China holds key lending rates as softening consumer sentiment persists in world’s second largest economy
The People’s Bank of China held the 1-year loan prime rate at 3.0% and 5-year LPR at 3.5%.
Category: Business
Can LLM Reward Models Be Trusted? Master-RM Exposes and Fixes Their Weaknesses
Generative reward models, where large language models (LLMs) serve as evaluators, are gaining prominence in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards…
Aug. 1 is ‘hard deadline’ for Trump’s tariffs, Commerce Secretary Lutnick says
President Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal” tariff deadline has shifted since April 2, but White House officials insist that Aug. 1 is…
Israel issues new evacuation orders in crowded central Gazan city
People in Deir al-Balah are told to leave, as the IDF prepares to launch its first ground offensive in the…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Enterprises: Secure Integration with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud- 2025 Update
Table of contents 1. MCP Overview & Ecosystem 2. AWS: MCP at Cloud Scale 3. Microsoft Azure: MCP in Copilot…
At least 14 dead in South Korea floods and landslides
There are fears the death toll will rise after raging floods destroyed roads, submerged buildings and ravaged farmland.
Global week ahead: Banking bellwethers and a tariffs waiting game
From Frankfurt to Milan, and Paris to London, next week it’s all about the banks.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares
It comes as part of a pre-planned arrangement on the heels of surging AI demand
At least 37 dead as tourist boat capsizes in Vietnam
The incident happened in Vietnam’s popular Ha Long Bay during bad weather, with five people still missing, local reports say.
NVIDIA AI Releases OpenReasoning-Nemotron: A Suite of Reasoning-Enhanced LLMs Distilled from DeepSeek R1 0528
NVIDIA AI has introduced OpenReasoning-Nemotron, a family of large language models (LLMs) designed to excel in complex reasoning tasks across…
Maybe Physics-Based AI Is the Right Approach: Revisiting the Foundations of Intelligence
Over the past decade, deep learning has revolutionized artificial intelligence, driving breakthroughs in image recognition, language modeling, and game playing.…
Deep Research Agents: A Systematic Roadmap for LLM-Based Autonomous Research Systems
A team of researchers from University of Liverpool, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, University of Oxford and University College London presents…
Syrian presidency announces ceasefire after deadly sectarian clashes in south
The move comes after days of clashes between Bedouin and Druze fighters in Suweida that have reportedly left hundreds dead.
The Definitive Guide to AI Agents: Architectures, Frameworks, and Real-World Applications (2025)
Table of contents What is an AI Agent? Why AI Agents Matter in 2025 Types of AI Agents Key Components…
‘30% is untenable’: From Irish whiskey to Italian cheese, Trump’s tariff threat rattles EU exporters
“At that 30% level … it will be a lose-lose situation,” one distillery boss told CNBC.
Building a Multi-Agent AI Research Team with LangGraph and Gemini for Automated Reporting
In this tutorial, we build a complete multi-agent research team system using LangGraph and Google’s Gemini API. We utilize role-specific…
You Don’t Need to Share Data to Train a Language Model Anymore—FlexOlmo Demonstrates How
The development of large-scale language models (LLMs) has historically required centralized access to extensive datasets, many of which are sensitive,…
AegisLLM: Scaling LLM Security Through Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems at Inference Time
The Growing Threat Landscape for LLMs LLMs are key targets for fast-evolving attacks, including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and sensitive data…
Trump sues Murdoch for libel over Jeffrey Epstein letter story
Trump had threatened to force Murdoch to “testify in my lawsuit against him and his ‘pile of garbage’ newspaper”.
Microsoft stops relying on Chinese engineers for Pentagon cloud support
The change follows a ProPublica report that outlined how Microsoft’s use of Chinese engineers left U.S. defense clients vulnerable to…
Three killed in explosion at Los Angeles police training facility
Federal agents are investigating, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blast.
Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach that will stunt growth
“Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” global affairs chief Joel Kaplan wrote in a post on LinkedIn…
Build real-time travel recommendations using AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI is transforming how businesses deliver personalized experiences across industries, including travel and hospitality. Travel agents are enhancing their…
‘There were bodies everywhere’: Druze residents describe ‘bloodbath’ in Syrian city Suweida
One woman tells the BBC she cowered in her home waiting for gunmen to enter and “decide whether we should…
How the EU is preparing to reach a tariff deal in Trump’s game of chicken
The European Union is pushing to secure a trade deal with the U.S. ahead of President Donald Trump’s Aug. 1…
EU lowers price cap for Russian crude under new sanctions package
EU policymakers on Friday signaled that the price at which non-G7 countries could purchase Russian crude and access G7 logistics…
Fighter jet maker Saab pops 12% on profit beat amid European defense splurge
Saab reported better-than-expected sales growth and income for the second quarter.
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Agent: From Research to Real-World Automation
On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, transforming ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a unified AI agent capable of autonomously executing…
Israel’s stock market outperforms Middle East counterparts despite multi-front wars
Israel’s markets have been lifted by significant foreign investment and more recently by renewed investor confidence following its 12-day conflict…
Trump orders officials to ‘produce’ more Epstein documents after mounting pressure
Trump’s supporters and opponents alike have demanded more disclosures related to the disgraced financier.
GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Advancing General-Purpose Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
Vision-language models (VLMs) play a crucial role in today’s intelligent systems by enabling a detailed understanding of visual content. The…
Japan’s core inflation cools in June as expected, coming down from 29-month high as rice prices ease
Headline inflation in the country dropped to 3.3%, coming down from 3.5% in May.
Evaluating generative AI models with Amazon Nova LLM-as-a-Judge on Amazon SageMaker AI
Evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) goes beyond statistical metrics like perplexity or bilingual evaluation understudy (BLEU) scores.…
Netflix posts earnings beat as revenue grows 16% in second quarter
Netflix posted an earnings beat Thursday, as revenue grew 16% during the second quarter of 2025.
Implementing on-demand deployment with customized Amazon Nova models on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock offers model customization capabilities for customers to tailor versions of foundation models (FMs) to their specific needs through…
British spies and SAS named in Afghan data breach
The personal details of spies and soldiers were included in a data leak that also named 19,000 Afghans.
NVIDIA AI Releases Canary-Qwen-2.5B: A State-of-the-Art ASR-LLM Hybrid Model with SoTA Performance on OpenASR Leaderboard
NVIDIA has just released Canary-Qwen-2.5B, a groundbreaking automatic speech recognition (ASR) and language model (LLM) hybrid, which now tops the…
Pope expresses sadness after Israeli strike on Gaza church kills three
Israel says it regrets any harm to a religious site or uninvolved civilians after a shell hits the Catholic Church…
Google Search Just Got a Major AI Upgrade: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and Agentic Intelligence
Google is transforming how we interact with Search. With the recent rollout of Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Search, and a…
60 dead after fire tears through Iraqi shopping centre, officials say
Clips circulating on social media appear to show a number of people on the roof during the fire.
Crypto theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks
It comes as there have been multiple headlines this year about crypto entrepreneurs and their relatives being targeted with physical…
Building enterprise-scale RAG applications with Amazon S3 Vectors and DeepSeek R1 on Amazon SageMaker AI
Organizations are adopting large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek R1, to transform business processes, enhance customer experiences, and drive…
The 20 Hottest Agentic AI Tools And Agents Of 2025 (So Far)
Research & Cutting‑Edge Agents AlphaEvolve (Google DeepMind) – An evolutionary coding agent powered by Gemini, AlphaEvolve autonomously invents and optimizes algorithms…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants to sell more advanced chips to China after H20 ban is lifted
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Beijing after the U.S. allowed its H20 chip to be sold in China.
Jensen Huang woos Beijing as Nvidia finds a way back into China
Wearing his iconic leather jacket, Huang walked into the sunny courtyard of the Mandarin Oriental hotel earlier than scheduled and…
France flirts with cutting two public holidays to save money
France’s prime minister announced plans for spending cuts on Tuesday as the government targets around 43 billion euros’ ($50.0 billion)…
ASML shares drop 6.5% after the chip giant says it can’t confirm that it will grow in 2026
ASML reported second-quarter earnings that beat estimates with the its key net bookings figure ahead of consensus.
UK inflation hits hotter-than-expected 3.6% in June
Economists polled by Reuters had anticipated inflation would reach 3.4% in the twelve months to June.
Trump says attorney general should release any ‘credible’ information on Epstein
The president also said “only really bad people” want to stoke theories about the well-connected sex offender.
Jensen Huang lauds China’s AI models as Nvidia gears up to resume chip exports
Huang also praised Chinese companies for taking an open-source approach to AI.