Power outage causes chaos in Spain and Portugal
Millions of people are without without electricity, while internet and phone networks are also down.
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Evaluate Amazon Bedrock Agents with Ragas and LLM-as-a-judge
AI agents are quickly becoming an integral part of customer workflows across industries by automating complex tasks, enhancing decision-making, and…
Treasury Secretary Bessent says it’s up to China to de-escalate trade tensions
The comments come with markets on edge over the direction of tariffs.
Putin announces three-day Russian ceasefire in Ukraine from 8 May
Ukraine has not yet responded to the ceasefire announcement, which the Kremlin says will run until 11 May.
Deliveroo shares soar to three-year high after U.S. giant DoorDash makes takeover bid
Deliveroo’s board received a cash offer of 180 pence per Deliveroo share, valuing the company at around $3.6 billion
Dozens killed in US strike on Yemen migrant centre, Houthis say
Houthi-run media report that the bodies of 68 people have been recovered from the centre, which was holding African migrants.
German fiscal boost won’t outweigh tariff drag for euro zone, IMF’s Europe head says
Following downgrades to its growth outlooks for the U.S., U.K. and many Asian countries, the International Monetary Fund last week…
A Coding Tutorial of Model Context Protocol Focusing on Semantic Chunking, Dynamic Token Management, and Context Relevance Scoring for Efficient LLM Interactions
Managing context effectively is a critical challenge when working with large language models, especially in environments like Google Colab, where…
Canada votes in pivotal election transformed by Trump
The US president came to dominate on the campaign trail, with the contest being viewed as a referendum on how…
Chinese factories are stopping production and looking for new markets as U.S. tariffs bite
Chinese manufacturers are pausing production and turning to new markets as the impact of U.S. tariffs sets in, according to…
Researchers from Sea AI Lab, UCAS, NUS, and SJTU Introduce FlowReasoner: a Query-Level Meta-Agent for Personalized System Generation
LLM-based multi-agent systems characterized by planning, reasoning, tool use, and memory capabilities form the foundation of applications like chatbots, code…
Death toll in Vancouver car ramming attack rises to 11
The unidentified 30-year-old suspect had a history of mental health issues, according to Vancouver police.
Americans are getting flashbacks to 2008 as tariffs stoke recession fears
‘It’s the old poors teaching the new poors,’ said one content creator.
‘Number of people’ dead after car driven into crowd in Canada, police say
A number of people have been killed and injured in an incident at a street festival in Vancouver, police say.
ByteDance Introduces QuaDMix: A Unified AI Framework for Data Quality and Diversity in LLM Pretraining
The pretraining efficiency and generalization of large language models (LLMs) are significantly influenced by the quality and diversity of the…
Implementing Persistent Memory Using a Local Knowledge Graph in Claude Desktop
A Knowledge Graph Memory Server allows Claude Desktop to remember and organize information about a user across multiple chats. It…
Google AI Unveils 601 Real-World Generative AI Use Cases Across Industries
Google Cloud has just released an extraordinary compendium of 601 real-world generative AI (GenAI) use cases from some of the…
A Coding Implementation with Arcad: Integrating Gemini Developer API Tools into LangGraph Agents for Autonomous AI Workflows
Arcade transforms your LangGraph agents from static conversational interfaces into dynamic, action-driven assistants by providing a rich suite of ready-made…
LLMs Can Now Simulate Massive Societies: Researchers from Fudan University Introduce SocioVerse, an LLM-Agent-Driven World Model for Social Simulation with a User Pool of 10 Million Real Individuals
Human behavior research strives to comprehend how individuals and groups act in social contexts, forming a foundational social science element.…
World bids farewell to Pope who told people to ‘build bridges, not walls’
Pope Francis has been buried in Rome, with hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders attending his…
Zelensky and Trump meet inside St Peter’s Basilica
The two leaders held talks ahead of attending the service in Vatican City on Saturday.
Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies
Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to the Duke of York when she was 17, which he has strenuously denied.
Amazon sellers raise prices after Trump’s China tariff: ‘It’s unsustainable’
Amazon third-party sellers are raising prices and looking for new suppliers after President Trump lifted tariffs on goods from China.
Meta AI Introduces Token-Shuffle: A Simple AI Approach to Reducing Image Tokens in Transformers
Autoregressive (AR) models have made significant advances in language generation and are increasingly explored for image synthesis. However, scaling AR…
AgentA/B: A Scalable AI System Using LLM Agents that Simulate Real User Behavior to Transform Traditional A/B Testing on Live Web Platforms
Designing and evaluating web interfaces is one of the most critical tasks in today’s digital-first world. Every change in layout,…
Skywork AI Advances Multimodal Reasoning: Introducing Skywork R1V2 with Hybrid Reinforcement Learning
Recent advancements in multimodal AI have highlighted a persistent challenge: achieving strong specialized reasoning capabilities while preserving generalization across diverse…
A Comprehensive Tutorial on the Five Levels of Agentic AI Architectures: From Basic Prompt Responses to Fully Autonomous Code Generation and Execution
In this tutorial, we explore five levels of Agentic Architectures, from the simplest language model calls to a fully autonomous…
Mila & Universite de Montreal Researchers Introduce the Forgetting Transformer (FoX) to Boost Long-Context Language Modeling without Sacrificing Efficiency
Transformers have revolutionized sequence modeling by introducing an architecture that handles long-range dependencies efficiently without relying on recurrence. Their ability…
Putin and Trump envoy had ‘constructive’ meeting, Russian aide says
Vladimir Putin’s aide says the two discussed the possibility of Russia and Ukraine resuming direct talks.
Buy now, stock up or delay: Here’s what consumers are snapping up or putting off in face of tariffs
Fears of tariff-related higher prices have motivated consumers to buy cars early, but it’s also contributing to a hesitance to…
Inflation job nearly done but tariff risks loom — What European Central Bank members said this week
On tariffs, one central banker said: “In the short run, we will have lower growth. We will probably also have…
Senior Russian general killed by car bomb in Moscow
Authorities confirm the general, Yaroslav Moskalik, was part of the Russian delegation for the 2015 Minsk agreements.
Trump signs order to boost deep-sea mining, seeking to break China’s critical minerals dominance
The practice of deep-sea mining involves using heavy machinery to remove minerals and metals from the seabed, where they build…
China pledges to ramp up targeted support for businesses as U.S. trade war hits
China plans to help struggling businesses with targeted measures in the face of “increased external shocks,” according to a readout…
Ukraine may have to give up land for peace – Kyiv Mayor Klitschko
Vitaliy Klitschko tells the BBC that although unfair, it could be a temporary solution to end the fighting.
Microsoft Research Introduces MMInference to Accelerate Pre-filling for Long-Context Vision-Language Models
Integrating long-context capabilities with visual understanding significantly enhances the potential of VLMs, particularly in domains such as robotics, autonomous driving,…
Alphabet shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue growth
Alphabet’s search and advertising units are still showing strong growth despite AI competition heating up, according to its first-quarter earnings…
Israeli military admits its troops killed UN worker in Gaza Strip
Israel had previously denied its troops were responsible for the killing of a UN worker with tank fire on 19…
Meta AI Releases Web-SSL: A Scalable and Language-Free Approach to Visual Representation Learning
In recent years, contrastive language-image models such as CLIP have established themselves as a default choice for learning vision representations,…
Meet Rowboat: An Open-Source IDE for Building Complex Multi-Agent Systems
As multi-agent systems gain traction in real-world applications—from customer support automation to AI-native infrastructure—the need for a streamlined development interface…
Bank of England chief focused on tariff ‘growth shock’ but downplays UK recession risk
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said Thursday that the central bank is focused on the potential U.K. growth shock…
Enterprise-grade natural language to SQL generation using LLMs: Balancing accuracy, latency, and scale
This blog post is co-written with Renuka Kumar and Thomas Matthew from Cisco. Enterprise data by its very nature spans…
Pakistan suspends visas for Indians after attack on tourists in Kashmir
It comes after India’s retaliatory measures following a militant attack in Kashmir killed 26 tourists on Tuesday.
Tariffs give Europe an opportunity to assert itself as a superpower, central bank governor says
The uncertainty around trade tariffs is complex but a period of uncertainty also provides Europe with an opportunity to assert…
China says no ongoing trade talks with the U.S., calls for canceling ‘unilateral’ tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week indicated that there might be an easing in…
Zelensky cuts short South Africa visit after Russian attack on Kyiv
At least nine people were killed and more than 70 injured, including children, in the attack in Ukraine, officials say.
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund reports $40 billion loss in first quarter on tech downturn
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund on Thursday reported a first-quarter loss of 415 billion kroner ($40 billion), citing weakness in the…
Shares of Gucci-owner Kering drop 5% after first-quarter sales slump
Shares of Kering fell on Thursday after the French luxury goods group posted lower than expected first-quarter sales and pointed to further…
Why gold became the safe haven of choice as U.S. Treasurys and dollar sold off
J.P. Morgan expects the yellow metal to average $3,675 per ounce by the fourth quarter of 2025, and reach $4,000…
A New Citibank Report/Guide Shares How Agentic AI Will Reshape Finance with Autonomous Analysis and Intelligent Automation
In its latest ‘Agentic AI Finance & the ‘Do It For Me’ Economy’ report, Citibank explores a significant paradigm shift…