The State of Voice AI in 2025: Trends, Breakthroughs, and Market Leaders
The year 2025 marks a turning point for Voice AI Agents, with technology reaching levels of naturalness, context-awareness, and commercial…
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How a leaked phone call derailed the Thai PM’s career – and the Shinawatra dynasty
Thailand’s Constitutional Court strikes again, removing yet another prime minister from office.
Alibaba’s key cloud unit sales shine even as quarterly revenues miss
Alibaba posted a a revenue miss in the June quarter even as it showed an acceleration at its cloud computing…
Telecom giant Reliance Jio to list by the first half of 2026, setting stage for India’s largest IPO
Speaking to shareholders over video conference on Friday, Ambani said that the total user base of Jio has now crossed…
How to Cut Your AI Training Bill by 80%? Oxford’s New Optimizer Delivers 7.5x Faster Training by Optimizing How a Model Learns
Table of contents The Hidden Cost of AI: The GPU Bill But what if you could cut your GPU bill…
OpenAI Releases an Advanced Speech-to-Speech Model and New Realtime API Capabilities including MCP Server Support, Image Input, and SIP Phone Calling Support
OpenAI has officially launched Realtime API and gpt-realtime, its most advanced speech-to-speech model, moving the Realtime API out of beta…
Denmark slashes 2025 growth forecast amid Novo Nordisk slowdown
Denmark on Friday cut its annual growth forecast to 1.4% from 3%.
How Italy’s banking M&A wave started crashing
The merger fever that’s gripped Italy’s banking sector showed signs of abating this summer — but its end isn’t nigh.
Memory-R1: How Reinforcement Learning Supercharges LLM Memory Agents
Large language models (LLMs) now stand at the center of countless AI breakthroughs—chatbots, coding assistants, question answering, creative writing, and…
Elephant-dragon tango: Modi’s visit to China signals improving ties — will the bonhomie last?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China after seven years, as relations had soured over border clashes in 2020.
Minneapolis school attacker ‘obsessed with idea of killing children’, officials say
The two children killed in the shooting have been identified as Fletcher Merkel, eight, and Harper Moyski, 10.
Meet Boti: The AI assistant transforming how the citizens of Buenos Aires access government information with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Julieta Rappan, Macarena Blasi, and María Candela Blanco from the Government of the City of…
Grounding Medical AI in Expert‑Labeled Data: A Case Study on PadChest-GR- the First Multimodal, Bilingual, Sentence‑Level Dataset for Radiology Reporting
Table of contents A Multimodal Radiology Breakthrough The Challenge: Moving Beyond Image Classification Human‑in‑the‑Loop at Clinical Scale The Dataset: PadChest‑GR…
How to Build a Multi-Round Deep Research Agent with Gemini, DuckDuckGo API, and Automated Reporting?
We begin this tutorial by designing a modular deep research system that runs directly on Google Colab. We configure Gemini…
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: India’s three-way balancing act: Tariffs, oil, and uneasy handshakes
India is walking a tightrope of tariffs from Washington, oil from Moscow, and an uneasy handshake with Beijing.
How China’s electric vehicle juggernaut is reshaping the global car market
The speed of China’s electric vehicle revolution has caught many off guard.
European leaders outraged after Russian strikes kill 17 and damage EU’s HQ
The overnight attacks destroyed a block of flats and also caused damage to the EU’s delegation offices.
‘My friend got hit in the back’: Witnesses describe terror of US school shooting
One young boy says he was protected from gunfire in a church by a friend who lay on top of…
Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD’s triple
Tesla faces a number of challenges in Europe including continued intense competition and brand damage from Elon Musk’s political involvement.
Australia’s Large Language Model Landscape: Technical Assessment
Key Points No flagship, globally competitive, locally developed LLM (such as GPT-4, Claude 3.5, LLaMA 3.1) has yet emerged from…
FBI investigates Minneapolis school shooting as anti-Catholic hate crime
Two children were killed when an attacker opened fire through the windows of the city’s Annunciation Church.
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to join Putin at China military parade
The reclusive North Korean leader’s attendance at the event comes days after Trump said he wants to meet Kim.
Japan’s top trade negotiator cancels trip to U.S. over trade deal issues
Japan’s top trade negotiator Ryosei Akazawa canceled a trip to the United States on Thursday over issues related to the…
Nous Research Team Releases Hermes 4: A Family of Open-Weight AI Models with Hybrid Reasoning
Nous Research has released Hermes 4, a family of open-weight models (14B, 70B, and 405B parameter sizes based on Llama…
A Coding Implementation of Quantum State Evolution, Decoherence, and Entanglement Dynamics using QuTiP
In this advanced QuTiP tutorial, we explore the rich dynamics of quantum systems using Python and the QuTiP framework. We’ll…
Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines. Here’s why the stock is falling
Nvidia said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50%, signaling to Wall Street that demand for AI infrastructure shows…
What is Agentic RAG? Use Cases and Top Agentic RAG Tools (2025)
Table of contents What is Agentic RAG? Use Cases and Applications Top Agentic RAG Tools & Frameworks (2025) Open-source frameworks…
Meta AI Introduces DeepConf: First AI Method to Achieve 99.9% on AIME 2025 with Open-Source Models Using GPT-OSS-120B
Large language models (LLMs) have reshaped AI reasoning, with parallel thinking and self-consistency methods often cited as pivotal advances. However,…
Mercury foundation models from Inception Labs are now available in Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce that Mercury and Mercury Coder foundation models (FMs) from Inception Labs are available through…
Gaza City evacuation inevitable, Israeli army warns Palestinians
People who relocate to southern Gaza will get “generous” aid, the military says, as it prepares to conquer the city.
Canada Goose stock rises nearly 15% after retailer’s controlling shareholder gets take-private bids
Private equity firm Bain Capital is looking to offload its holding in Canada Goose, sources told CNBC.
Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark.
China Nvidia rival Cambricon adds to $40 billion rally with 4,000% revenue jump
The numbers underscore how local Chinese challengers to Nvidia are gaining traction as Beijing looks to push its domestic industry.
Trump’s 50% tariff on India kicks in as Modi urges self-reliance
The US president’s steep 50% tariffs on India have kicked in, sending Narendra Modi’s government into firefighting mode.
The Evolution of AI Protocols: Why Model Context Protocol (MCP) Could Become the New HTTP for AI
Welcome to a new era of AI interoperability, where the Model Context Protocol (MCP) stands ready to do for agents…
European stocks rebound as traders eye Nvidia earnings
European markets opened higher Wednesday as global traders gear up for results from the technology bellwether.
Google AI’s New Regression Language Model (RLM) Framework Enables LLMs to Predict Industrial System Performance Directly from Raw Text Data
Google’s new Regression Language Model (RLM) approach enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to predict industrial system performance directly from raw…
A Coding Implementation of an Advanced Tool-Using AI Agent with Semantic Kernel and Gemini
In this tutorial, we build an advanced AI agent using Semantic Kernel combined with Google’s Gemini free model, and we…
NVIDIA AI Released Jet-Nemotron: 53x Faster Hybrid-Architecture Language Model Series that Translates to a 98% Cost Reduction for Inference at Scale
NVIDIA researchers have shattered the longstanding efficiency hurdle in large language model (LLM) inference, releasing Jet-Nemotron—a family of models (2B…
Learn how Amazon Health Services improved discovery in Amazon search using AWS ML and gen AI
Healthcare discovery on ecommerce domains presents unique challenges that traditional product search wasn’t designed to handle. Unlike searching for books…
Google AI Introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash Image: A New Model that Allows You to Generate and Edit Images by Simply Describing Them
Table of contents What Makes Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Impressive? Key Technical Features Benchmark Leadership and Community Reception Pricing, Access,…
Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk
Military says Russian advance “is the first attack of such a large scale” in industrial province.
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund exits Caterpillar and five banks on Israel concerns
Norges Bank said it was divesting from U.S. manufacturer Caterpillar over the use of its products in the destruction of…
Manhunt under way after two police officers shot dead in rural Australian town
Australian police say a “heavily armed” male suspect escaped into the bush after the shooting in Victoria state.
What is MLSecOps(Secure CI/CD for Machine Learning)?: Top MLSecOps Tools (2025)
Machine learning (ML) is transforming industries, powering innovation in domains as varied as financial services, healthcare, autonomous systems, and e-commerce.…
French stocks slide as Paris government faces risk of collapse
European markets open lower as France faces the latest no confidence vote in the government over a budget dispute.
Your LLM is 5x Slower Than It Should Be. The Reason? Pessimism—and Stanford Researchers Just Showed How to Fix It
Table of contents The Hidden Bottleneck in LLM Inference Amin: The Optimistic Scheduler That Learns on the Fly The Proof…
A world on weight loss drugs: How GLP-1s are reshaping the economy
As GLP-1 adoption grows and new applications for the drugs come to light, experts say that could have sweeping impacts…
Building a Reliable End-to-End Machine Learning Pipeline Using MLE-Agent and Ollama Locally
We begin this tutorial by showing how we can combine MLE-Agent with Ollama to create a fully local, API-free machine…
Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images
BBC investigation finds US victim’s images are traded globally by an operator based in Indonesia.