Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon
Nace AI has released Drex Max v1 as open weights. Drex Max is its most capable decision model, and it…
Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent
Police in Frankfurt say “violent riots” took place in the city centre, with unrest also reported in Berlin, Hamburg and…
‘We came back from hell’, say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied frontline city
One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in a search for food.
DailyAI Briefing: OpenAI’s funding round shrinks, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. OpenAI has reportedly cut its latest funding round by…
Binance says 90% of $6.3 billion hack losses are now covered, plans to resume withdrawals Sunday
Binance says it has restored backing for 90% of assets affected by its $6.3 billion hack and is planning to…
How to Build Bug-Free Applications with Claude Code
Use E2E tests to minimize bugs The post How to Build Bug-Free Applications with Claude Code appeared first on Towards…
We Taught AI to Answer Questions. Who Taught It to Change Its Mind?
When new evidence kills one conclusion, do the decisions built on it change too? I tested six update strategies, then…
Qatari mediators held talks in Tehran aimed at restarting direct U.S.-Iran negotiations, source says
Axios reported that Qatari mediators held more than 12 hours of talks in Tehran on Friday to reach a deal…
I Told an AI Agent That Its Wrong Answers Were Right. One Model Believed Me.
A research paper claims reward labels barely change how agents learn. I tested that on three models, and one of…
Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
Factory has released Droid 1.0, the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic…
Evacuated Ukrainians from Russian-occupied Oleshky arrive in Belarus
Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use
Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop, an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads…
Trump called out Big Oil profits. Here’s how much their refining earnings have surged since
Trump criticized Big Oil for making “too much money,” but oil majors have since reported surging refining earnings as fuel…
US approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine
The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia’s ballistic missiles.
Managing Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams
Cost management for generative AI is a shared responsibility between the teams that build applications and the teams accountable for…
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is…
Tankers defy sharp escalation of Iranian attacks to keep crude oil flowing through Strait of Hormuz
Soaring freight rates are giving tankers a big financial incentive to run the gauntlet through the Strait of Hormuz.
Q&A: Hey AI, who should I vote for this year?
People are peppering artificial intelligence chatbots everyday with questions, but when it comes to politics and the looming 2026 U.S.…
Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer, an open-source cost controller for coding agents.…
DailyAI Briefing: Amazon burns $42.4bn on AI, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than it brought…
Crypto giant Binance attempting to recover $6.3bn stolen in hack linked to North Korea
The cyber-attack, which the company describes as complex, is believed to be the largest ever of its kind.
How Worldwide Express automated freight exceptions with Amazon Bedrock
Worldwide Express (part of ShipStation Global) had built something big: approximately $5 billion in systemwide revenue, over 75 less-than-truckload (LTL)…
Free ChatGPT Now Flatters Less but Makes More Errors, OpenAI Says
OpenAI has changed how ChatGPT talks to most of the people who use it. From 29 October, the free version…
‘Bad time to troll’: Binance cofounder Changpeng Zhao asks Elon Musk for ‘respect’ after post about bitcoin hack
Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao asked Elon Musk to stop “trolling” after a $6.3 billion hack, pointing to Binance’s $1 billion-plus…
Pick a Number Between 1 and 10
A viral tweet says LLMs pick 7 because of gradient descent. The math says it’s more interesting than that. The…
Mistral Gives Away a Trillion-Parameter AI as Google Locks Its Own Up
The number is one trillion. That is how many parameters, the internal settings an AI learns during training, sit inside…
US inmate Christa Pike says she woke up ‘confused and in pain’ after failed execution
It is Pike’s first public statement since she survived an execution attempt by lethal injection in September.
Trump, Vance scrap planned appearances in final stretch of midterm campaign
Trump and JD Vance have canceled planned appearances across three states, reducing in-person campaigning in the final days before midterm…
Binning or Feature Selection: Which One Won Us an Insurance Hackathon?
For a year, we believed that supervised binning carried our winning entry to an insurance competition. After four seeds per…
Beta Testing World Cannon Taught Me What AI-Built Really Means
Hermes Journey #10 Beta Testing World Cannon Taught Me What AI-Built Really Means Tenth in the Hermes Journey series. Summary:…
Your Agent’s Tools Can Make Decisions, Too
Decision models as tools: a hands-on guide The post Your Agent’s Tools Can Make Decisions, Too appeared first on Towards…
Residents leave devastated Russian-occupied Oleshky as evacuation corridor opens
Several hundred people are understood to have decided to stay in the frontline town, despite the lack of gas, electricity…
Claude Code Mods: Custom Hooks to Fix My Biggest AI Coding Frustrations
How I built four Claude Code mods to protect API keys, track plan progress, catch untested code, and monitor context…
DeepSeek and Moonshot Used GPT-6 Astra to Train Models, Report Says
Two of China’s best-known AI labs leaned heavily on OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train their newest models, according to a…
Amazon falls 7%, Intel plunges 25% in premarket trading, as pressure mounts after earnings
Investors are nervous about the massive AI spending from the tech giants and whether that will pay off.
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling, a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5…
Crypto giant Binance hit by $6.3bn hack suspected to be largest in history
Two analytics firms have attributed the incident to a North Korean hacking unit called TraderTraitor.
Syrians struggle with soaring prices as crisis challenges post-Assad recovery
Fuel price rises are driving discontent, testing support for Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government.
Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a…
Binance ‘potential security issue’ sees $2.54 billion frozen by the likes of Circle, Tether
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said it was actively investigating the matter and that funds are “completley safe.”
Israeli opposition accuses Netanyahu of trying to ‘delegitimise’ election
The PM’s Likud party has alleged foreign interference and said Arab-led parties “stole” the election after his coalition lost its…
Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens
Baseten has released joey-1, a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a…
How the UK Amazon Quick User Group grew in 2026
The Amazon Quick User Group – United Kingdom is a community of Amazon Quick users in the United Kingdom who…
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass
Prime Intellect has released Prime Mega MoE, a training extension of DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. DeepSeek’s kernel only ran…
DailyAI Briefing: Google’s AI bill outruns its cash, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Alphabet’s AI build-out cost $9.1 billion more than its…
Building intent-driven UI testing with Amazon Nova Act
To scale intent-driven UI testing across its product teams, Epsilon, a data, technology, and marketing-services company and part of Publicis…
Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL joins the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano, Nano Omni, Super, Ultra, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning models…
When Labels Say No, But Embeddings Say Yes
Why traditional retrieval metrics miss meaningful similarities The post When Labels Say No, But Embeddings Say Yes appeared first on…
You Can Now Text ChatGPT’s Dot Agent, but It Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted
OpenAI now lets people text Dot, its always-on AI agent in ChatGPT, from the ordinary messaging app on their phone.…
Is the #1 AI Model Really #1?
On a 2,000-question test, my top two models couldn’t be told apart at the usual 5% level. On a 200-question…