasoning, particularly mathematics and logic. These models don’t just generate…
Code Implementation to Building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Connecting It with Claude Desktop
In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll build an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that allows Claude Desktop to fetch stock news…
China urges Trump to correct mistakes and heed ‘rational voices’ on reciprocal tariffs
China’s Commerce Ministry called tariff exemptions a “small step” but urged the U.S. to “completely abolish” reciprocal tariffs.
At least 32 people killed in Russian ballistic missile attack on Sumy
Photos and videos of the aftermath show bloodied bodies scattered in the streets around the impact of the missiles.
Gaza hospital hit by Israeli strike, Hamas says
The group called the alleged attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital a “horrific crime” committed by Israel, which said it was…
A Coding Implementation on Introduction to Weight Quantization: Key Aspect in Enhancing Efficiency in Deep Learning and LLMs
In today’s deep learning landscape, optimizing models for deployment in resource-constrained environments is more important than ever. Weight quantization addresses…
Step by Step Guide on Converting Text to High-Quality Audio Using an Open Source TTS Model on Hugging Face: Including Detailed Audio File Analysis and Diagnostic Tools in Python
In this tutorial, we demonstrate a complete end-to-end solution to convert text into audio using an open-source text-to-speech (TTS) model…
Trump exempts smartphones and computers from new tariffs
The move comes after concerns that tech prices could skyrocket, as many gadgets are made in China.
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs
Financial markets have been roiled since President Trump imposed stiff tariffs on China, where Apple and other tech companies make…
Nuclear talks between US and Iran begin in Oman
It is the highest level of talks since Trump’s first term in office, but it’s not clear if the two…
Customs ‘glitch’ impacting Trump tariffs fixed after lasting for more than 10 hours
A Customs notice reported a glitch in a system shippers use to exempt freight from tariffs. Logistics experts say it…
Google AI Introduce the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE): A Large Language Model Optimized for Diagnostic Reasoning, and Evaluate its Ability to Generate a Differential Diagnosis
Developing an accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) is a fundamental part of medical care, typically achieved through a step-by-step process that…
Step by Step Coding Guide to Build a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) Recommendation System with PyTorch
This tutorial will walk you through using PyTorch to implement a Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) recommendation system. NCF extends traditional…
Witkoff meets Putin as Trump urges Russia to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine ceasefire
The US envoy holds a third round of talks with the Russian president as agreement on a truce remains elusive.
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) Launches OLMoTrace: Real-Time Tracing of LLM Outputs Back to Training Data
Understanding the Limits of Language Model Transparency As large language models (LLMs) become central to a growing number of applications—ranging…