Syrian security forces accused of executing dozens of Alawites
A UK-based wartime monitor says 52 Alawite minority members of former President Bashar al-Assad were executed.
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Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington
Tesla’s stock has dropped for seven straight weeks, a stretch that dates back to the beginning of Donald Trump’s second…
Trump ‘strongly considering’ large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia
The president has reversed US policy and says he trusts Putin and finds dealing with Ukraine difficult.
Accelerating insurance policy reviews with generative AI: Verisk’s Mozart companion
This post is co-authored with Sundeep Sardana, Malolan Raman, Joseph Lam, Maitri Shah and Vaibhav Singh from Verisk. Verisk (Nasdaq:…
Researchers from AMLab and CuspAI Introduced Erwin: A Tree-based Hierarchical Transformer for Large-scale Physical Systems
Deep learning faces difficulties when applied to large physical systems on irregular grids, especially when interactions occur over long distances…
Worst violence in Syria since Assad fall as dozens killed in clashes
A group that has been monitoring the civil war said 71 people died in clashes between the two sides.
Announcing general availability of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases GraphRAG with Amazon Neptune Analytics
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases GraphRAG (GraphRAG), a capability in Amazon…
Alibaba Researchers Propose START: A Novel Tool-Integrated Long CoT Reasoning LLM that Significantly Enhances Reasoning Capabilities by Leveraging External Tools
Large language models have made significant strides in understanding and generating human-like text. Yet, when it comes to complex reasoning…
Trump 2.0 is leaving investors ‘overwhelmed’ — and strategists warn the volatility isn’t over
Global markets have seen choppy trade as investors react to the U.S. President’s tariff policies.
‘Very concerned’ about Europe’s struggling economy, European Central Bank policymaker Centeno says
On Thursday, the ECB had revised its gross domestic product expectations for the euro area lower.
European leaders back defense spend push amid uncertainty over Trump aid to Ukraine
European leaders have upped the ante on defense spending plans as they look to support Kyiv and fill a potential…
Trump blames ‘globalists’ for stock market sell-off
President Donald Trump also reiterated that his tariffs could, at least briefly, cause “disruption” in the equity markets.
Paris Gare du Nord trains halted after WW2 bomb found
The unexploded bomb was found on tracks near the station, with all trains, including the Eurostar, cancelled.
A Coding Guide to Sentiment Analysis of Customer Reviews Using IBM’s Open Source AI Model Granite-3B and Hugging Face Transformers
In this tutorial, we will look into how to easily perform sentiment analysis on text data using IBM’s open-source Granite…
China’s exports miss forecasts as U.S. tariffs hit, imports record sharpest decline since July 2023
Chinese exporters have been rushing to front-load outbound shipments on anticipation of more tariffs as U.S. President Donald Trump returned…
Trump signs executive order establishing U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve
President Trump is launching a strategic bitcoin reserve as part of a new executive order.
Trump says he’s not even looking at stock market, tariffs will make U.S. ‘very strong’
Tariff decisions have ‘nothing to do’ with the stock market, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
Zelensky hopes for ‘meaningful’ US-Ukraine talks next week
The talks in Saudi Arabia come as both sides seek to heal a rift after presidents Zelensky and Trump clashed…
Starter Guide For Running Large Language Models LLMs
Running large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges due to their hardware demands, but numerous options exist to make these…
AMD Releases Instella: A Series of Fully Open-Source State-of-the-Art 3B Parameter Language Model
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the need for accessible, efficient language models is increasingly evident. Traditional large-scale models have…
CASS: Injecting Object-Level Context for Advanced Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation
This paper was just accepted at CVPR 2025. In short, CASS is as an elegant solution to Object-Level Context in…
Meta AI Introduces Brain2Qwerty: Advancing Non-Invasive Sentence Decoding with MEG and Deep Learning
Neuroprosthetic devices have significantly advanced brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), enabling communication for individuals with speech or motor impairments due to conditions…
Build a Multi-Agent System with LangGraph and Mistral on AWS
Agents are revolutionizing the landscape of generative AI, serving as the bridge between large language models (LLMs) and real-world applications.…
US ‘destroying’ world order, Ukraine’s ambassador to UK says
Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s comments come amid an apparent cooling of tensions between Kyiv and Washington.
European Central Bank cuts rates again, says policy is becoming ‘meaningfully less restrictive’
The ECB cut interest rates by 25 basis points and updated the language in its decision to say monetary policy…
Alibaba shares soar after Chinese tech giant unveils new DeepSeek rival
Chinese tech giant Alibaba said its latest AI reasoning model, QwQ-32B, “rivals cutting-edge reasoning model, e.g., DeepSeek-R1.”
China has more room to act on fiscal policy amid global uncertainties, finance minister says
China has more room to act on fiscal policy amid domestic and external uncertainties, Finance Minister Lan Fo’an told reporters…
Seven & i to replace CEO, list North American subsidiary in second half of 2026
Isaka will step down from May 27, with lead outside director Stephen Dacus taking up the role on the same…
MVGD from Toyota Research Institute: Zero Shot 3D Scene Reconstruction
Toyota Research Institute Researchers have unveiled Multi-View Geometric Diffusion (MVGD), a groundbreaking diffusion-based architecture that directly synthesizes high-fidelity novel RGB…
A Step by Step Guide to Deploy Streamlit App Using Cloudflared, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Plotly for Real-Time Cryptocurrency Web Scraping and Visualization
In this tutorial, we’ll walk through a reliable and hassle-free approach using Cloudflared, a tool by Cloudflare that provides a…
Europe ‘at turning point in history’, French president warns
Leaders are also expected to discuss how the EU can further support Kyiv after the US suspended aid to Ukraine.
‘Tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war’ — China says it’s ready to fight U.S. until the end
Beijing announced Tuesday additional tariffs as high as 15% on certain U.S. goods, starting from March 10 and a series…
China doubles down on AI and tech innovation as Trump ratchets up trade pressure
The undercurrent of China’s annual parliamentary meetings this week is U.S. trade tensions — and how Chinese technology is offsetting…
Qwen Releases QwQ-32B: A 32B Reasoning Model that Achieves Significantly Enhanced Performance in Downstream Task
Despite significant progress in natural language processing, many AI systems continue to encounter difficulties with advanced reasoning, especially when faced…
US pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine
It remains unclear if the pause on intelligence sharing is partial or complete, and how long it will remain in…
Innovating at speed: BMW’s generative AI solution for cloud incident analysis
This post was co-authored with Johann Wildgruber, Dr. Jens Kohl, Thilo Bindel, and Luisa-Sophie Gloger from BMW Group. The BMW Group—headquartered…
Researchers at Stanford Introduces LLM-Lasso: A Novel Machine Learning Framework that Leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to Guide Feature Selection in Lasso ℓ1 Regression
Feature selection plays a crucial role in statistical learning by helping models focus on the most relevant predictors while reducing…
Time series forecasting with LLM-based foundation models and scalable AIOps on AWS
Time series forecasting is critical for decision-making across industries. From predicting traffic flow to sales forecasting, accurate predictions enable organizations…
US confirms direct talks with Hamas over Gaza hostages
Israel was consulted prior to the talks, according to the White House, after reports said the two sides were discussing…
Germany’s fiscal U-turn could be a ‘game changer’ for the country’s sluggish economy, analysts say
Leaders of the likely incoming coalition government announced plans to reform the debt brake and create a special investment fund.
China says it is ready for ‘any type of war’ with US
The comments come in response to US tariffs and as Beijing boosts defence spending by 7.2%.
European Central Bank to make ‘last easy rate cut’ as tariffs, higher fiscal spending loom
Disagreement among policymakers may be set to increase as the neutral rate swims into view.
London isn’t alone in facing listing challenges, LSEG CEO says – it’s a global problem
London’s capital markets have suffered over the past year, with the U.K. recording its lowest number of initial public offerings…
Seven moments from Trump’s big speech
The president declares “America is back” as he spars with Democrats and gives a shout-out to Elon Musk.
Adidas sales rise 19% in the fourth quarter, beating expectations
Adidas on Wednesday reported an expectation-beating uptick in fourth-quarter sales, as the retailer shakes off weakness in North America and…
Trump says he is ‘just getting started’ in speech to US Congress
The US president celebrated Elon Musk’s Doge, defended his trade war and vowed to press on with his whirlwind agenda…
Beyond Monte Carlo Tree Search: Unleashing Implicit Chess Strategies with Discrete Diffusion
Large language models (LLMs) generate text step by step, which limits their ability to plan for tasks requiring multiple reasoning…
Researchers from FutureHouse and ScienceMachine Introduce BixBench: A Benchmark Designed to Evaluate AI Agents on Real-World Bioinformatics Task
Modern bioinformatics research is characterized by the constant emergence of complex data sources and analytical challenges. Researchers routinely confront tasks…
China reportedly targets around 5% GDP growth in 2025 amid trade war worries
The country’s annual parliamentary gathering started Tuesday with the opening ceremony of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference — a…
Trump could scale back Canada, Mexico tariffs Wednesday, Lutnick says
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a compromise with Canada and Mexico on Trump’s controversial tariffs will “probably” come “tomorrow.”