Bank of England holds rates steady, but a summer cut could still be in the cards
Earlier this year, the Bank of England said that it expects inflation to rise to 3.7% in the third quarter,…
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AI avatars in China just proved they are better influencers. It only took a duo 7 hours to rake in more than $7 million
Digital versions of human beings are now able to sell more than real people can, thanks to artificial intelligence, a…
Switzerland enters era of zero interest rates
Markets were widely expecting the Swiss National Bank to cut interest rates by 25 basis points.
OpenAI Releases an Open‑Sourced Version of a Customer Service Agent Demo with the Agents SDK
OpenAI has open-sourced a new multi-agent customer service demo on GitHub, showcasing how to build domain-specialized AI agents using its…
Trump approves Iran attack plan but has not made final decision, reports say
US president says “nobody knows what I’m going to do” as he weighs strike on Iran.
ReVisual-R1: An Open-Source 7B Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLMs) that Achieves Long, Accurate and Thoughtful Reasoning
The Challenge of Multimodal Reasoning Recent breakthroughs in text-based language models, such as DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated that RL can aid…
Israeli president denies pursuing regime change in Iran — goal is to ‘remove’ nuclear program
Herzog accused Teheran of “cheating,” saying that the country was “rushing to the bomb.”
HtFLlib: A Unified Benchmarking Library for Evaluating Heterogeneous Federated Learning Methods Across Modalities
AI institutions develop heterogeneous models for specific tasks but face data scarcity challenges during training. Traditional Federated Learning (FL) supports…
How to Build an Advanced BrightData Web Scraper with Google Gemini for AI-Powered Data Extraction
In this tutorial, we walk you through building an enhanced web scraping tool that leverages BrightData’s powerful proxy network alongside…
Fed holds key rate steady, still sees two more cuts this year
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released its decision on interest rates following its two-day meeting this week.
Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Are Poised to Redefine Agentic AI: Efficiency, Cost, and Practical Deployment
The Shift in Agentic AI System Needs LLMs are widely admired for their human-like capabilities and conversational skills. However, with…
Iran threatens ‘irreparable damage’ if U.S. enters Israel conflict
U.S. President Donald Trump had on Tuesday called for Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
Meeting summarization and action item extraction with Amazon Nova
Meetings play a crucial role in decision-making, project coordination, and collaboration, and remote meetings are common across many organizations. However,…
‘What should we do?’ Seeking clarity in Tehran as Israeli jets fly overhead
BBC Persian’s Kasra Naji says his sister is among those who want to know where the conflict with Israel is…
Trump weighs joining Iran strikes after calling for ‘unconditional surrender’
US strikes could involve using superior weaponry to hit an underground nuclear site, sources say.
Stealth aircraft and 30,000-pound bombs: Why destroying Iran’s nuclear program is a such a difficult feat
Iran’s most advanced and hardened nuclear facility, the Fordow plant in the country’s northwest, is a fortress.
How Latent Vector Fields Reveal the Inner Workings of Neural Autoencoders
Autoencoders and the Latent Space Neural networks are designed to learn compressed representations of high-dimensional data, and autoencoders (AEs) are…
‘Tariff engineering’ is making a comeback as businesses employ creative ways to skirt higher duties
Global manufacturers are rethinking their products design, looking to tap into a lesser-known legal technique known as “tariff engineering” to…
AREAL: Accelerating Large Reasoning Model Training with Fully Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
Introduction: The Need for Efficient RL in LRMs Reinforcement Learning RL is increasingly used to enhance LLMs, especially for reasoning…
CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: A quantum quandary for the UK government
The government’s supercomputer U-turn is welcomed — but is the U.K. losing its edge in quantum computing?
UK inflation hits 3.4% in May, meeting expectations
Core inflation, which excludes more volatile energy, food, alcohol and tobacco prices, rose by 3.5% in the year to May.
Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps up AI poaching efforts
While Meta had sought to hire “a lot of people” from OpenAI, “so far none of our best people have…
Building High-Performance Financial Analytics Pipelines with Polars: Lazy Evaluation, Advanced Expressions, and SQL Integration
In this tutorial, we delve into building an advanced data analytics pipeline using Polars, a lightning-fast DataFrame library designed for…
From Fine-Tuning to Prompt Engineering: Theory and Practice for Efficient Transformer Adaptation
The Challenge of Fine-Tuning Large Transformer Models Self-attention enables transformer models to capture long-range dependencies in text, which is crucial…
Russia fears another loss in Middle East from Iran’s conflict with Israel
The longer Israel’s military operation goes on, the greater the realisation that Russia has much to lose.
Trump threatens Iran’s leader, demands ‘unconditional surrender’
President Donald Trump warned Iran leader Ali Khamenei that he is an “easy target” and that “our patience is wearing…
‘Because I like them’: The UK has a magic formula that won over Trump
There are several reasons why Britain has got a magic formula when it comes to Trump, ranging from the personality…
How Anomalo solves unstructured data quality issues to deliver trusted assets for AI with AWS
This post is co-written with Vicky Andonova and Jonathan Karon from Anomalo. Generative AI has rapidly evolved from a novelty…
Top oil CEOs sound the alarm as Israel-Iran strikes escalate
Some energy facilities have been hit in both Israel and Iran in recent days, although major oil and gas infrastructure…
Trump’s $499 smartphone will likely be made in China
The Trump Organization’s newly-announced T1 smartphone will likely be made in China, experts said, despite claims the device will be…
Shipping groups are starting to shy away from the Strait of Hormuz as Israel-Iran conflict rages on
The escalating Israel-Iran conflict has prompted shipowners to exercise an extra degree of caution in both the Red Sea and…
How to Use python-A2A to Create and Connect Financial Agents with Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol
Python A2A is an implementation of Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, which enables AI agents to communicate with each other using…
G7 leaders call for ‘de-escalation’ in the Middle East
President Trump cut short his visit to Canada due
G7 leaders urge de-escalation in Middle East, blame Iran for ‘instability and terror’
G7 leaders condemned Iran for being the “principal source of regional instability and terror.”
‘Don’t let beautiful Tehran become Gaza’: Iranians tell of shock and confusion
Iranians say they are caught between their country’s regime and Israeli destruction as the conflict intensifies.
OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM4: Ultra-Efficient Language Models for Edge Devices with Sparse Attention and Fast Inference
The Need for Efficient On-Device Language Models Large language models have become integral to AI systems, enabling tasks like multilingual…
How Apollo Tyres is unlocking machine insights using agentic AI-powered Manufacturing Reasoner
This is a joint post co-authored with Harsh Vardhan, Global Head, Digital Innovation Hub, Apollo Tyres Ltd. Apollo Tyres, headquartered…
No further damage seen at Iran nuclear sites, global watchdog says
The IAEA says radiation levels outside the Natanz and Isfahan facilities remain normal following Friday’s Israeli strikes.
Markets are shrugging off the Israel-Iran conflict. Some strategists warn of complacency
Global equity markets rose on Monday as fighting in the Middle East escalated.
As G7 leaders meet, allies ask: Is Trump with us or against us?
The issue of trade tariffs for all G7 members remains a source of deep tension between allies and the U.S.
Watch: Explosions and damage across Israel as Iran launches fresh air strikes
Five people have been killed and dozens injured, according to Israel’s national emergency service.
The UK insisted unpopular tax rises were a one-off. Economists say hikes are now inevitable
U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged last year that the government would not conduct another tax raid. She might not have…
StepFun Introduces Step-Audio-AQAA: A Fully End-to-End Audio Language Model for Natural Voice Interaction
Rethinking Audio-Based Human-Computer Interaction Machines that can respond to human speech with equally expressive and natural audio have become a…
EPFL Researchers Unveil FG2 at CVPR: A New AI Model That Slashes Localization Errors by 28% for Autonomous Vehicles in GPS-Denied Environments
Navigating the dense urban canyons of cities like San Francisco or New York can be a nightmare for GPS systems.…
China May retail sales grow at fastest pace since December 2023; industrial output misses expectations
Sluggish domestic demand has been a pressing issue for Chinese policymakers.
Why aren’t Chinese consumers spending enough
China’s consumer spending shows little sign of picking up soon, given uncertainty about future wealth, changing preferences and lack of…
AI is disrupting the advertising business in a big way — industry leaders explain how
AI disruption is “unnerving investors in every industry, and it’s totally disrupting our business,” WPP’s outgoing boss Mark Read told…
Satellite imagery reveals damage to key Iran nuclear sites
Imagery from two different providers shows damage to Iranian nuclear facilities.
Trump gets his long-sought military parade as protests erupt nationwide
Outside of Washington, D.C., thousands of President Trump’s opponents gathered as part of “No Kings Day” demonstrations to protest his…
OThink-R1: A Dual-Mode Reasoning Framework to Cut Redundant Computation in LLMs
The Inefficiency of Static Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LRMs Recent LRMs achieve top performance by using detailed CoT reasoning to solve…