Google offers buyouts to employees across the company, including Search
Google’s buyouts are being offered to employees in Google’s central engineering units as well as marketing, research and communications teams.
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ether0: A 24B LLM Trained with Reinforcement Learning RL for Advanced Chemical Reasoning Tasks
LLMs primarily enhance accuracy through scaling pre-training data and computing resources. However, the attention has shifted towards alternate scaling due…
Meta Introduces LlamaRL: A Scalable PyTorch-Based Reinforcement Learning RL Framework for Efficient LLM Training at Scale
Reinforcement Learning’s Role in Fine-Tuning LLMs Reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful approach to fine-tune large language models (LLMs)…
In China, fears grow of an EV financial crisis amid pricing war
Electric vehicle makers in China, led by the country’s market leader BYD, have been engaged in a bruising price war.
World Bank sharply cuts global growth outlook on trade turbulence
“This would mark the slowest rate of global growth since 2008, aside from outright global recessions,” the World Bank said…
Automate customer support with Amazon Bedrock, LangGraph, and Mistral models
AI agents are transforming the landscape of customer support by bridging the gap between large language models (LLMs) and real-world…
‘Collateral damage’: Fund managers lobby Congress over Section 899 to avert foreign investors leaving the U.S.
The Investment Company Institute says President Donald Trump’s tax bill impacts most foreign investments in U.S. stocks, according to documents…
Ten dead in Austria school shooting
Police say the gunman is among the dead, but is not clear if he was a current or former student…
Where the axe might fall in the UK’s spending review
U.K. watchers are waiting to see which government departments are the winners and losers in the spending review.
China’s rare-earth mineral squeeze puts defense giants in the crosshairs
The auto industry has been hit particularly hard by China’s rare earth export restrictions, but analysts warn Western defense giants…
Top 15 Vibe Coding Tools Transforming AI-Driven Software Development in 2025
As AI-first development redefines how software is built, “vibe coding” has emerged as a paradigm-shifting approach where developers simply say…
Build a Gemini-Powered DataFrame Agent for Natural Language Data Analysis with Pandas and LangChain
In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to harness the power of Google’s Gemini models alongside the flexibility of Pandas. We…
From Text to Action: How Tool-Augmented AI Agents Are Redefining Language Models with Reasoning, Memory, and Autonomy
Early large language models (LLMs) excelled at generating coherent text; however, they struggled with tasks that required precise operations, such…
Yandex Releases Alchemist: A Compact Supervised Fine-Tuning Dataset for Enhancing Text-to-Image T2I Model Quality
Despite the substantial progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation brought about by models such as DALL-E 3, Imagen 3, and Stable…
China and U.S. trade officials hold talks in London
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade officials are meeting with their Chinese counterparts in London on Monday for talks.
Building intelligent AI voice agents with Pipecat and Amazon Bedrock – Part 1
Voice AI is transforming how we interact with technology, making conversational interactions more natural and intuitive than ever before. At…
‘He’s like Iron Man’: Jensen Huang lit up London Tech Week — and we were in the room
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received the rockstar treatment at London Tech Week on Monday as he kicked off a big…
Nvidia CEO says the UK is in a ‘Goldilocks’ moment: ‘I’m going to invest here’
“The U.K. is in a Goldilocks circumstance,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said, speaking on a panel with British Prime Minister Keir…
China extends an olive branch to Western auto giants over rare earth shortage
China appears to have offered U.S. and European auto giants something of a reprieve over a rare earth shortage.
How to Create Smart Multi-Agent Workflows Using the Mistral Agents API’s Handoffs Feature
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to create smart, multi-agent workflows using the Mistral Agents API’s Handoffs feature. This lets…
China’s exports to the U.S. clock their sharpest drop in more than 5 years — down over 34% in May
U.S. and China struck a preliminary deal in Geneva, Switzerland, last month that led both sides to drop a majority…
How LA erupted over rumours of immigration raid at a hardware store
Claims that day labourers were being rounded up trigger violent protests in a city on edge over deportations.
China consumer prices slump again, deepening deflation worries as demand stays weak
The economy got a relief after the U.S. and China struck a preliminary deal in Switzerland that led both sides…
High-Entropy Token Selection in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) Improves Accuracy and Reduces Training Cost for LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate step-by-step responses known as Chain-of-Thoughts (CoTs), where each token contributes to a coherent and logical…
Israeli troops board aid ship bound for Gaza, activists say
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among those aboard the vessel, believed to be off the Egyptian coast.
Trump announces U.S.-China trade talks in London
Trump had slapped higher tariffs on China than any other country, but temporarily lowered them last month after initial trade…
How to Build an Asynchronous AI Agent Network Using Gemini for Research, Analysis, and Validation Tasks
In this tutorial, we introduce the Gemini Agent Network Protocol, a powerful and flexible framework designed to enable intelligent collaboration…
Trump’s quick intervention in LA may thrill his base but inflame the US
The National Guard deployment will delight Trump’s supporters, but opponents say it is inflammatory.
Bowen: Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes – how governments respond could haunt them for years
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
50+ Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers Worth Exploring
What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, establishes a…
How to Enable Function Calling in Mistral Agents Using the Standard JSON Schema Format
In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to enable function calling in Mistral Agents using the standard JSON schema format. By…
Meet BioReason: The World’s First Reasoning Model in Biology that Enables AI to Reason about Genomics like a Biology Expert
A major hurdle in using AI for genomics is the lack of interpretable, step-by-step reasoning from complex DNA data. While…
Trump deploys National Guard after clashes in LA
The city sees a second day of clashes over raids by federal agents on undocumented migrants.
Trump to deploy National Guard in response to Los Angeles immigration protests
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that Trump was being “purposefully inflammatory” in sending National Guard troops to L.A.
Google AI Introduces Multi-Agent System Search MASS: A New AI Agent Optimization Framework for Better Prompts and Topologies
Multi-agent systems are becoming a critical development in artificial intelligence due to their ability to coordinate multiple large language models…
Six killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza aid site, Hamas officials say
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed close to the controversial supply centre in Gaza.
Biggest drone strike hits Ukraine’s second city
At least three people are killed and 21 injured in Kharkiv, near the Russian border.
Body of Thai hostage recovered from Gaza, Israel says
Nattapong Pinta was captured alive and was likely killed during the first months of captivity, the Israeli military says.
ByteDance Researchers Introduce DetailFlow: A 1D Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Framework for Faster, Token-Efficient Image Generation
Autoregressive image generation has been shaped by advances in sequential modeling, originally seen in natural language processing. This field focuses…
US brings man mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to face charges
Salvadoran Kilmar Ábrego García, whose case became a political flashpoint, has been charged with human trafficking by US officials.
A Comprehensive Coding Tutorial for Advanced SerpAPI Integration with Google Gemini-1.5-Flash for Advanced Analytics
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to combine the power of SerpAPI’s Google search capabilities with Google’s Gemini-1.5-Flash model to…
How Trump and Musk are still linked – despite falling out
Political contributions, government contracts and staff with divided loyalties mean the fallout may have only just begun.
Build a serverless audio summarization solution with Amazon Bedrock and Whisper
Recordings of business meetings, interviews, and customer interactions have become essential for preserving important information. However, transcribing and summarizing these…
Implement semantic video search using open source large vision models on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
As companies and individual users deal with constantly growing amounts of video content, the ability to perform low-effort search to…
Darwin Gödel Machine: A Self-Improving AI Agent That Evolves Code Using Foundation Models and Real-World Benchmarks
Introduction: The Limits of Traditional AI Systems Conventional artificial intelligence systems are limited by their static architectures. These models operate…
Musk vs. Trump drama dominated in DC, but Germany’s Merz quietly walked away with a win
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had a full agenda as he met with U.S. President Donald Trump.
From bromance to bitter feud — a timeline of Trump and Musk’s relationship
The bromance is over. Here’s a rundown of how Trump and Musk got here.
Netanyahu confirms Israel arming clans opposed to Hamas in Gaza
Israel has been criticised for giving weapons to a group of “criminals and felons”.
Trump and Musk feud draws reactions from billionaires, politicians and pundits. Here’s who said what
Trump lashed out at Elon Musk for his criticism of the Republican tax-cut and spending bill, leading the CEO to…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen3-Embedding and Qwen3-Reranker Series – Redefining Multilingual Embedding and Ranking Standards
Text embedding and reranking are foundational to modern information retrieval systems, powering applications such as semantic search, recommendation systems, and…