What Is Context Engineering in AI? Techniques, Use Cases, and Why It Matters
Introduction: What is Context Engineering? Context engineering refers to the discipline of designing, organizing, and manipulating the context that is…
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Chai Discovery Team Releases Chai-2: AI Model Achieves 16% Hit Rate in De Novo Antibody Design
TLDR: Chai Discovery Team introduces Chai-2, a multimodal AI model that enables zero-shot de novo antibody design. Achieving a 16%…
AbstRaL: Teaching LLMs Abstract Reasoning via Reinforcement to Boost Robustness on GSM Benchmarks
Recent research indicates that LLMs, particularly smaller ones, frequently struggle with robust reasoning. They tend to perform well on familiar…
Frantic search for survivors of Texas floods that killed 32, including 14 children
Some 27 children are missing from a girls’ summer camp on the banks of the river, say officials in Kerr…
Watch: Deadly Texas flooding causes destruction
Dozens of people are missing as flash floods sweep away mobile homes, vehicles and holiday cabins.
OPEC+ members agree larger-than-expected oil production hike in August
Eight OPEC+ producers agreed to lift crude output by 548,000 barrels per day in August, exceeding the anticipated 411,000 barrels…
Kyutai Releases 2B Parameter Streaming Text-to-Speech TTS with 220ms Latency and 2.5M Hours of Training
Kyutai, an open AI research lab, has released a groundbreaking streaming Text-to-Speech (TTS) model with ~2 billion parameters. Designed for…
Hamas says it delivered ‘positive response’ on Gaza ceasefire plan
The group said it was ready to begin negotiations immediately after Donald Trump said Israel had accepted conditions for a…
At least 13 killed, 20 children missing in Texas floods
Camp Mystic, where 700 children were attending a summer camp, has been hit by a “catastrophic level” of flooding.
Can We Improve Llama 3’s Reasoning Through Post-Training Alone? ASTRO Shows +16% to +20% Benchmark Gains
Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) without architectural changes is a core challenge in advancing AI alignment…
Musk backs Sen. Paul’s criticism of Trump’s megabill in first comment since it passed
Musk has blasted President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” calling out the potential for the spending package to increase…
BBC on French beach as police slash migrant ‘taxi-boat’ heading to UK
Watch video of French police destroying a boat in the English Channel in a rare and unusual intervention, which police…
Trump’s tariffs deadline is looming for Europe. Here’s where things stand
The U.S. and the European Union have not yet struck a trade deal with just days to go before Trump’s…
Kyiv hit by barrage of drone strikes as Putin spurns Trump’s truce bid
Almost every district in the capital sustained damage after Russia fired a record 550 drones, Ukraine says.
China slammed ‘blind box’ addiction — but that shouldn’t faze Labubu-maker Pop Mart
Analysts say the fears of regulatory headwinds are overblown as Gen Zers and millennials, rather than young children, are Pop…
A year after its landslide win, Britain’s Labour Party is navigating a tougher-than-expected path
The last 12 months have been nothing short of tumultuous for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
A Tutorial on Using OpenAI Codex with GitHub Repositories for Seamless AI-Powered Development
When we first land in the Codex environment, it feels like stepping into a co-pilot’s seat for coding. Codex is…
Indian regulator bars U.S. trading firm Jane Street from accessing securities market
The U.S. trading firm’s entities are “further prohibited from buying, selling or otherwise dealing in securities, directly or indirectly.”
Crome: Google DeepMind’s Causal Framework for Robust Reward Modeling in LLM Alignment
Reward models are fundamental components for aligning LLMs with human feedback, yet they face the challenge of reward hacking issues.…
Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
Death of Liverpool forward Jota leaves football world in shock
The football world is mourning the death of Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota, aged 28, in a car crash.
UN expert calls for companies to stop doing business with Israel
Francesca Albanese also accuses companies which equip Israel of complicity in war crimes.
Trump to speak with Putin after U.S. pauses some weapons shipments to Ukraine
The Trump-Putin call comes after the U.S. said it would halt some weapons shipments to Ukraine, which continues to fight…
Transforming network operations with AI: How Swisscom built a network assistant using Amazon Bedrock
In the telecommunications industry, managing complex network infrastructures requires processing vast amounts of data from multiple sources. Network engineers often…
DeepSeek R1T2 Chimera: 200% Faster Than R1-0528 With Improved Reasoning and Compact Output
TNG Technology Consulting has unveiled DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, a new Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) model that blends intelligence and speed through an…
What the U.S.-Vietnam trade deal tells us about the future of tariffs
Pressure for trade deals is mounting as the temporary reduction of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs is set to end in a…
Building a BioCypher-Powered AI Agent for Biomedical Knowledge Graph Generation and Querying
In this tutorial, we implement the BioCypher AI Agent, a powerful tool designed for building, querying, and analyzing biomedical knowledge…
Trump’s megabill heads to final vote after Republican divisions nearly derail it
The vote to begin final debate marks a win for Republican leadership seeking to deliver on Trump’s second term policy…
UK in dire straits after finance minister’s tears rattle markets
Markets are keeping a close eye on political developments in the U.K. after Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was seen crying…
U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce
The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip design software to China, U.S.-based Synopsys announced.
Hong Kong’s IPO market is on fire — here’s what’s fueling the surge
Hong Kong is on track to become the world’s largest listing destination this year, surpassing the Nasdaq and the New…
Together AI Releases DeepSWE: A Fully Open-Source RL-Trained Coding Agent Based on Qwen3-32B and Achieves 59% on SWEBench
Together AI has released DeepSWE, a state-of-the-art, fully open-sourced software engineering agent that is trained entirely through reinforcement learning (RL).…
Shanghai Jiao Tong Researchers Propose OctoThinker for Reinforcement Learning-Scalable LLM Development
Introduction: Reinforcement Learning Progress through Chain-of-Thought Prompting LLMs have shown excellent progress in complex reasoning tasks through CoT prompting combined…
‘Diddy’ cleared of sex trafficking and racketeering, convicted on two other charges
A New York jury clears Combs of the most serious charges, but finds him guilty on two counts of transportation…
Optimize RAG in production environments using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon OpenSearch Service
Generative AI has revolutionized customer interactions across industries by offering personalized, intuitive experiences powered by unprecedented access to information. This…
Advancing AI agent governance with Boomi and AWS: A unified approach to observability and compliance
Just as APIs became the standard for integration, AI agents are transforming workflow automation through intelligent task coordination. AI agents…
Trump announces Vietnam trade deal, 20% tariff on its imports to U.S.
President Donald Trump said the United States has struck a trade deal with Vietnam.
UK government borrowing costs spike amid tensions in ruling Labour party
Pressure has been piling on the Labour government, which has been seeking to reform its social benefits program.
London stock market could face its biggest blow yet if AstraZeneca exits
AstraZeneca is the most valuable company listed on London’s FTSE 100 index.
CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: UK’s millionaire exodus spells more trouble for Labour
The U.K.’s super rich a punitive new tax regime, with potentially severe consequences for the country.
Xpeng defies China’s EV price war with steady sales as Tesla and local rivals try to keep pace
Chinese electric car startup Xpeng is keeping up sales momentum against its rivals amid a fierce price war in China.
Baidu Researchers Propose AI Search Paradigm: A Multi-Agent Framework for Smarter Information Retrieval
The Need for Cognitive and Adaptive Search Engines Modern search systems are evolving rapidly as the demand for context-aware, adaptive…
Israel has agreed to conditions for 60-day Gaza ceasefire, Trump says
US president warns Hamas “it will only get worse” if they do not accept the deal.
Jeff Bezos sells $737 million worth of Amazon shares
The sale is part of a prearranged trading plan that will let Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sell up to 25…
Use Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio to build complex AI workflows using Amazon Bedrock Flows
Organizations face the challenge to manage data, multiple artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) tools, and workflows across different environments,…
Accelerating AI innovation: Scale MCP servers for enterprise workloads with Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI has been moving at a rapid pace, with new tools, offerings, and models released frequently. According to Gartner,…
Baidu Open Sources ERNIE 4.5: LLM Series Scaling from 0.3B to 424B Parameters
Baidu has officially open-sourced its latest ERNIE 4.5 series, a powerful family of foundation models designed for enhanced language understanding,…
Banks say Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ could boost the U.S. economy – despite deficit concerns
In a letter Sunday, the American Bankers Association said it “strongly supports” many provisions within the bill for the “much…
OMEGA: A Structured Math Benchmark to Probe the Reasoning Limits of LLMs
Introduction to Generalization in Mathematical Reasoning Large-scale language models with long CoT reasoning, such as DeepSeek-R1, have shown good results…
Bank of England chief sees downward interest rate trend as UK hunts for growth
Economists expect policymakers to cut rates by 25 basis points at the next gathering in August, a move that would…