Structured data response with Amazon Bedrock: Prompt Engineering and Tool Use
Generative AI is revolutionizing industries by streamlining operations and enabling innovation. While textual chat interactions with GenAI remain popular, real-world…
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China’s Xiaomi undercuts Tesla with yet another cheaper car
Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi priced its luxury YU7 SUV within expectations — but undercut Tesla’s Model Y.
CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: Iran-Israel war sparks fresh interest in India’s defense sector
The Iran-Israel conflict underscored India’s reliance on imports — oil and weapons — and what it’s doing to pivot towards…
Trump calls for end to Netanyahu corruption trial
The US president says the case should be dropped, prompting accusations of interference.
Trump Organization scraps ‘made in the USA’ tag for its gold T1 smartphone
The Trump Organization has removed a reference to the recently-announced T1 smartphone being made in America.
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome: A Deep Learning Model that can more Comprehensively Predict the Impact of Single Variants or Mutations in DNA
A Unified Deep Learning Model to Understand the Genome Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome, a new deep learning framework designed…
MIT and NUS Researchers Introduce MEM1: A Memory-Efficient Framework for Long-Horizon Language Agents
Modern language agents need to handle multi-turn conversations, retrieving and updating information as tasks evolve. However, most current systems simply…
H&M sees summer shopping pick-up after weaker-than-expected quarterly sales
H&M’s fiscal second quarter sales came in weaker-than-expected, though the world’s second largest clothing retailer pointed to an uptick in…
Google AI Releases Gemini CLI: An Open-Source AI Agent for Your Terminal
Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source command-line AI agent that integrates the Gemini 2.5 Pro model directly into the…
Japan rice crisis shows signs of easing as prices stabilize and stocks return to shelves
Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for…
China urges Beijing-backed development bank to focus more on Belt and Road Initiative
Chinese Premier Li Qiang called on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to increase its support for Beijing’s Belt and Road…
Gaza mediators intensifying ceasefire efforts, Hamas official says
It came as US President Donald Trump said “great progress” was being made since Israel and Iran ended their 12-day…
When Iran’s Supreme Leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation
The war has left the country significantly weakened – and left Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a diminished leader
Nvidia shares hit record as AI chipmaker again becomes world’s most valuable company
Nvidia closed at an all-time high as investors gain confidence that the chipmaker will power through China restrictions.
New AI Research Reveals Privacy Risks in LLM Reasoning Traces
Introduction: Personal LLM Agents and Privacy Risks LLMs are deployed as personal assistants, gaining access to sensitive user data through…
Build an intelligent multi-agent business expert using Amazon Bedrock
In this post, we demonstrate how to build a multi-agent system using multi-agent collaboration in Amazon Bedrock Agents to solve…
Trump threatens tough trade deal for Spain after it refuses to meet NATO defense spending target
“We’re negotiating with Spain on a trade deal and we’re going to make them pay twice as much,” Trump said…
What’s next as the British pound hits its highest in more than three years?
The British pound is hovering at its highest level in more than three years — and analysts are divided on…
Trump pushes back after leaked report suggests Iran strikes had limited impact
The US president says the strikes led to the “virtual obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities while speaking at a Nato…
NATO allies agree to higher 5% defense spending target
U.S. President Donald Trump has been exercising pressure for NATO allies to increase their defense spending across both of his…
Tesla’s European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs
The U.S. EV maker has sustained brand and reputational damage in part due to CEO Elon Musk’s incendiary rhetoric and…
Build a Low-Footprint AI Coding Assistant with Mistral Devstral
In this Ultra-Light Mistral Devstral tutorial, a Colab-friendly guide is provided that is designed specifically for users facing disk space…
‘Time to get serious on defense’: A moment of truth for NATO as leaders seek unity on spending hike
NATO members have been facing pressure, particularly from ally Washington, to more than double their defense spending target.
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics On-Device: Local AI Model for Real-Time Robotic Dexterity
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics On-Device, a compact, local version of its powerful vision-language-action (VLA) model, bringing advanced robotic…
ByteDance Researchers Introduce Seed-Coder: A Model-Centric Code LLM Trained on 6 Trillion Tokens
Reframing Code LLM Training through Scalable, Automated Data Pipelines Code data plays a key role in training LLMs, benefiting not…
China’s Li urges not to turn trade into a political or security issue
Chinese Premier Li Qiang was speaking at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in China, often…
China doubles down on promoting yuan as confidence in U.S. dollar takes a beating
From expanding investment channels to building digital infrastructure, Beijing has been laying the groundwork to promote international use of its…
Power Your LLM Training and Evaluation with the New SageMaker AI Generative AI Tools
Today we are excited to introduce the Text Ranking and Question and Answer UI templates to SageMaker AI customers. The…
A Coding Implementation for Creating, Annotating, and Visualizing Complex Biological Knowledge Graphs Using PyBEL
In this tutorial, we explore how to leverage the PyBEL ecosystem to construct and analyze rich biological knowledge graphs directly…
Conflict or ceasefire, most markets remain unfazed — here’s why
Global equities posted muted gains on Tuesday, as investors digested U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire timeline between…
BAAI Launches OmniGen2: A Unified Diffusion and Transformer Model for Multimodal AI
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) introduces OmniGen2, a next-generation, open-source multimodal generative model. Expanding on its predecessor OmniGen, the…
Amazon Bedrock Agents observability using Arize AI
This post is cowritten with John Gilhuly from Arize AI. With Amazon Bedrock Agents, you can build and configure autonomous…
ByteDance Researchers Introduce ProtoReasoning: Enhancing LLM Generalization via Logic-Based Prototypes
Why Cross-Domain Reasoning Matters in Large Language Models (LLMs) Recent breakthroughs in LRMs, especially those trained using Long CoT techniques,…
US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says Pentagon assessment
The White House says the initial damage assessment about Iran’s uranium stockpile is “flat-out wrong”.
New from Chinese Academy of Sciences: Stream-Omni, an LLM for Cross-Modal Real-Time AI
Understanding the Limitations of Current Omni-Modal Architectures Large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown outstanding omni-capabilities across text, vision, and speech…
How a volatile 24 hours edged the Middle East to a ceasefire
From an attack on a US air base to a fragile ceasefire, this is how the Middle East conflict changed…
How SkillShow automates youth sports video processing using Amazon Transcribe
This post is co-written with Tom Koerick from SkillShow. The youth sports market was valued at $37.5 billion globally in…
Oil prices fall more than 4% after Trump says China can continue buying oil from Iran
A successful Iran-Israel ceasefire would abate concerns over Tehran’s crude supplies and the stability of oil transport through the Strait…
What we know about the Iran-Israel ceasefire
Donald Trump accuses both sides of breaking the ceasefire and urges them to “calm down”.
Getting Started with Microsoft’s Presidio: A Step-by-Step Guide to Detecting and Anonymizing Personally Identifiable Information PII in Text
In this tutorial, we will explore how to use Microsoft’s Presidio, an open-source framework designed for detecting, analyzing, and anonymizing…
Build a Groundedness Verification Tool Using Upstage API and LangChain
Upstage’s Groundedness Check service provides a powerful API for verifying that AI-generated responses are firmly anchored in reliable source material.…
CMU Researchers Introduce Go-Browse: A Graph-Based Framework for Scalable Web Agent Training
Why Web Agents Struggle with Dynamic Web Interfaces Digital agents designed for web environments aim to automate tasks such as…
Was it all ‘just a big show?’ Anxiety and frustration for Middle East residents after Iran-Israel attacks
Many across the region describe the attacks of Monday night as a choreographed show — but anxiety remains.
Can Germany afford a 5% NATO defense spending target?
Germany has said it supports a higher defense spending target even though this could leave Europe’s largest economy in fiscal…
With possible Iran-Israel ceasefire, Trump’s high-risk strikes may pay off
Trump seems inclined to hold his fire as Iran’s attack on US troops in Qatar caused no damage or casualties.
CNBC Daily Open: The strange times of missiles-led ‘peace’
Could tensions in the Middle East cool down following a carefully calibrated and symbolic exchange of strikes?
How a war-torn Myanmar plays a critical role in China’s rare earth dominance
While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw…
A Coding Guide to Build a Production-Ready Asynchronous Python SDK with Rate Limiting, In-Memory Caching, and Authentication
In this tutorial, we guide users through building a robust, production-ready Python SDK. It begins by showing how to install…
Oil prices fall 6% after Iran strike on U.S. base in Qatar leaves no reported casualties
Oil markets are reacting to the impact of a U.S. decision to directly enter the Iran-Israel conflict.
No-code data preparation for time series forecasting using Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Time series forecasting helps businesses predict future trends based on historical data patterns, whether it’s for sales projections, inventory management,…