Wildfire now nine miles away from French city of Bordeaux, mayor warns
Thomas Cazenave says they are preparing if further evacuations are issued, as the mayor of a nearby town called the…
“Los Movimientos”: The Routing Problem That Nearly Broke My Spirit
Using mathematical optimization to solve a pickup-and-delivery problem with time windows. The post “Los Movimientos”: The Routing Problem That Nearly…
Designing Skill-Driven Financial Analysis Agents with Claude, Python, MCP Connectors, and Automated Deliverables
In this tutorial, we build an advanced workflow around Anthropic’s financial-services repository and reproduce its skill-driven architecture in pure Python.…
Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS
If you’re using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for complex analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents, such as financial due diligence…
Reducing Human Annotation with ML Active Learning
In a world where human time is expensive, learn how to use it only when really necessary The post Reducing…
Devastating European wildfires in maps – and how they’re being tackled
A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days,…
The Most Beautiful Statistic: The History and the Science of the Humble Mean
The mean keeps making its usefulness felt in all sorts of situations, often in truly non-obvious ways The post The…
Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks
The US says attacks on Iran have been halted to give “talks some space”, raising hopes of a resolution to…
How I Reproduced BM25, Dense Retrieval, and SPLADE on a 16GB MacBook
A practical reproduction of three retrieval baselines, including the crashes, fixes, and score checks that matter for RAG systems. The…
Three dead and several injured in shooting at food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle
Several others, including a two-year-old boy, were also injured. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson says a suspect is in custody.
U.S. and Iran pause fighting to give peace talks ‘space.’ Here’s where negotiations stand
A temporary pause to the U.S.-Iran conflict appeared to hold on Monday, after negotiations over a lasting peace faced fresh…
Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate’ after arrest threat
Mamdani walked back his threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued…
Why Trump’s new tariff blitz is very different this time round
President Trump on Friday launched a fresh round of tariffs targeting 60 trading partners, including the European Union, China, and…
China memory chipmaker CXMT skyrockets 500% in blockbuster Shanghai debut
The Hefei-based company raised 57.92 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) after pricing its IPO at 8.66 yuan per share.
Firefighters battle wildfire as tens of thousands evacuated near Bordeaux
More than 330,000 people have now been evacuated from wildfires across France and Spain.
Oil slides 5% as Iran reportedly signals halt to attacks if U.S. pause holds
Oil prices fell after Iran reportedly said it would suspend attacks as long as a U.S. pause in hostilities remains…
Berlin Pride attack suspect shot and killed during police operation
Police say Abdul Ballout was shot and killed after he rushed at officers with a knife in a western borough…
Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3: A Multimodal Flow Model for Image, Video, Audio and Robot Action Prediction
Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside…
How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code
Maximize your efficiency with Claude Code The post How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to Give an LLM Agent a Browser
Building a browser-use agent with OpenAI Agents SDK and Playwright MCP The post How to Give an LLM Agent a…
Ukraine strikes Iranian vessels in Caspian Sea, Tehran accuses Kyiv of ‘hostile and criminal act’
The latest attacks by Ukraine, combined with Saudi military strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, represent a widening of…
KwaiKAT Team Releases KAT-Coder-V2.5: An Agentic Coding Model Trained on 100,000+ Verifiable Repository Environments
The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has introduced the KAT-Coder-V2.5. It is a coding model trained to operate inside real, executable…
What we know so far about the Berlin Pride ramming attack
A police manhunt is underway after a suspect rammed a car into a crowd at a Pride event in the…
Induction Labs Photon-1 Simulates Desktops, Plays Checkers, and Models Billiard Physics From One Pretraining Run
Most agents that learn from video need to know what action produced each frame. Induction Labs is arguing that this…
Watch: At the scene of Berlin Pride attack as manhunt continues
A 21-year-old suspect has been identified by police, but he has not been found.
Sakana AI Releases Fugu-Cyber: An Orchestration Model Reporting 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM
Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber (model ID is fugu-cyber-v1.0), a cybersecurity-specialized addition to its Fugu orchestration family. It is not…
From Silicon Valley to DC, the tech world is suddenly obsessed with one concept in AI: Distillation
Distillation has long been a topic for AI wonks, but it’s become a hot-button issue of late as techies and…
Meet Open Dreamer: A JAX/Flax Reproduction of the Dreamer 4 World Model Pipeline, With the Full Training Recipe Published
A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline…
More than 250,000 flee wildfires in France and Spain
Spain’s PM warns of “complex hours” ahead as authorities in France say they are far from bringing blazes burning near…
Designing High-Performance GPU Kernels with TileLang: Tensor-Core GEMM, Fused Softmax, FlashAttention, and Autotuning
In this tutorial, we explore TileLang as a high-level Python domain-specific language for designing and compiling performance-oriented GPU kernels through…
How to Optimize Vector Search When RAM Gets Too Expensive: On-Disk vs. In-Memory ANN Indexes
Architecting cost-effective infrastructure by navigating the latency and storage trade-offs of HNSW, SPANN, and DiskANN The post How to Optimize…
The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Solve the Fluid Equations
I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here’s how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there…
Trump takes swipes at press during White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The event celebrated press freedom after the first dinner was cancelled by a shooting in April.
Saudi military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after the Iran-backed militia attacked Red Sea shipping
Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen, Greek security sources told Reuters, as fighting in a second front in…
Why the OpenAI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face: Reward Hacking, Not Malice, Explained for Engineers
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models were not attacking…
Trump sued hours after new tariffs take effect, as experts say they may not hold up
President Donald Trump has renewed a flurry of tariffs, including slapping 25% duties on Brazilian imports and vowing 50% tariffs…
Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput
Datalab has released Marker 2, a full rewrite of its open source document conversion pipeline. Marker converts PDF, image, PPTX,…
BitMEX Faces Proposed Class Action Seeking Return Of 622 BTC
BitMEX is facing a proposed class action in the Southern District of New York seeking the return of 622.66 BTC…
Robinhood CEO X Hack Shows Why Crypto Scams Still Target Trusted Names
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was compromised to promote a fake memecoin, giving crypto another reminder that social engineering…
CLARITY Act Delay Shows Crypto Market Structure Fight Is Not Over
The CLARITY Act appears unlikely to move through the Senate before the August recess, slowing the crypto market structure push…
Firefighters struggle to contain Madrid wildfires, as more than 140,000 evacuated in France and Spain
Authorities face the “worst fire in the history of the region”, Madrid officials say, as French firefighters battle a blaze…
Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5…
Elliptic Report Shows How Bitcoin ATM Scams Move From Cash To On-Chain Wallets
Elliptic has published a new report explaining how Bitcoin ATM scams work, and the most useful part is not the…
Kraken Brings CFTC-Regulated Perpetual Futures To US Traders
Kraken is bringing perpetual futures to eligible US traders through a regulated derivatives structure, and that is a notable shift…
Poolin Files Chapter 11 As Bitcoin Miner Moves Toward $52M Asset Sale
Poolin Technology has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, setting up an orderly wind-down and asset sale process tied to…
Hester Peirce Warns Crypto Vaults And Lending Strategies May Still Trigger Securities Rules
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has issued a new statement on crypto vaults and lending strategies, and the message is more…
FATF Says Crypto Travel Rule Adoption Is Rising, But Enforcement Still Lags
The Financial Action Task Force says more jurisdictions are putting crypto rules into law, but enforcement remains the weak point.…
Ten killed in Russian attack on drone exhibition near Kyiv
The event, attended by prominent members of the Ukrainian defence industry, was hit by ballistic missiles in the middle of…
Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
Today, we announce the availability of Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 5…
SEC Enforcement Deputy Sam Waldon To Step Down As Agency Reshuffles Leadership
Sam Waldon, the Principal Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency on July 31, 2026,…