Can LLMs Engineer Their Own Agent Harness? ByteDance Seed’s HarnessDev Says Only 34 of 64 Changes Generalize
An agent harness is the code around a model: execution loop, tools, context, state, recovery, and verification. Per the Terminal-Bench…
Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills
Anthropic has published a new plugin evals workflow for Claude Code. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin against…
Monitoring production agent lifecycle with AWS DevOps Agent and AgentCore Evaluations
Multi-agent systems in production experience issues in ways that traditional monitoring misses. For example, the agent can’t invoke its foundation…
Houthis claim major advance in Yemen and tighten grip on Red Sea shipping lane
The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim – a strategic island on the major shipping route.
Coding Agents Don’t Need Longer History — They Need Intent Continuity
I built a system that automatically discovers, verifies, and applies relevant requirements from earlier interactions without asking the user where…
Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) selected AI-GUIDE, a medical device developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),…
Found Friday S5I8: The AI coworker era needs a control layer
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 8 The AI coworker era needs a control layer. Models are getting better…
Oil prices fall sharply after double-digit weekly gains above $100
The decline snapped multi-day winning streaks for both Brent and WTI crude oil futures.
The 95% Illusion: Why Your Confidence Interval Isn’t What You Think It Is
Frequentist confidence intervals and Bayesian credible intervals answer different questions, and confusing them can distort product decisions The post The…
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons
The revelations in Anthropic’s threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks…
Demystifying Anthropic’s J-Space: A Mathematical Primer
Clarifying the math behind Anthropic’s representation workspace The post Demystifying Anthropic’s J-Space: A Mathematical Primer appeared first on Towards Data…
B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent Expand MetaMask Connectivity, Driving Global DeFi Access
Singapore, September 11, 2026 — B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO, and BitTorrent, four leading decentralized applications (dApps) across the TRON ecosystem,…
TRON Expands MetaMask Connectivity Across B.AI, SUN.io, JustLend DAO and BitTorrent
Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through…
MEXC Stock Futures Trading Volume Rises 130% in August as Trading Activity Broadens Across U.S. and Korean emory and Semiconductor Sectors
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 11, 2026 — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, released its August TradFi trading data.…
Five killed and 67 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says
The attack in Pavlohrad city centre was the third Russian strike on a mall within days, local media report.
U.S. diesel price tops $6 per gallon, a record high as Ukraine and Iran wars ripple through economy
U.S. diesel prices hit their highest level ever as fuel supply disruption stemming from the Ukraine and Iran wars lifts…
Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages
Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight machine translation model from Cohere and Cohere Labs. It is a sparse…
Trump says he has no regrets about starting the Iran war as U.S. dials up economic pressure
Speaking to Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham, Trump said that he would have attacked Iran despite the impact on the…
Chinese AI labs secretly used millions of Claude exchanges to train their models, Anthropic says
Anthropic said it detected unauthorized efforts by China-based AI labs including Alibaba and Moonshot AI to use its Claude models…
Meet Redis LangCache: A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90% and Returns Cache Hits Up to 15x Faster
Production LLM applications rarely receive a question nobody has asked before. Support assistants and RAG pipelines field the same intents…
Reduce LLM latency with prefix-aware routing on Amazon SageMaker Inference
When you build an application on top of a large language model (LLM), the prompt you send to the model…
NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-Hour on 8xH100
Biomolecular structure prediction has shifted from single-target runs to proteome-scale worklists. The bottleneck is no longer whether a model can…
Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop
Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations…
Yemen’s Houthis reportedly seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha
Mokha’s capture would bring the Iran-backed group closer to controlling the Bab al-Mandab Strait waterway, a key shipping route.
Build an end-to-end RFI questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate
Build an end-to-end Request for Information (RFI) questionnaire workflow using Amazon Quick Automate to solve a challenge organizations face at…
How to 5x Your Communication Effectiveness with Claude Code
Better understand the intent of your coding agents The post How to 5x Your Communication Effectiveness with Claude Code appeared…
European Central Bank hikes interest rates to 2.5% as policymakers see risk of higher inflation, weaker growth
The central bank is contending with rising prices, the consequences of the U.S.-Iran war and surging government borrowing costs.
Optimizing LLM Inference Costs in Multi-Agent Systems with Adaptive Model Routing
Moving from static model assignment to intelligent, task-level LLM selection. The post Optimizing LLM Inference Costs in Multi-Agent Systems with…
Trump promises $5,000 ‘dividend’ to U.S. citizens if Republicans win midterms
Such a payout could cost more than $1 trillion and is likely to face legal obstacles.
Zoomex Launches ZWTC 2026 Multi-Asset Trading Championship With a Record Prize Pool of Up to 5 Million USDT
Returning for its third year, Zoomex’s flagship global trading competition expands across crypto perpetuals, stock contracts, AI-powered trading, team competition,…
Trump says every adult American would get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the…
World’s largest contract chipmaker TSMC sees August revenue surge over 53% to record high
TSMC reported monthly sales revenue for August on Thursday.
DeepSeek AI Released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash with 1M Context, FP4 KV Cache, and Cross-Layer Attention Reuse
Long-horizon agents have turned LLM serving into an input-heavy workload. Repeated prefills and million-token contexts leave KV caches that strain…
Iran war won’t end until after crucial November elections, says Trump
The president also said oil prices won’t come down until after the November races, claiming without evidence that Iran wants…
Five dead and 86 missing as ‘heartbreaking’ fire breaks out on Philippines ferry
The fire broke out as the vessel nearing its destination at the tourist hotspot of Coron in Palawan.
UBS CEO flags investor complacency as geopolitical and economic risks mount
The UBS top boss cautioned that investors face an increasingly complicated environment given multiple headwinds.
Oil extends gains, with Brent above $101 after U.S. destroys Iranian oil tankers
Worries that escalating tensions in the Middle East could further exacerbate supply disruptions pushed oil prices higher.
LandingAI Releases Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro and DPT-3 Verity
LandingAI has shipped Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) Gen2, a rebuild of its document intelligence stack around a new model family…
Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities
Google has open-sourced Mantis, a stack-agnostic toolkit of security review skills that lets an AI coding agent run the whole…
Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
On August 12, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B. This is the first time a Qwen-Max-class model has been made…
Spanish intelligence warned of Ceuta mass crossing plans before surge
Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day…
ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026
A recap of the biggest Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands updates from August 2026. At AWS, we have long focused…
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing launches pilot to help educators teach AI across disciplines
This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West…
How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Heurist uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build AI-powered financial intelligence for retail investors. Its flagship product, Heurist Finance, brings several…
Treasury Department to buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term debt, triple the normal level
The much-anticipated announcement triples the normal buyback operation and follows an announcement from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Simplify and support your TorchServe workloads using Ray Serve Deep Learning Containers
TorchServe is no longer actively maintained. The official project notice states there are no planned updates, bug fixes, new features,…
Getting started with dbt
A practical guide to building, testing, and documenting SQL transformations The post Getting started with dbt appeared first on Towards Data…
Germany’s Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win
Germany’s chancellor clashes with AfD leader Alice Weidel, saying her migration policy amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers.
When One Process Becomes Too Much: Splitting a Pipeline into MCP Services
How we split a tightly coupled Python pipeline into independently deployable services The post When One Process Becomes Too Much:…
10 Statistical Traps We Often Overlook
Statistical thinking beyond formulas The post 10 Statistical Traps We Often Overlook appeared first on Towards Data Science.