AI Expansions, Cyberthreats, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech

From AI expansions and cyberattacks to billion-dollar deals and workforce shifts, here’s what defined the tech industry this ...
eWeek

'Help Me Create' Becomes Gemini's Workspace Superpower

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
IEEE

MixCoT-SQL: A User-Adaptive Text-to-SQL Framework Based on Mixed Chain-of-Thought and Result Reflection Refinement

Abstract: With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), generating structured queries from natural language (Text-to-SQL) with LLMs has become a hot spot in combining databases with ...
Neowin

Good news for Excel users: You can now import data from CSV files without Power Query

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...
The New York Times

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...
IEEE

Decompose Before Reasoning: Hybrid SQL-Text Decomposition and Reasoning with LLMs on Tables

Abstract: Tabular reasoning involves deep understanding and reasoning of structured data and natural language questions, which is extremely challenging for large language models (LLMs). In particular, ...
Digital Trends

Google’s Gemini AI can now process and talk about audio files

Google’s Gemini AI is multi-modal, which means it can process and generate files in various formats, ranging from text and images to videos. Though it can generate audio, so far, it has lacked the ...
GitHub

Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL Using Monte Carlo Tree Search

Welcome to the official repository for the paper "Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL using Monte Carlo Tree Search" presented at ICML 2025. This project aims to bridge the gap between natural language ...
Reuters

China files WTO complaint against Canada's steel import restrictions

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - China on Friday filed a complaint with the WTO against Canada's import restrictions on steel and other products, the Chinese commerce ministry said. China "strongly ...
Reuters

Car import quotas, export credits on table for EU-US trade talks, sources say

EU seeking US trade deal ahead of August 1 deadline US-EU talks moving fast, officials and industry sources say Easing of US car tariffs essential for a deal, EU ...
Bleeping Computer

New FileFix attack weaponizes Windows File Explorer for stealthy commands

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into executing malicious commands via the File Explorer address bar in Windows.