China urges state-backed funds to buy more stocks amid market slump, falling bond yields
China’s financial regulators on Thursday unveiled a slew of measures to urge large state-owned mutual funds and insurers to purchase…
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Kimi k1.5: A Next Generation Multi-Modal LLM Trained with Reinforcement Learning on Advancing AI with Scalable Multimodal Reasoning and Benchmark Excellence
Reinforcement learning (RL) has fundamentally transformed AI by allowing models to improve performance iteratively through interaction and feedback. When applied…
SK Hynix profit soars to a record high on AI boom, but shares drop on demand uncertainty
SK Hynix CFO Kim Woohyun said that the outlook for memory demand in 2025 was clouded by inventory adjustments, protective…
About 1,000 North Koreans killed fighting Ukraine in Kursk, officials say
Western officials tell the BBC the troop losses appear unsustainable.
South Korea fourth-quarter GDP grows at its slowest pace in six quarters, missing expectations
The country’s GDP grew 1.2% year-on-year, missing expectations of 1.4% from economists
Introducing multi-turn conversation with an agent node for Amazon Bedrock Flows (preview)
Amazon Bedrock Flows offers an intuitive visual builder and a set of APIs to seamlessly link foundation models (FMs), Amazon…
Video security analysis for privileged access management using generative AI and Amazon Bedrock
Security teams in highly regulated industries like financial services often employ Privileged Access Management (PAM) systems to secure, manage, and…
Beyond Open Source AI: How Bagel’s Cryptographic Architecture, Bakery Platform, and ZKLoRA Drive Sustainable AI Monetization
Bagel is a novel AI model architecture that transforms open-source AI development by enabling permissionless contributions and ensuring revenue attribution…
This AI Paper Introduces MathReader: An Advanced TTS System for Accurate and Accessible Mathematical Document Vocalization
The development of TTS systems has been pivotal in converting written content into spoken language, enabling users to interact with…
How Cato Networks uses Amazon Bedrock to transform free text search into structured GraphQL queries
This is a guest post authored by Asaf Fried, Daniel Pienica, Sergey Volkovich from Cato Networks. Cato Networks is a…
Meet EvaByte: An Open-Source 6.5B State-of-the-Art Tokenizer-Free Language Model Powered by EVA
Tokenization, the process of breaking text into smaller units, has long been a fundamental step in natural language processing (NLP).…
Toddler and man fatally stabbed in German park
Police say a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan has been arrested suspected of carrying out the attack.
Trump threatens Russia with sanctions, tariffs if Putin doesn’t end Ukraine war
The war in Ukraine began with an invasion by Russia in February 2022. There have been more than 240,000 soldiers…
UK ‘not part of the problem’ when it comes to U.S. trade, Britain’s finance minister says
The U.K. is “not part of the problem” when it comes to “persistent” trade deficits that President Donald Trump wants…
Renewable giants shrug off Trump’s anti-wind policies: ‘Electrification is absolutely unstoppable’
Renewable energy giants appear relatively sanguine about U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-wind policies.
Europe must be prepared for Trump tariffs, European Central Bank chief warns
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde spoke to CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht
Trump said he had called Ulbricht’s mother to let her know he had granted her son a full pardon.
Europe ready to respond ‘in a proportionate way’ as Trump touts tariffs, top EU official says
Europe will respond to any tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump in a proportionate way, the European Union’s commissioner for…
Kevin O’Leary says he would ‘love to do a TikTok deal,’ but the law prevents it
Kevin O’Leary says that he’s still interested in a deal for TikTok, but that it’s no longer legally viable, even…
Google AI Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model (gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21): Scoring 73.3% on AIME (Math) and 74.2% on GPQA Diamond (Science) Benchmarks
Artificial Intelligence has made significant strides, yet some challenges persist in advancing multimodal reasoning and planning capabilities. Tasks that demand…
What are Haystack Agents? A Comprehensive Guide to Tool-Driven NLP with Code Implementation
Modern NLP applications often demand multi-step reasoning, interaction with external tools, and the ability to adapt dynamically to user queries.…
Trump pardons give Jan 6 defendants nearly everything they wanted
Some of the president’s own team had signalled not all of those arrested over the Capitol riot would be released…
Trump says he’s considering a 10% tariff on China beginning as soon as Feb. 1
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump floated a 10% duty on China, with an expected start date of Feb. 1.
Bank of Japan is expected to hike rates this week, CNBC survey shows
Out of 19 economists, 18 agreed on prospects of a rate hike, with most pointing to a recent change in…
Bishop asks Trump to show mercy to LGBT people and migrants
Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde made a plea to the president in a sermon that Trump later criticised.
Snowflake AI Research Open-Sources SwiftKV: A Novel AI Approach that Reduces Inference Costs of Meta Llama LLMs up to 75% on Cortex AI
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become pivotal in artificial intelligence, powering a variety of applications from chatbots to content generation…
Solve forecasting challenges for the retail and CPG industry using Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Businesses today deal with a reality that is increasingly complex and volatile. Companies across retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and other sectors…
Create Portrait Mode Effect with Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2)
Have you ever admired how smartphone cameras isolate the main subject from the background, adding a subtle blur to the…
Enhancing Lexicon-Based Text Embeddings with Large Language Models
Lexicon-based embeddings are one of the good alternatives to dense embeddings, yet they face numerous challenges that restrain their wider…
Trump laid out a sweeping energy agenda. Here are all the key actions he took on day one
President Donald Trump has declared a national energy emergency as he aims to boost oil and gas production.
Bank of Israel governor expects higher short-term inflation but rate cuts ‘feasible’ this year
A durable ceasefire should pave the way for economic growth in Israel and the region, the central bank governor told…
Musk responds to backlash over gesture at Trump rally
The billionaire says his critics “need better dirty tricks” after a gesture likened to a Nazi salute.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy questions the U.S.’ commitment to Europe’s future
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called into question the U.S.’ commitment to its allies in Europe.
Trump’s climate retreat stirs a sense of déjà vu — and prompts a warning from the UN
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to pull the U.S. out of the world’s biggest coordinated…
Interest rates won’t fall as fast as expected if tariffs stoke inflation, UBS CEO says
“Inflation is much more sticky than we have been saying,” UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti said Tuesday.
Trade war has no winners, China’s vice premier warns, as Trump threatens tariffs
Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang warned of “no winners” in a trade war during a speech Tuesday during the World…
Bitcoin slips, Trump token plunges over 20% as bullish crypto sentiment cools
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies sank Tuesday as bullish investor sentiment surrounding cryptocurrencies cooled after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Europe must ‘wake up’ and boost competitiveness — or risk falling behind in the Trump era, CEOs warn
European business chiefs warned Tuesday that the region risks falling behind its counterparts in the U.S. and Asia.
What executive orders did Trump sign on day one?
The Republican quickly set about using his new powers to approve executive actions on a host of policy priorities.
European stocks head for slightly higher open as markets assess the impact of Trump 2.0
European stocks are expected to open slightly higher Tuesday as traders digested the first executive orders signed by newly inaugurated…
DeepSeek-AI Releases DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1: First-Generation Reasoning Models that Incentivize Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in natural language processing, excelling in tasks like understanding, generation, and reasoning.…
Step Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training
Large language models rely heavily on open datasets to train, which poses significant legal, technical, and ethical challenges in managing…
Abu Dhabi’s $330-billion sovereign wealth fund says no one appreciates the level of disruption that AI is about to unleash
“The technology is moving so fast and we’re all trying to catch up as much as possible,” Al Mubarak told…
AutoCBT: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Enhanced Automated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Traditional psychological counseling, often conducted in person, remains limited to individuals actively seeking help for psychological concerns. In contrast, online…
Trump’s day so far: Tea with Biden, a Melania air kiss and the oath of office
Watch the highlights from Donald Trump’s inauguration in under two minutes.
Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for Fauci and Jan 6 riot committee
Outgoing president says action will prevent “unjustified… politically motivated prosecutions”.
Why merger mania is coming to the fore in the mining industry
A prospective merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore would rank as the mining industry’s largest-ever deal.
As WEF gets underway, the list of world leaders not attending Davos speaks volumes
It’s that time of year when the great and good gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.…
SHREC: A Physics-Based Machine Learning Approach to Time Series Analysis
Reconstructing unmeasured causal drivers of complex time series from observed response data represents a fundamental challenge across diverse scientific domains.…
Google AI Proposes a Fundamental Framework for Inference-Time Scaling in Diffusion Models
Generative models have revolutionized fields like language, vision, and biology through their ability to learn and sample from complex data…