Use custom metrics to evaluate your generative AI application with Amazon Bedrock
With Amazon Bedrock Evaluations, you can evaluate foundation models (FMs) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, whether hosted on Amazon…
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Carney tells Trump that Canada ‘won’t be for sale, ever’
The Canadian PM responds firmly as the president proposes a “wonderful marriage” of incorporating Canada into the US.
Carney tells Trump: Canada ‘won’t be for sale ever’
Carney’s first visit to the White House since his election comes as the U.S.-Canada trade relationship has been upended as…
Implementing an AgentQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
AgentQL allows you to scrape any website with unstructured data by defining the exact shape of the information you want.…
Google Releases 76-Page Whitepaper on AI Agents: A Deep Technical Dive into Agentic RAG, Evaluation Frameworks, and Real-World Architectures
Google has published the second installment in its Agents Companion series—an in-depth 76-page whitepaper aimed at professionals developing advanced AI…
Germany’s Merz elected chancellor in second parliamentary vote after unexpected setback
Merz has been widely expected to become the leader of Europe’s largest economy following Germany’s federal election in February.
UK and India agree ‘landmark’ trade deal
The deal will give better access for UK whisky and cars to the Indian market.
UK and India strike a trade deal amid U.S.-led tariff tensions
The deal will see India gradually lower import taxes, with the vast majority of goods traded becoming “fully tariff-free within…
Germany’s Merz falls short of majority in vote for chancellor
Conservative Friedrich Merz unexpectedly falls short of the numbers needed to become chancellor.
Germany’s Merz fails to be elected chancellor in shock first-round parliamentary vote
Friedrich Merz failed to get the majority needed to become German chancellor in a parliamentary vote Tuesday.
Hamas says ‘no point’ to talks as Israel plans expanded Gaza offensive
The UN also expresses alarm after Israel approves a new plan that may include seizing all of Gaza indefinitely and…
DoorDash to acquire British food delivery firm Deliveroo in $3.9 billion deal
British food delivery firm Deliveroo on Monday said it has agreed to a takeover offer from American rival DoorDash that…
NVIDIA Open Sources Parakeet TDT 0.6B: Achieving a New Standard for Automatic Speech Recognition ASR and Transcribes an Hour of Audio in One Second
NVIDIA has unveiled Parakeet TDT 0.6B, a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that is now fully open-sourced on Hugging…
U.S. crude oil closes at lowest level since 2021 after OPEC+ agrees to production surge in June
OPEC+ is bringing more than 800,000 barrels per day of additional supply to the market over the course of two…
OpenAI Releases a Strategic Guide for Enterprise AI Adoption: Practical Lessons from the Field
OpenAI has published a comprehensive 24-page document titled AI in the Enterprise, offering a pragmatic framework for organizations navigating the…
Russia says all airports in Moscow shut after drone attack
Moscow’s mayor says at least 19 Ukrainian drones heading to Moscow have been destroyed.
A Coding Guide to Compare Three Stability AI Diffusion Models (v1.5, v2-Base & SD3-Medium) Diffusion Capabilities Side-by-Side in Google Colab Using Gradio
In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll unlock the creative potential of Stability AI’s industry-leading diffusion models, Stable Diffusion v1.5, Stability AI’s…
How AI Agents Store, Forget, and Retrieve? A Fresh Look at Memory Operations for the Next-Gen LLMs
Memory plays a crucial role in LLM-based AI systems, supporting sustained, coherent interactions over time. While earlier surveys have explored…
Ford suspends 2025 guidance amid $2.5 billion tariff impact
Ford Motor beat Wall Street’s first-quarter expectations, but suspended its 2025 financial guidance amid an expected $2.5 billion impact this year…
Where Trump is likely getting his $1.98 gas price figure
U.S. drivers were paying $3.165 per gallon on average Monday, according to the motorist association AAA.
8 Comprehensive Open-Source and Hosted Solutions to Seamlessly Convert Any API into AI-Ready MCP Servers
The Model Communication Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open standard that allows AI agents to interact with external services through…
RWKV-X Combines Sparse Attention and Recurrent Memory to Enable Efficient 1M-Token Decoding with Linear Complexity
LLMs built on Transformer architectures face significant scaling challenges due to their quadratic complexity in sequence length when processing long-context…
Israel security cabinet approves plan to ‘capture’ Gaza, official says
The Israeli military has called up tens of thousands of reservists, saying it is aiming to increase pressure on Hamas.
Incoming German Chancellor Merz vows reforms and investments as parties sign coalition agreement
Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the country’s new cabinet are set to take office Tuesday.
European markets mixed, Erste Group Bank rises 7% after acquiring stake in Santander’s Polish unit
European bourses saw a mixed start to the week on Monday, with U.K. markets closed for a bank holiday.
How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Standardizes, Simplifies, and Future-Proofs AI Agent Tool Calling Across Models for Scalable, Secure, Interoperable Workflows Traditional Approaches to AI–Tool Integration
Before MCP, LLMs relied on ad-hoc, model-specific integrations to access external tools. Approaches like ReAct interleave chain-of-thought reasoning with explicit…
Scaling Reinforcement Learning Beyond Math: Researchers from NVIDIA AI and CMU Propose Nemotron-CrossThink for Multi-Domain Reasoning with Verifiable Reward Modeling
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities across diverse tasks, with Reinforcement Learning (RL) serving as a crucial…
China risks a spiral into deeper deflation as it diverts U.S.-bound exports to domestic market
Prices will need to drop for buyers for them to absorb goods meant for exports, experts warn — risking deeper…
Multimodal Queries Require Multimodal RAG: Researchers from KAIST and DeepAuto.ai Propose UniversalRAG—A New Framework That Dynamically Routes Across Modalities and Granularities for Accurate and Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation
RAG has proven effective in enhancing the factual accuracy of LLMs by grounding their outputs in external, relevant information. However,…
Syrian security forces ‘oversaw’ armed civilians who killed Alawites, accused man says
One man accused of killing an Alawite during the sectarian violence in March tells the BBC that armed civilians were…
Building AI Agents Using Agno’s Multi-Agent Teaming Framework for Comprehensive Market Analysis and Risk Reporting
In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, leveraging specialized AI agents to handle discrete aspects of analysis is key to delivering timely,…
Netanyahu vows response after Houthi missile hits near Israel’s main airport
Footage appeared to show a plume of black smoke rising from an area near the airport on the outskirts of…
Trump takes credit for ‘good parts’ of economy, blames ‘bad parts’ on Biden
Last week, Trump put the onus on Biden for the economy contracting in the first quarter of the year.
Australia’s opposition left reeling after crushing election defeat
Peter Dutton has been ousted from parliament after Anthony Albanese’s landslide win.
Meta AI Releases Llama Prompt Ops: A Python Toolkit for Prompt Optimization on Llama Models
Meta AI has released Llama Prompt Ops, a Python package designed to streamline the process of adapting prompts for Llama…
IBM AI Releases Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview: A Compact Open-Language Model Optimized for Long-Context and Instruction Tasks
IBM has introduced a preview of Granite 4.0 Tiny, the smallest member of its upcoming Granite 4.0 family of language…
Vision Foundation Models: Implementation and Business Applications
In this tutorial, we’ll explore implementing various vision foundation models for business applications. We’ll focus on practical code implementation, technical…
Warren Buffett to ask board to make Greg Abel CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at year-end
Buffett said he would still hang around with company.
Warren Buffett knocks tariffs and protectionism: ‘Trade should not be a weapon’
“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said. “The United States won. We have become an incredibly important country, starting…
Australian PM wins second term with increased majority
Anthony Albanese’s Labor has seen swings towards it in almost every area of the country.
Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings drop more than expected as Buffett warns of tariff uncertainty
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported first-quarter results on Saturday that showed a steep drop in earnings from the year-earlier period.
LLMs Can Now Reason in Parallel: UC Berkeley and UCSF Researchers Introduce Adaptive Parallel Reasoning to Scale Inference Efficiently Without Exceeding Context Windows
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant strides in reasoning capabilities, exemplified by breakthrough systems like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeekR1,…
LLMs Can Learn Complex Math from Just One Example: Researchers from University of Washington, Microsoft, and USC Unlock the Power of 1-Shot Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
Recent advancements in LLMs such as OpenAI-o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Kimi-1.5 have significantly improved their performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks.…
Germany defends AfD extremist classification after Rubio slams ‘tyranny in disguise’
Germany’s foreign office says history shows that right-wing extremism “needs to be stopped”, after criticism from the White House.
Building a Zapier AI-Powered Cursor Agent to Read, Search, and Send Gmail Messages using Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) alongside Zapier AI to…
Subject-Driven Image Evaluation Gets Simpler: Google Researchers Introduce REFVNLI to Jointly Score Textual Alignment and Subject Consistency Without Costly APIs
Text-to-image (T2I) generation has evolved to include subject-driven approaches, which enhance standard T2I models by incorporating reference images alongside text…
Temu halts shipping direct from China as de minimis tariff loophole is cut off
Earlier this week, Temu increased prices and added “import charges” ranging from 130% to 150% on products shipped direct from…
From ELIZA to Conversation Modeling: Evolution of Conversational AI Systems and Paradigms
TL;DR: Conversational AI has transformed from ELIZA’s simple rule-based systems in the 1960s to today’s sophisticated platforms. The journey progressed…
Build a gen AI–powered financial assistant with Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration
The Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration feature gives developers the flexibility to create and coordinate multiple AI agents, each specialized for…
WordFinder app: Harnessing generative AI on AWS for aphasia communication
In this post, we showcase how Dr. Kori Ramajoo, Dr. Sonia Brownsett, Prof. David Copland, from QARC, and Scott Harding,…