IBM and ETH Zürich Researchers Unveil Analog Foundation Models to Tackle Noise in In-Memory AI Hardware
IBM researchers, together with ETH Zürich, have unveiled a new class of Analog Foundation Models (AFMs) designed to bridge the…
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Building a Hybrid Rule-Based and Machine Learning Framework to Detect and Defend Against Jailbreak Prompts in LLM Systems
In this tutorial, we introduce a Jailbreak Defense that we built step-by-step to detect and safely handle policy-evasion prompts. We…
Starmer set to announce UK recognition of Palestinian state on Sunday
A host of countries, including France and Canada, are expected to do the same when world leaders gather at the…
Press could lose Pentagon access for releasing ‘unauthorised information’
Journalists have been told Pentagon passes will be contingent on agreeing to new restrictions.
LLM-as-a-Judge: Where Do Its Signals Break, When Do They Hold, and What Should “Evaluation” Mean?
What exactly is being measured when a judge LLM assigns a 1–5 (or pairwise) score? Most “correctness/faithfulness/completeness” rubrics are project-specific.…
An Internet of AI Agents? Coral Protocol Introduces Coral v1: An MCP-Native Runtime and Registry for Cross-Framework AI Agents
Coral Protocol has released Coral v1 of its agent stack, aiming to standardize how developers discover, compose, and operate AI…
Ukraine says three killed in ‘massive’ Russian aerial attack
President Zelensky says Moscow seeks to “intimidate civilians”, while Russia reports four deaths in a Ukrainian strike.
Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas
The announcement to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas sent shockwaves through corporate America.
xAI launches Grok-4-Fast: Unified Reasoning and Non-Reasoning Model with 2M-Token Context and Trained End-to-End with Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning (RL)
xAI introduced Grok-4-Fast, a cost-optimized successor to Grok-4 that merges “reasoning” and “non-reasoning” behaviors into a single set of weights…
Xiaomi Released MiMo-Audio, a 7B Speech Language Model Trained on 100M+ Hours with High-Fidelity Discrete Tokens
Xiaomi’s MiMo team released MiMo-Audio, a 7-billion-parameter audio-language model that runs a single next-token objective over interleaved text and discretized…
Run MATLAB-Style Code Inside Python by Connecting Octave with the oct2py Library
In this tutorial, we explore how we can seamlessly run MATLAB-style code inside Python by connecting Octave with the oct2py…
Move your AI agents from proof of concept to production with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Building an AI agent that can handle a real-life use case in production is a complex undertaking. Although creating a…
Google’s Sensible Agent Reframes Augmented Reality (AR) Assistance as a Coupled “what+how” Decision—So What does that Change?
Sensible Agent is an AI research framework and prototype from Google that chooses both the action an augmented reality (AR)…
Nato intercepts Russian warplanes violating Estonian airspace
Estonia says three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets remained in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes.
US TV hosts back Kimmel as Trump threatens TV networks
America’s leading late-night TV hosts lament Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension as a “blatant assault on freedom of speech”.
Trump, Xi call on TikTok deal underway
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping began a much-anticipated call aimed at finalizing a deal to keep TikTok…
Trump says TV networks opposed to him should ‘maybe’ lose licence
Concerns grow that the Trump administration is curtailing criticism after ABC host Jimmy Kimmel’s show was cancelled.
Top Computer Vision CV Blogs & News Websites (2025)
Computer vision moved fast in 2025: new multimodal backbones, larger open datasets, and tighter model–systems integration. Practitioners need sources that…
Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit: An Advanced Open Source Python Command-Line Toolkit for Using the Qwen-ASR API Beyond the 3 Minutes/10 MB Limit
Qwen has released Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit, an MIT-licensed Python CLI that programmatically bypasses the Qwen3-ASR-Flash API’s 3-minute/10 MB per-request limit by performing…
iPhone 17 goes on sale globally as Apple faces China rivals and AI doubts
People around the world flocked to Apple stores on Friday morning to pick up the new generation of iPhones.
Physical AI: Bridging Robotics, Material Science, and Artificial Intelligence for Next-Gen Embodied Systems
Table of contents What Do We Mean by “Physical AI”? How Do Materials Contribute to Intelligence? What New Sensing Technologies…
Fed cut sets stage for Asia’s next easing wave amid trade strains
The Fed’s easing may prompt further easing in some Asian countries, particularly those facing greater domestic headwinds.
Building AI agents is 5% AI and 100% software engineering
Production-grade agents live or die on data plumbing, controls, and observability—not on model choice. The doc-to-chat pipeline below maps the…
Japan core inflation dips to lowest since November 2024 as rice price surge eases
The “core-core” inflation rate, which strips out prices of both fresh food and energy and is closely monitored by the…
Scale visual production using Stability AI Image Services in Amazon Bedrock
This post was written with Alex Gnibus of Stability AI. Stability AI Image Services are now available in Amazon Bedrock,…
Bringing AI Agents Into Any UI: The AG-UI Protocol for Real-Time, Structured Agent–Frontend Streams
AI agents are no longer just chatbots that spit out answers. They’re evolving into complex systems that can reason step…
Trump suggests Starmer could use military to control UK borders
The US president says illegal migration “destroys countries from within”, as his two-day state visit to the UK comes to…
Monitor Amazon Bedrock batch inference using Amazon CloudWatch metrics
As organizations scale their use of generative AI, many workloads require cost-efficient, bulk processing rather than real-time responses. Amazon Bedrock…
Use AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon SageMaker AI managed MLflow
Organizations building custom machine learning (ML) models often have specialized requirements that standard platforms can’t accommodate. For example, healthcare companies…
AI startup Nscale came out of nowhere and is blowing away Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nscale has quickly become an important part of the U.K.’s bid to become a global AI player.
Cold shoulder: Why Beijing is freezing Nvidia’s access to the Chinese market
Beijing has put a freeze on Nvidia’s access to its market — a move industry experts say reflects growing confidence…
Bank of England holds rates steady, with a further 2025 cut hanging in the balance
The central bank kept rates at 4% as economists look ahead to the next meeting in November.
The pomp and pageantry ends as Trump’s state visit gets down to business
Trump is heading to Chequers, the official country residence of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for talks with the British leader…
H Company Releases Holo1.5: An Open-Weight Computer-Use VLMs Focused on GUI Localization and UI-VQA
H Company (A french AI startup) releases Holo1.5, a family of open foundation vision models purpose-built for computer-use (CU) agents…
Huawei touts ‘world’s most powerful’ AI chip cluster as Nvidia’s China challenges mount
The company said it plans to launch the new supercluster as soon as next year.
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air over Charlie Kirk comments
The late-night host said on Monday that Trump’s allies were “doing everything they can to score political points from” Kirk’s…
IBM AI Releases Granite-Docling-258M: An Open-Source, Enterprise-Ready Document AI Model
IBM has released Granite-Docling-258M, an open-source (Apache-2.0) vision-language model designed specifically for end-to-end document conversion. The model targets layout-faithful extraction—tables,…
Supercharge your organization’s productivity with the Amazon Q Business browser extension
Generative AI solutions like Amazon Q Business are transforming the way employees work. Organizations in every industry are embracing these…
Israeli tanks push into major Gaza City residential area
The sight of tanks in Sheikh Radwan has caused widespread alarm among residents, with thousands fleeing south.
Fed approves quarter-point interest rate cut and sees two more coming this year
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released its decision on interest rates and updated its economic projections.
Meta AI Researchers Release MapAnything: An End-to-End Transformer Architecture that Directly Regresses Factored, Metric 3D Scene Geometry
A team of researchers from Meta Reality Labs and Carnegie Mellon University has introduced MapAnything, an end-to-end transformer architecture that…
How to Build an Advanced End-to-End Voice AI Agent Using Hugging Face Pipelines?
In this tutorial, we build an advanced voice AI agent using Hugging Face’s freely available models, and we keep the…
Tests show Navalny was poisoned in jail, his widow says
Yulia Navalnaya is urging the two laboratories she says found her husband was poisoned to release their findings.
Nvidia CEO says he’s ‘disappointed’ after report China has banned its AI chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang commented after a report that China has banned the use of the company’s AI chips.
Madeleine McCann suspect freed from German prison
Christian Brückner has never been charged with any crime in relation to the McCann case.
Alibaba’s shares jump after it lands a major customer for its AI chips
China Unicom will deploy Alibaba’s AI chips via the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing unit, according to state media CCTV.
Ai2 Researchers are Changing the Benchmarking Game by Introducing Fluid Benchmarking that Enhances Evaluation along Several Dimensions
A team of researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), University of Washington and CMU introduce Fluid Benchmarking, an adaptive…
Three things Britain wants from Trump’s state visit — aside from business deals
Aside from business deals, the U.K. wants more from the U.S. president’s whirlwind trip.
Sticky UK inflation unlikely to move the needle for Bank of England
The Bank of England is watching inflation data closely after forecasting the consumer price index could peak at 4% in September.
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: China’s attempt to pivot away from the U.S. starts with this trading hub
There’s little sign that Yiwu merchants will find it attractive to sell to the U.S. again soon.