Angry protests after North Macedonia nightclub disaster
People in Kocani blame corruption after 59 people – many of them teenagers – died in a nightclub inferno.
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Intelligent healthcare assistants: Empowering stakeholders with personalized support and data-driven insights
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, enabling machines to understand and generate human-like text…
AI that can match humans at any task will be here in five to 10 years, Google DeepMind CEO says
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he thinks artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will emerge in the next five or…
OECD cuts U.S. and global economic outlooks as Trump’s trade tariffs weigh on growth
Global growth is expected to slow from 3.2% in 2024 to 3.1% in 2025 and 3.0% in 2026, according to…
‘Everything is finished’: Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk
Five soldiers tell the BBC of their withdrawal in the face of overwhelming firepower and drones.
Archetypal SAE: Adaptive and Stable Dictionary Learning for Concept Extraction in Large Vision Models
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have revolutionized computer vision with great performance, but their “black-box” nature creates significant challenges in domains…
Groundlight Research Team Released an Open-Source AI Framework that Makes It Easy to Build Visual Reasoning Agents (with GRPO)
Modern VLMs struggle with tasks requiring complex visual reasoning, where understanding an image alone is insufficient, and deeper interpretation is…
‘I had one child and I lost him’ – North Macedonia mourns nightclub disaster
Fifty-nine people have been killed following a fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia.
China’s retail sales strengthen at the start of the year, industrial output tops expectations
China’s economic data for the first two months of the year showed a modest pickup as Beijing reiterated its plan…
China announces plan to ‘vigorously boost consumption’ in bid to shore up economy
The plan was to vigorously boost consumption, expand domestic demand, and “enhance consumption capacity by increasing income and reducing burdens.”
Cohere Released Command A: A 111B Parameter AI Model with 256K Context Length, 23-Language Support, and 50% Cost Reduction for Enterprises
LLMs are widely used for conversational AI, content generation, and enterprise automation. However, balancing performance with computational efficiency is a…
How the U.S. is losing ground to China in nuclear fusion, as AI power needs surge
For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending…
Fifty-one dead after North Macedonia nightclub fire
As many as 1,500 people were attending a concert when the fire broke out.
At least 34 dead as tornadoes tear through southern US
The unpredictable storms have hit Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma, whipping up fires and overturning trucks.
A Code Implementation to Build an AI-Powered PDF Interaction System in Google Colab Using Gemini Flash 1.5, PyMuPDF, and Google Generative AI API
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an AI-powered PDF interaction system in Google Colab using Gemini Flash 1.5,…
Meet PC-Agent: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Collaboration Framework for Complex Task Automation on PC
Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, propelling their evolution into multi-modal agents for human…
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Monash University Introduce ReasonGraph: A Web-based Platform to Visualize and Analyze LLM Reasoning Processes
Reasoning capabilities have become essential for LLMs, but analyzing these complex processes poses a significant challenge. While LLMs can generate…
US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen’s Houthis
US President Donald Trump cited the armed group’s recent attacks in the Red Sea as justification.
Military planning for Ukraine peace to begin, says Starmer
Military chiefs will meet on Thursday to discuss practical plans to ensure Ukraine’s security.
South African ambassador ‘no longer welcome’ in US, Rubio says
The US Secretary of State called the ambassador a “race-baiting politician who hates America”.
Trump administration sends a clear message to the oil and gas industry: ‘You’re the customer’
The officials leading Trump’s energy agenda downplayed climate change and called for more energy production to support economic growth and…
HPC-AI Tech Releases Open-Sora 2.0: An Open-Source SOTA-Level Video Generation Model Trained for Just $200K
AI-generated videos from text descriptions or images hold immense potential for content creation, media production, and entertainment. Recent advancements in…
Patronus AI Introduces the Industry’s First Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge (MLLM-as-a-Judge): Designed to Evaluate and Optimize AI Systems that Convert Image Inputs into Text Outputs
In recent years, the integration of image generation technologies into various platforms has opened new avenues for enhancing user experiences.…
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases OLMo 32B: A Fully Open Model to Beat GPT 3.5 and GPT-4o mini on a Suite of Multi-Skill Benchmarks
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of large language models (LLMs) capable of…
This AI Paper Introduces BD3-LMs: A Hybrid Approach Combining Autoregressive and Diffusion Models for Scalable and Efficient Text Generation
Traditional language models rely on autoregressive approaches, which generate text sequentially, ensuring high-quality outputs at the expense of slow inference…
Optimizing Test-Time Compute for LLMs: A Meta-Reinforcement Learning Approach with Cumulative Regret Minimization
Enhancing the reasoning abilities of LLMs by optimizing test-time compute is a critical research challenge. Current approaches primarily rely on…
Getting started with computer use in Amazon Bedrock Agents
Computer use is a breakthrough capability from Anthropic that allows foundation models (FMs) to visually perceive and interpret digital interfaces.…
Trump says ‘very good chance’ of Ukraine ceasefire while Russia keeps caveats
Russia struck a sedate tone on Friday but acknowledged grounds for cautious optimism, after only backing the “idea” of a…
US had ‘productive’ talks with Putin over Ukraine war, Trump says
US envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin in Moscow on Thursday where they discussed the peace process.
Trump’s 200% tariffs could have an unlikely winner — troubled beer brewers
U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 200% tariffs on alcohol from Europe would serve a major blow to drinks…
Evaluating RAG applications with Amazon Bedrock knowledge base evaluation
Organizations building and deploying AI applications, particularly those using large language models (LLMs) with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, face…
Fierce protests as eight-year-old rape victim dies in Bangladesh
An angry mob set fire to the house where the rape is alleged to have taken place.
Chinese battery giant CATL posts annual revenue drop ahead of Hong Kong listing
The world’s largest electric-vehicle battery maker has filed for a listing in Hong Kong, without disclosing the exact size and…
Passengers evacuate on to wing of burning American Airlines jet
Footage shows passengers huddled on the wing of the commercial airliner, which was on the tarmac, as flames burn under…
Oil, dollars, and debt: How safe is the Middle East from the global trade war?
The blow to growth from a trade war is likely to hurt the price of oil – the mainstay of…
Kering shares plunge 12% after Demna Gvasalia named as Gucci’s artistic director
Shares of Kering plunged on Friday after the firm announced that Demna Gvasalia would take the reigns as new artistic…
UK economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1% in January
The U.K.’s economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1% in January, official figures showed on Friday.
‘Please unleash us,’ Europe’s telcos urge regulators as industry bangs drum for more mega-deals
CEOs of several European telecoms firms are calling on regulators to make it easier for them to combine their operations…
Robots, drones and AI: How next-generation tech is changing the global supply chain
Logistics companies globally are leaning into emerging technologies such as robots, drones and AI to speed up the supply chain…
A Coding Guide to Build a Multimodal Image Captioning App Using Salesforce BLIP Model, Streamlit, Ngrok, and Hugging Face
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build an interactive multimodal image-captioning application using Google’s Colab platform, Salesforce’s powerful BLIP…
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics: Unleashing Embodied AI with Zero-Shot Control and Enhanced Spatial Reasoning
Google DeepMind has shattered conventional boundaries in robotics AI with the unveiling of Gemini Robotics, a suite of models built…
Private equity is heading for a shake-up, experts say: ‘This market actually is a good reset’
“You need to have your private markets beating your public market,” Gaia Investment Partners’ Serena Tan said.
Putin sets out conditions for Ukraine ceasefire
The Russian president agrees fighting must end, but calls for the removal of the “root causes” of the crisis.
Is Putin ready for a ceasefire or playing for time?
Russia is ready for a halt in fighting, says Vladimir Putin, but he says there are “nuances”.
Simular Releases Agent S2: An Open, Modular, and Scalable AI Framework for Computer Use Agents
In today’s digital landscape, interacting with a wide variety of software and operating systems can often be a tedious and…
Peace talks are in parallel universe, say Ukraine front-line troops
Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield say they don’t expect to see the war end any time soon.
How GoDaddy built a category generation system at scale with batch inference for Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written with Vishal Singh, Data Engineering Leader at Data & Analytics team of GoDaddy Generative AI solutions…
Putin says Russia backs Ukraine ceasefire but any deal must address ‘root causes’
Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for giving “so much attention” to the prospect of a Russia-Ukraine…
Benchmarking customized models on Amazon Bedrock using LLMPerf and LiteLLM
Open foundation models (FMs) allow organizations to build customized AI applications by fine-tuning for their specific domains or tasks, while…