Qwen Team Releases FlashQLA: a High-Performance Linear Attention Kernel Library That Achieves Up to 3× Speedup on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs
The race to make large language models faster and cheaper to run has largely been fought at two levels: the…
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Oil price jumps to $117 after reports of ‘extended’ Iran blockade
The price of crude oil has swung sharply as uncertainty over the war in the Middle East continues.
Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh clears key Senate hurdle, teeing up final vote
Current Fed Chair Jerome Powell has faced a barrage of criticism from Trump over his refusal to slash interest rates…
Former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack
In the two months since the deadly strike, the US defence department has said only that the incident is under…
Building AI-ready data: Vanguard’s Virtual Analyst journey
Vanguard is a global investment management firm, offering a broad selection of investments, advice, retirement services, and insights to individual…
Oil prices extend multi-day rally as Trump issues new threat to Iran; Brent tops $114 per barrel
The latest move higher comes amid reports that the U.S. will look to extend its blockade of Iranian ports.
Trump threatens Iran with AI picture of himself with a gun: ‘No more Mr. Nice guy!’
Oil prices continued to rise on Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to threaten Iran in a TruthSocial post.
Meta FAIR Releases NeuralSet: A Python Package for Neuro-AI That Supports fMRI, M/EEG, Spikes, and HuggingFace Embeddings
Researchers at Meta’s FAIR lab have released NeuralSet, a Python framework designed to eliminate one of the most persistent bottlenecks…
smol-audio: A Colab-Friendly Notebook Collection for Fine-Tuning Whisper, Parakeet, Voxtral, Granite Speech, and Audio Flamingo 3
Audio AI has had a breakout year. Automatic speech recognition has gotten dramatically better with models like OpenAI’s Whisper variants,…
Five takeaways from the King’s historic address to Congress
There were some lines in the speech that may have buoyed Democrats – and raised eyebrows in the White House.
UBS profits rocket 80% to $3 billion for first quarter beat
UBS reported its first quarter earnings on Wednesday, with net profits beating analyst estimates.
How to Build Traceable and Evaluated LLM Workflows Using Promptflow, Prompty, and OpenAI
In this tutorial, we build a complete, production-style LLM workflow using Promptflow within a Colab environment. We begin by setting…
UAE’s shock OPEC exit: What it means for the oil cartel’s future and for crude prices
The UAE wants to ramp up production without constraints from OPEC, which could prove bearish for prices at some point.
OpenAI Releases Privacy Filter: A 1.5B-Parameter Open-Source PII Redaction Model with 50M Active Parameters
OpenAI just quietly dropped something worth paying close attention to. Released on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, Privacy…
Former FBI director James Comey charged with threatening Trump’s life
The indictment stems from a 2025 photo of seashells posted by Comey on social media that the justice department says…
United Arab Emirates to quit oil cartel Opec
The UAE’s decision, after nearly 60 years of membership, is seen as a potential death knell for the oil cartel.
Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant with Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Migrating a text agent to a voice assistant is increasingly important because users expect faster, more natural interactions. Instead of…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce the day zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.…
United Arab Emirates leaving OPEC, effective May 1
The UAE said it decided leaving OPEC was in its national interest after reviewing its production policy and capacity.
U.S. is ‘being humiliated by Iran,’ says Germany’s Merz, as Europe’s patience wanes
The U.S. is being “humiliated” by the Iranian regime, Germany’s chancellor has said, as European leaders grow increasingly frustrated at…
Suspect charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Washington dinner
Investigators say the 31-year-old California man wanted to kill as many high-level officials as possible.
Top 10 Physical AI Models Powering Real-World Robots in 2026
Top 10 Physical AI Models NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N-Series (N1.5 / N1.6 / N1.7) Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics 1.5 Physical…
Oil major BP beats profit expectations as Iran war boosts fuel prices
The results come shortly after BP’s board suffered a shareholder revolt at its annual general meeting.
How to Build a Lightweight Vision-Language-Action-Inspired Embodied Agent with Latent World Modeling and Model Predictive Control
In this tutorial, we build an embodied simulation vision agent that learns to perceive, plan, predict, and replan directly from…
Bank of Japan keeps policy rate steady while raising inflation forecast on Iran war worries
The decision to keep rates steady came in a split 6-3 vote, and was in line with Reuters-polled analysts’ estimates.
Meet Talkie-1930: A 13B Open-Weight LLM Trained on Pre-1931 English Text for Historical Reasoning and Generalization Research
What if a language model had never heard of the internet, smartphones, or even World War II? That’s not a…
Melania Trump urges ABC to ‘take stand’ on Jimmy Kimmel after widow joke
In a parody aired days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel called Melania an “expectant widow”.
Automate repetitive tasks with Amazon Quick Flows
Consider a typical Monday morning: you’re manually copying data from several different systems to create a weekly report, then formatting…
Build a Reinforcement Learning Powered Agent that Learns to Retrieve Relevant Long-Term Memories for Accurate LLM Question Answering
In this tutorial, we build a Reinforcement Learning–driven agent that learns how to retrieve relevant memories from a long-term memory…
Iran would reopen Strait of Hormuz, postpone nuclear talks if U.S. lifts blockade and war ends: Reports
The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that the central goal of the conflict is keeping Iran from ever obtaining a…
Build Strands Agents with SageMaker AI models and MLflow
Enterprises building AI agents often require more than what managed foundation model (FM) services can provide. They need precise control…
XRP’s 900% Move To $15: Pundit Flags The Retest That Will Trigger It
The XRP price is still consolidating around the $1.4 level after months of sideways trading. Despite this weak performance and…
Trump says King will be ‘very safe’ during US visit after security talks
The state visit will go ahead despite concerns raised after a gunman targeted an event attended by the president.
Former Google DeepMind researcher’s AI startup raises record $1.1 billion seed funding to pursue superintelligence
Ineffable Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $5.1 billion valuation.
Oil giant Shell to buy Canada’s ARC Resources for $16.4 billion in push to boost output
The transaction will add roughly 370,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day to Shell’s portfolio and is designed to boost…
Suspected gunman at Washington press dinner identified as 31-year-old Californian
The man arrested at the event attended by President Trump has been named in US media as Cole Tomas Allen…
China blocks Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus
China said Monday it has decided to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese…
Meta AI Releases Sapiens2: A High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Model for Pose, Segmentation, Normals, Pointmap, and Albedo
If you’ve ever watched a motion capture system struggle with a person’s fingers, or seen a segmentation model fail to…
The LoRA Assumption That Breaks in Production
LoRA is widely used for fine-tuning large models because it’s efficient, but it quietly assumes that all updates to a…
U.S.-Iran peace talks stall. Here’s where things stand — and what’s next for global markets
U.S.-Iran peace talks stall. Here’s where things stand — and what’s next for markets
How to Build a Fully Searchable AI Knowledge Base with OpenKB, OpenRouter, and Llama
In this tutorial, we explore how to build and query a local knowledge base with OpenKB using a free, open…
China industrial profits jump 15.8% in March, fueled by AI and chip boom despite oil shock risks
Rising global oil prices have begun seeping into the domestic economy, squeezing margins for manufacturers dependent on imported raw materials.
Brent oil tops $107 per barrel after Iran peace talks stall
President Donald Trump on Saturday cancelled plans to send U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Islamabad, Pakistan for…
How to Build Smarter Multilingual Text Wrapping with BudouX Through Parsing, HTML Rendering, Model Introspection, and Toy Training
In this tutorial, we explore how we use BudouX to bring intelligent, phrase-aware line breaking to languages where whitespace is…
Trump and officials ‘likely’ targets of press dinner shooting suspect, authorities believe
The suspect is expected to be charged with assault of a federal officer and using a firearm during a crime…
BONE Network Heats Up: 93K Holders After Massive Weekly Surge
Wallets holding at least 1 million BONE quietly grew their positions by over 4% in April — a detail that…
World leaders express shock, support after White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
Leaders from the U.K., France, the EU and Pakistan react to a shooting at a high-profile dinner in Washington, D.C.,…
Top 7 Benchmarks That Actually Matter for Agentic Reasoning in Large Language Models
As AI agents move from research demos to production deployments, one question has become impossible to ignore: how do you…
What it was like in the room as shots rang out at correspondents’ dinner
The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue describes the moment he and others dived for cover as shots rang out at the venue.
The Ethereum Golden Triangle That Has Predicted Every Move Shows Where Price Is Headed
A crypto analyst has identified a Golden Triangle, a rare structure that has been forming on the Ethereum (ETH) chart…