Cisco’s Latest AI Agents Report Details the Transformative Impact of Agentic AI on Customer Experience
The customer experience (CX) paradigm within B2B technology is undergoing a substantive evolution, propelled by advances in agentic AI. Cisco’s…
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Gaza aid trucks rushed by desperate and hungry crowds, WFP says
“Starving people will not let a food truck pass. They need to feed their families”, the World Food Programme said.
EU ‘prepared to impose countermeasures’ after Trump doubles steel tariffs to 50%
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was raising tariffs on steel imports from 25% to 50%.
This AI Paper Introduces ARM and Ada-GRPO: Adaptive Reasoning Models for Efficient and Scalable Problem-Solving
Reasoning tasks are a fundamental aspect of artificial intelligence, encompassing areas like commonsense understanding, mathematical problem-solving, and symbolic reasoning. These…
A Coding Guide to Building a Scalable Multi-Agent Communication Systems Using Agent Communication Protocol (ACP)
In this tutorial, we implement the Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) through building a flexible, ACP-compliant messaging system in Python, leveraging…
Pentagon chief says ready to ‘fight and win’ against China, urges Asian allies to boost defense spending
While playing up the U.S.’s enduring commitment to the Indo-Pacific region, Hegseth took swipes at the absence of China’s defense…
Multimodal Foundation Models Fall Short on Physical Reasoning: PHYX Benchmark Highlights Key Limitations in Visual and Symbolic Integration
State-of-the-art models show human-competitive accuracy on AIME, GPQA, MATH-500, and OlympiadBench, solving Olympiad-level problems. Recent multimodal foundation models have advanced…
US to impose 50% tariffs on steel imports, Trump says
President Donald Trump says the increase in tariffs will protect America’s steel industry, along with an expected partnership with Japan.
Yandex Releases Yambda: The World’s Largest Event Dataset to Accelerate Recommender Systems
Yandex has recently made a significant contribution to the recommender systems community by releasing Yambda, the world’s largest publicly available…
Stanford Researchers Introduced Biomni: A Biomedical AI Agent for Automation Across Diverse Tasks and Data Types
Biomedical research is a rapidly evolving field that seeks to advance human health by uncovering the mechanisms behind diseases, identifying…
China calls out Trump for ‘abuse’ of semiconductor export controls
The U.S. has limited exports of some chips and chip technology to China as part of a national defense strategy…
Deploy Amazon SageMaker Projects with Terraform Cloud
Amazon SageMaker Projects empower data scientists to self-serve Amazon Web Services (AWS) tooling and infrastructure to organize all entities of the…
China hits back after Trump claims it is ‘violating’ tariff truce
The remarks from both sides raise concerns that a trade war could erupt again between the two largest economies.
Using Amazon OpenSearch ML connector APIs
When ingesting data into Amazon OpenSearch, customers often need to augment data before putting it into their indexes. For instance,…
Trump accuses China of violating preliminary trade deal
The U.S. and China in mid-May agreed to a 90-day suspension on most tariffs after Trump slapped sky-high tariffs on…
Gaza subjected to forced starvation, top UN official tells BBC
Tom Fletcher, the under-secretary general of humanitarian affairs, says “we’re seeing food set on the borders and not being allowed…
U.S. foreign tax bill sends jitters across Wall Street
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” if enshrined into law, could transform the current trade conflict into a capital war,…
Apple and Duke Researchers Present a Reinforcement Learning Approach That Enables LLMs to Provide Intermediate Answers, Enhancing Speed and Accuracy
Long CoT reasoning improves large language models’ performance on complex tasks but comes with drawbacks. The typical “think-then-answer” method slows…
U.S.-China talks ‘a bit stalled’ and need Trump and Xi to weigh in, Treasury Secretary Bessent says
U.S.-China trade talks are “a bit stalled,” requiring the two countries’ leaders to speak directly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told…
Hamas official says it rejects new US Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel
The US says Israel has “signed off” on envoy Steve Witkoff’s plan and that it is waiting for a formal…
A Coding Guide for Building a Self-Improving AI Agent Using Google’s Gemini API with Intelligent Adaptation Features
In this tutorial, we will explore how to create a sophisticated Self-Improving AI Agent using Google’s cutting-edge Gemini API. This…
Samsung Researchers Introduced ANSE (Active Noise Selection for Generation): A Model-Aware Framework for Improving Text-to-Video Diffusion Models through Attention-Based Uncertainty Estimation
Video generation models have become a core technology for creating dynamic content by transforming text prompts into high-quality video sequences.…
Security breaks down in Gaza as desperate people search for food
Scenes of chaos and looting in parts of Gaza persist as food shortages continue.
Revolutionizing earth observation with geospatial foundation models on AWS
Emerging transformer-based vision models for geospatial data—also called geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs)—offer a new and powerful technology for mapping the…
Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now
Three judges — including a Trump appointee — on a federal trade court had invalidated all of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs…
Create an agentic RAG application for advanced knowledge discovery with LlamaIndex, and Mistral in Amazon Bedrock
Agentic Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications represent an advanced approach in AI that integrates foundation models (FMs) with external knowledge…
Text-to-image basics with Amazon Nova Canvas
AI image generation has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies in recent years, revolutionizing how you create and…
Trump could ask Supreme Court to halt tariff block as soon as Friday
Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro said the administration has other tariff options available, even if the Court of International Trade…
Israel announces major expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank
The biggest such move in years is condemned by the Palestinian presidency as a “dangerous escalation”.
Four tools at the Trump administration’s disposal after a U.S. court blocks tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to find a workaround after suffering a major blow to a core part of…
China’s DeepSeek quietly releases upgraded R1 AI model, ramping up competition with OpenAI
DeepSeek rose to prominence this year after its free, open-source R1 reasoning model outperformed offerings from rivals including Meta and…
This AI Paper Introduces WEB-SHEPHERD: A Process Reward Model for Web Agents with 40K Dataset and 10× Cost Efficiency
Web navigation focuses on teaching machines how to interact with websites to perform tasks such as searching for information, shopping,…
Elon Musk bids farewell to White House but says Doge will continue
Musk’s exit comes after he criticised the legislative centrepiece of the president’s agenda.
Court strikes down Trump reciprocal tariffs
The judges wrote that a 1977 law does not actually give the president the power to issue the sweeping duties…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hammers chip controls that ‘effectively closed’ China market
On his company’s earnings call, Jensen Huang said that China would “move on” with or without Nvidia’s chips.
Nvidia beats on earnings and revenue as data center sales jump 73%
There’s one big thought on many investors’ minds during this earnings call: China.
Incorrect Answers Improve Math Reasoning? Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) Surprises with Qwen2.5-Math
In natural language processing (NLP), RL methods, such as reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), have been utilized to enhance…
Part 3: Building an AI-powered assistant for investment research with multi-agent collaboration in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
In the financial services industry, analysts need to switch between structured data (such as time-series pricing information), unstructured text (such…
Gemma 3 27B model now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
We are excited to announce the availability of Gemma 3 27B Instruct models through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker…
Building a multimodal RAG based application using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Organizations today deal with vast amounts of unstructured data in various formats including documents, images, audio files, and video files.…
The terrifying new weapon changing the war in Ukraine
Swarms of fibre optic drones give Russia the edge as Ukraine defends towns just behind the front line.
OPEC+ alliance holds oil quotas ahead of July output review
Market focus has shifted toward potential supply hikes from eight OPEC+ members that have been carrying out separate voluntary production…
Elon Musk says Trump’s spending bill undermines the work DOGE has been doing
Musk criticized the Republican spending bill that recently made it through a House vote.
EU says Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘go beyond what is necessary’ to fight Hamas
Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, says the bloc also does not support a new aid distribution model which bypasses…
How Rufus doubled their inference speed and handled Prime Day traffic with AWS AI chips and parallel decoding
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the way we interact with technology, but their widespread adoption has been blocked by…
Dozens injured in chaos at new Gaza aid site, UN says
The UN Human Rights Office says most of the injuries were due to Israeli gunfire, but the Israeli military says…
China and tariffs have wiped off $130 billion from critical chip firm ASML since peak value
ASML, like many chip firms, has been hit by restrictions on exports to China and U.S. tariff uncertainty.
The U.S.’ AI love affair with the UAE isn’t just about access — it’s about dominance
The UAE seeks to expand its geopolitical influence while the U.S. needs cheap, abundant power and international partners to stay…
Japan’s bond market raises alarm over risks of outflows from U.S., carry trade unwind and market turmoil
Higher Japan government bond yields could spark a wave of capital repatriation with Japanese investors pulling funds from the U.S.
A Coding Implementation to Build an Interactive Transcript and PDF Analysis with Lyzr Chatbot Framework
In this tutorial, we introduce a streamlined approach for extracting, processing, and analyzing YouTube video transcripts using Lyzr, an advanced…