The White House released more details Saturday about a trade deal reached between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this week. Among other things, the White House said China will suspend the restrictions on exporting rare earth minerals that it announced in October, and it will resume issuing…
Optical character recognition has moved from plain text extraction to document intelligence. Modern systems must read scanned and digital PDFs in one pass, preserve layout, detect tables, extract key value pairs, and work with more than one language. Many teams now also want OCR that can feed RAG and agent pipelines directly. In 2025, 6…
In this tutorial, we develop a comprehensive benchmarking framework to evaluate various types of agentic AI systems on real-world enterprise software tasks. We design a suite of diverse challenges, from data transformation and API integration to workflow automation and performance optimization, and assess how various agents, including rule-based, LLM-powered, and hybrid ones, perform across these…
Canva has launched its new Creative Operating System, representing the company’s largest platform upgrade to date. Alongside it, Canva introduced the all-new Affinity design suite, now available for free to all users – marking a major leap toward unifying creative tools across professional and everyday workflows. With 260 million monthly active users, over $3.5 billion…
WhatsApp has announced the rollout of passkey-encrypted backups, introducing an additional layer of privacy protection for users who back up their chat history to Google Drive or iCloud. This update strengthens the platform’s long-standing commitment to user privacy and builds on its existing end-to-end encryption system, which already protects chats, calls, and shared media. Millions…
Amazon India has expanded its Fire TV lineup with a powerful new 4K streaming device – the Fire TV Stick 4K Select. After making its global debut earlier this month, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select now arrives for Indian users with HDR10+ support, Alexa Voice Remote, and integrated smart home control features for connected…
With the new Redmi 15 5G, Xiaomi takes things a notch higher, introducing a segment-first 7,000 mAh silicon–carbon battery, a smooth 144 Hz Full HD+ display sized at 6.9-inch, packed with Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 3 SoC, all wrapped in what the brand calls the slimmest phone in its category. The device also brings new…
Microsoft has rolled out its latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7051 (KB5067115) to the Dev and Beta Channels, introducing two key features – Ask Copilot and Shared Audio. The update enhances AI interaction through the taskbar and expands multimedia sharing capabilities across devices. Ask Copilot on Taskbar The highlight of the new preview is…
Most agent frameworks still run a predefined Reason, Act, Observe loop, so the agent can only use the tools that are injected in the prompt. This works for small tasks, but it fails when the toolset is large, when the task is long, and when the agent must change strategy in the middle of reasoning….
OpenAI has rolled out a major update for its Sora app on iOS, adding several creative tools and expanding access in the US. The new features include Character Cameos, Video Stitching, and Leaderboards, giving users more freedom to personalize and share AI-generated videos. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced the latest upgrade…
