Microsoft AI Releases RD-Agent: An AI-Driven Tool for Performing R&D with LLM-based Agents
Research and development (R&D) is crucial in driving productivity, particularly in the AI era. However, conventional automation methods in R&D…
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Israel strikes Lebanon after first rocket attack since ceasefire
Benjamin Netanyahu has promised “to act forcefully” after the rocket attack into northern Israel.
Heathrow Airport reopens after nearby fire — but travellers still face major disruption
British Airways said it expects around 85% of its Saturday Heathrow schedule to run as planned, but warned customers to…
Trump revokes status of 530,000 Latin Americans
Certain migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will lose their deportation shield.
Code Implementation of a Rapid Disaster Assessment Tool Using IBM’s Open-Source ResNet-50 Model
In this tutorial, we explore an innovative and practical application of IBM’s open-source ResNet-50 deep learning model, showcasing its capability…
Heavyweight boxing legend George Foreman dies aged 76, says family
Foreman won his first world heavyweight championship in 1973 then did it again in 1994 when he was 45.
Kyutai Releases MoshiVis: The First Open-Source Real-Time Speech Model that can Talk About Images
Artificial intelligence has made significant strides in recent years, yet integrating real-time speech interaction with visual content remains a complex…
Will recapture of presidential palace change course of Sudan war?
Sudan’s army has retaken the presidential palace from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but what’s next after two years of…
Microsoft rallies in last 10 minutes of trading to avoid first eight-week losing streak since 2008
Microsoft faces competition in cloud computing from companies such as Google, which is looking to boost its security business with…
Elon Musk tells Tesla employees ‘hang onto your stock,’ urges vandals to ‘stop being psycho’
In an all-hands livestreamed meeting on Thursday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on some of protests and instances of…
NVIDIA AI Open Sources Dynamo: An Open-Source Inference Library for Accelerating and Scaling AI Reasoning Models in AI Factories
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to the development of complex models capable of understanding and generating…
Build a generative AI enabled virtual IT troubleshooting assistant using Amazon Q Business
Today’s organizations face a critical challenge with the fragmentation of vital information across multiple environments. As businesses increasingly rely on…
Sudan army recaptures presidential palace after two years of war
It follows days of heavy fighting as the army took control of areas previously held by a rival force.
Travel chaos as London’s Heathrow remains closed. Here’s what airlines are telling passengers
The U.K.’s biggest airport will remain closed until 11:59 p.m on Friday, Heathrow said, with disruption expected to affect hundreds…
British pharma giant AstraZeneca to invest $2.5 billion in new China hub
British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced on Friday that it will invest $2.5 billion in a research and development center in Beijing,…
Netanyahu fires Israel’s security chief over ‘distrust’
The Israeli PM cited Shin Bet’s failure to anticipate the 7 October attack – but the move has sparked outrage…
Heathrow Airport closes after a nearby fire causes power outage, prompting major travel disruption
London’s Heathrow Airport closed on Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused a power outage, airport officials…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: Elon Musk’s Starlink gets access to India, but its success rests on two billionaires
Elon Musk’s Starlink is entering the Indian market. Analysts see it as a breakthrough for a U.S. firm, but navigating…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Semantic Search Engine with Sentence Transformers, FAISS, and all-MiniLM-L6-v2
Semantic search goes beyond traditional keyword matching by understanding the contextual meaning of search queries. Instead of simply matching exact…
China’s property market edges toward an inflection point
UBS analysts on Wednesday became the latest to raise expectations that China’s struggling real estate market is close to stabilizing.
Japan core inflation rose 3% in February, bolstering expectations of interest rate hikes
Japan’s core inflation beat expectations and came in at 3% in February, government data showed on Friday, bolstering the case…
Nike expects sales will plunge in current quarter as it faces tariffs, sliding consumer confidence
Nike is trying to execute a turnaround under new CEO Elliott Hill.
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ and American private equity firm ECP make $25 billion bet on powering U.S. data centers
The UAE has worked to strengthen ties with the U.S. on AI, and is seeking greater access to American technology…
Ukraine and Russia to hold parallel talks next week
Volodymyr Zelensky says Vladimir Putin “must stop making unnecessary demands” to achieve a peace deal.
NVIDIA AI Just Open Sourced Canary 1B and 180M Flash – Multilingual Speech Recognition and Translation Models
In the realm of artificial intelligence, multilingual speech recognition and translation have become essential tools for facilitating global communication. However,…
Political free fall: Turkey faces protests, investor flight after opposition leader’s arrest
Concern over stability and economic security in Turkey could damage financial inflows at a time when investor confidence in the…
Streamline AWS resource troubleshooting with Amazon Bedrock Agents and AWS Support Automation Workflows
As AWS environments grow in complexity, troubleshooting issues with resources can become a daunting task. Manually investigating and resolving problems…
EU delays implementing first retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods to middle of April
“The change represents a slight adjustment to the timeline and does not diminish the impact of our response,” an EU…
Bank of England holds interest rates, warns global trade uncertainty has intensified
The Bank of England on Thursday announced its latest interest rate decision, warning of increased global uncertainty.
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund invests $740 million in London’s Covent Garden
Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund on Thursday said that it struck a deal to buy a quarter of London’s…
Swiss National Bank makes quarter-point interest rate cut, cites ‘low inflationary pressure’
Switzerland’s central bank on Thursday announced its latest interest rate decision.
China’s central bank follows U.S. Fed in keeping rates steady as tariff threats pressure yuan
Chinese top officials have pledged to ramp up monetary easing measures, including interest rate cuts “at appropriate times.”
Integrate generative AI capabilities into Microsoft Office using Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI is rapidly transforming the modern workplace, offering unprecedented capabilities that augment how we interact with text and data.…
A Coding Implementation to Build a Document Search Agent (DocSearchAgent) with Hugging Face, ChromaDB, and Langchain
In today’s information-rich world, finding relevant documents quickly is crucial. Traditional keyword-based search systems often fall short when dealing with…
Trump hails ‘very good’ phone call with Zelensky
The US president says peace efforts are “very much on track” after an hour-long conversation.
Cloning, Forking, and Merging Repositories on GitHub: A Beginner’s Guide
This comprehensive guide walks you through the essential GitHub operations of cloning, forking, and merging repositories. Whether you’re new to…
Fed holds interest rates steady, still sees two cuts coming this year
The Federal Reserve in a closely watched decision Wednesday held the line on benchmark interest rates though still indicated that…
The Fed will update its rate projections Wednesday. Here’s what to expect
If market pricing is correct, there’s virtually no chance central bank policymakers budge from the current level of their key…
Tool choice with Amazon Nova models
In many generative AI applications, a large language model (LLM) like Amazon Nova is used to respond to a user…
From innovation to impact: How AWS and NVIDIA enable real-world generative AI success
As we gather for NVIDIA GTC, organizations of all sizes are at a pivotal moment in their AI journey. The…
Google, Apple hit with EU antitrust actions under cloud of Trump tariff threats
EU regulators are taking steps to rein in Google and Apple on antitrust charges, even as U.S. President Donald Trump…
Amazon Q Business now available in Europe (Ireland) AWS Region
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Q Business—a fully managed generative-AI powered assistant that you can configure to…
Turkish lira, stock market drop after Istanbul mayor and Erdogan rival arrested
Imamoglu, the popular 53-year-old mayor was seen as the next opposition party candidate for the Turkish presidency.
Tencent fourth-quarter profit surges 90% on gaming and advertising boost
Tencent on Wednesday posted a fourth-quarter beat on top and bottom line driven by a surge in gaming and advertising…
Russia and Ukraine carry out attacks after Putin-Trump call
The attacks came hours after Vladimir Putin said Russia would stop targeting Ukrainian energy sites.
China markets are set to outperform Wall Street as U.S. ‘exceptionalism’ comes to a pause
Chinese markets’ rally has been gaining steam, and market watchers are expecting it to outperform its American counterparts as U.S.…
China is tackling weak consumption with child care subsidies
Among the top five priorities China has laid out for boosting consumption is child care subsidies.
NVIDIA Open-Sources cuOpt: An AI-Powered Decision Optimization Engine–Unlocking Real-Time Optimization at an Unprecedented Scale
Every day, organizations face complex logistical challenges—from optimizing delivery routes and managing supply chains to streamlining production schedules. These tasks…
IBM and Hugging Face Researchers Release SmolDocling: A 256M Open-Source Vision Language Model for Complete Document OCR
Converting complex documents into structured data has long posed significant challenges in the field of computer science. Traditional approaches, involving…
Bank of Japan keeps rates steady as Trump tariffs cast a shadow over economic outlook
The BOJ’s decision comes just ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy meeting, where the central bank is expected to…