Israel security cabinet approves plan to ‘capture’ Gaza, official says
The Israeli military has called up tens of thousands of reservists, saying it is aiming to increase pressure on Hamas.
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Incoming German Chancellor Merz vows reforms and investments as parties sign coalition agreement
Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the country’s new cabinet are set to take office Tuesday.
European markets mixed, Erste Group Bank rises 7% after acquiring stake in Santander’s Polish unit
European bourses saw a mixed start to the week on Monday, with U.K. markets closed for a bank holiday.
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Standardizes, Simplifies, and Future-Proofs AI Agent Tool Calling Across Models for Scalable, Secure, Interoperable Workflows Traditional Approaches to AI–Tool Integration
Before MCP, LLMs relied on ad-hoc, model-specific integrations to access external tools. Approaches like ReAct interleave chain-of-thought reasoning with explicit…
Scaling Reinforcement Learning Beyond Math: Researchers from NVIDIA AI and CMU Propose Nemotron-CrossThink for Multi-Domain Reasoning with Verifiable Reward Modeling
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks, with Reinforcement Learning (RL) serving as a crucial…
China risks a spiral into deeper deflation as it diverts U.S.-bound exports to domestic market
Prices will need to drop for buyers for them to absorb goods meant for exports, experts warn — risking deeper…
Multimodal Queries Require Multimodal RAG: Researchers from KAIST and DeepAuto.ai Propose UniversalRAG—A New Framework That Dynamically Routes Across Modalities and Granularities for Accurate and Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
RAG has proven effective in enhancing the factual accuracy of LLMs by grounding their outputs in external, relevant information. However,…
Syrian security forces ‘oversaw’ armed civilians who killed Alawites, accused man says
One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were…
Building AI Agents Using Agno’s Multi-Agent Teaming Framework for Comprehensive Market Analysis and Risk Reporting
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, leveraging specialized AI agents to handle discrete aspects of analysis is key to delivering timely,…
Netanyahu vows response after Houthi missile hits near Israel’s main airport
Footage appeared to show a plume of black smoke rising from an area near the airport on the outskirts of…
Trump takes credit for ‘good parts’ of economy, blames ‘bad parts’ on Biden
Last week, Trump put the onus on Biden for the economy contracting in the first quarter of the year.
Australia’s opposition left reeling after crushing election defeat
Peter Dutton has been ousted from parliament after Anthony Albanese’s landslide win.
Meta AI Releases Llama Prompt Ops: A Python Toolkit for Prompt Optimization on Llama Models
Meta AI has released Llama Prompt Ops, a Python package designed to streamline the process of adapting prompts for Llama…
IBM AI Releases Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview: A Compact Open-Language Model Optimized for Long-Context and Instruction Tasks
IBM has introduced a preview of Granite 4.0 Tiny, the smallest member of its upcoming Granite 4.0 family of language…
Vision Foundation Models: Implementation and Business Applications
In this tutorial, we’ll explore implementing various vision foundation models for business applications. We’ll focus on practical code implementation, technical…
Warren Buffett to ask board to make Greg Abel CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at year-end
Buffett said he would still hang around with company.
Warren Buffett knocks tariffs and protectionism: ‘Trade should not be a weapon’
“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said. “The United States won. We have become an incredibly important country, starting…
Australian PM wins second term with increased majority
Anthony Albanese’s Labor has seen swings towards it in almost every area of the country.
Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings drop more than expected as Buffett warns of tariff uncertainty
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter results on Saturday that showed a steep drop in earnings from the year-earlier period.
LLMs Can Now Reason in Parallel: UC Berkeley and UCSF Researchers Introduce Adaptive Parallel Reasoning to Scale Inference Efficiently Without Exceeding Context Windows
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in reasoning capabilities, exemplified by breakthrough systems like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeekR1,…
LLMs Can Learn Complex Math from Just One Example: Researchers from University of Washington, Microsoft, and USC Unlock the Power of 1-Shot Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
Recent advancements in LLMs such as OpenAI-o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi-1.5 have significantly improved their performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks.…
Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’
Germany’s foreign office says history shows that right-wing extremism “needs to be stopped”, after criticism from the White House.
Building a Zapier AI-Powered Cursor Agent to Read, Search, and Send Gmail Messages using Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) alongside Zapier AI to…
Subject-Driven Image Evaluation Gets Simpler: Google Researchers Introduce REFVNLI to Jointly Score Textual Alignment and Subject Consistency Without Costly APIs
Text-to-image (T2I) generation has evolved to include subject-driven approaches, which enhance standard T2I models by incorporating reference images alongside text…
Temu halts shipping direct from China as de minimis tariff loophole is cut off
Earlier this week, Temu increased prices and added “import charges” ranging from 130% to 150% on products shipped direct from…
From ELIZA to Conversation Modeling: Evolution of Conversational AI Systems and Paradigms
TL;DR: Conversational AI has transformed from ELIZA’s simple rule-based systems in the 1960s to today’s sophisticated platforms. The journey progressed…
Build a gen AI–powered financial assistant with Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration
The Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration feature gives developers the flexibility to create and coordinate multiple AI agents, each specialized for…
WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
In this post, we showcase how Dr. Kori Ramajoo, Dr. Sonia Brownsett, Prof. David Copland, from QARC, and Scott Harding,…
London’s FTSE 100 is on track for record-breaking gains — and market watchers think it may have further to run
The blue-chip index is on course for its longest-ever run of daily gains.
Trump calls on Fed once again to lower rates after solid April jobs report
President Donald Trump issued his latest call for the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, following a better-than-expected jobs…
Ireland fines TikTok 530 million euros for sending EU user data to China
Ireland’s privacy regulator said Friday that TikTok infringed the bloc’s GDPR data protection law over transfers of European user data…
Euro zone inflation unchanged at 2.2% in April, missing expectations for a move lower
Economists polled by Reuters had been expecting the reading to come in at 2.1% in April.
Gaza activist ship ‘attacked by drones’ off coast of Malta, NGO says
The Maltese government said a fire onboard the ship was “brought under control overnight” and that it was being monitored…
Inside the deal: Roche and Zealand Pharma’s $5.3 billion obesity drug gambit
The ballooning obesity drug market may have a new contender after Roche struck a $5.3 billion deal to develop Danish biotech Zealand…
JetBrains Open Sources Mellum: A Developer-Centric Language Model for Code-Related Tasks
JetBrains has officially open-sourced Mellum, a purpose-built 4-billion-parameter language model tailored for software development tasks. Developed from the ground up,…
Training LLM Agents Just Got More Stable: Researchers Introduce StarPO-S and RAGEN to Tackle Multi-Turn Reasoning and Collapse in Reinforcement Learning
Large language models (LLMs) face significant challenges when trained as autonomous agents in interactive environments. Unlike static tasks, agent settings…
Standard Chartered first-quarter profits beat expectations on strong growth in wealth management
Standard Chartered’s reported profit before taxation for the three months ended in March was $2.103 billion, up from $1.91 billion…
Xiaomi introduced MiMo-7B: A Compact Language Model that Outperforms Larger Models in Mathematical and Code Reasoning through Rigorous Pre-Training and Reinforcement Learning
With rising demand for AI systems that can handle tasks involving multi-step logic, mathematical proofs, and software development, researchers have…
Tracking a smuggler behind deadly Atlantic migrant crossing
BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost…
Building a REACT-Style Agent Using Fireworks AI with LangChain that Fetches Data, Generates BigQuery SQL, and Maintains Conversational Memory
In this tutorial, we will explore how to leverage the capabilities of Fireworks AI for building intelligent, tool-enabled agents with…
China says it’s evaluating U.S. overtures to initiate talks on trade
The development could potentially pave the way for the world’s two largest economies to start talks to resolve a trade…
Apple shares fall as Cook says ‘very difficult’ to predict tariff costs beyond June
Apple expects tariffs to add $900 million to its costs for the current quarter, assuming no other major changes occur,…
Best practices for Meta Llama 3.2 multimodal fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock
Multimodal fine-tuning represents a powerful approach for customizing foundation models (FMs) to excel at specific tasks that involve both visual…
DeepSeek-AI Released DeepSeek-Prover-V2: An Open-Source Large Language Model Designed for Formal Theorem, Proving through Subgoal Decomposition and Reinforcement Learning
Formal mathematical reasoning has evolved into a specialized subfield of artificial intelligence that requires strict logical consistency. Unlike informal problem…
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling ‘tall tales’ in its defense of U.S. AI chip restrictions on China
President Donald Trump is reportedly working on updating the chip restrictions, adding another layer of uncertainty to the already contentious…
Salesforce AI Research Introduces New Benchmarks, Guardrails, and Model Architectures to Advance Trustworthy and Capable AI Agents
Salesforce AI Research has outlined a comprehensive roadmap for building more intelligent, reliable, and versatile AI agents. The recent initiative…
Extend large language models powered by Amazon SageMaker AI using Model Context Protocol
Organizations implementing agents and agent-based systems often experience challenges such as implementing multiple tools, function calling, and orchestrating the workflows…
Meta AI Introduces First Version of Its Llama 4-Powered AI App: A Standalone AI Assistant to Rival ChatGPT
Meta has officially entered the standalone AI assistant arena with the launch of its new Meta AI app, unveiled at…
Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble
Initial unemployment claims posted an unexpected increase last week in a potential trouble sign for the wobbling U.S. economy.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to leave role, US media reports
Waltz was under pressure after a journalist was mistakenly added to a group chat in which senior officials were discussing…