Iran war already taking a toll on the global economy, IMF says in new forecast The Washington PostMiddle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns The New York TimesIran war will slow global growth even if ceasefire holds, IMF warns Los Angeles TimesJoint Statement on 13 April by th...
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After the chaos and death that ensued during the deportation raids in Minneapolis, Stephen Miller, the architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, is changing course on immigration. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how the administration’s strategy is shifting.
AI News
AI agents struggle with tasks that require interacting with the live web — fetching a competitor’s pricing page, extracting structured data from a JavaScript-heavy dashboard, or automating a multi-step workflow on a real site. The tooling has been fragmented, requiring teams to stitch together se...
Anthropic announced a new platform last week, Claude Managed Agents, aiming to cut out the more complex parts of AI agent deployment for enterprises and competes with existing orchestration frameworks.Claude Managed Agents is also an architectural shift: enterprises, already burdened with orchest...
Microsoft today launched MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower-cost, higher-speed variant of its flagship text-to-image model that the company says delivers production-ready quality at nearly half the price. The release, available immediately in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground with no waitlist, mar...
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.
The feature lets users connect Google accounts like Gmail and Photos to get personalized answers.
Understanding audio has always been the multimodal frontier that lags behind vision. While image-language models have rapidly scaled toward real-world deployment, building open models that robustly reason over speech, environmental sounds, and music — especially at length — has remained quite har...
Standardized tests can tell you whether a student knows calculus or can parse a passage of text. What they cannot reliably tell you is whether that student can resolve a disagreement with a teammate, generate genuinely original ideas under pressure, or critically dismantle a flawed argument. Thes...
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
Gemini Robotics ER 1.6: Enhancing spatial reasoning and multi-view understanding for autonomous robotics.