China blocks Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus
China said Monday it has decided to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese…
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Meta AI Releases Sapiens2: A High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Model for Pose, Segmentation, Normals, Pointmap, and Albedo
If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to…
The LoRA Assumption That Breaks in Production
LoRA is widely used for fine-tuning large models because it’s efficient, but it quietly assumes that all updates to a…
U.S.-Iran peace talks stall. Here’s where things stand — and what’s next for global markets
U.S.-Iran peace talks stall. Here’s where things stand — and what’s next for markets
How to Build a Fully Searchable AI Knowledge Base with OpenKB, OpenRouter, and Llama
In this tutorial, we explore how to build and query a local knowledge base with OpenKB using a free, open…
China industrial profits jump 15.8% in March, fueled by AI and chip boom despite oil shock risks
Rising global oil prices have begun seeping into the domestic economy, squeezing margins for manufacturers dependent on imported raw materials.
Brent oil tops $107 per barrel after Iran peace talks stall
President Donald Trump on Saturday cancelled plans to send U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, Pakistan for…
How to Build Smarter Multilingual Text Wrapping with BudouX Through Parsing, HTML Rendering, Model Introspection, and Toy Training
In this tutorial, we explore how we use BudouX to bring intelligent, phrase-aware line breaking to languages where whitespace is…
Trump and officials ‘likely’ targets of press dinner shooting suspect, authorities believe
The suspect is expected to be charged with assault of a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime…
BONE Network Heats Up: 93K Holders After Massive Weekly Surge
Wallets holding at least 1 million BONE quietly grew their positions by over 4% in April — a detail that…
World leaders express shock, support after White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
Leaders from the U.K., France, the EU and Pakistan react to a shooting at a high-profile dinner in Washington, D.C.,…
Top 7 Benchmarks That Actually Matter for Agentic Reasoning in Large Language Models
As AI agents move from research demos to production deployments, one question has become impossible to ignore: how do you…
What it was like in the room as shots rang out at correspondents’ dinner
The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue describes the moment he and others dived for cover as shots rang out at the venue.
The Ethereum Golden Triangle That Has Predicted Every Move Shows Where Price Is Headed
A crypto analyst has identified a Golden Triangle, a rare structure that has been forming on the Ethereum (ETH) chart…
RAG Without Vectors: How PageIndex Retrieves by Reasoning
Retrieval is where most RAG systems quietly break. Traditional pipelines rely on vector similarity—embedding queries and document chunks into the…
Watch: Trump set to speak after shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Trump, seated next to first lady Melania Trump, was quickly surrounded by Secret Service agents, while many attendees ducked under…
xAI Launches grok-voice-think-fast-1.0: Topping τ-voice Bench at 67.3%, Outperforming Gemini, GPT Realtime, and More
Building a production-grade voice AI agent is one of the hardest engineering challenges in applied machine learning today. It is…
Trump cancels US envoys’ trip to Pakistan for talks on Iran war
Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff…
A Coding Implementation on kvcached for Elastic KV Cache Memory, Bursty LLM Serving, and Multi-Model GPU Sharing
In this tutorial, we explore kvcached, a dynamic KV-cache implementation on top of vLLM, to understand how dynamic KV-cache allocation…
Armed groups launch coordinated attacks across Mali
Witnesses hear explosions and sustained gunfire near a military base outside the capital as clashes are reported several other regions.
Iran says no meeting with U.S. negotiators planned in Pakistan, with Trump envoys due to head to Islamabad
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to arrive in Islamabad on Saturday.
Google DeepMind Introduces Vision Banana: An Instruction-Tuned Image Generator That Beats SAM 3 on Segmentation and Depth Anything V3 on Metric Depth Estimation
For years, the computer vision community has operated on two separate tracks: generative models (which produce images) and discriminative models…
Meet GitNexus: An Open-Source MCP-Native Knowledge Graph Engine That Gives Claude Code and Cursor Full Codebase Structural Awareness
There is a quiet failure mode that lives at the center of every AI-assisted coding workflow. You ask Claude Code,…
A Coding Implementation on Deepgram Python SDK for Transcription, Text-to-Speech, Async Audio Processing, and Text Intelligence
In this tutorial, we build an advanced hands-on workflow with the Deepgram Python SDK and explore how modern voice AI…
Trump’s envoys Witkoff and Kushner to fly to Pakistan for Iran talks
Iran says its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is already in Pakistan but that there is no meeting planned between Iran…
Building Workforce AI Agents with Visier and Amazon Quick
Employees across every function are expected to make faster, better-informed decisions, but the information that they need rarely lives in…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek-V4: Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention Enable One-Million-Token Contexts
DeepSeek-AI has released a preview version of the DeepSeek-V4 series: two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models built around one core challenge…
Iran’s top diplomat expected in Pakistan on Friday night to discuss peace plans: MS NOW
President Donald Trump said he is in no rush to make a peace deal, claiming the Iran war has harmed stocks…
Trump warns of ‘big tariff’ if UK doesn’t drop digital services tax on U.S. tech firms
The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive…
Nato says US cannot suspend Spain from alliance, after reported Pentagon email
An internal Pentagon email reportedly outlines options to punish allies over a perceived lack of support for Iran war.
Global stock markets are too inflated and will fall, top Bank of England official warns
The Bank of England expects “an adjustment” in equity markets, Sarah Breeden, a deputy governor at the central bank, said…
TSMC shares jump to record high as Taiwan eases single-stock investment caps for funds
TSMC, whose shares had a hit a record high on Thursday as well, last week reported a 58% increase in…
Trump says Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended by three weeks
Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks following a meeting in the White House with top…
Google DeepMind Introduces Decoupled DiLoCo: An Asynchronous Training Architecture Achieving 88% Goodput Under High Hardware Failure Rates
Training frontier AI models is, at its core, a coordination problem. Thousands of chips must communicate with each other continuously,…
Shariah-Compliant Stablecoin PUSD Moves Into MidEast Institutional Arena
A dollar-linked stablecoin built to meet Islamic finance standards is now operating on a new blockchain network anchored in the…
Japan core inflation accelerates after five months as Iran war stokes energy worries
Government data showed the inflation figure — which strips out prices of fresh food — was in line with the…
Mend.io Releases AI Security Governance Framework Covering Asset Inventory, Risk Tiering, AI Supply Chain Security, and Maturity Model
There’s a pattern playing out inside almost every engineering organization right now. A developer installs GitHub Copilot to ship code…
A Coding Tutorial on OpenMythos on Recurrent-Depth Transformers with Depth Extrapolation, Adaptive Computation, and Mixture-of-Experts Routing
In this tutorial, we explore the implementation of OpenMythos, a theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture that enables deeper…
Amazon Quick for marketing: From scattered data to strategic action
Imagine the following scenario: You’re leading marketing campaigns, creating content, or driving demand generation. Your campaigns are scattered and your…
Trump tells BBC that King’s visit could ‘absolutely’ help repair relations with UK
In a phone interview with the BBC’s North America editor, the president discussed next week’s visit and his relationship with…
Trump orders Navy to ‘shoot and kill any boat’ laying mines in Hormuz Strait
Trump’s post shows the U.S. ratcheting up tensions with Iran over the strait, which has been largely choked off to…
Applying multimodal biological foundation models across therapeutics and patient care
Healthcare and life sciences decision making increasingly relies on multimodal data to diagnose diseases, prescribe medicine and predict treatment outcomes,…
In Tehran, money is short and a return to war looms over daily life
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet reports from Iran, where the buzz of busy shopping streets masks deep uncertainty over the country’s…
Oil exporters scramble for routes beyond Hormuz — but there are no easy options
Gulf oil and gas producers are scrambling to explore alternative routes to get their energy exports out of the Middle…
Two trains collide head-on in Denmark, leaving five critically hurt
The accident happened early on Thursday at a level crossing north of Copenhagen.
‘We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,’ IEA chief tells CNBC
“We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,” Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA),…
Google Cloud AI Research Introduces ReasoningBank: A Memory Framework that Distills Reasoning Strategies from Agent Successes and Failures
Most AI agents today have a fundamental amnesia problem. Deploy one to browse the web, resolve GitHub issues, or navigate…
China weathered Trump’s tariffs – but the Iran war is taking a toll
The Middle East conflict is putting pressure on factory orders, costs and jobs in China’s export-driven economy.
Justin Trudeau tells CNBC that international organizations may no longer be fit for purpose
Canada has sought to recalibrate its diplomatic relationships amid the geopolitical shifts triggered by the Trump administration.
Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5: Matching Frontier Model Benchmarks at Significantly Lower Token Cost
Xiaomi MiMo team publicly released two new models: MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5. The benchmarks, combined with some genuinely striking real-world task…