Brazil’s Lula wins presidential election in runoff vote
Brazil’s Lula wins record fourth term in presidential runoff with markets falling and real set to weaken.
Serbia’s veteran ruler Vučić concedes election to student-led protest movement
The populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is “clear” his party has lost the vote billed as a…
Nanbeige Releases Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 33B Open Agentic Coding Model
Nanbeige LLM Lab has released Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. Nanbeige4.3-33B is a 33B dense language…
Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the First Time
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open DNA language model with 14.8B parameters. Carbon-X is a decoder-only model from Hugging…
Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine’s Starlink connection as service restored
The tech billionaire accuses Ukraine of violating its terms of service by using the network for military activity.
In pictures: Initially peaceful protests across France over inequality again descend into violence
Protests over inequality and living costs drew an estimated 410,000 people across France, with clashes in several cities for a…
Israel to close West Bank crossings on election day as crackdown escalates
The Israeli Defense Forces announces restrictions on the movement of Palestinian workers in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.
Agentic AI in Production: Why Your Agent Keeps Answering After Its Tools Fail
When a tool breaks, an agent can keep going and write a confident answer from nothing while the dashboard stays…
Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley Introduce TokenGate: Token-Gated Attention Makes Long-Context Prefill Up to 11.3x Faster
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers released TokenGate, a module for long-context prefill. TokenGate learned token pruning lets an existing LLM…
Data Enablement for AI: A Practitioner’s Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns
Beyond naive chunk-and-embed: Six production architectures for turning enterprise lakehouses into governed AI platforms. The post Data Enablement for AI:…
Anthropic Launches OSS Scanner, a Free AI Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects. The Anthropic OSS Scanner runs the…
Microsoft Open-Sources Agensh: A Multi-Agent Harness for 1,024 Agents
Microsoft Research has open-sourced Agensh, a decentralized harness for large teams of coding agents. The Agensh multi-agent harness removes the…
Almost 1,000 arrested as clashes follow another day of mass protests across France
Officials have so far managed to avoid a repeat of last weekend’s rioting and looting as hundreds of thousands took…
Ukraine says Starlink and Starshield high speed restrictions have been lifted
Ukraine says restrictions on Starlink and Starshield have been lifted, restoring connectivity to fast-moving military systems after disruptions.
How to Add Guardrails to a Local LLM Agent
A hands-on guide with Gemma 4, Ollama, and the OpenAI Agents SDK The post How to Add Guardrails to a…
Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers
In this article, we will discuss newly trending open sourced Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime (srt), the OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code’s sandboxed…
Ukraine says Starlink connection ‘now stable’ after network limits
The slowed Starlink connections had affected the Ukraine’s military and drone operations for a week.
Python 3.15 Has a New Profiler
Here’s what it finds that cProfile misses The post Python 3.15 Has a New Profiler appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Stateful Agentic Engineering Copilots with Letta: Core Memory, Shared State, Semantic Retrieval, Custom Tools, Streaming, and Portable Agent Workflows
In this tutorial, we build a stateful engineering copilot with Letta that demonstrates how agentic memory extends beyond conventional prompt-based…
Arrest made after fire at Hitler’s mountaintop Eagle’s Nest retreat
Around 200 emergency personnel are deployed to fight the blaze at the Nazi dictator’s Alpine residence in Germany.
What next for France as riots rattle markets? Three questions facing investors ahead of more protests
French unrest pushed bond yields to a 24-year high as investors weigh budget, growth and sectors risks ahead of more…
France prepares for day of protest a week after nationwide riots
More than 70,000 police officers are to be deployed over fears protesters will defy restrictions on demonstrations.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
NVIDIA has just released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model for fast conversational agents. It targets…
Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms
Kyutai has released CADRE, open causal diffusion representation autoencoders for interactive world models. The Kyutai CADRE video autoencoder targets one…
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
Moonshot AI has just released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its K3.1 series. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a…
At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI
Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy —…
Musk’s SpaceX is still restricting Starlink in Ukraine and the toll is rising
Since last week, Ukraine has reported restrictions on a version of Starshield, a version of SpaceX’s Starlink, hampering its military…
Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide
Most fine-tuning teaches a model to produce a better answer to a single prompt. Agentic tasks are different. An agent…
AI’s ‘Black October’: Critical PHP flaws set off global security scramble
Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.
Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK
Updating the Amazon Sagemaker AI real-time endpoint configuration (changing the instance type, instance count, or environment variables) causes deployments through…
Don’t Let Messy Data Bend Your Curves
Robust Estimation Series: Building Accurate Curves with Polynomials and Splines With Spurious Data The post Don’t Let Messy Data Bend…
Anthropic Says Claude Proved 123 Open-Source Libraries Can’t Crash
Anthropic says Claude has mathematically proven that fuzz-tested code in 123 open-source libraries can’t crash on any input under 64MB,…
Deadly shooting near Paris investigated as ‘crime of terrorism’, minister says
One person is killed and five wounded in a series of attacks and the suspected gunman has been apprehended.
Skewness and Kurtosis: From Moments to Machine Learning
The mathematics, intuition, interpretation, and practical use of higher-order moments. The post Skewness and Kurtosis: From Moments to Machine Learning appeared…
Found Friday Season 5 Issue 11: The agent got the keys. Ownership is the hard part.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 11 The agent got the keys. Ownership is the hard part. This week…
Why Parameter Count Is Not Model Complexity: An Introduction to Effective Dimension
What does effective dimension reveal about redundancy, generalization, and trainability that parameter count, loss, and accuracy do not? The post…
Hugging Face’s Carbon-X Lets Researchers Chat With DNA
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open 14.8-billion-parameter model that lets researchers paste raw DNA into a chat and ask…
U.S. oil holds above $100, Brent at five-month high as Iran says it’s prepared for warfare
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran on Thursday of trying to manipulate the oil market.
Your Six AI Models Are Really Two: The Math of Correlated Mistakes
Ask several models the same question, take a vote, and you get fewer independent opinions than you paid for. One…
Ukraine says Starlink still restricted after Trump says limits lifted
Ukraine relies on Starlink for a range of military uses – its owner Elon Musk has repeatedly denied restricting access.
France is flashing euro crisis signals. This time, the fault lines are different
French borrowing costs have surged as debt and political risks mount, raising questions over whether the stress could spread across…
TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents
An AI search agent can work in a demo but fail under production workloads when retrieval returns incomplete evidence, retries…
Microsoft’s AI Diagnosis Panel Beats Doctors 83% to 36% in Science Study
Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in a peer-reviewed study…
Volvo Cars shares plunge 28% amid China sales slump and fresh job cuts
The Swedish automaker cited a deteriorating environment led by “tougher” market conditions in China and the U.S., which “negatively affected…
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents. Google Agent Compute Engine gives…
Defense giant Saab sees orders triple after Gripen fighter jet deal with Ukraine
European governments race to turn defense spending pledges into military capability, boosting companies’ order books.
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential…
SK Hynix shares slide after chipmaker scraps Solidigm IPO plans
SK Hynix has shelved plans for a potential U.S. IPO of Solidigm amid market volatility and share price concerns.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan’s RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
Japan core inflation in September surges to its highest this year at 2.1%
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, was in line with than the 2.1% forecast by economists polled…