How the EU is preparing to reach a tariff deal in Trump’s game of chicken
The European Union is pushing to secure a trade deal with the U.S. ahead of President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1…
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EU lowers price cap for Russian crude under new sanctions package
EU policymakers on Friday signaled that the price at which non-G7 countries could purchase Russian crude and access G7 logistics…
Fighter jet maker Saab pops 12% on profit beat amid European defense splurge
Saab reported better-than-expected sales growth and income for the second quarter.
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Agent: From Research to Real-World Automation
On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, transforming ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a unified AI agent capable of autonomously executing…
Israel’s stock market outperforms Middle East counterparts despite multi-front wars
Israel’s markets have been lifted by significant foreign investment and more recently by renewed investor confidence following its 12-day conflict…
Trump orders officials to ‘produce’ more Epstein documents after mounting pressure
Trump’s supporters and opponents alike have demanded more disclosures related to the disgraced financier.
GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Advancing General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
Vision-language models (VLMs) play a crucial role in today’s intelligent systems by enabling a detailed understanding of visual content. The…
Japan’s core inflation cools in June as expected, coming down from 29-month high as rice prices ease
Headline inflation in the country dropped to 3.3%, coming down from 3.5% in May.
Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI
Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) goes beyond statistical metrics like perplexity or bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) scores.…
Netflix posts earnings beat as revenue grows 16% in second quarter
Netflix posted an earnings beat Thursday, as revenue grew 16% during the second quarter of 2025.
Implementing on-demand deployment with customized Amazon Nova models on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock offers model customization capabilities for customers to tailor versions of foundation models (FMs) to their specific needs through…
British spies and SAS named in Afghan data breach
The personal details of spies and soldiers were included in a data leak that also named 19,000 Afghans.
NVIDIA AI Releases Canary-Qwen-2.5B: A State-of-the-Art ASR-LLM Hybrid Model with SoTA Performance on OpenASR Leaderboard
NVIDIA has just released Canary-Qwen-2.5B, a groundbreaking automatic speech recognition (ASR) and language model (LLM) hybrid, which now tops the…
Pope expresses sadness after Israeli strike on Gaza church kills three
Israel says it regrets any harm to a religious site or uninvolved civilians after a shell hits the Catholic Church…
Google Search Just Got a Major AI Upgrade: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and Agentic Intelligence
Google is transforming how we interact with Search. With the recent rollout of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and a…
60 dead after fire tears through Iraqi shopping centre, officials say
Clips circulating on social media appear to show a number of people on the roof during the fire.
Crypto theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks
It comes as there have been multiple headlines this year about crypto entrepreneurs and their relatives being targeted with physical…
Building enterprise-scale RAG applications with Amazon S3 Vectors and DeepSeek R1 on Amazon SageMaker AI
Organizations are adopting large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek R1, to transform business processes, enhance customer experiences, and drive…
The 20 Hottest Agentic AI Tools And Agents Of 2025 (So Far)
Research & Cutting‑Edge Agents AlphaEvolve (Google DeepMind) – An evolutionary coding agent powered by Gemini, AlphaEvolve autonomously invents and optimizes algorithms…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants to sell more advanced chips to China after H20 ban is lifted
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Beijing after the U.S. allowed its H20 chip to be sold in China.
Jensen Huang woos Beijing as Nvidia finds a way back into China
Wearing his iconic leather jacket, Huang walked into the sunny courtyard of the Mandarin Oriental hotel earlier than scheduled and…
France flirts with cutting two public holidays to save money
France’s prime minister announced plans for spending cuts on Tuesday as the government targets around 43 billion euros’ ($50.0 billion)…
ASML shares drop 6.5% after the chip giant says it can’t confirm that it will grow in 2026
ASML reported second-quarter earnings that beat estimates with the its key net bookings figure ahead of consensus.
UK inflation hits hotter-than-expected 3.6% in June
Economists polled by Reuters had anticipated inflation would reach 3.4% in the twelve months to June.
Trump says attorney general should release any ‘credible’ information on Epstein
The president also said “only really bad people” want to stoke theories about the well-connected sex offender.
Jensen Huang lauds China’s AI models as Nvidia gears up to resume chip exports
Huang also praised Chinese companies for taking an open-source approach to AI.
NVIDIA Just Released Audio Flamingo 3: An Open-Source Model Advancing Audio General Intelligence
Heard about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Meet its auditory counterpart—Audio General Intelligence. With Audio Flamingo 3 (AF3), NVIDIA introduces a…
Trump says Indonesia trade deal features 19% tariff; Jakarta yet to confirm
Trump in a Truth Social post called it “great deal, for everybody,” and said it followed direct dealings with Indonesian…
Thousands of Afghans were moved to UK in secret scheme after data breach
The existence of the scheme could not be reported until now because of a court injunction.
Trump-backed crypto regulation bills fail to clear key hurdle in Congress
Republicans who voted against the cryptocurrency regulation legislation said they objected to how the bills were structured.
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service Managed Cluster as vector store
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases has extended its vector store options by enabling support for Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters, further…
A Coding Implementation to Build a Multi-Agent Research and Content Pipeline with CrewAI and Gemini
In this tutorial, we set up an end-to-end AI agent system powered by CrewAI and Google’s Gemini models. We start…
Efficient and Adaptable Speech Enhancement via Pre-trained Generative Audioencoders and Vocoders
Recent advances in speech enhancement (SE) have moved beyond traditional mask or signal prediction methods, turning instead to pre-trained audio…
Bitcoin is nearly double where it was a year ago. This is what’s behind the run
Firms like GameStop and Trump Media are following the Michael Saylor playbook and treating bitcoin as a strategic reserve.
Supercharge generative AI workflows with NVIDIA DGX Cloud on AWS and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
This post is co-written with Andrew Liu, Chelsea Isaac, Zoey Zhang, and Charlie Huang from NVIDIA. DGX Cloud on Amazon…
JPMorgan Chase tops estimates on stronger-than-expected trading, investment banking
JPMorgan Chase will give investors a view into how U.S. consumers and corporations fared in the second quarter.
Accelerate generative AI inference with NVIDIA Dynamo and Amazon EKS
This post is co-written with Kshitiz Gupta, Wenhan Tan, Arun Raman, Jiahong Liu, and Eiluth Triana Isaza from NVIDIA. As…
I’m in Norway — and EVs are everywhere. Here’s what the country has done differently
Norway has long been blazing a trail in the transition away from internal combustion engine cars.
Amazon Releases Kiro: An AI IDE That Empowers Developers with Agentic Automation
Amazon has unveiled Kiro, a groundbreaking agentic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to change the way developers build, ship, and…
What Makes MetaStone-S1 the Leading Reflective Generative Model for AI Reasoning?
Researchers from MetaStone-AI & USTC introduce a reflective generative model, MetaStone-S1, which attains OpenAI o3-mini’s performance through a new Reflective…
The UK’s budget gap is widening and markets want to know Reeves’ fix
Rachel Reeves’ upcoming Mansion House on Tuesday evening address will be a crucial moment to signal how she will inject growth…
I’m ‘disappointed but not done’ with Putin, Trump tells BBC
Trump says he trusts “almost no-one” in exclusive interview discussing the war in Ukraine, Nato and the UK.
Nvidia says it will resume H20 AI chip sales to China ‘soon,’ following U.S. government assurances
The U.S. government in April told Nvidia it would require a license to sell the chips to China, the company…
China’s second-quarter GDP grows 5.2%, topping market expectations
While China’s economic growth in June beat economists’ estimates of 5.1%, it represented a deceleration from the 5.4% growth in…
Tracing OpenAI Agent Responses using MLFlow
MLflow is an open-source platform for managing and tracking machine learning experiments. When used with the OpenAI Agents SDK, MLflow…
Trump threatens Russia with tariffs while unveiling new Ukraine weapons plan
Under the new plan, the US will sell weapons to Nato countries who will send them to Ukraine.
Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Russian export buyers unless Ukraine peace deal is reached by September
Trump’s tariffs could hit China, India and Brazil especially hard. All three countries are top buyers of Russian fossil fuels.
Build AI-driven policy creation for vehicle data collection and automation using Amazon Bedrock
Vehicle data is critical for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to drive continuous product innovation and performance improvements and to support…
India orders airlines to check fuel switches on Boeing jets
India’s aviation regulator gives airlines that operate in the country a week to comply with the order.
Liquid AI Open-Sources LFM2: A New Generation of Edge LLMs
What is included in this article: Performance breakthroughs – 2x faster inference and 3x faster trainingTechnical architecture – Hybrid design…