Tear gas in Paris and Marseille as school protests grow across France
Crowds of mainly teenagers called for more resources for schools and an end to what they called police repression.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
Off-the-shelf AI assistants answer individual questions well, but they fall short on a different axis: continuity. Ask a stateless assistant…
Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model that embeds text, code, images, video and audio into one 768-dimensional…
Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries
Chris Bourg, who has served as director of the MIT Libraries since 2015, has been named vice provost and Barbara…
Crypto ‘Godfather’ Gets 78 Months For $37M Meta Fraud Scheme
TL;DR Adam Iza, who called himself “The Godfather,” has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison. Prosecutors said he…
CFTC Lets Exchanges Convert Index Futures Into True Perpetual Contracts
TL;DR CFTC staff has issued temporary no-action relief allowing designated contract markets to convert certain broad-based security index futures into…
Fairshake Backs 32 House Candidates As Crypto Election Spending Ramps Up
TL;DR Fairshake has named 32 U.S. House candidates it plans to support ahead of the November midterms. Six races are…
Rebounding oil exports through Strait of Hormuz are vulnerable to stepped-up Iranian tanker attacks
Nearly 20 commercial ships, mostly tankers, have come under attack over the past month while sailing through the Hormuz choke…
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing…
How I Use AI to Learn New Topics Faster: An AI-Assisted Learning Framework
A practical framework for turning AI into a thinking partner The post How I Use AI to Learn New Topics…
MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country
MIT is launching a new strategic initiative today: MIT for America, which seeks to strengthen STEM education nationally, at many…
Russia’s neighbor backs push to lift ban on nuclear weapons, prompting outcry from Moscow
Lithuania is seeking to bolster its security amid growing concerns over Russia.
A Google Team Measured Half of My Argument, and Left the Other Half Open
Towards Spec-Driven Test Automation: Part 3 The post A Google Team Measured Half of My Argument, and Left the Other…
Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason
August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information for a foreign power.
I Hid Four Traps in a Forecasting Task. Here Is What Four AI Assistants Did.
A controlled test of Gemini, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Claude on leakage, reporting delays, promotion effects, and structural breaks. The post…
Trump allows cheaper, dyed diesel on highways to blunt historic fuel-cost spike ahead of midterms
The U.S. national average price of diesel topped $6 a gallon in September for the first time ever, as fuel…
Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One
Reka has released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch. A single neural network understands…
Britain is on ‘thin ice,’ warns ex-Bank of England chief economist — and it must act to ‘appease financial markets’
Britain has the highest government borrowing costs in the G7.
Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields
Researchers from PhAI Labs, CUHK, Fudan, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton have released JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework for building world models.…
World Bank warns of AI concentration risks as it lifts East Asia and Pacific growth outlook to 4.5%
The World Bank now expects the region to grow 4.5% this year, but flagged that trade growth outside AI-related goods…
Trump offers U.S. help to Russia after plague death; WHO assesses the situation as low risk
WHO said it was in contact with Russian authorities, and has offered support if needed, while assessing the risk to…
Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
Together AI has released Together Link, a free, MIT-licensed CLI now in beta. It connects the coding agents developers already…
Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
Coding and agentic workloads are asking more of AI models than ever: refactor a repository spanning hundreds of files, sustain…
Building a Streaming Robotics Learning Pipeline Using NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end streaming robotics learning pipeline around the NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID dataset without downloading its 707…
Trump says ‘threat’ led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home…
‘We had a threat’: Trump explains U.S. moving long-range bombers from U.K.
The U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers removed from England have been used in strikes on Iran.
Justin Sun Prize’s New Round Honors Human–AI Collaboration on Erdős Problems
Geneva, Switzerland — October 5, 2026 — The Office of Justin Sun today announced the newest recipients of the Justin…
Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft once. Can he do it again in the AI era?
After succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014, Satya Nadella turned Microsoft into a cloud giant. Now he’s tasked with making the…
Making Amazon Quick enterprise-ready: Automated, auditable cross-account resource promotion
Amazon Quick is Amazon’s agentic AI companion built for work. You build agents that reason over your data, call action…
No10 insists UK military base RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base…
Computer Vision: SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform)
Elegant object matching from several viewpoints The post Computer Vision: SIFT algorithm (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) appeared first on Towards…
Russia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
According to local media reports, as many as 189 people have also been placed under medical observation in Irkutsk in…
What I Would Tell a Small Business Owner Before They Build an AI Assistant
Hermes Journey #8 What I Would Tell a Small Business Owner Before They Build an AI Assistant Eighth in the…
MEXC and Payward Signal Intent to Explore Broader Collaboration Ahead of TOKEN2049
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 5, 2026, MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, and Payward, the parent company of Kraken,…
Spanish PM Sánchez calls early election after housing protests
Sánchez says Spain will head to the polls on 29 November after recent defeats on measures aimed at addressing the…
Saudi Aramco chief says replenishing global oil stockpiles could take two years
Saudi Aramco’s CEO warned it could take up to two years to rebuild global oil inventories, saying the squeeze could…
How to Build a Cheap, Yet Reliable Model Router With Jev
Model routing can finally be a design choice rather than a system enhancement The post How to Build a Cheap,…
Right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazil election
With neither candidate getting more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.
Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade
Most production recommenders are cascades. Candidate generators feed a pre-ranker, which feeds a heavy ranker built on hundreds of engineered…
US air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF Fairford
No reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted…
The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T
In April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demoed a chatbot whose name roughly means ‘truth from a thousand questions.’ Three and a…
Trump tells South Korea to sign on to Alaska LNG deal or ‘I’ll just charge them more’
Trump is ramping up pressure on South Korea over Alaska LNG as Seoul remains cautious over investment projects announced by…
Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement…
GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind shipped 4 frontier-class models within 30 days. Claude Fable 5.1 arrived on September 1. GPT-6…
How to Govern AI Agents
From guarding one agent to steering a fleet The post How to Govern AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data…
More tankers struck in the Middle East as Iran reiterates conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s conditions include a halt to U.S. “acts of aggression,” an end to the naval blockade and economic warfare, and…
The Reversal Curse: Why a Language Model That Knows “A Is B” Can’t Tell You “B Is A”
A model can recall a fact in the direction it learned it and fail in the other. Here’s a toy…
Kyiv bridge hit in further Russian drone attack as German chancellor makes surprise visit
Unverified video shows a drone hitting the Northern Bridge as vehicles move across it, creating a large fireball.