‘I like you too much’: Trump and Saudi Crown Prince bask in their friendship during Riyadh visit
Attendees of the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum included scores of the world’s most powerful CEOs, among them Elon Musk, Jensen Huang…
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Israeli strikes in northern Gaza kill at least 48, hospital says
The hospital says 22 children and 15 women are among the dead after several homes in the Jabalia area were…
Chinese tech giant Tencent posts 13% revenue jump as growth at key gaming unit surges
Tencent on Wednesday reported an annual rise in its top and bottom line in the first quarter fuelled by accelerated…
The UK wants to crack down on foreign workers. Businesses worry Brits can’t — or won’t — fill the labor gap
British businesses are warning the U.K. government that plans to tighten immigration rules on foreign workers will lead to labor…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Build a Fast Semantic Search and RAG QA Engine on Web-Scraped Data Using Together AI Embeddings, FAISS Retrieval, and LangChain
In this tutorial, we lean hard on Together AI’s growing ecosystem to show how quickly we can turn unstructured text…
‘Go back to Ukraine’: War refugees complain of abuse in Poland
Dozens say they have been abused in public, bullied in schools and seen increasing xenophobic material online.
Why the wealthy can’t find enough people to manage their money
The talent crunch is not just owed to a lack of qualified candidates — it’s also selectivity on the part…
This AI Paper Investigates Test-Time Scaling of English-Centric RLMs for Enhanced Multilingual Reasoning and Domain Generalization
Reasoning language models, or RLMs, are increasingly used to simulate step-by-step problem-solving by generating long, structured reasoning chains. These models…
BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza’s malnourished children captures Israeli strike on hospital
Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.
PwC Releases Executive Guide on Agentic AI: A Strategic Blueprint for Deploying Autonomous Multi-Agent Systems in the Enterprise
In its latest executive guide, “Agentic AI – The New Frontier in GenAI,” PwC presents a strategic approach for what…
Trump touts $142bn arms deal on Saudi visit and lifts sanctions on Syria
President Trump’s visit comes after years of strained relations between the Saudis and Joe Biden.
Reinforcement Learning, Not Fine-Tuning: Nemotron-Tool-N1 Trains LLMs to Use Tools with Minimal Supervision and Maximum Generalization
Equipping LLMs with external tools or functions has become popular, showing great performance across diverse domains. Existing research depends on…
Israeli air strike on hospital kills at least six people in Gaza, local officials say
Israeli warplanes dropped six bombs simultaneously on the hospital, according to local sources.
Securing Amazon Bedrock Agents: A guide to safeguarding against indirect prompt injections
Generative AI tools have transformed how we work, create, and process information. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is our…
Implementing an LLM Agent with Tool Access Using MCP-Use
MCP-Use is an open-source library that lets you connect any LLM to any MCP server, giving your agents tool access…
Trump says U.S. will remove all sanctions on Syria
Syria has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. government since 1979.
Build scalable containerized RAG based generative AI applications in AWS using Amazon EKS with Amazon Bedrock
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications are commonly built using a technique called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) that provides foundation models…
Trump speaks after White House announces $600 billion Saudi investment in U.S.
Trump’s participation in the forum came after he signed a series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
U.S.-China trade war pushed global supply chain near breaking point, new data shows
Global supply chain and manufacturing anxiety was near a breaking point, new data indicates, ahead of the U.S.-China trade war…
OpenAI’s shakeup plan gets SoftBank’s nod — all eyes now on Microsoft
The SoftBank CFO said OpenAI’s planned restructuring with the nonprofit keeping control is something that was expected.
Germany’s business leaders have a message for the country’s new government: It’s time to deliver
At the Tegernsee summit, business leaders urged Germany’s new government to turn campaign promises into reality.
SoftBank Vision Funds swing to annual loss as investment gains slow by 40%
Softbank’s Vision Fund business posted a loss in the fiscal year ended March as it posted slowing gains at its…
RL^V: Unifying Reasoning and Verification in Language Models through Value-Free Reinforcement Learning
LLMs have gained outstanding reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning (RL) on correctness rewards. Modern RL algorithms for LLMs, including GRPO,…
OpenAI Releases HealthBench: An Open-Source Benchmark for Measuring the Performance and Safety of Large Language Models in Healthcare
OpenAI has released HealthBench, an open-source evaluation framework designed to measure the performance and safety of large language models (LLMs)…
Bowen: Denying food to Gaza is ‘weapon of war’, says UN refugee agency head
The BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen speaks to the head of the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees.
Investment banks lift China growth outlook after surprise trade deal with U.S.
Global banks are reviewing their China calls after the thawing of trade relations between Washington and Beijing.
Multimodal AI Needs More Than Modality Support: Researchers Propose General-Level and General-Bench to Evaluate True Synergy in Generalist Models
Artificial intelligence has grown beyond language-focused systems, evolving into models capable of processing multiple input types, such as text, images,…
A Step-by-Step Guide on Building, Customizing, and Publishing an AI-Focused Blogging Website with Lovable.dev and Seamless GitHub Integration
In this tutorial, we will guide you step-by-step through creating and publishing a sleek, modern AI blogging website using Lovable.dev.…
Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander released by Hamas in Gaza
The 21-year-old is the first hostage to be released since a ceasefire came to an end in March.
China sees the U.S. trade deal as a huge win for Beijing
The sky-high tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on imports from China have largely been rolled back temporarily under the…
Build an intelligent community agent to revolutionize IT support with Amazon Q Business
In the era of AI and machine learning (ML), there is a growing emphasis on enhancing security— especially in IT…
PrimeIntellect Releases INTELLECT-2: A 32B Reasoning Model Trained via Distributed Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
As language models scale in parameter count and reasoning complexity, traditional centralized training pipelines face increasing constraints. High-performance model training…
Trump hails Qatar’s ‘nice gesture’ of Air Force One replacement, blaming Boeing delays
“I could be a stupid person and say no, we don’t want a free plane,” Trump said.
AG-UI (Agent-User Interaction Protocol): An Open, Lightweight, Event-based Protocol that Standardizes How AI Agents Connect to Front-End Applications
The current generation of AI agents has made significant progress in automating backend tasks such as summarization, data migration, and…
Trump’s eye on Qatar’s $400M luxury jet is already causing a stir
Democratic lawmakers and Trump allies have criticized the purported move, saying the lavish nature of the gift raises serious legal…
What does the US-China tariff deal mean?
The agreement marks a major de-escalation of the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.
First white South Africans flying to US under Trump refugee plan
Donald Trump says they are victims of “racial discrimination”, which is strongly denied by South Africa.
A ‘huge win’ for bulls: Markets soar on U.S.-China deal as Wall Street sees more upside
Market watchers have labeled the new U.S.-China deal to temporarily cut tariffs “better than expected,” “more workable” and even a…
US and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said both countries would lower their reciprocal tariffs by 115% for 90 days.
U.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days
The U.S. and China on Monday agreed to suspend most tariffs on each other’s goods in a move that shows…
NVIDIA AI Introduces Audio-SDS: A Unified Diffusion-Based Framework for Prompt-Guided Audio Synthesis and Source Separation without Specialized Datasets
Audio diffusion models have achieved high-quality speech, music, and Foley sound synthesis, yet they predominantly excel at sample generation rather…
White House announces U.S.-China trade deal, offers few details
The Geneva talks come after President Trump slapped 145% tariffs on U.S. imports from China and Beijing retaliated with a…
Hamas to release US-Israeli hostage as part of efforts to reach Gaza ceasefire
The release will come ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East on Tuesday.
Zelensky challenges Putin to meet him after Trump demands Ukraine-Russia talks
“I will be waiting for Putin in Türkiye on Thursday. Personally,” the Ukrainian leader writes after Trump urged him to…
This AI Paper Introduces Effective State-Size (ESS): A Metric to Quantify Memory Utilization in Sequence Models for Performance Optimization
In machine learning, sequence models are designed to process data with temporal structure, such as language, time series, or signals.…
Saudi oil giant Aramco posts 5% dip in first-quarter profit on weaker crude prices
Saudi Aramco’s first-quarter net profit fell 5% year-on-year amid lower oil prices and production.
A Coding Implementation of Accelerating Active Learning Annotation with Adala and Google Gemini
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to leverage the Adala framework to build a modular active learning pipeline for medical…
Tencent Released PrimitiveAnything: A New AI Framework That Reconstructs 3D Shapes Using Auto-Regressive Primitive Generation
Shape primitive abstraction, which breaks down complex 3D forms into simple, interpretable geometric units, is fundamental to human visual perception…
Putin calls for ‘direct talks’ with Ukraine
A rare televised late-night statement from the Kremlin came hours after European leaders travelled to Kyiv and urged Moscow to…
A Coding Guide to Unlock mem0 Memory for Anthropic Claude Bot: Enabling Context-Rich Conversations
In this tutorial, we walk you through setting up a fully functional bot in Google Colab that leverages Anthropic’s Claude…