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,…
SEC Sets 24-Hour Trading Roundtable As Markets Move Toward Always-On Finance
The SEC is preparing to hold a public roundtable on 24-hour trading, and while the announcement is focused on US…
Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS
Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold…
Tabular LLMs: An Introduction to the Foundation Models That Predict Your Spreadsheet
Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text — and on…
Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8quater] – Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real…
France orders evacuation of tourist spot as hundreds flee wildfires by boat
The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap…
Trump considering a ‘massive attack’ on Iran as Tehran labels UK ‘accomplice’ to America
The president told Axios he was considering an operation “bigger than ever before.”
How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. We…
Working to automate nuclear plant operations
For nuclear to be considered as a viable clean energy source, it has to be competitively priced and economical to…
Trump’s new global tariff draws rebukes from trade partners over forced-labor justification
U.S. trading partners have rejected the forced-labor rationale behind Trump’s new global tariffs, while most signaled plans to keep negotiating.
US imposes tariffs on dozens of trade partners over ‘forced labour’ imports
The tariffs target around 60 trading partners over claims they failed to properly stop forced labour.
Japan core inflation rate in June creeps up from 4-year low as higher oil prices bite
This is the first rise in core inflation since March, and was in line with the1.6% growth expected by economists…
Best practices for applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to code generation workflows
This post continues our series on best practices with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. For the previous post, see Build safe generative…
Kraken’s UK Setup Shows Why Crypto Regulation Is More Complicated Than A Simple License
Kraken’s UK presence is a good example of how crypto regulation actually works in practice: not as one broad approval,…
Japan’s Crypto Law Changes Put Bitcoin ETF Hopes On A Longer Track
Japan’s latest crypto law changes have revived the country’s spot Bitcoin ETF discussion, but the important part is the timeline.…
Trump to slap ‘sweeping’ new tariffs on 60 trade partners as global duties expire
The Trump administration has ramped its tariff actions back up since the president’s trade agenda suffered major legal setbacks earlier…
BlackRock IBIT And MicroStrategy Show Two Very Different Ways To Accumulate Bitcoin
BlackRock’s IBIT and MicroStrategy are both huge Bitcoin accumulation stories, but they are not doing the same thing, and that…
Marathon’s Utah Landfill Gas Pilot Shows Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Story Is Getting More Practical
Marathon Digital has launched a small Bitcoin mining pilot in Utah powered by landfill methane gas, and while the project…
Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
Andrew Ng has announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent that produces finished work rather than conversation. OpenWorker asks the user…
S&P And Pantera Launch Crypto Index Built Around Protocol Fundamentals
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have launched a new digital asset benchmark that tracks crypto networks through a…
$67M Ethereum Short On Hyperliquid Shows How Institutional Trading Is Moving On-Chain
A large Ethereum short on Hyperliquid is giving the market another glimpse of how serious capital is starting to use…
Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
This post was co-written with Motorway and the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. Motorway, a UK-based online…
When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an Overbooked Flight
$8 million vs $5k + Potentially Going Viral The post When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an…
You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a…
French Regulator Orders ISP Block On Polymarket Access
France’s National Gambling Authority has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, putting the prediction-market platform back under…
T. Rowe Price Crypto ETF Filing Puts Active Multi-Asset Funds In Focus
T. Rowe Price’s active crypto ETF filing is a reminder that the next phase of digital asset funds may not…
Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Your users ask multi-part, comparative, and exploratory questions that span PDFs, slides, tickets, transcripts, and web content. Classic single-shot retrieval…