Twenty years on: ‘My boat was metres from the shore when the tsunami hit’
A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman…
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Nvidia sees ‘remarkable’ influx of retail investor dollars as traders flock to AI darling
Everyday traders bought nearly $30 billion of Nvidia shares on net this year, Vanda data shows.
Asia’s year in review: Who had it good — and who had it bad — in 2024
As the region awaits the return of Donald Trump to the White House and to a possible tumultuous Year of…
CLDG: A Simple Machine Learning Framework that Sets New Benchmarks in Unsupervised Learning on Dynamic Graphs
Graph Neural Networks have emerged as a transformative force in many real-life applications, from corporate finance risk management to local…
Tencent Research Introduces DRT-o1: Two Variants DRT-o1-7B and DRT-o1-14B with Breakthrough in Neural Machine Translation for Literary Texts
Neural machine translation (NMT) is a sophisticated branch of natural language processing that automates text conversion between languages using machine…
Dozens killed as passenger plane crashes in Kazakhstan
There were 67 people on board when the plane crashed near the city of Aktau.
Ukraine’s war stamps put humour, patriotism and swearing in the post
Ukraine’s war stamps, some with swear words, boost morale at home and promote its image abroad.
FineWeb-C: A Community-Built Dataset For Improving Language Models In ALL Languages
FineWeb2 significantly advances multilingual pretraining datasets, covering over 1000 languages with high-quality data. The dataset uses approximately 8 terabytes of…
Palestinian Christians struggle to find hope at Christmas
For the second year running, tourists are staying away and public festivities have been cancelled.
Qwen Team Releases QvQ: An Open-Weight Model for Multimodal Reasoning
Multimodal reasoning—the ability to process and integrate information from diverse data sources such as text, images, and video—remains a demanding…
This AI Paper by The Data Provenance Initiative Team Highlights Challenges in Multimodal Dataset Provenance, Licensing, Representation, and Transparency for Responsible Development
The advancement of artificial intelligence hinges on the availability and quality of training data, particularly as multimodal foundation models grow…
Salesforce AI Research Introduces AGUVIS: A Unified Pure Vision Framework Transforming Autonomous GUI Interaction Across Platforms
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) play a fundamental role in human-computer interaction, providing the medium through which users accomplish tasks across…
Denmark boosts Greenland defence after Trump repeats desire for US control
The huge package is announced after the president-elect said US ownership of Greenland was a “necessity”.
American Airlines resumes flights after technical issue
Flights were suspended for around an hour due to an issue that impacted the systems needed to release its planes.
PEFT fine tuning of Llama 3 on SageMaker HyperPod with AWS Trainium
Training large language models (LLMs) models has become a significant expense for businesses. For many use cases, companies are looking…
Nissan could face cost-cutting ‘carnage’ in Honda merger, Carlos Ghosn says
“There is practically no complementarity here,” the former Nissan CEO told CNBC.
Portfolio manager names Chinese and European stocks promising ‘strong returns’ despite market uncertainty
Pella Funds has been targeting firms in China and Europe that have executed well despite the political and economic turmoil…
European markets open higher in shortened session ahead of Christmas; Novo Nordisk resumes recovery
European stocks edged higher at the open on Tuesday.
Protests erupt in Syria over Christmas tree burning
Thousands of Christians protest to urge Syria’s new Islamist leadership to protect minorities.
Top 25 AI Tools for Increasing Sales in 2025
The business landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by artificial intelligence technologies that are reshaping how companies approach sales…
Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun
The hope is the probe could help us to better understand how the Sun works.
Meet OREO (Offline REasoning Optimization): An Offline Reinforcement Learning Method for Enhancing LLM Multi-Step Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive proficiency in numerous tasks, but their ability to perform multi-step reasoning remains a…
Honda shares set for best day in more than 16 years on share buyback plan, Nissan deal
Shares of Japanese automaker Honda surged over 15% following its announcement to buy back up to 1.1 trillion yen ($7…
Why Do Task Vectors Exist in Pretrained LLMs? This AI Research from MIT and Improbable AI Uncovers How Transformers Form Internal Abstractions and the Mechanisms Behind in-Context Learning (ICL)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable similarities to human cognitive processes’ ability to form abstractions and adapt to new…
Asian stocks had a strong 2024 — but this market was the clear winner, thanks to a tech rally
Taiwan was Asia’s best-performing market in 2024, while South Korea was the worst.
Trump’s 25% tariff could be an existential threat to Canada’s recovering auto industry
There’s growing concern that potential tariffs on Canadian imports to the U.S. could be an existential threat to the country’s…
Trump ally Gaetz paid ‘tens of thousands’ for sex and drugs, ethics report says
An investigation details allegations of drug use and payments for sex – which the former US congressman denies.
OpenAI Researchers Propose ‘Deliberative Alignment’: A Training Approach that Teaches LLMs to Explicitly Reason through Safety Specifications before Producing an Answer
The widespread use of large-scale language models (LLMs) in safety-critical areas has brought forward a crucial challenge: how to ensure…
Evaluation Agent: A Multi-Agent AI Framework for Efficient, Dynamic, Multi-Round Evaluation, While Offering Detailed, User-Tailored Analyses
Visual generative models have advanced significantly in terms of the ability to create high-quality images and videos. These developments, powered…
Matt Gaetz, former Trump AG pick, had sex with underage girl while in Congress, House Ethics report says
Matt Gaetz resigned from Congress to be President-elect Donald Trump’s first pick for attorney general, putting the fate of the…
Using transcription confidence scores to improve slot filling in Amazon Lex
When building voice-enabled chatbots with Amazon Lex, one of the biggest challenges is accurately capturing user speech input for slot…
Biden commutes most federal death sentences
The president condemns the murderers but says the death penalty at federal level “must stop”.
Honda and Nissan officially begin merger talks to create world’s third-largest automaker
Both companies are grappling with intense global competition in the electric vehicle market from the likes of Tesla and China’s BYD.
Microsoft Researchers Release AIOpsLab: An Open-Source Comprehensive AI Framework for AIOps Agents
The increasing complexity of cloud computing has brought both opportunities and challenges. Enterprises now depend heavily on intricate cloud-based infrastructures…
Macao is becoming a city of sports and entertainment, Sands China CEO says, as President Xi urges diversification
Sands China CEO Grant Chum told CNBC that a new deal with the NBA to bring pre-season games to Macao…
NOVA: A Novel Video Autoregressive Model Without Vector Quantization
Autoregressive LLMs are complex neural networks that generate coherent and contextually relevant text through sequential prediction. These LLms excel at…
Woman dies after being set on fire on NYC subway
Police say the victim was set alight while sleeping on a train in Brooklyn on Sunday morning.
Asia-Pacific markets begin Christmas week higher; Nissan-Honda merger deal in focus
Investors will be looking out for any official announcement related to the merger of Japanese automakers Honda Motor and Nissan…
OpenAI Announces OpenAI o3: A Measured Advancement in AI Reasoning with 87.5% Score on Arc AGI Benchmarks
On December 20, OpenAI announced OpenAI o3, the latest model in its o-Model Reasoning Series. Building on its predecessors, o3…
Researchers from ETH Zurich and UC Berkeley Introduce MaxInfoRL: A New Reinforcement Learning Framework for Balancing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Exploration
Reinforcement Learning, despite its popularity in a variety of fields, faces some fundamental difficulties that refrain users from exploiting its…
Tributes to nine-year-old killed in German Christmas market attack
André Gleißner was a member of a nearby children’s fire brigade, a local fire department said.
House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests
The funding bill that Congress passed over the weekend could have gone further if not for Elon Musk’s influence over…
German police probe market attack security and warnings
Officers say they evaluated if the suspected perpetrator could be a potential threat a year ago.
Meet LOTUS 1.0.0: An Advanced Open Source Query Engine with a DataFrame API and Semantic Operators
Modern data programming involves working with large-scale datasets, both structured and unstructured, to derive actionable insights. Traditional data processing tools…
German Christmas market attack suspect remanded
A man suspected of the murders of a nine-year-old boy and four women at the market in Magdeburg has appeared…
This AI Paper from Anthropic and Redwood Research Reveals the First Empirical Evidence of Alignment Faking in LLMs Without Explicit Training
AI alignment ensures that AI systems consistently act according to human values and intentions. This involves addressing the complex challenges…
Researchers at Stanford Use AI and Spatial Transcriptomics to Discover What Makes Some Cells Age Faster/Slower in the Brain
Aging is linked to a significant rise in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline. While brain aging involves complex…
Apple Researchers Introduce ARMADA: An AI System for Augmenting Apple Vision Pro with Real-Time Virtual Robot Feedback
Imitation learning (IL) is one of the methods in robotics where robots are trained to mimic human actions based on…
Meet FineFineWeb: An Open-Sourced Automatic Classification System for Fine-Grained Web Data
Multimodal Art Projection (M-A-P) researchers have introduced FineFineWeb, a large open-source automatic classification system for fine-grained web data. The project…
Hugging Face Released Moonshine Web: A Browser-Based Real-Time, Privacy-Focused Speech Recognition Running Locally
The advent of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies has changed the way individuals interact with digital devices. Despite their capabilities,…