Biden tells US it’s time to ‘pass the torch’ to Harris
The president says in a primetime White House address: “I revere this office, but I love my country more.”
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Jeep, Dodge-maker Stellantis reports 48% drop in first-half net profit on weak U.S. sales
Auto giant Stellantis on Thursday reported a steep drop in first-half net profit, citing reduced volumes and lower market share…
TaskGen: An Open-Sourced Agentic Framework that Uses an AI Agent to Solve an Arbitrary Task by Breaking it Down into Subtasks
Current AI task management methods, such as AutoGPT, BabyAGI, and LangChain, typically rely on free-text outputs, which can be lengthy…
This AI Paper from the Netherlands Introduce an AutoML Framework Designed to Synthesize End-to-End Multimodal Machine Learning ML Pipelines Efficiently
Automated Machine Learning has become essential in data-driven decision-making, allowing domain experts to use machine learning without requiring considerable statistical…
This AI Paper from Cohere AI Introduces a Multi-faceted Approach to AI Governance by Rethinking Compute Thresholds
As AI systems become more advanced, ensuring their safe and ethical deployment has become a critical concern for researchers and…
Japan’s Nikkei drops 3% as Asia-Pacific markets slide, tracking Wall Street sell-off
South Korea’s GDP grew 2.3% year on year, lower than the 2.5% expected by economists polled by Reuters.
Biden sidesteps hard truths in rare primetime opportunity
Left unsaid in his TV address was the reality that he resigned because it was becoming increasingly clear he would…
Nvidia AI Releases Minitron 4B and 8B: A New Series of Small Language Models that are 40x Faster Model Training via Pruning and Distillation
Large language models (LLMs) models, designed to understand and generate human language, have been applied in various domains, such as…
Nvidia supplier SK Hynix posts highest quarterly profit in 6 years on AI chip leadership
SK Hynix on Thursday said that a continuous rise in overall prices of its memory products led to a 32%…
Nvidia AI Proposes ChatQA 2: A Llama3-based Model for Enhanced Long-Context Understanding and RAG Capabilities
Long-context understanding and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in large language models (LLMs) is rapidly advancing, driven by the need for models…
Netanyahu defends Gaza war as protesters rally outside US Congress
The Israeli prime minister told US lawmakers: “Our enemies are your enemies.”
Frantic digging at scene of deadly Ethiopia landslides
Families dig with their bare hands for loved ones buried under the mud of landslides.
Predicting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Scores by 2030: A Machine Learning Approach with ARIMAX and Linear Regression Models
Forecasting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Scores by 2030: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations aim to…
Researchers at Google Deepmind Introduce BOND: A Novel RLHF Method that Fine-Tunes the Policy via Online Distillation of the Best-of-N Sampling Distribution
Reinforcement learning from human feedback RLHF is essential for ensuring quality and safety in LLMs. State-of-the-art LLMs like Gemini and…
Graphic footage shows US officers standing over body of Trump gunman
Bodycam video shows the immediate aftermath of the Trump shooting on the rooftop where the gunman was killed.
Netanyahu seeks to bolster US support with Congress speech
The address comes as the relationship between Israeli leaders and leading US Democrats has grown tense.
DVC.ai Released DataChain: A Groundbreaking Open-Source Python Library for Large-Scale Unstructured Data Processing and Curation
DVC.ai has announced the release of DataChain, a revolutionary open-source Python library designed to handle and curate unstructured data at…
Meta AI Release CyberSecEval 3: A Wide-Ranging Evaluation Framework for LLM Security Used in the Development of the Models
The cybersecurity risks, benefits, and capabilities of AI systems are crucial for the security and AI policy. As AI becomes…
Amazon Researchers Propose a New Method to Measure the Task-Specific Accuracy of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models (RAG)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become significantly popular in the recent times. However, evaluating LLMs on a wider range of…
Meet Laminar AI: A Developer Platform that Combines Orchestration, Evaluations, Data, and Observability to Empower AI Developers to Ship Reliable LLM Applications 10x Faster
Because LLMs are inherently random, building reliable software (like LLM agents) requires continuous monitoring, a systematic approach to testing modifications,…
Visual Haystacks Benchmark: The First “Visual-Centric” Needle-In-A-Haystack (NIAH) Benchmark to Assess LMMs’ Capability in Long-Context Visual Retrieval and Reasoning
A significant challenge in the field of visual question answering (VQA) is the task of Multi-Image Visual Question Answering (MIQA).…
LaMMOn: An End-to-End Multi-Camera Tracking Solution Leveraging Transformers and Graph Neural Networks for Enhanced Real-Time Traffic Management
Multi-target multi-camera tracking (MTMCT) is essential for intelligent transportation systems. Still, it faces challenges in real-world applications due to limited…
Deutsche Bank snaps 15-quarter profit streak on Postbank lawsuit provision
Net loss attributable to shareholders was 143 million euros ($155.1 million), against an LSEG poll of analysts which had predicted…
PILOT: A New Machine Learning Algorithm for Linear Model Trees that is Fast, Regularized, Stable, and Interpretable
Prior to PILOT, fitting linear model trees was slow and prone to overfitting, especially with large datasets. Traditional regression trees…
Trump 2.0 could go ‘nuclear’ on China trade, while economists say Harris would remain tough
Economists and trade experts largely expect Trump would further cut and destabilize trade relations between the world’s two largest economies.
Llama 3.1 Released: Meta’s New Open-Source AI Model that You can Fine-Tune, Distill, and Deploy Anywhere and available in 8B, 70B, and 405B
Meta announced the release of Llama 3.1, the most capable model in the LLama Series. This latest iteration of the…
Kamala Harris slams Trump at first rally as he hits back
The Democratic White House candidate highlights her Republican opponent’s criminal conviction, while he portrays her as “radical left”.
Apple Researchers Propose LazyLLM: A Novel AI Technique for Efficient LLM Inference in Particular under Long Context Scenarios
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made a significant leap in recent years, but their inference process faces challenges, particularly in…
Tesla reports 7% drop in auto revenue as earnings fall short of Wall Street estimates
Tesla reported a 7% decline in year-over-year automotive revenue for the second quarter, contributing to a drop in profit.
Progressive Learning Framework for Enhancing AI Reasoning through Weak-to-Strong Supervision
As large language models surpass human-level capabilities, providing accurate supervision becomes increasingly difficult. Weak-to-strong learning, which uses a less capable…
Alphabet meets earnings expectations but misses on YouTube ad revenue
Google parent company Alphabet reported earnings after the bell.
Google AI Introduces NeuralGCM: A New Machine Learning (ML) based Approach to Simulating Earth’s Atmosphere
General circulation models (GCMs) form the backbone of weather and climate prediction, leveraging numerical solvers for large-scale dynamics and parameterizations…
US Secret Service boss resigns over Trump shooting failures
Kim Cheatle had faced calls to resign for security failures ahead of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Yandex Introduces TabReD: A New Benchmark for Tabular Machine Learning
In recent years, research on tabular machine learning has grown rapidly. Yet, it still poses significant challenges for researchers and…
What Google’s decision to keep cookies means for the internet
CNBC runs through what cookies are, and how Google’s decision to keep them will affect the internet and advertising industry…
Hungary stripped of EU meeting over Ukraine stance
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban sparked anger last week by accusing the EU of pursuing a “pro-war policy”.
Modi’s government pledges fiscal prudence in India’s post-election budget
India’s government promised spending on job creation but also called for fiscal prudence as it announced its financial budget on…
WTU-Eval: A New Standard Benchmark Tool for Evaluating Large Language Models LLMs Usage Capabilities
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various tasks, including text generation, translation, and summarization. However, a growing challenge within NLP…
HuggingFace Researchers Introduce Docmatix: A Dataset For Document Visual Question Answering Containing 2.4 Million Pictures And 9.5 Million Q/A Pairs
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) is a branch of visual question answering that focuses on answering queries about the contents…
Hungary told it can’t host EU gathering after the latest clash with Putin ally over Ukraine
Hungary has been stripped of the right to host the next high-profile gathering of EU foreign ministers, marking the latest…
Farnborough Air Show kicks off with $51 billion in deals as Airbus shows off new ultra long-haul jet
Airbus flew the A321XLR for the first time since it was certified, but its U.S. rival Boeing dominated on the…
AgentPoison: A Novel Red Teaming Approach and Backdoor Attack Targeting Generic and RAG-based LLM Agents by Poisoning their Long-Term Memory or RAG Knowledge Base
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made it possible to use LLM agents in many areas, including safety-critical…
Porsche shares fall 5% after automaker cuts 2024 outlook on aluminium alloy shortage
Shares in automaker Porsche fell on Tuesday after the company cut its 2024 outlook, citing a shortage of special aluminium…
Meet ZeroPath: A GitHub App that Detects, Verifies, and Issues Pull Requests for Security Vulnerabilities in Your Code
Securing their products is a challenge for businesses. Teams are inundated with false positives from current Static Application Security Testing…
Leveraging AI and Machine Learning ML for Untargeted Metabolomics and Exposomics: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions
AI and ML in Untargeted Metabolomics and Exposomics: Metabolomics employs a high-throughput approach to measure a variety of metabolites and…
Microsoft Research Introduces E5-V: A Universal AI Framework for Multimodal Embeddings with Single-Modality Training on Text Pairs
A major development in artificial intelligence, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) combine verbal and visual comprehension to produce more accurate…
This AI Paper from UC Berkeley Shows How Interfacing GPT with Prolog (Reliable Symbolic System) Drastically Improves Its Math Problem-Solving Abilities
The recent development of large language models (LLMs) has transformed the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). LLMs show human-level…
Harris has enough support from delegates to be Democratic nominee
The vice-president received support from a majority of Democratic delegates to become the party’s nominee.
Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
It would have been Google’s largest ever acquisition, but the company has chosen to pursue an IPO rather than an…
Here’s why China was largely unaffected by Friday’s IT outage
While businesses in the U.S. and Europe woke up Friday to a global IT outage that disrupted airports and hotels,…