Trump says Syria ‘not our fight’. Staying out may not be so easy
Donald Trump has promised to keep America out of the Middle East, but Assad’s dramatic fall has upended the region’s…
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This AI Paper Introduces A Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) Approach for Improving the Sample Quality of Diffusion Generative Models
Diffusion models are closely linked to imitation learning because they generate samples by gradually refining random noise into meaningful data.…
Broadcom beats on profit, says AI revenue more than tripled this year
Broadcom is seeing soaring demand from the boom in generative AI infrastructure.
After 50 years of Assad cruelty, Syrians search for dead loved ones – and closure
BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen finds Syrians desperate for answers about the missing and a reckoning for their killers.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: India’s central bank has a new governor. Three experts reveal what they’d do in his shoes
The move to replace Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das with Sanjay Malhotra appears a calculated way to address…
Accelerate your ML lifecycle using the new and improved Amazon SageMaker Python SDK – Part 2: ModelBuilder
In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the newly launched ModelTrainer class on the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK and…
Meet Ivy-VL: A Lightweight Multimodal Model with Only 3 Billion Parameters for Edge Devices
The ongoing advancement in artificial intelligence highlights a persistent challenge: balancing model size, efficiency, and performance. Larger models often deliver…
US man found wandering near Damascus after months in Syrian prison
Travis Timmerman told CBS that he was detained upon entering Syria seven months ago.
China stresses plans to boost growth at top agenda-setting meeting
The annual economic work conference followed a high-level Monday meeting of the Politburo, the ruling Communist Party’s top decision-making body.
UK and EU leaders want a reset after Trump’s win — and now voters want it too
As U.K. and EU leaders seek to reset relations ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, public sentiment…
Swiss National Bank takes leap with 50-basis-point interest rate cut amid franc strength
The Swiss National Bank on Thursday cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points, exceeding expectations of a smaller…
Syria rebel leader vows to shut down notorious Assad prisons
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also said he would dissolve the former regime’s security forces, in a statement seen by Reuters.
Microsoft Research Introduces AI-Powered Carbon Budgeting Method: A Real-Time Approach to Tracking Global Carbon Sinks and Emission
Since the Industrial Revolution, burning fossil fuels and changes in land use, especially deforestation, have driven the rise in atmospheric…
Tesla shares climb to record, boosted by 64% pop since Trump election victory
Tesla’s stock topped its 2021 high on Wednesday, as investor optimism increases heading into Donald Trump’s return to the White…
How AWS sales uses Amazon Q Business for customer engagement
Earlier this year, we published the first in a series of posts about how AWS is transforming our seller and…
Discover insights from your Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database using the Amazon Q Business connector
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, ACID-aligned relational database engine that combines the speed, reliability, and manageability…
LG AI Research Releases EXAONE 3.5: Three Open-Source Bilingual Frontier AI-level Models Delivering Unmatched Instruction Following and Long Context Understanding for Global Leadership in Generative AI Excellence
LG AI Research has released bilingual models expertizing in English and Korean based on EXAONE 3.5 as open source following…
Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad’s father
Armed men are seen celebrating in Hafez al-Assad’s burning mausoleum in the family’s hometown.
European Central Bank heads for last rate cut of year — but jumbo move seems off the table
The euro zone central bank will need to do “heavy lifting” next year to support the waning economy, analysts say.
Greece’s ghost towns offer a glimpse of a country struggling with ‘existential’ population collapse
Years of declining births, economic hardship and mass emigration have left huge swathes of Greece vacant, creating fresh concerns for…
Israel confirms attack on Syrian naval fleet
The BBC has verified videos showing blasts in the Syrian port of Latakia, as Israel conducts strikes across Syria.
Auto giants endured a torrid time of it this year — and few expect 2025 to be much better
A perfect storm of challenges for the European automobile industry shows no sign of letting up, analysts say.
Splunk Researchers Introduce MAG-V: A Multi-Agent Framework For Synthetic Data Generation and Reliable AI Trajectory Verification
These days, large language models (LLMs) are getting integrated with multi-agent systems, where multiple intelligent agents collaborate to achieve a…
China’s monetary shift signals economic worries, but ‘bazooka-style’ stimulus is unlikely, experts say
Despite a flurry of stimulus measures, recent economic indicators have showed the world’s second-largest economy is still struggling with deflationary…
Cerebras Introduces CePO (Cerebras Planning and Optimization): An AI Framework that Adds Sophisticated Reasoning Capabilities to the Llama Family of Models
The rapid evolution of AI has brought notable advancements in natural language understanding and generation. However, these improvements often fall…
MAmmoTH-VL-Instruct: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Dataset Construction
Open-source MLLMs exhibit considerable promise across diverse tasks by integrating visual encoders with language models. However, their reasoning abilities could…
China ramps up Wall Street meetings as Trump inauguration looms
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng has met with several U.S. finance executives as Beijing seeks to build relationships in the…
DeepSeek AI Just Released DeepSeek-V2.5-1210: The Updated Version of DeepSeek-V2.5 with Significant Performance Boosts in Mathematics, Coding, Writing, and Reasoning Tasks
DeepSeek AI has made significant progress in advancing artificial intelligence, particularly in areas like reasoning, mathematics, and coding. Earlier versions…
I hope Assad pays the price, mother whose son’s death inflamed Syria’s revolution tells BBC
Hamza al-Khatib, 13, was arrested at a 2011 anti-government rally and tortured – but Assad’s downfall has not brought his…
Alphabet shares jump 5% after Google touts ‘breakthrough’ quantum chip
Google shares rose on Tuesday after the company’s unveiling of “Willow,” its latest quantum computing chip.
Netanyahu rejects ‘absurd’ charges at corruption trial
Netanyahu becomes Israel’s first serving leader to take the stand as a defendant in a criminal case.
Pixtral 12B is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce that Pixtral 12B (pixtral-12b-2409), a state-of-the-art vision language model (VLM) from Mistral AI that…
Latent Functional Maps: A Robust Machine Learning Framework for Analyzing Neural Network Representations
Neural networks (NNs) remarkably transform high-dimensional data into compact, lower-dimensional latent spaces. While researchers traditionally focus on model outputs like…
Automate actions across enterprise applications using Amazon Q Business plugins
Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that enhances employee productivity by solving problems, generating content, and providing insights…
Luigi Mangione charged with murdering healthcare CEO in New York
The 26-year-old man was taken into custody at a McDonald’s in the town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
Google claims quantum computing milestone — but the tech can’t solve real-world problems yet
While Google’s new chip called Willow has been noted for advancing the field of quantum computing, experts question the current…
‘White gold’ seen as pivotal to Europe’s massive trade deal with South America
Analysts at ING said the significance of critical raw materials like lithium seemed to be “making less headlines” in the…
Brazil’s Lula ‘well’ after brain bleed surgery
The 79-year-old leader’s bleed stems from an injury he sustained during a fall in October.
Surprise RBI governor pick signals India may cut rate as soon as February, economists say
India has appointed a new central bank governor in a surprising move that some experts say strengthens outlook for rate…
Frequency-Selective Adversarial Attack Against Deep Learning-Based Wireless Signal Classifiers
Wireless communication is the foundation of modern systems, enabling critical applications in military, commercial, and civilian domains. Its increasing prevalence…
China’s exports, imports miss expectations in November as economic worries deepen
Export has been a rare bright spot as the world’s second largest economy contends with lackluster domestic consumption and a…
Meta AI Introduces SPDL (Scalable and Performant Data Loading): A Step Forward in AI Model Training with Thread-based Data Loading
Training AI models today isn’t just about designing better architectures—it’s also about managing data efficiently. Modern models require vast datasets…
OpenAI Just Released Sora: The Most Awaited AI Video-Generation Tool
OpenAI has unveiled Sora, its new text-to-video generation tool, a major step forward in AI-powered content creation. However, the launch…
Israel carries out dozens of air strikes across Syria, reports say
Israel says it is acting to stop weapons falling “into the hands of extremists” following the end of Assad’s regime.
Oracle shares slide on earnings and revenue miss, disappointing forecast
Oracle shares fell in extended trading after the database software company issued disappointing quarterly results.
Accelerating ML experimentation with enhanced security: AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon SageMaker with MLflow
With access to a wide range of generative AI foundation models (FM) and the ability to build and train their own…
Voyage AI Introduces voyage-code-3: A New Next-Generation Embedding Model Optimized for Code Retrieval
Research in code embedding models has witnessed a significant breakthrough with the introduction of voyage-code-3, an advanced embedding model specifically…
U.S. can become a crypto superpower with ‘sensible’ regulation, Eric Trump says
Speaking to CNBC’s Dan Murphy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Eric Trump said Monday that he’d been a “big…
Lavita AI Introduces Medical Benchmark for Advancing Long-Form Medical Question Answering with Open Models and Expert-Annotated Datasets
Medical question-answering (QA) systems are critical in modern healthcare, providing essential tools for medical practitioners and the public. Long-form QA…
Nvidia shares drop after China opens investigation over possible violation of antimonopoly law
Nvidia shares were under pressure after a Chinese regulator said it was investigating the chipmaker over possible violations to the…