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…
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CoSyn: An AI Framework that Leverages the Coding Capabilities of Text-only Large Language Models (LLMs) to Automatically Create Synthetic Text-Rich Multimodal Data
Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in general image understanding, but face significant challenges when processing text-rich visual content…
The record-breaking run of ‘Ne Zha 2’ may seem like a surprise. It shouldn’t be
For someone who’s lived in China since before the pandemic, the success of the animated film “Ne Zha 2” marks…
Ukraine official says minerals deal agreed with US
A senior Ukrainian official tells the BBC “a number of good amendments” have been agreed, while the US is yet…
Tesla’s market cap sinks below $1 trillion as stock slumps more than 8%
Tesla shares have dropped dramatically since peaking in December, and Tuesday’s decline pushed the company’s market cap below $1 trillion.
Convergence Releases Proxy Lite: A Mini, Open-Weights Version of Proxy Assistant Performing Pretty Well on UI Navigation Tasks
In today’s digital landscape, automating interactions with web content remains a nuanced challenge. Many existing solutions are resource-intensive and tailored…
FinData Explorer: A Step-by-Step Tutorial Using BeautifulSoup, yfinance, matplotlib, ipywidgets, and fpdf for Financial Data Extraction, Interactive Visualization, and Dynamic PDF Report Generation
In this tutorial, we will guide you through building an advanced financial data reporting tool on Google Colab by combining…
Enhancing Instruction Tuning in LLMs: A Diversity-Aware Data Selection Strategy Using Sparse Autoencoders
Pre-trained LLMs require instruction tuning to align with human preferences. Still, the vast data collection and rapid model iteration often…
How IDIADA optimized its intelligent chatbot with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Xavier Vizcaino, Diego Martín Montoro, and Jordi Sánchez Ferrer from Applus+ Idiada. In 2021, Applus+…
Researchers from Moonshot AI Introduce Muon and Moonlight: Optimizing Large-Scale Language Models with Efficient Training Techniques
Optimizing large-scale language models demands advanced training techniques that reduce computational costs while maintaining high performance. Optimization algorithms are crucial…
Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US
The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.
‘It’s the beginning’: Kremlin plays it cool ahead of more U.S. talks, says Biden ‘messed things up badly’
The Kremlin is keen to play it cool as efforts continue to restore bilateral relations that it said were badly…
Accelerate IaC troubleshooting with Amazon Bedrock Agents
Troubleshooting infrastructure as code (IaC) errors often consumes valuable time and resources. Developers can spend multiple cycles searching for solutions…
Unilever CEO Schumacher to step down after less than two years in the job
Unilever CEO Hein Schumacher is stepping down after less than two years in the job, the company said Tuesday.
Macron walks tightrope with Trump as he makes Europe’s case on Ukraine
As the first European leader to visit Trump since his inauguration, Macron navigated potentially testing talks.
Markets relieved by German election result, but key industries remain mired in uncertainty
The outcome of the German election “has not resulted in a clear path to the constitution being changed to allow…
Open-Reasoner-Zero: An Open-source Implementation of Large-Scale Reasoning-Oriented Reinforcement Learning Training
Large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) training of language models on reasoning tasks has become a promising technique for mastering complex problem-solving…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepEP: An Open-Source EP Communication Library for MoE Model Training and Inference
Large language models that use the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture have enabled significant increases in model capacity without a corresponding rise…
This AI Paper from Menlo Research Introduces AlphaMaze: A Two-Stage Training Framework for Enhancing Spatial Reasoning in Large Language Models
Artificial intelligence continues to advance in natural language processing but still faces challenges in spatial reasoning tasks. Visual-spatial reasoning is…
US sides with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine
The UK and France abstain as the UN Security Council passes a text that does not criticise Moscow.
Bank of Korea slashes rates to lowest since August 2022 on economic worries, cuts growth forecast
The Bank of Korea cut rates to 2.75% from 3%, in line with expectations from economists polled by Reuters, trimming…
Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’
President Donald Trump said sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico “will go forward” when a month-long delay on their implementation…
Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501 is now available on SageMaker Jumpstart and Amazon Bedrock Marketplace
Today, we’re excited to announce that Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501—a twenty-four billion parameter large language model (LLM) from Mistral AI that’s optimized for low…
Optimizing LLM Reasoning: Balancing Internal Knowledge and Tool Use with SMART
Recent advancements in LLMs have significantly improved their reasoning abilities, enabling them to perform text composition, code generation, and logical…
Microsoft reiterates plan to invest $80 billion in AI, but may ‘adjust our infrastructure in some areas’
Microsoft hasn’t backed off its plan for the current fiscal year but acknowledged that it may makes some infrastructure adjustments.
Five key takeaways from the German election
Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won, but the vote has thrown up some fascinating stories.
‘Uphill battle’ ahead: Trump, business leaders and economists react to German election result
As a new chapter in German politics begins on Monday following the federal election at the weekend, there’s a distinct…
Voters flock to political extremes in Germany as the centrist parties stumble
Both the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland and the far-left Die Linke saw significant gains and were the most popular parties…
Germany’s conservatives declare victory in Berlin. Now the hard work begins
A conservative alliance made up of the CDU and CSU is set to lead Germany again, but the new coalition…
DeepSeek has stoked a rotation out of India stocks into Chinese equities — but experts advise caution
Chinese stocks, led by a tech rally, have been on a tear since the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model that…
Meta AI Introduces MLGym: A New AI Framework and Benchmark for Advancing AI Research Agents
The ambition to accelerate scientific discovery through AI has been longstanding, with early efforts such as the Oak Ridge Applied…
Getting Started with Google Colab: A Beginner’s Guide to Free Cloud Computing
In today’s data-driven world, having access to powerful computing resources is essential for developers, data scientists, and students alike. Enter…
China’s latest action plan shows it’s trying to boost foreign investment amid geopolitical tensions
China is trying yet again to boost foreign investment, amid geopolitical tensions and businesses’ calls for more concrete actions.
Germany’s conservatives celebrate, but far right enjoy record result
Friedrich Merz will try to form a coalition after his Christian Democrats won less than 30% of the vote.
Building a Legal AI Chatbot: A Step-by-Step Guide Using bigscience/T0pp LLM, Open-Source NLP Models, Streamlit, PyTorch, and Hugging Face Transformers
In this tutorial, we will build an efficient Legal AI CHatbot using open-source tools. It provides a step-by-step guide to…
Optimizing Training Data Allocation Between Supervised and Preference Finetuning in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant challenges in optimizing their post-training methods, particularly in balancing Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement…
Germany’s Friedrich Merz: The risk-taker who flirted with far right
A look at the conservative leader who broke a German taboo by accepting support from the AfD.
Germany’s conservatives win election, as far-right AfD leaps to second place, exit polls show
The Christian Democratic Union and its allied Christian Social Union secured the largest share of votes in the German federal…
Russia launches largest drone attack of war on Ukraine
Officials say many were intercepted – but several hit civilian areas, causing deaths and injuries.
Germans head to the polls in critical election with far-right gains expected
Germans are voting in the 2025 federal election on Sunday, with a leadership change all but guaranteed.
What are AI Agents? Demystifying Autonomous Software with a Human Touch
In today’s digital landscape, technology continues to advance at a steady pace. One development that has steadily gained attention is…
Moonshot AI and UCLA Researchers Release Moonlight: A 3B/16B-Parameter Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) Model Trained with 5.7T Tokens Using Muon Optimizer
Training large language models (LLMs) has become central to advancing artificial intelligence, yet it is not without its challenges. As…
Pope remains in ‘critical’ condition after ‘respiratory crisis’
Pope Francis is “more unwell than yesterday”, the Vatican says, adding his prognosis “remains guarded”.
Fine-Tuning NVIDIA NV-Embed-v1 on Amazon Polarity Dataset Using LoRA and PEFT: A Memory-Efficient Approach with Transformers and Hugging Face
In this tutorial, we explore how to fine-tune NVIDIA’s NV-Embed-v1 model on the Amazon Polarity dataset using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)…
Sony Researchers Propose TalkHier: A Novel AI Framework for LLM-MA Systems that Addresses Key Challenges in Communication and Refinement
LLM-based multi-agent (LLM-MA) systems enable multiple language model agents to collaborate on complex tasks by dividing responsibilities. These systems are…
Meta AI Releases the Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA) Model: A Crucial Step in Advancing Machine Intelligence
Humans have an innate ability to process raw visual signals from the retina and develop a structured understanding of their…
Warren Buffett amasses more cash and sells more stock, but doesn’t explain why in annual letter
“The great majority of your money remains in equities,” Buffett wrote in his highly-anticipated annual letter. “That preference won’t change.”
Six Israeli hostages freed ahead of Palestinian prisoner release
The six are the final living hostages to be freed as part of the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says new returned body is hers
It comes as a new hostage and prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is expected on Saturday.
Battered and bruised after 3 years of war, Ukraine is up against the ropes as U.S. backing vanishes
Ukraine has put up a staunch fight against the invasion launched by its bigger and more powerful neighbor Russia, but…