Trump says Nippon will invest heavily in U.S. Steel rather than purchase the company
“They’ll be looking at an investment rather than a purchase,” President Donald Trump said at a news conference with Japanese…
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Optimizing Large Model Inference with Ladder Residual: Enhancing Tensor Parallelism through Communication-Computing Overlap
LLM inference is highly resource-intensive, requiring substantial memory and computational power. To address this, various model parallelism strategies distribute workloads…
Governing the ML lifecycle at scale, Part 4: Scaling MLOps with security and governance controls
Data science teams often face challenges when transitioning models from the development environment to production. These include difficulties integrating data…
Hamas names next hostages to be released
The three civilians will be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners in the latest swap on Saturday.
Accelerate your Amazon Q implementation: starter kits for SMBs
Whether you’re a small or medium-sized business (SMB) or a managed service provider at the beginning of your cloud journey,…
Princeton University Researchers Introduce Self-MoA and Self-MoA-Seq: Optimizing LLM Performance with Single-Model Ensembles
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT, Gemini, and Claude utilize vast training datasets and complex architectures to generate high-quality…
Sweden plans tighter gun laws after Orebro school shooting
The government says it is seeking to strengthen vetting for gun licenses and restrict access to semi-automatic weapons.
Elon Musk’s X faces criminal probe in France over algorithm manipulation concerns
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into X over allegations that it distorted its algorithms.
Weaviate Researchers Introduce Function Calling for LLMs: Eliminating SQL Dependency to Improve Database Querying Accuracy and Efficiency
Databases are essential for storing and retrieving structured data supporting business intelligence, research, and enterprise applications. Querying databases typically requires…
L’Oreal looks to U.S. ‘land of opportunity’ as China disappoints
The world’s largest beauty group L’Oreal said Friday that it plans to become less dependent on the Chinese consumer for…
Tesla car sales in China fall 11.5% as competition intensifies
Competition between Tesla and Chinese domestic rivals is intensifying as the U.S. firm continues to launch incentives to keep its…
Chain-of-Associated-Thoughts (CoAT): An AI Framework to Enhance LLM Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence by demonstrating remarkable capabilities in text generation and problem-solving. However, a critical…
India central bank cuts rates for the first time in nearly five years to boost slowing growth
The central bank set the real GDP growth forecast at 6.7% for the fiscal year of 2026 while the inflation…
DeepSeek has rattled large AI players — but smaller chip firms see it as a force multiplier
While DeepSeek has dented the standing of several AI leaders, smaller chip companies see an opportunity to scale with the…
Prime Intellect Releases SYNTHETIC-1: An Open-Source Dataset Consisting of 1.4M Curated Tasks Spanning Math, Coding, Software Engineering, STEM, and Synthetic Code Understanding
In artificial intelligence and machine learning, high-quality datasets play a crucial role in developing accurate and reliable models. However, collecting…
Protect your DeepSeek model deployments with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
The rapid advancement of generative AI has brought powerful publicly available large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, to the…
Trump signs order sanctioning International Criminal Court
The order accuses the Hague-based body of creating a “shameful moral equivalency” between Hamas and Israel, the White House says.
Amazon issues disappointing revenue forecast, points to weakest growth on record
Amazon beat on the top and bottom lines for the fourth quarter, but it gave weak guidance for the current…
How Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger got caught in Trump’s trade war with China
The owner of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfger has been placed on China’s unreliable entities list, which could force it…
Microsoft AI Researchers Introduce Advanced Low-Bit Quantization Techniques to Enable Efficient LLM Deployment on Edge Devices without High Computational Costs
Edge devices like smartphones, IoT gadgets, and embedded systems process data locally, improving privacy, reducing latency, and enhancing responsiveness, and…
Fine-tune and host SDXL models cost-effectively with AWS Inferentia2
Building upon a previous Machine Learning Blog post to create personalized avatars by fine-tuning and hosting the Stable Diffusion 2.1…
L’Oreal sales slightly miss in fourth quarter as China weakness persists
French cosmetics giant L’Oreal on Thursday reported a lower than expected increase in fourth-quarter sales amid continued weakness in the…
s1: A Simple Yet Powerful Test-Time Scaling Approach for LLMs
Language models (LMs) have significantly progressed through increased computational power during training, primarily through large-scale self-supervised pretraining. While this approach…
Bank of England’s Bailey says UK can’t avoid U.S. tariff impact — even if it’s not in the direct firing line
If tariffs are announced, their effect on the global economy and inflation would need to be looked at, he told…
Bank of England restarts monetary easing, cutting key rate to 4.5%
The Bank of England made its first interest rate cut of 2025 on Thursday amid ongoing concerns over sluggish growth…
Israel minister tells army to plan for Palestinians leaving Gaza
Defence Minister Israel Katz says Gazans should have freedom of movement and critics of the war should take them in.
Relocation of Gazans would be temporary, Rubio says
The White House has sought to clarify Donald Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza.
Shipping giant Maersk’s shares jump 10% on profit beat despite trade uncertainty
“At a time of very high microeconomic uncertainties, we were able to be sufficiently agile,” Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc told…
Volvo Cars weighs tariffs-led production move, warns of ‘hyper-competitiveness’ in China
“We’re preparing ourselves to see whether we need to start looking at production relocation or or even supplier relocation,” Volvo…
Danish brewer Carlsberg slightly misses on fourth-quarter sales, points to slower growth in 2025
Danish brewer Carlsberg on Thursday reported a slight miss in fourth-year sales and pointed to lower growth in 2025.
Enhancing Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Flooding Attack Detection
Ad hoc networks are decentralized, self-configuring networks where nodes communicate without fixed infrastructure. They are commonly used in military, disaster…
4 Open-Source Alternatives to OpenAI’s $200/Month Deep Research AI Agent
OpenAI’s Deep Research AI Agent offers a powerful research assistant at a premium price of $200 per month. However, the…
India likely to cut benchmark rates for the first time in nearly five years as economy slows, inflation eases
India is widely anticipated to cut its benchmark policy rate at the policy meeting concluding this Friday.
Trellix lowers cost, increases speed, and adds delivery flexibility with cost-effective and performant Amazon Nova Micro and Amazon Nova Lite models
This post is co-written with Martin Holste from Trellix. Security teams are dealing with an evolving universe of cybersecurity threats.…
Trump’s China tariff increase affects Ford and GM vehicles, billions of dollars in auto parts
The largest impact on vehicles is on Ford Motor’s Lincoln Nautilus and General Motors’ Buick Envision.
OfferUp improved local results by 54% and relevance recall by 27% with multimodal search on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon OpenSearch Service
This post is co-written with Andrés Vélez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed…
Bowen: Trump’s Gaza plan won’t happen, but it will have consequences
The US president creates uncertainty and injects more instability, our international editor writes.
Enhancing LLM Capabilities with NeMo Guardrails on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into customer-facing applications, organizations are exploring ways to leverage their natural language…
Meet Satori: A New AI Framework for Advancing LLM Reasoning through Deep Thinking without a Strong Teacher Model
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable reasoning capabilities in mathematical problem-solving, logical inference, and programming. However, their effectiveness is…
Why does Trump want to take over Gaza and could he do it?
The president’s vision for a Gaza under US control could upend the future of Middle East relations.
Google opens its most powerful AI models to everyone, the next stage in its virtual agent push
The suite of agentic Gemini 2.0 models includes 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash-Lite.
Build a multi-interface AI assistant using Amazon Q and Slack with Amazon CloudFront clickable references from an Amazon S3 bucket
There is consistent customer feedback that AI assistants are the most useful when users can interface with them within the…
Google DeepMind Achieves State-of-the-Art Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning RL with Improved Transformer World Models
Reinforcement Learning RL trains agents to maximize rewards by interacting with an environment. Online RL alternates between taking actions, collecting…
Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza takeover proposal
The Palestinian president, Hamas and neighbouring countries condemn the idea of resettling Gazans abroad.
What do we know about the Sweden school shooter?
Police say 11 people have died, including the gunman, in the worst school shooting in Sweden’s history.
Bank of England to resume rate cuts with outlook complicated by tax hikes and Trump tariffs
Traders have ramped up their bets on the total number of BOE rate cuts in 2025 since January, as Europe…
Belgian police hunt for gunmen in Brussels underground
At least two suspects wearing balaclavas were seen with weapons at Clemenceau station.
Apple shares fall 3% in premarket after China reportedly considers probe into App Store practices
China’s market regulator is considering whether to open a formal probe into the iPhone giant’s App Store fees and policies,…
Philippines feud escalates as lawmakers vote to impeach vice-president
It comes amid a bitter feud between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his vice-president Sara Duterte.
Witnesses recall horror of Sweden’s worst school shooting
At least 11 people were killed in the attack at Risbergska school in Orebro, including the suspected gunman.