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…
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UK stocks choppy amid best run in 8 years; Novo Nordisk jumps 5%
The FTSE 100 ended Wednesday 0.37% higher, continuing its longest winning run since late 2016 into early 2017.
Seven takeaways from US-Ukraine resources deal
What this will and won’t change for US assistance to Ukraine, three years into the war.
Microsoft AI Released Phi-4-Reasoning: A 14B Parameter Open-Weight Reasoning Model that Achieves Strong Performance on Complex Reasoning Tasks
Despite notable advancements in large language models (LLMs), effective performance on reasoning-intensive tasks—such as mathematical problem solving, algorithmic planning, or…
Auto giants ditch financial guidance as industry reels from Trump tariff chaos
The corporate updates come shortly after Trump imposed a 25% tariff on automotive imports into the U.S. earlier in the…
Meta AI Introduces ReasonIR-8B: A Reasoning-Focused Retriever Optimized for Efficiency and RAG Performance
Addressing the Challenges in Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval Despite notable progress in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, retrieving relevant information for complex, multi-step…
A Step-by-Step Coding Guide to Integrate Dappier AI’s Real-Time Search and Recommendation Tools with OpenAI’s Chat API
In this tutorial, we will learn how to harness the power of Dappier AI, a suite of real-time search and…
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation: Boost function calling accuracy while reducing cost and latency
Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is generally available, and it addresses the fundamental challenge many organizations face when deploying generative AI:…
US and Ukraine inch towards critical minerals deal
Ukraine’s deputy leader is heading to Washington to sign an agreement the White House has been pushing for.
Multimodal AI on Developer GPUs: Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B with 50% Lower VRAM Usage and Nearly-7B Model Performance
Multimodal foundation models have shown substantial promise in enabling systems that can reason across text, images, audio, and video. However,…
Microsoft shares jump on earnings, revenue beat as Azure cloud business grows 33%
The company’s Azure cloud growth exceeded Wall Street consensus.
Mem0: A Scalable Memory Architecture Enabling Persistent, Structured Recall for Long-Term AI Conversations Across Sessions
Large language models can generate fluent responses, emulate tone, and even follow complex instructions; however, they struggle to retain information…
Build public-facing generative AI applications using Amazon Q Business for anonymous users
Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that answers question, provides summaries, generates content, and securely completes tasks based…
Trump blames Biden after GDP shrinks in first quarter, says growth will ‘take a while’
President Donald Trump blamed his predecessor and defended his sweeping tariffs after new data showed the U.S. economy contracting last…
Diagnosing and Self- Correcting LLM Agent Failures: A Technical Deep Dive into τ-Bench Findings with Atla’s EvalToolbox
Deploying large language model (LLM)-based agents in production settings often reveals critical reliability issues. Accurately identifying the causes of agent…
Toxic mushroom meal was ‘terrible accident’, says woman on trial for murder
Erin Patterson admits lying to police about her relatives’ deaths, but will argue they were a “terrible accident”.
Life inside Iraq’s ‘Forbidden Zone’ controlled by Turkey
Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.
Euro zone economy expands by better-than-expected 0.4% in the first quarter
The figure was ahead of the 0.2% forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, and comes amid severe tariff headwinds.
Germany’s economy expands by 0.2% in the first quarter, in line with expectations
A Reuters poll had projected 0.2% growth from the previous quarter.
Beyond the Hype: Google’s Practical AI Guide Every Startup Founder Should Read
In 2025, AI continues to reshape how startups build, operate, and compete. Google’s Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups report…
Tutorial on Seamlessly Accessing Any LinkedIn Profile with exa-mcp-server and Claude Desktop Using the Model Context Protocol MCP
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of the exa-mcp-server alongside Claude Desktop to access any LinkedIn…
British bank Barclays reports profit beat in the first quarter
British bank Barclays on Wednesday reported slight beats on revenue and profit, boosted by stronger investment bank performance.
Can Coding Agents Improve Themselves? Researchers from University of Bristol and iGent AI Propose SICA (Self-Improving Coding Agent) that Iteratively Enhances Its Own Code and Performance
The development of agentic systems—LLMs embedded within scaffolds capable of tool use and autonomous decision-making—has made significant progress. Yet, most…
Swiss giant UBS posts profit beat, warns of ‘material risk’ to global growth from U.S. tariffs
UBS on Wednesday beat bottom line expectations as the lender seeks to rein in steep share declines that have cost it the…
CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: A tech boom is underway
China’s tech world isn’t getting distracted by whether the U.S. and China will talk on trade.
China’s factory activity drops to a near two-year low in April as trade tariffs bite
Recent reports suggested some tariff relief on the ground as the U.S. and China sought to blunt the economic impacts…
Trump celebrates 100 days in office by touting record and blasting foes
He tells a crowd in Michigan that he is using his presidency to deliver “profound change”.
Reinforcement Learning for Email Agents: OpenPipe’s ART·E Outperforms o3 in Accuracy, Latency, and Cost
OpenPipe has introduced ART·E (Autonomous Retrieval Tool for Email), an open-source research agent designed to answer user questions based on…
Super Micro shares dive after server maker issues weak preliminary financials
Super Micro blamed lower-than-expected preliminary results on decisions from clients during the quarter.
How to Create a Custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client Using Gemini
In this tutorial, we will be implementing a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) Client using Gemini. By the end of…
UniME: A Two-Stage Framework for Enhancing Multimodal Representation Learning with MLLMs
The CLIP framework has become foundational in multimodal representation learning, particularly for tasks such as image-text retrieval. However, it faces…
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says one trade deal is done, but waiting on approval from unnamed country’s leaders
Lutnick said a trade deal is “done, done, done, done” but declined to say which country he was talking about.
ThinkPRM: A Generative Process Reward Models for Scalable Reasoning Verification
Reasoning with LLMs can benefit from utilizing more test compute, which depends on high-quality process reward models (PRMs) to select…
Canada will deal with Trump ‘on our terms’, Carney tells BBC
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Canada’s PM says he will only visit the US when there is a “serious discussion…
UK announces draft rules for crypto industry, touts greater collaboration with U.S.
U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves on Tuesday announced plans for a “comprehensive regulatory regime for crypto assets.”
Responsible AI in action: How Data Reply red teaming supports generative AI safety on AWS
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping industries worldwide, empowering businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences, streamline processes, and push innovation at…
Spain rules out cyber attack – but what could have caused power cut?
The Spanish grid operator said the preliminary assessment suggests there was no cyber attack.
Adidas warns it will raise prices on all U.S. products due to tariffs
“Higher tariffs will eventually cause higher costs for all our products for the US market,” Adidas said in a statement.
Iran blames ‘negligence’ for port blast as death toll rises to 70
The interior minister said “some individuals deemed responsible” for Saturday’s blast at Shahid Rajaee are being questioned.
A Coding Guide to Different Function Calling Methods to Create Real-Time, Tool-Enabled Conversational AI Agents
Function calling lets an LLM act as a bridge between natural-language prompts and real-world code or APIs. Instead of simply…
Oil giant BP posts 49% drop in first-quarter profit on weaker crude prices
British oil giant BP on Tuesday posted slightly weaker-than-expected first-quarter net profit, following a recent strategic reset and a slump…
Deutsche Bank posts 39% jump in first-quarter profit, above expectations
German banks stand to benefit as the country’s political environment settles under the potential stewardship of a centrist coalition.
HSBC announces share buyback of up to $3 billion as first-quarter results top expectations
The bank’s profit declined 25% on a year-on-year basis. Revenue fell 15% from last year. Profit before tax, however, soared…
Alibaba Qwen Team Just Released Qwen3: The Latest Generation of Large Language Models in Qwen Series, Offering a Comprehensive Suite of Dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Models
Despite the remarkable progress in large language models (LLMs), critical challenges remain. Many models exhibit limitations in nuanced reasoning, multilingual…
China insists no tariff talks underway with Trump and Xi or top aides, despite U.S. claims
President Trump has held up tariffs as a negotiating tool with China and claimed talks are ongoing, but Beijing says…
‘Everything went off’: How Spain and Portugal’s massive power cut unfolded
Residents stuck on trains, phones not working, checkouts off: How a massive power cut caused chaos.
ViSMaP: Unsupervised Summarization of Hour-Long Videos Using Meta-Prompting and Short-Form Datasets
Video captioning models are typically trained on datasets consisting of short videos, usually under three minutes in length, paired with…
Customize Amazon Nova models to improve tool usage
Modern large language models (LLMs) excel in language processing but are limited by their static training data. However, as industries…