Bitcoin drops Sunday evening as cryptocurrencies join global market rout
Last week, bitcoin bucked the broader market meltdown, holding above $80,000 and rising to end the week.
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Defiant Trump officials vow to stay course as countries scramble over tariffs
The US commerce secretary says a 10% “baseline” tariff on imports will definitely stay in place for weeks.
Transformer Meets Diffusion: How the Transfusion Architecture Empowers GPT-4o’s Creativity
OpenAI’s GPT-4o represents a new milestone in multimodal AI: a single model capable of generating fluent text and high-quality images…
British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover pauses U.S. shipments over Trump tariffs
Jaguar Land Rover, which is one of Britain’s biggest carmakers, described the U.S. as “an important market” for the firm’s…
Anthropic’s Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness: Investigating Hidden Reasoning, Reward Hacks, and the Limitations of Verbal AI Transparency in Reasoning Models
A key advancement in AI capabilities is the development and use of chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, where models explain their steps…
Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza
Israeli forces shot dead 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.
Anti-Trump protests in cities across US declare ‘hands off’
Thousands of protesters have gathered for the most visible opposition movement of Trump’s second term.
Meta AI Just Released Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick: The First Set of Llama 4 Models
Today, Meta AI announced the release of its latest generation multimodal models, Llama 4, featuring two variants: Llama 4 Scout…
Scalable Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards: Generative Reward Modeling for Unstructured, Multi-Domain Tasks
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in enhancing LLMs’ reasoning and coding abilities, particularly in domains where…
NVIDIA AI Released AgentIQ: An Open-Source Library for Efficiently Connecting and Optimizing Teams of AI Agents
Enterprises increasingly adopt agentic frameworks to build intelligent systems capable of performing complex tasks by chaining tools, models, and memory…
Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings
The footage was reportedly filmed by a Palestinian paramedic who was killed by Israeli forces along with 14 others in…
China says ‘market has spoken’ after Trump tariffs spark global stocks rout
China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said “the market has spoken” following the U.S. imposition of sweeping new tariffs.
Meet GenSpark Super Agent: The All-in-One AI Agent that Autonomously Think, Plan, Act, and Use Tools to Handle All Your Everyday Tasks
GenSpark Super Agent (often just called GenSpark) is a new general-purpose AI agent designed to autonomously handle complex tasks across…
A Code Implementation to Building a Context-Aware AI Assistant in Google Colab Using LangChain, LangGraph, Gemini Pro, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) Principles with Tool Integration Support
In this hands-on tutorial, we bring the core principles of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to life by implementing a…
Building Your AI Q&A Bot for Webpages Using Open Source AI Models
In today’s information-rich digital landscape, navigating extensive web content can be overwhelming. Whether you’re researching for a project, studying complex…
Stocks plunge as China retaliates to Trump tariffs
Leading indexes in the US dropped more than 5% on Friday, marking the worst week since 2020.
Trump’s tariff rates for other countries radically larger than World Trade data
A report suggests the trade-weighted average tariff rates in most countries are much different than the figures touted by the…
Prompting for the best price-performance
In the drive to remain competitive, businesses today are turning to AI to help them minimize cost and maximize efficiency.…
Augment Code Released Augment SWE-bench Verified Agent: An Open-Source Agent Combining Claude Sonnet 3.7 and OpenAI O1 to Excel in Complex Software Engineering Tasks
AI agents are increasingly vital in helping engineers efficiently handle complex coding tasks. However, one significant challenge has been accurately…
NVIDIA AI Releases HOVER: A Breakthrough AI for Versatile Humanoid Control in Robotics
The future of robotics has advanced significantly. For many years, there have been expectations of human-like robots that can navigate…
China and US are at each other’s throats on tariffs, and neither is backing down
China’s new 34% tax on US imports shows it is ready to tussle with Trump.
U.S. energy secretary’s former company crushed by oil sell-off after Trump tariff escalation
Liberty Energy shares have tumbled as the firm founded by President Donald Trump’s energy secretary Chris Wright comes under heavy…
Evaluate models or RAG systems using Amazon Bedrock Evaluations – Now generally available
Organizations deploying generative AI applications need robust ways to evaluate their performance and reliability. When we launched LLM-as-a-judge (LLMaJ) and…
The EU could hit Wall Street where it hurts with its tariff response — the tech giants
The European Union has stressed that it is considering all options in its countermeasures — but restrictions on Big Tech…
South Korea’s president has been removed from power: What happens now?
The constitutional court unanimously upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol.
China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.
Beijing measures comes in the wake of duties imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this week
El-Erian says U.S. recession risks are now ‘uncomfortably high’
“If the U.S. slows down, the rest of the world will slow down more,” the veteran economist warned.
Meet Open-Qwen2VL: A Fully Open and Compute-Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced the integration of visual and textual modalities, enabling progress in tasks such as…
China’s response to new U.S. tariffs will likely focus more on stimulus, building trade ties
China’s reaction to new U.S. tariffs will likely focus on domestic stimulus and strengthening ties with trading partners, analysts said.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court upholds impeachment of President Yoon, ousting him from office
This starts a 60-day countdown where an election must be held to select the next president.
Researchers from Dataocean AI and Tsinghua University Introduces Dolphin: A Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition ASR Model Optimized for Eastern Languages and Dialects
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies have advanced significantly, yet notable disparities remain in their ability to accurately recognize diverse languages.…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How far is India from creating its own DeepSeek?
India’s growing economy and tech-savvy population position it well to create a DeepSeek competitor. But the country faces obstacles in…
Trump tariffs trigger steepest US stocks drop since 2020 as China, EU vow to hit back
Nike and Apple were among brands worst hit, but Trump maintained the US economy would ultimately “boom”.
Introduction to MCP: The Ultimate Guide to Model Context Protocol for AI Assistants
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard (open-sourced by Anthropic) that defines a unified way to connect AI…
Europe hopes for Trump tariffs deal but prepares for the worst
The EU’s message is that it is ready to negotiate with the US but at the same time poised to…
How AWS Sales uses generative AI to streamline account planning
Every year, AWS Sales personnel draft in-depth, forward looking strategy documents for established AWS customers. These documents help the AWS…
AI Workforce: using AI and Drones to simplify infrastructure inspections
Inspecting wind turbines, power lines, 5G towers, and pipelines is a tough job. It’s often dangerous, time-consuming, and prone to…
The biggest winners and losers in Europe as Trump announces sweeping tariffs
Global markets and businesses were thrown into disarray by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on Thursday.
Auto giants surprisingly resilient as sweeping U.S. tariffs spare Canada and Mexico for now
Shares of some of the world’s biggest automakers appeared surprisingly resilient on Thursday.
Trump will ‘buckle under pressure’ if Europe bands together over tariffs, German economy minister says
U.S. President Donald Trump could change his trade policies if he comes under pressure from trading partners, German economy minister…
Snowflake Proposes ExCoT: A Novel AI Framework that Iteratively Optimizes Open-Source LLMs by Combining CoT Reasoning with off-Policy and on-Policy DPO, Relying Solely on Execution Accuracy as Feedback
Text-to-SQL translation, the task of transforming natural language queries into structured SQL statements, is essential for facilitating user-friendly database interactions.…
Advancing Vision-Language Reward Models: Challenges, Benchmarks, and the Role of Process-Supervised Learning
Process-supervised reward models (PRMs) offer fine-grained, step-wise feedback on model responses, aiding in selecting effective reasoning paths for complex tasks.…
‘Absolutely nothing good’ coming out of Trump’s tariff announcement: Analysts react to latest U.S. levies
Analysts generally had a pessimistic take on the announcement, with some even predicting an increased risk of a recession for…
EU preparing further countermeasures against U.S. tariffs if negotiations fail, EC President von der Leyen says
The EC president said that Trump’s move was a “major blow” to the world economy.
China urges U.S. to ‘immediately’ cancel reciprocal tariffs, vows counter-measures
U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a 10% baseline tariffs on most imported goods from global trading partners.
Salesforce AI Introduce BingoGuard: An LLM-based Moderation System Designed to Predict both Binary Safety Labels and Severity Levels
The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly influenced interactive technologies, presenting both benefits and challenges. One prominent issue…
Meloni says Trump tariffs are ‘wrong’ as world leaders react
The Italian PM is among the world leaders reacting to Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement.
Enhancing Strategic Decision-Making in Gomoku Using Large Language Models and Reinforcement Learning
LLMs have significantly advanced NLP, demonstrating strong text generation, comprehension, and reasoning capabilities. These models have been successfully applied across…
Trump to charge tariffs of up to 50% on ‘worst offenders’ globally
The president says the US has been “pillaged, raped and plundered” for years by international trade partners.
Apple leads a drop in tech stocks after Trump tariff announcement
Tech stocks fell in late trading Wednesday following President Donald Trump’s announcement of reciprocal tariffs.