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.
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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.
Amazon submits bid for TikTok as ban deadline nears
TikTok’s future in the U.S. hangs in the balance ahead of a potential ban on April 5.
Open AI Releases PaperBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Assessing AI Agents’ Abilities to Replicate Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Research
The rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research underscores the importance of accurately evaluating AI agents’…
Ray jobs on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: scalable and resilient distributed AI
Foundation model (FM) training and inference has led to a significant increase in computational needs across the industry. These models…
Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models: A Latent Space Steering Approach
Hallucination remains a significant challenge in deploying Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), as these models often generate text misaligned with visual…
Inside Mandalay: BBC finds huge devastation and little help for Myanmar quake survivors
Yogita Limaye is the first foreign journalist to enter Myanmar since a huge earthquake hit the war-torn country.
Tesla shares rise on unconfirmed report Elon Musk could be leaving DOGE post soon
Tesla shares rose after Politico reported that CEO Elon Musk could leave his post at the so-called Department of Government…
Nomic Open Sources State-of-the-Art Multimodal Embedding Model
Nomic has announced the release of “Nomic Embed Multimodal,” a groundbreaking embedding model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on visual document…
Deadly strikes in Gaza as Israel expands offensive to seize ‘large areas’
At least 19 people are reported killed in Jabalia as Israel’s defence minister says it is expanding ground operations.
Markets won’t get the certainty they want from Trump’s tariff announcement
Questions will remain over how and which countries will respond, and what the impact on inflation and interest rates will…
Investors are turning bearish on the U.S. dollar as Trump tariffs loom
Market watchers told CNBC they saw upside for certain currencies amid “erosion of confidence in the dollar.”
Meta AI Proposes Multi-Token Attention (MTA): A New Attention Method which Allows LLMs to Condition their Attention Weights on Multiple Query and Key Vectors
Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly benefit from attention mechanisms, enabling the effective retrieval of contextual information. Nevertheless, traditional attention methods…
Norway urged to scrap ban on $1.8 trillion wealth fund investing in weapons makers
The debate over how Norway’s wealth fund should respond to the security landscape comes at a time of higher defense…
A Comprehensive Guide to LLM Routing: Tools and Frameworks
Deploying LLMs presents challenges, particularly in optimizing efficiency, managing computational costs, and ensuring high-quality performance. LLM routing has emerged as…
Three big unknowns ahead of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs
The president is expected to unveil details of his plans for a wider set of import taxes. But what tariffs…
Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)
We’re excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants — a suite of specialized…
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Terminal/Command Prompt
The terminal (on Mac/Linux) or command prompt (on Windows) is a powerful tool that allows you to interact with your…
Trump’s tariff gambit will raise the stakes for an economy already looking fragile
President Donald Trump is set Wednesday to begin the biggest gamble of his nascent second term.
This AI Paper from ByteDance Introduces a Hybrid Reward System Combining Reasoning Task Verifiers (RTV) and a Generative Reward Model (GenRM) to Mitigate Reward Hacking
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is crucial for aligning LLMs with human values and preferences. Despite introducing non-RL alternatives…
A burnt-out shell: BBC goes inside Sudan’s capital after army’s victory
Our correspondent enters Khartoum just days after Sudan’s army recaptured it from the Rapid Support Forces after a six-month offensive.
Trump’s upcoming tariffs ‘will be effective immediately,’ White House says
Trump’s reciprocal tariffs follow other import duties he has already announced, including tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico and…
Generate compliant content with Amazon Bedrock and ConstitutionalChain
Generative AI has emerged as a powerful tool for content creation, offering several key benefits that can significantly enhance the…
AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export
AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to build business applications, empowering a new set…
Mandalay was the ‘city of gold’ – now it reeks of death
Residents in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, speak of despair and sleepless nights since last week’s earthquake.
Euro zone inflation dips to 2.2% in March as U.S. tariffs loom
Euro zone inflation dipped to 2.2% in March, as expected, according to flash data from statistics agency Eurostat published Tuesday.
French politics to get ‘even messier’ as far-right figurehead Le Pen rails against ban, analysts warn
Analysts say the judgment barring Marine Le Pen from running for public office plunges France into more political uncertainty.
Meet ReSearch: A Novel AI Framework that Trains LLMs to Reason with Search via Reinforcement Learning without Using Any Supervised Data on Reasoning Steps
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant progress across various tasks, particularly in reasoning capabilities. However, effectively integrating reasoning processes…
BBC Verify: What satellite images reveal about Myanmar’s quake
Myanmar’s military government says at least 2,000 people were killed in last week’s 7.7 magnitude quake.
How to Use Git and Git Bash Locally: A Comprehensive Guide
Table of contents Introduction Installation Windows macOS Linux Verifying Installation Git Bash Basics Navigation Commands File Operations Keyboard Shortcuts Git…
Trump tariffs jolt Asian automakers — Toyota likely set for most pain
U.S. President Donald Trump last Wednesday announced sweeping 25% tariffs on cars “not made in the U.S.,” sending shockwaves through…
South Korea ends its longest short-selling ban in history after systemic reforms
Monday marks the end of Korea’s longest short selling ban, which was enforced in November 2023 after a series of…
Le Pen attacks ban from running for public office as ‘political decision’
The far-right National Rally leader’s sentence jeopardises her chances of running for president in 2027.
How to Build a Prototype X-ray Judgment Tool (Open Source Medical Inference System) Using TorchXRayVision, Gradio, and PyTorch
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build a prototype X-ray judgment tool using open-source libraries in Google Colab. By…
Shock Le Pen verdict rocks French far right
The far-right figurehead has been barred from running for public office for five years, throwing her plans into disarray.
Russia still ‘working with US’ after Trump says he is ‘angry’ with Putin
In its first response to Trump’s criticism of Putin, the Kremlin tried to play down the tensions between the two…
Build agentic systems with CrewAI and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-authored with Joao Moura and Tony Kipkemboi from CrewAI. The enterprise AI landscape is undergoing a seismic…
Myanmar quake: ‘I feel guilty – our people need us the most now’
They fled war – now Myanmar’s diaspora feel helpless watching their country struggle after the quake.
German inflation eases to 2.3% in March, slightly lower than expected
German inflation came in at a lower-than-expected 2.3% in March, preliminary data from the country’s statistics office Destatis showed Monday.
Huawei 2024 revenue surges to near-record high as China smartphone comeback takes hold
Huawei has been trying to adapt its business to deal with U.S. sanctions that have restricted its access to key…
Verdict due in French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement trial
Marine Le Pen’s poltical future hangs in the balance with judges in Paris set to deliver their verdict in an…
A Code Implementation of Using Atla’s Evaluation Platform and Selene Model via Python SDK to Score Legal Domain LLM Outputs for GDPR Compliance
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to evaluate the quality of LLM-generated responses using Atla’s Python SDK, a powerful tool…
VideoMind: A Role-Based Agent for Temporal-Grounded Video Understanding
LLMs have shown impressive capabilities in reasoning tasks like Chain-of-Thought (CoT), enhancing accuracy and interpretability in complex problem-solving. While researchers…
China’s factory activity expands at fastest pace in a year, official survey shows
Chinese policymakers pledged to step up stimulus push to achieve a growth target of “around 5%” this year and cushion…
Meet Hostinger Horizons: A No-Code AI Tool that Lets You Create, Edit, and Publish Custom Web Apps Without Writing a Single Line of Code
In the evolving landscape of web development, the emergence of no-code platforms has significantly broadened access to application creation. Among…
U.S. tech giants are betting big on humanoid robots — but China’s already ahead, analysts say
American tech giants are increasingly focusing on the humanoid robotics space, but analysts say they’re at risk of falling behind…
More Myanmar quake survivors pulled from rubble as hundreds still missing
Efforts to find hundreds still missing continue, as rescue teams and aid struggle to reach the worst-hit areas.
Understanding AI Agent Memory: Building Blocks for Intelligent Systems
AI agent memory comprises multiple layers, each serving a distinct role in shaping the agent’s behavior and decision-making. By dividing…
Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ about higher car prices
Trump says he hopes foreign carmakers raise prices as it means people will buy US-made cars.
Novo Nordisk’s diabetes pill slashes risk of cardiovascular complications by 14% after four years
The results pave the way for Rybelsus to become a new treatment option for people living with diabetes and established…