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Mint
a day ago
- Business
- Mint
Learning complex concepts in regional languages
Many professionals face a challenge: their business language is English but they prefer learning complex concepts in their native language for better understanding and retention. This gap can make it hard to grasp intricate topics like AI, data science, or business strategy, especially when English-heavy resources dominate. Translating or adapting content into regional languages often feels cumbersome or lacks context. NotebookLM's new language translation capability in its audio podcast feature addresses this by creating accessible, language-specific summaries of complex concepts. How to access: NotebookLM can help you: • Simplify complex ideas: Convert dense documents into concise, easy-to-understand audio summaries. • Learn in your native language: Generate podcasts in regional languages for better comprehension. • Save time: Quickly grasp key insights without wading through technical jargon or lengthy texts. Example: Suppose you're a native Hindi-speaking professional learning about Transformers architecture from a research paper. Here's how NotebookLM helps: • Upload content: Upload the English paper (say 'Attention is all you need') to NotebookLM. • Generate podcast: Select Hindi as the output language from the settings, and click 'Generate' under 'Audio Overview' section. NotebookLM creates a conversational audio podcast summarizing key concepts in Hindi. • Listen and learn: Play the podcast during your commute or downtime, absorbing complex ideas in your native language effortlessly. What makes NotebookLM special? • Language accessibility: Supports more than 75 languages, making learning inclusive and intuitive. • Audio-first learning: Converts text into engaging, podcast-style summaries for auditory learners. • Free to use: Currently accessible at no cost, offering powerful features to all users. Mint's 'AI tool of the week' is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Note: The tools and analysis featured in this section demonstrated clear value based on our internal testing. Our recommendations are entirely independent and not influenced by the tool creators. Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO of AI&Beyond. Anuj Magazine is also a co-founder.
Mint
10-05-2025
- Business
- Mint
AI Tool of the Week: How to transform ideas into professional diagrams with AutoDiagram tool
Manually creating a flowchart can eat up a lot of time, even when you have a clear plan. You start by placing boxes, drawing connecting arrows, and labeling each step. Adjusting spacing, fixing misaligned connectors, and resizing shapes sends you back into formatting mode. With each small tweak—moving a box, redrawing an arrow, or editing text—you lose your train of thought. By the time the diagram looks right, you've spent more time wrestling with layout than refining your ideas. Solution: AutoDiagram AutoDiagram is an AI-powered tool designed to instantly convert code or textual descriptions into clear, professional diagrams. Its primary function is to simplify and automate the process of creating a wide variety of diagrams. How to access: AutoDiagram can help you: • Instant generation: Generate diagrams instantly from code or plain-text descriptions. • Extensive support: Supports over 20 diagram types, from sequence and class diagrams to ER charts and mind maps. • Multiple formats: Export in SVG, PNG, or PDF for seamless sharing. Example: Imagine you are a product manager at a fintech startup building a secure website. Before the sprint, you need a clear flowchart of the OAuth2 authentication flow covering user login, credential validation, MFA, JWT issuance, and resource access. With AutoDiagram, simply paste your prompt description and let it generate the diagram. Prompt: Create a flowchart illustrating the OAuth2 authentication flow for a web application: 1. User submits login form (username & password) 2. Front-end sends credentials to Auth Server 3. Auth Server validates credentials └─ If invalid, return 'Login Failed" and end 4. Auth Server triggers MFA (SMS or email OTP) 5. User enters OTP 6. MFA Service verifies OTP └─ If invalid, return 'MFA Failed" and end 7. Auth Server issues JWT access token 8. Front-end stores JWT and includes it in API requests 9. API Gateway receives request and validates JWT signature └─ If invalid/expired, return '401 Unauthorized" 10. Gateway routes valid request to Resource Server 11. Resource Server returns protected data Use: - Rectangles for steps - Diamonds for decision points - Solid arrows for synchronous calls, dashed arrows for asynchronous events - Blue nodes for user actions, gray nodes for system processes - Minimalist style suitable for a technical spec document What makes AutoDiagram special? • No drawing: No manual drawing—diagrams in seconds. • Context-aware: AI suggests the best layout and diagram type. • Free start: Begin without a credit card; scale as needed Mint's 'AI tool of the week' is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Note: The tools and analysis featured in this section demonstrated clear value based on our internal testing. Our recommendations are entirely independent and not influenced by the tool creators. Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO of AI&Beyond. Anuj Magazine is also a co-founder.
Global News
01-05-2025
- Business
- Global News
Apple says most devices will come from India, Vietnam to avoid U.S. tariffs
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday that the majority of iPhones sold in the U.S. in the current fiscal quarter will be sourced from India, while iPads and other devices will come from Vietnam as the company works to avoid the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs on its business. Apple's earnings for the first three months of the year topped Wall Street's expectations thanks to high demand for its iPhones, and the company said tariffs had a limited effect on the fiscal second quarter's results. Cook added that for the current quarter, assuming things don't change, Apple expects to see $900 million added to its costs as a result of the tariffs, but Cook said the company remains 'confident' in this business. The Cupertino, California-based company earned $24.78 billion, or $1.65 per share, in the first three months of the year, up 4.8% from $23.64 billion, or $1.53 per share, in the same period a year earlier. Story continues below advertisement Revenue rose 5.1% to $95.36 billion from $90.75 billion. Analysts, on average, were expecting earnings of $1.62 per share on revenue of $94.19 billion, according to a poll by FactSet. 2:17 Tech Talk: Amazon's satellite launch & tariffs boost iPhone sales The numbers for the January-March period provide a snapshot of how Apple was faring before President Trump's unveiling of sweeping tariffs in April that rattled the financial markets amid fears a trade war would reignite inflation and shove the U.S. economy into a recession. Get weekly money news Get expert insights, Q&A on markets, housing, inflation, and personal finance information delivered to you every Saturday. Sign up for weekly money newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'While it is likely that some of the sales growth was driven by consumers accelerating purchases ahead of expected tariff increases, margins remained healthy on the other side of the balance sheet,' said Thomas Monteiro, an analyst at He added that the company 'still has room for maneuver' regardless of the economic backdrop and will 'likely not need to significantly deplete cash reserves to keep moving the needle.' Story continues below advertisement Apple's reliance on Chinese factories to make its iPhones and other devices thrust the technology trendsetter into the crosshairs of Trump's trade war. The exposure caused Apple's stock price to plunge 23% shortly after the president announced the severity of the reciprocal tariffs, temporarily erasing $773 billion in shareholder wealth in the process. Most of those losses have since been recovered after Trump temporarily exempted iPhones and other electronics from the reciprocal tariffs, but Apple's stock remains down by nearly 5% since the April fusillade of tariffs. Besides the trade war, Apple has been hurt by its inability to live up to its own hype surrounding artificial intelligence features on the iPhone 16 lineup that came out last fall. 2:09 'Every country in the world was ripping us off': Trump downplays impact of his tariffs on inflation The technology wasn't ready when the iPhone 16 went on sale. Some AI features have rolled out in parts of the world as part of software updates, but Apple still hasn't been able to live up to its original promise to make Siri smarter and more versatile. The missteps prompted Apple to pull advertising campaigns promoting AI breakthroughs on the iPhone, although the company still intends to release more features powered by the technology at some point. Story continues below advertisement Apple had been counting on its late entry into the AI craze to revive demand for the iPhone after last year's sales dipped 2% from 2023's levels. Apple said Wednesday that its phone sales climbed 1.9% to $46.84 billion for the first three months of the year. Wall Street had expected iPhone sales of $45.62 billion. But the company continues to see its China business decline, with revenue from the Greater China region down 2.3% to $16 billion for the quarter. Other regions, including the Americas, Europe and the rest of Asia, saw sales increases. When Trump initially indicated his 145% tariffs on Chinese-made goods would apply to the iPhone, U.S. consumers rushed to stores to buy new devices rather than risk prices spiking higher after the duties began driving up costs. But the flurry of panic buying won't show up until Apple reports its results for the April-June quarter this summer. Trump's trade war has ramped up the pressure on Cook to work the same diplomatic sleight of hand that enabled the iPhone to avoid being stung by the China tariffs that the president imposed during his first administration. Cook signaled his intention remain on good terms with Trump by arranging private meetings with him and personally donating $1 million to the president's second inauguration ceremony before sitting on the dais when Trump was sworn into office on January 20. Apple subsequently announced plans to invest $500 billion in the U.S. while hiring 20,000 workers during the next four years. Story continues below advertisement Trump's trade war also is prompting a push to Apple to shift all the production of the iPhones that it sells in the U.S. from China to India, where the company has been building up its supply chain for the past seven years, according to a recent story in the Financial Times. But the complicated logistics of making such a huge move likely couldn't be completed until next year, at the earliest, leaving Apple vulnerable to the vagaries of Trump's trade war. Apple's stock fell $5.81, or 2.7%, to $207.51 in after-hours trading.
Mint
26-04-2025
- Science
- Mint
How to crack research papers at breakneck speed
Keeping up with AI research matters because it offers early glimpses into breakthroughs that will shape the future. As of late 2024 and early 2025, arXiv received around 24,000 new research paper submissions every month, with more than 2.7 million papers submitted to date. The volume alone creates massive information overload, like trying to read every headline in a never-ending newspaper that updates 1,000 times a day. Even when you find a relevant paper, just figuring out if it's worth your time is a challenge. And if you do start reading, deciphering the technical content can feel like navigating a maze of equations and dense language. is an interactive platform layered on top of arXiv, built specifically to make reading research papers easier and more collaborative. Instead of passively struggling through dense papers alone, readers can highlight confusing sections, read others' comments, ask questions, and even hear directly from the authors. It's like turning every research paper into a live forum, where insights are crowdsourced and learning is shared. How to access: Find what matters: Browse trending papers, filter by active discussions, or search by topic. Engage, not just read: Ask questions, annotate specific sections, or follow expert discussions. Hear directly from authors: Many respond to reader comments, clarifying tough parts. Imagine you're a marketing leader exploring how AI image generation can reshape content creation. Here's how alphaXiv can guide you step by step: 2. Search smarter: Use keywords like "chatgpt image generation". 3. Open the paper: Once you find a promising one, click and open it. 4. Ask your questions: Start reading. If you're stuck, select the text/paragraph and post a question in the chat 5. Absorb insights: Read comments and debates and clarifications about how the paper applies to real-world marketing and creative workflows. By Monday's strategy meeting, you'll have transformed dense academic text into practical insights you can use to guide content decisions. Not just reading—co-learning: The platform turns passive reading into interactive learning. Built for speed: Highlighted trends and community vetting save hours of sorting. Made by researchers: For those who value clarity, access, and shared understanding in AI. Mint's 'AI tool of the week' is excerpted from Leslie D'Monte's weekly TechTalk newsletter. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Note: The tools and analysis featured in this section demonstrated clear value based on our internal testing. Our recommendations are entirely independent and not influenced by the tool creators. Jaspreet Bindra is co-founder and CEO of AI&Beyond. Anuj Magazine is also a co-founder.
Barnama
24-04-2025
- Business
- Barnama
MALAYSIA POISED TO CAPITALISE ON REE OPPORTUNITIES AMID US-CHINA TRADE WAR
BUSINESS By Muhammad Adil Muzaffar Mohd Fisol BANGI, April 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is positioning itself to become a key player in the rare earth elements (REE) value chain, amid a shifting geopolitical landscape and the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Minister Chang Lih Kang said there is growing interest from both Western and Chinese investors to collaborate with Malaysia in the sector, underscoring the country's strategic value and potential in rare earth processing. "They are very keen to work with us. President Xi Jinping has also explicitly stated that China will assist us in developing the processing technology. "Everything is developing at the pace and in the direction that we would like to see," he told Bernama and RTM after appearing as a panellist on MOSTI's Tech Talk programme at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) on Wednesday. To facilitate industry development, Chang said the government is in the process of amending the Atomic Energy Licensing Act 1984 (Act 304), which currently limits industrial licences to three years, a timeframe he described as too short to support the sustainable growth of the REE industry. 'One of the key amendments involves Section 16(6), which currently empowers the ministry to issue licences for only three years,' he said, adding that the amendments are expected to be tabled this year. Chang emphasised the urgency of accelerating development in Malaysia's midstream and upstream REE sectors. "There is a need for us to accelerate its development because the window of opportunity is small. So, we need to harness whatever we have," he said.
