Trump objected to Zelenskyy’s tone and body language in Oval Office clash, White House says
Zelenskyy challenged the idea that Ukraine can rely on diplomatic guarantees by Russia, whose leader Vladimir Putin launched the war…
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Zelensky wants US to ‘stand more firmly’ on Ukraine’s side
US support is crucial, Zelensky says hours after the bust-up with Trump at the White House.
European leaders back Zelensky after Trump clash
The Ukrainian president thanks European leaders for their support after a flurry of messages on social media.
Zelenskyy won’t apologize to Trump, but calls clash ‘not good for both sides’
The Ukraine president spoke on Fox News hours after a loud argument with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance…
Analysis: Trump-Zelensky row signals major crisis for Nato
Doubts are growing about the US commitment to European security outside Ukraine, says the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.
This AI Paper Introduces Agentic Reward Modeling (ARM) and REWARDAGENT: A Hybrid AI Approach Combining Human Preferences and Verifiable Correctness for Reliable LLM Training
Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on reinforcement learning techniques to enhance response generation capabilities. One critical aspect of their development…
Thinking Harder, Not Longer: Evaluating Reasoning Efficiency in Advanced Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have progressed beyond basic natural language processing to tackle complex problem-solving tasks. While scaling model size,…
Furious Trump accuses Zelensky of ‘gambling with World War Three’
The US president clashes with Ukraine’s leader in fiery Oval Office exchange over ending the war with Russia.
Trump says Zelenskyy ‘is not ready for peace’ after Oval Office fight
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance argued with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with Vance accusing Zelenskyy of disrespect.
Streamline work insights with the Amazon Q Business connector for Smartsheet
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of their…
Revolutionizing Robot Learning: How Meta’s Aria Gen 2 enables 400% Faster Training with Egocentric AI
The evolution of robotics has long been constrained by slow and costly training methods, requiring engineers to manually teleoperate robots…
What we know about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife
US investigators are trying to establish how Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy died.
DeepSeek AI Releases Fire-Flyer File System (3FS): A High-Performance Distributed File System Designed to Address the Challenges of AI Training and Inference Workload
The advancement of artificial intelligence has ushered in an era where data volumes and computational requirements are growing at an…
Trump to sign order making English the official U.S. language
President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order making English the official language of the United States.
Trump says a minerals deal with Ukraine is worth billions. It might not be as valuable as he hopes
Analysts questions the size of Ukraine’s natural resources deposits, how accessible they are and easy to extract, and the ultimate…
German inflation stays unchanged at hotter-than-expected 2.8% in February
The February print compares to a 2.7% estimate from economists surveyed by Reuters.
China vows to retaliate as necessary after Trump threatens another 10% tariff hike
China’s statement on Friday appeared to strike a stronger tone than its response after Washington slapped the initial 10% duties…
Trump signals U.S. and U.K. could reach ‘real trade deal’ without tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump signaled the U.K. could broker a “real trade deal” and escape tariffs.
Convergence AI Releases WebGames: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite Designed to Evaluate General-Purpose Web-Browsing AI Agents
AI agents are becoming more advanced and capable of handling complex tasks across different platforms. Websites and desktop applications are…
Trump commends Zelensky ahead of White House talks
The US leader plays down earlier frictions and predicts a “very good meeting” on Friday.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How India’s emerging as a formidable player in defense
India is beefing up its defense spending as tensions between the country and China grow. The subcontinent is relying on…
Elevating AI Reasoning: The Art of Sampling for Learnability in LLM Training
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a core component in training large language models (LLMs) to perform tasks that involve reasoning,…
America’s appetite for gold is ‘sucking’ bullion out of other countries
“Supply chains have been disrupted because of this huge sucking sound, which has been the United States,” said World Gold…
Nvidia bounced from the $3 trillion market cap club after falling more than 8%
Despite its slide, Nvidia is still the second most valuable U.S. tech company, behind Apple and ahead of Microsoft.
Microsoft AI Releases Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini: The Newest Models in Microsoft’s Phi Family of Small Language Models (SLMs)
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, developers and organizations often grapple with a series of practical challenges. One of the…
DeepSeek AI Releases DualPipe: A Bidirectional Pipeline Parallelism Algorithm for Computation-Communication Overlap in V3/R1 Training
The task of training deep neural networks, especially those with billions of parameters, is inherently resource-intensive. One persistent issue is…
Simplifying Self-Supervised Vision: How Coding Rate Regularization Transforms DINO & DINOv2
Learning useful features from large amounts of unlabeled images is important, and models like DINO and DINOv2 are designed for…
Evaluate healthcare generative AI applications using LLM-as-a-judge on AWS
In our previous blog posts, we explored various techniques such as fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and Retrieval…
Trump says Mexico, Canada tariffs will start March 4, plus additional 10% on China
President Donald Trump said his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada will go into effect on March 4, and that…
Nvidia’s auto segment revenue surges to record high on demand for driver-assist tech
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia’s auto segment revenue doubled in the latest quarter to its highest on record as demand for driver-assist…
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa found dead at their home
Local police said they didn’t believe any foul play was involved in the death of the couple, found alongside their…
Shares of British aerospace giant Rolls-Royce jump 15% on upbeat outlook, profit beat
Rolls-Royce on Thursday posted stronger-than-expected full-year earnings after making what it described as “significant” transformation progress.
Trump threatens to slap 25% tariffs on EU, says bloc was always meant to hurt the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union, claiming that the bloc was formed…
Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after Hamas hands over four hostages’ bodies
Israel is due to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in return as part of an exchange.
Meta AI Introduces SWE-RL: An AI Approach to Scale Reinforcement Learning based LLM Reasoning for Real-World Software Engineering
Modern software development faces a multitude of challenges that extend beyond simple code generation or bug detection. Developers must navigate…
China likely to cut inflation outlook to two-decade low, lay out stimulus plans at ‘Two Sessions’ meet
Beijing is expected to revise down its annual consumer price inflation target to around 2% — the lowest in more…
Seven & i shares plunge over 12% as management buyout falls through
Seven & i in 2024 rejected two buyout bids from Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard.
Hume Introduces Octave TTS: A New Text-to-Speech Model that Creates Custom AI Voices with Tailored Emotions
In the rapidly evolving field of digital communication, traditional text-to-speech (TTS) systems have often struggled to capture the full range…
Zelensky to meet Trump in Washington to sign minerals deal
President Trump says the pair are poised to sign a “very big agreement”, which Zelensky described as a “framework”.
Nvidia sales grow 78% on AI demand, company gives strong guidance
Nvidia reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. The company also provided strong guidance for the current quarter.
Allen Institute for AI Released olmOCR: A High-Performance Open Source Toolkit Designed to Convert PDFs and Document Images into Clean and Structured Plain Text
Access to high-quality textual data is crucial for advancing language models in the digital age. Modern AI systems rely on…
What we know about US-Ukraine minerals deal
A Ukrainian official says Kyiv has agreed to the terms of a deal which would give the US access to…
The Federal Reserve’s favorite recession indicator is flashing a danger sign again
The 10-year yield fell below that of the 3-month note, marking an “inverted yield curve” that has a sterling recession…
How Pattern PXM’s Content Brief is driving conversion on ecommerce marketplaces using AI
Brands today are juggling a million things, and keeping product content up-to-date is at the top of the list. Between…
Ukraine reportedly agrees to critical rare minerals deal with the U.S.
Ukraine and the United States reached an agreement over access to Kyiv’s deposits of rare earth minerals, according to media…
Oil major BP boosts annual fossil fuel spending to $10 billion in strategy reset
British oil major BP on Wednesday announced plans to increase annual oil and gas investment to $10 billion as part…
Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally
Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.
Jeep, Dodge maker Stellantis posts 70% drop in full-year profit
Stellantis on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in full-year earnings as the company scrambles to take measures to improve its…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepGEMM: An FP8 GEMM Library that Supports both Dense and MoE GEMMs Powering V3/R1 Training and Inference
Efficient matrix multiplications remain a critical component in modern deep learning and high-performance computing. As models become increasingly complex, conventional…
Optimizing Imitation Learning: How X‑IL is Shaping the Future of Robotics
Designing imitation learning (IL) policies involves many choices, such as selecting features, architecture, and policy representation. The field is advancing…