‘Are we about to repeat history?’: Martial law’s traumatic legacy in South Korea
President Yoon Suk-yeol’s martial law announcement left many Koreans with one thought: not again.
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AI4Bharat and Hugging Face Released Indic Parler-TTS: A Multimodal Text-to-Speech Technology for Multilingual Inclusivity and Bridging India’s Linguistic Digital Divide
AI4Bharat and Hugging Face have unveiled the Indic-Parler Text-to-Speech (TTS) system, an initiative designed to advance linguistic inclusivity in AI.…
NVIDIA AI Introduces NVILA: A Family of Open Visual Language Models VLMs Designed to Optimize both Efficiency and Accuracy
Visual language models (VLMs) have come a long way in integrating visual and textual data. Yet, they come with significant…
Advancing Large Multimodal Models: DocHaystack, InfoHaystack, and the Vision-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework
LMMs have made significant strides in vision-language understanding but still need help reasoning over large-scale image collections, limiting their real-world…
Mistral-NeMo-Instruct-2407 and Mistral-NeMo-Base-2407 are now available on SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce that Mistral-NeMo-Base-2407 and Mistral-NeMo-Instruct-2407—twelve billion parameter large language models from Mistral AI that excel at text generation—are…
Meta AI Just Open-Sourced Llama 3.3: A New 70B Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM)
Meta AI just released Llama 3.3, an open-source language model designed to offer better performance and quality for text-based applications,…
Ruliad AI Releases DeepThought-8B: A New Small Language Model Built on LLaMA-3.1 with Test-Time Compute Scaling and Deliverers Transparent Reasoning
Ruliad AI released Deepthought-8B-LLaMA-v0.01-alpha, focusing on reasoning transparency and control. This model, built on LLaMA-3.1 with 8 billion parameters, is…
Damascus and Assad now in Syrian rebels’ sights
The sudden offensive could become the biggest threat to Syria’s president in 13 years of civil war.
Payrolls increased 227,000 in November, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.2%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase 214,000 in November, according to the Dow Jones consensus forecast.
There’s an important jobs report coming Friday. Here’s what to expect
The jobs report due out Friday could provide a clearer picture of where the labor market is headed.
Meet the industry insider who curates art for shows on Netflix and beyond
Yvonne Force Villareal is an arts entrepreneur who has licensed big-name work for shows like “Billions” and for real estate…
UniCredit’s Orcel could still sweeten his bid and take on a double M&A offensive
Divided between two takeover courtships, UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel may need to decide between going big abroad or staying home.
Thousands flee Syrian city Homs as rebels advance further
Homs is the next city south on the road from Aleppo to Damascus, which the rebels have vowed to reach.
Salesforce AI Research Introduces CodeTree: A Multi-Agent Framework for Efficient and Scalable Automated Code Generation
Automated code generation is a rapidly evolving field that utilizes large language models (LLMs) to produce executable and logically correct…
S Korea president ordered arrest of own party leader
The head of President Yoon’s party called for his suspension in a sign it may back moves to impeach him.
Google DeepMind Open-Sources GenCast: A Machine Learning-based Weather Model that can Predict Different Weather Conditions up to 15 Days Ahead
Accurately forecasting weather remains a complex challenge due to the inherent uncertainty in atmospheric dynamics and the nonlinear nature of…
India’s central bank revises down GDP growth forecast for 2025, keeps interest rate steady
The Reserve Bank of India has held interest rate steady since February last year, while a sharper-than-anticipated slowdown in India’s…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: What lies ahead for India after a big GDP growth miss?
The recent growth number for the second fiscal quarter, has put a dent on the optimism towards India as experts…
Google DeepMind Just Released PaliGemma 2: A New Family of Open-Weight Vision Language Models (3B, 10B and 28B)
Vision-language models (VLMs) have come a long way, but they still face significant challenges when it comes to effectively generalizing…
Bitcoin falls below $100,000 after reaching the milestone level for the first time
Bitcoin had been widely expected to reach $100,000 since the U.S. presidential election but investors sent it to this mark…
Advancing AI trust with new responsible AI tools, capabilities, and resources
As generative AI continues to drive innovation across industries and our daily lives, the need for responsible AI has become…
Deploy RAG applications on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart using FAISS
Generative AI has empowered customers with their own information in unprecedented ways, reshaping interactions across various industries by enabling intuitive…
Magnitude 7 earthquake strikes California coast
The earthquake’s epicentre is marked near northern California,
France’s political crisis just saw the government ousted — but Paris’ problems have just begun
The end of Barnier’s short-lived government is just the beginning of a new chapter in France’s political and economic crisis.
Emmanuel Macron to name new French PM within days
The statement comes in a political crisis that saw his Prime Minister ousted in a no-confidence vote.
Speed up your cluster procurement time with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod training plans
Today, organizations are constantly seeking ways to use advanced large language models (LLMs) for their specific needs. These organizations are…
China’s AI Unicorn ‘Moonshot AI’ Open-Sources its Core Reasoning Architecture: ‘Mooncake’
Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown in complexity and demand, creating significant challenges for companies aiming to provide scalable and…
OPEC+ members to delay oil production increases
This production cut was previously due to start being phased out in December.
Barnier to resign as French PM after government collapse
The prime minister is likely to stay on as caretaker while President Emmanuel Macron chooses a successor.
Revolutionizing In-Context Learning: The HiAR-ICL Paradigm for Advanced Reasoning with MCTS
Large language models are good at many tasks but bad at complex reasoning, especially when it comes to math problems.…
Barnier downfall threatens to set a pattern for what lies ahead
Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield asks if the next French prime minister will face the same fate as Michel Barnier.
British regulators approve $19 billion Vodafone-Three mobile merger
British regulators said the tie-up can proceed if both companies sign “binding commitments to invest billions” to roll out a…
ServiceNow Releases AgentLab: A New Open-Source Python Package for Developing and Evaluating Web Agents
Developing web agents is a challenging area of AI research that has attracted significant attention in recent years. As the…
E11 Bio Introduces PRISM: Revolutionizing Brain Connectomics for Scalable Neuroscience and AI Applications
The detailed study of the fly connectome has revolutionized neuroscience, offering insights into brain circuitry and its applications. Extending this…
South Korean President Yoon faces impeachment: How did we get here?
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing impeachment by parliament after he declared martial law only to revoke it…
Google DeepMind Introduces Genie 2: An Autoregressive Latent Diffusion Model for Virtual World and Game Creation with Minimal Input
Google DeepMind has introduced Genie 2, a multimodal AI model designed to reduce the gap between creativity and AI. Genie…
Far from a bazooka, China’s stimulus measures are just trickling through the economy
China’s latest efforts to kickstart growth will take time to play out, data and company earnings show.
French government collapses in no-confidence vote
Michel Barnier’s ousting over a budget bill deepens France’s current political crisis.
Advancing Medical AI: Evaluating OpenAI’s o1-Preview Model and Optimizing Inference Strategies
Medprompt, a run-time steering strategy, demonstrates the potential of guiding general-purpose LLMs to achieve state-of-the-art performance in specialized domains like…
French government toppled in no-confidence vote brought by opposition
The French government has been ousted in a vote of no-confidence, plunging the euro zone’s second-largest country into deep political…
Amazon Bedrock Marketplace now includes NVIDIA models: Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron-4 NIM microservices
This post is co-written with Abhishek Sawarkar, Eliuth Triana, Jiahong Liu and Kshitiz Gupta from NVIDIA. At AWS re:Invent 2024,…
EvolutionaryScale Releases ESM Cambrian: A New Family of Protein Language Models which Focuses on Creating Representations of the Underlying Biology of Protein
Understanding protein sequences and their functions has always been a challenging aspect of protein research. Proteins, often described as the…
Scale ML workflows with Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Scaling machine learning (ML) workflows from initial prototypes to large-scale production deployment can be daunting task, but the integration of…
Introducing Amazon Kendra GenAI Index – Enhanced semantic search and retrieval capabilities
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service that helps you search across different content repositories with built-in connectors. AWS…
Multimodal Universe Dataset: A Multimodal 100TB Repository of Astronomical Data Empowering Machine Learning and Astrophysical Research on a Global Scale
Astronomical research has transformed dramatically, evolving from limited observational capabilities to sophisticated data collection systems that capture cosmic phenomena with…
Moment of big opportunity and high risk for Marine Le Pen
The no-confidence vote against the French prime minister is a high-stakes gamble for far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
South Korea opposition files motion to impeach President Yoon
The country faces an uncertain future after its leader Yoon Suk Yeol suddenly declared and then reversed martial law.
‘We had to stop this’: Woman who grabbed South Korean soldier’s gun speaks to BBC
Ahn Gwi-ryeong faced off with armed soldiers who were sent to stop lawmakers from entering parliament in Seoul.
South Korea’s short-lived martial law declaration rattled markets. Here’s what’s next for stocks
An extraordinary political drama in South Korea is likely to compound an already gloomy outlook for Asia’s fourth-largest economy, analysts…