Pharma major Novartis falls 9% after three drug trial setbacks
Shares of Novartis tanked on Tuesday after results from its del-desiran drug trial disappointed investors.
Canada braces for prolonged trade war as counter-tariffs on US take effect
The tariffs will apply to $20bn worth of American products, jeopardising the stability of the world’s largest bilateral trading relationship.
Iran foreign ministry takes aim at Canada for support of U.S. actions in Strait of Hormuz
Canada had condemned Iran’s “destabilizing actions” in the Middle East, saying that it would work with partners to maintain significant…
China’s imports in August miss estimates as exports pick up pace amid calls for rebalancing trade
China’s exports and imports gathered momentum in August, as the world’s second-largest economy faces mounting pressure to rebalance trade.
Reducto Releases r-1: A Single Pass Document Parsing Model That Cuts Errors 20% at 1 Cent Per Page
Last week, Reducto announced r-1. It is the first model in a new parsing family built on a rewritten architecture,…
Flight recorders recovered from ‘devastating’ Amazon cargo plane crash
Five people were killed and five others seriously injured when the Boeing 767-300 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.
Tether Alloy Gold-Backed Reserves Cross $210M
Tether’s Alloy gold-backed synthetic dollar reserves have crossed $210 million, according to the company’s transparency materials. The milestone relates to…
Palestinian parents fear for children’s lives at school as settler attacks grow
A headteacher in the occupied West Bank has installed new barbed wire fencing after three pupils were killed this year.
Securitize Expands BlackRock BUIDL Collateral Use Across Prime Brokers
Securitize has expanded institutional collateral support for BlackRock’s BUIDL fund across participating crypto prime brokerages, giving tokenized Treasuries another step…
Bitwise Amends Ethereum ETF Filing To Include Staking Mechanics
Bitwise has filed an amended S-1 registration statement for its spot Ethereum ETF, adding language around staking mechanics, validator operations,…
OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On Device
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, the second checkpoint in the MiniCPM5 series and the follow-up to MiniCPM5-1B. It is a dense…
Philippines Central Bank Weighs Freeze On New Payment Operator Licenses
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is weighing a temporary moratorium on new Operator of Payment Systems licenses as part of a…
Kraken Files For CFTC-Regulated U.S. Perpetual Futures Product
Kraken parent Payward has filed to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for eligible U.S. traders through Bitnomial, the Designated Contract Market…
Bitget Wallet Launches Assetback Rewards In Bitcoin And Tokenized Assets
Bitget Wallet has launched Assetback, a card rewards program that lets users earn up to 3% cash-back in selected digital…
Capital B Raises €25.3M And Buys 376 Bitcoin For Treasury
Capital B SA has completed a €25.3 million capital increase and used the proceeds to buy 376 Bitcoin, adding another…
Bitcoin ETFs Add $3.8B Over Three Weeks As IBIT And FBTC Lead
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in $3.8 billion in net inflows over a three-week stretch, with BlackRock’s IBIT and…
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Moves 600 BTC After 16 Years
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallet has moved 600 BTC after more than 16 years of dormancy, drawing fresh attention to one…
Liquid Network Pauses After Purported $320M White-Hat Bitcoin Withdrawal
Liquid Network paused operations after a purported $320 million Bitcoin withdrawal from multisig reserve addresses, with the party behind the…
I Vibe-Coded an App in Just Two Hours (And Regretted It the Next Day)
I saved my day with a mere $52 bill. But you don’t have to repeat my mistake. The post I…
Trump says he’s made ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks’ for the U.S., in stream of AI posts
U.S. President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth…
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail Even When Evaluation Passes
How to catch a payload that looks correct but isn’t, using a watchdog pattern with working Python. The post Why…
Germany’s far-right AfD says ‘democracy demands’ parties work with them after state election win
The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
Far-right AfD landslide in German state piles pressure on federal government
The “extraordinary” result may be the “most consequential German state-election result of the postwar era,” according to analysts.
Israel-Hezbollah clashes deepen threat to fragile truce as Lebanon’s president calls for U.S. support
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the U.S. to help stop Israeli attacks after Sunday strikes killed at least seven…
IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider…
Germany’s far-right AfD set for big win in eastern state, just short of majority
Germany’s AfD has hailed a “historic result” and is projected to win 44% of the vote, far ahead of the…
H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language…
Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours
AI research agents can already propose, implement and score their own machine learning experiments. Idea generation is cheap; verification is…
Text Watermarking in Python: Catch Whoever Copies Your Writing
AI companies quietly watermark billions of words a day. Here’s how to apply the same three families of techniques to…
Iran warns of ‘more painful’ response to U.S. attacks as economic pressure mounts
Iran warned of faster, heavier retaliation against U.S. attacks while acknowledging the war’s mounting toll on its economy.
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) in Real-Life: Dimensionality Reduction in a Real-Estate Dataset
Using LDA for dimensionality reduction in classification problems The post Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) in Real-Life: Dimensionality Reduction in a…
Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms
Ten days ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting, the Trump administration looks to be in a full-court press to…
UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley have released CUA-Lite, an open platform for computer-use agents (CUAs). The argument behind…
US envoys set for Ukraine talks after meeting Putin in Moscow
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leave Moscow talks with hopes for “equally productive meetings” in Ukraine.
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Retrieval quality in an AI search product is bounded by two things: how good the embedding model is, and how…
Trump’s state capitalism comes to the oil industry with his unprecedented Venezuela deal
The deal comes eight months after Washington ousted former President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid.
GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per Coding Task in Copilot CLI
GitHub has released Project HydraFusion, a research preview that stops treating model choice as a one-time setting. Instead of routing…
Nous Research Adds One-Click Local Model Setup to Hermes Desktop
The hard part of running an open-weights model locally was never the model. It was everything before it, reading VRAM…
US envoys meet Putin in Moscow for Ukraine talks
President Trump says his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are “bringing with them a proposal to end the war”.
US hits three Iranian oil tankers after saying its warships were targeted
US Central Command says the attacks came after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two of its Navy warships.
Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For Time Series: A Visual Guide
From scalar observations to self-attention, and how positional information restores sequence order The post Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For…
Dynamical System Transfer Learning with Reduced Order Models
Improving reinforcement learning for complex physics The post Dynamical System Transfer Learning with Reduced Order Models appeared first on Towards…
From Trump’s takeover threats to a ‘northern neighborhood,’ why the EU chief is going to Greenland
The visit comes as Trump renews his push for greater U.S. control of the self-governing Danish territory.
Adaption Labs Introduces ‘Invent a Dataset’: Training Data Generated From a Task Description, Not a Seed Corpus
This week, Adaption Labs released Invent a Dataset. The feature generates a structured, training-ready dataset from a description of the…
Google Launches Agentic Video Understanding for Gemini Flash Models, Cutting Video Tokens by Up to 88%
Video has been the most expensive modality to reason over. A Gemini model handed a 90-minute lecture has, until now,…
Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocks
The mistrial now puts the murder case – and Clancy’s future – in limbo as to whether she will be…
Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2.…
Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory
Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget.…
Optimal Traffic Allocation Under Heterogeneous Variant Cost
Why the default 50/50 split is the wrong move when your treatment is more expensive than your control, and how…
Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage – and Russia is the chief suspect
Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.