Where ‘Made in China 2025’ missed the mark
Beijing’s Made in China’ 2025 had ambitious goals. 10 years on, it’s failed to meet several targets
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Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash in Preview through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash, an early-preview AI model accessible via the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and…
A Hands-On Tutorial: Build a Modular LLM Evaluation Pipeline with Google Generative AI and LangChain
Evaluating LLMs has emerged as a pivotal challenge in advancing the reliability and utility of artificial intelligence across both academic…
Do Reasoning Models Really Need Transformers?: Researchers from TogetherAI, Cornell, Geneva, and Princeton Introduce M1—A Hybrid Mamba-Based AI that Matches SOTA Performance at 3x Inference Speed
Effective reasoning is crucial for solving complex problems in fields such as mathematics and programming, and LLMs have demonstrated significant…
US senator meets man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen posts photos of his meeting with Kilmar Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration has refused…
Hamas formally rejects Israeli ceasefire offer
The group says it wants a deal that would free all hostages in return for an end to the war.
Trump administration announces fees on Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports
The Trump administration on Thursday announced fees on Chinese-built vessels.
Japan inflation comes in at 3.6%, surpasses BOJ target for three straight years
Japan’s inflation grew 3.6% year on year in March, marking three straight years that the headline inflation figure is above…
Researchers from AWS and Intuit Propose a Zero Trust Security Framework to Protect the Model Context Protocol (MCP) from Tool Poisoning and Unauthorized Access
AI systems are becoming increasingly dependent on real-time interactions with external data sources and operational tools. These systems are now…
Trump and Meloni talk up chances of US trade deal with Europe
“There will be a trade deal, 100%,” Trump said, while Meloni said she was “sure” they could reach agreement.
Uploading Datasets to Hugging Face: A Step-by-Step Guide
Part 1: Uploading a Dataset to Hugging Face Hub Introduction This part of the tutorial walks you through the process…
Zelensky accuses US envoy Witkoff of spreading ‘Russian narratives’
Witkoff appeared to suggest that a peace deal hinged on the status of five Ukrainian regions.
Add Zoom as a data accessor to your Amazon Q index
For many organizations, vast amounts of enterprise knowledge are scattered across diverse data sources and applications. Organizations across industries seek…
The future of quality assurance: Shift-left testing with QyrusAI and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Ameet Deshpande and Vatsal Saglani from Qyrus. As businesses embrace accelerated development cycles to stay…
Do We Still Need Complex Vision-Language Pipelines? Researchers from ByteDance and WHU Introduce Pixel-SAIL—A Single Transformer Model for Pixel-Level Understanding That Outperforms 7B MLLMs
MLLMs have recently advanced in handling fine-grained, pixel-level visual understanding, thereby expanding their applications to tasks such as precise region-based…
Trump again calls for Fed to cut rates, says Powell’s ‘termination cannot come fast enough’
President Donald Trump on Thursday again called for the Federal Reserve to lower rates and even hinted at the “termination”…
Turkey’s central bank surprises with 350-basis-point rate hike
Turkey’s central bank surprised markets on Thursday when it raised its key interest rate, the one-week repurchase rate, from 42.5%…
Hermès to hike U.S. prices for iconic bags and scarves in response to Trump tariffs
The French luxury giant will look to “fully offset” the impact of blanket 10% tariffs with price hikes from May…
TSMC first-quarter profit tops estimates, rising 60%, but Trump trade policy threatens growth
TSMC beat profit expectations for the first quarter, thanks to a continued surge in demand for AI chips.
Model Performance Begins with Data: Researchers from Ai2 Release DataDecide—A Benchmark Suite to Understand Pretraining Data Impact Across 30K LLM Checkpoints
The Challenge of Data Selection in LLM Pretraining Developing large language models entails substantial computational investment, especially when experimenting with…
US to hold talks on Ukraine with Europeans
The talks form the highest level of transatlantic engagement about the war since February.
China targets U.S. services and other areas after decrying ‘meaningless’ tariff hikes on goods
Beijing has wielded a wide range of punitive measures in recent days to strike back at Washington, including steps targeting…
Man deported to El Salvador will never live back in US, says White House
The White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Ábrego García was in a gang, which his lawyer denies.
Biophysical Brain Models Get a 2000× Speed Boost: Researchers from NUS, UPenn, and UPF Introduce DELSSOME to Replace Numerical Integration with Deep Learning Without Sacrificing Accuracy
Biophysical modeling serves as a valuable tool for understanding brain function by linking neural dynamics at the cellular level with…
Trade war fallout: Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet
Canceled freight vessel sailings from China are up and will ripple through the supply chain as the trade war impact…
Automate Amazon EKS troubleshooting using an Amazon Bedrock agentic workflow
As organizations scale their Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) deployments, platform administrators face increasing challenges in efficiently managing multi-tenant…
Powell indicates tariffs could pose a challenge for the Fed between controlling inflation and boosting growth
The central bank leader said that while he expects higher inflation and lower growth, it’s unclear where the Fed will…
US judge says he could hold Trump administration in contempt of court
The US government is accused of “wilful disregard” of a ruling blocking the deportation of 200 individuals to El Salvador.
OpenAI Releases Codex CLI: An Open-Source Local Coding Agent that Turns Natural Language into Working Code
Command-line interfaces (CLIs) are indispensable tools for developers, offering powerful capabilities for system management and automation. However, they require precise…
Israeli troops will remain in Gaza ‘security zones’ after war, minister says
Defence Minister Israel Katz also says Israel will continue its humanitarian aid blockade to pressure Hamas to release hostages.
SyncSDE: A Probabilistic Framework for Task-Adaptive Diffusion Synchronization in Collaborative Generation
Diffusion models have demonstrated significant success across various generative tasks, including image synthesis, 3D scene creation, video generation, and human…
US tariffs will make global trade shrink, says WTO
The Geneva-based institution says American tariffs will send international trade into reverse.
The European Union braces for more U.S. tariffs despite talks
It’s been an intense back-and-forth over the past few months, with Trump accusing the EU of being among the worst…
Global trade outlook has ‘deteriorated sharply’ amid Trump tariff uncertainty, WTO warns
The World Trade Organization has warned that the outlook for global trade has “deteriorated sharply” in the wake of President…
Lyft to buy taxi app Free Now for $200 million to expand into Europe
The acquisition — Lyft’s first in Europe — is expected to close in the second half of 2025.
Biden attacks Trump in first speech since leaving White House
The ex-president uses the speech to criticise the Trump administration’s cuts to the welfare agency.
Google faces £5 billion lawsuit in the UK for abusing ‘near-total dominance’ in search
A class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal claims Google abused its position to restrict competing…
MIT Researchers Introduce DISCIPL: A Self-Steering Framework Using Planner and Follower Language Models for Efficient Constrained Generation and Reasoning
Language models predict sequences of words based on vast datasets and are increasingly expected to reason and perform complex linguistic…
China replaces top international trade negotiator as talks with Washington stall
The appointment makes Li a key member of China’s trade negotiation team as Beijing deals with trade disputes with the…
Critical chip firm ASML posts lower-than-expected net bookings in first quarter
ASML reported net bookings of 3.94 billion euros ($4.47 billion) for the first quarter, versus a Reuters reported forecast of…
China’s first-quarter GDP tops estimates at 5.4% as growth momentum continues amid tariff worries
Several investment banks have moved to slash China’s growth forecasts this year, with most doubting Beijing can achieve the official target of…
‘This is so hard’: The Chinese small businesses brought to a standstill by Trump’s tariffs
Stock is piling up in warehouses as exporters grapple with new levies that total up to 145%, reports the BBC’s…
Transformers Can Now Predict Spreadsheet Cells without Fine-Tuning: Researchers Introduce TabPFN Trained on 100 Million Synthetic Datasets
Tabular data is widely utilized in various fields, including scientific research, finance, and healthcare. Traditionally, machine learning models such as…
Nvidia says it will record $5.5 billion charge tied to H20 processors exported to China
Nvidia will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and…
SQL-R1: A Reinforcement Learning-based NL2SQL Model that Outperforms Larger Systems in Complex Queries with Transparent and Accurate SQL Generation
Natural language interface to databases is a growing focus within artificial intelligence, particularly because it allows users to interact with…
Clario enhances the quality of the clinical trial documentation process with Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Kim Nguyen and Shyam Banuprakash from Clario. Clario is a leading provider of endpoint data…
From Logic to Confusion: MIT Researchers Show How Simple Prompt Tweaks Derail LLM Reasoning
Large language models are increasingly used to solve math problems that mimic real-world reasoning tasks. These models are tested for…
U.S.’ inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS
As China imposes rare earths export controls, the U.S. is unable to make up the shortfall, according to the Center…
Sudan’s years of war – BBC smuggles in phones to reveal hunger and fear
Rare accounts of life in el-Fasher – the last major city in Darfur controlled by the Sudanese army.
Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack
The US president said that you “don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size” and hope people give…