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…
Swiss Cantonal Bank BancaStato Adds Bitcoin And Ethereum Trading With Sygnum
A Swiss cantonal bank has moved crypto trading directly into its normal banking experience, and that is the part of…
Smarter Web Sells 178 Bitcoin To Repay $11.7M TOBAM Debt
The Smarter Web Company has sold part of its Bitcoin treasury to repay an $11.7 million convertible debt facility held…
Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May
The price of Brent crude rose more than 6% on Thursday as the war in the Middle East continues to…
Tesla falls 12%, Alphabet sinks 6% as AI spending concerns spook investors
Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.
Most RAG Hallucinations Are Extraction Errors: Seven Patterns for a Typed Generation Contract
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8ter] – Naming the RAG error correctly matters: model reads the context, so a wrong answer…
Saudis must recognise Israel for nuclear deal, says Trump
The US president says the landmark agreement to help Saudis develop nuclear energy is dependent on it joining the Abraham…
Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML
Patience, Optimism, Discipline, Projects, Teams The post Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Russia’s Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries is now in Ukraine’s crosshairs. Here’s why
Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia’s Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war.
Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower
The hidden cost of asynchronous systems, how tiny CPU tasks quietly became our biggest bottleneck while scaling hundreds of LLM…
MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission
MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those…
Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released…
Houthis claim strikes on Saudi Arabian oil tankers as Rubio says Iran not ready to make a deal
Yemen’s Houthis said they had targeted two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with drones and missiles for allegedly violating its maritime…
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a…
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of…
Oil prices climb after tanker struck off Saudi Arabia, Trump escalates Iran threats
Oil prices rose after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure in response to any attacks on ships…
Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system is a classifier that inspects each…
Sky Protocol Revenue Nears $419M Annualized As USDS Demand Supports DeFi Income
Sky Protocol’s annualized gross revenue has climbed close to $419 million, according to its governance status dashboard, giving DeFi investors…
Grayscale Solana Trust Amendment Would Add Quarterly Staking Reward Payouts
Grayscale has filed a new Form 8-K tied to its Solana product, outlining a trust agreement amendment that would allow…
Arbitrum Fast Feed Proposal Would Route 97% Of Revenue To DAO Treasury
Arbitrum governance is considering a Fast Feed proposal that would create a paid, authenticated data streaming product for Arbitrum One…
Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83
Dimitri Bertsekas PhD ’71, the Jerry McAfee (1940) Emeritus Professor in Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer…
Ethereum Foundation Publishes Policy Guide For Governments And Institutions
The Ethereum Foundation has published a policy-focused guide aimed at governments, institutions, and public sector leaders, giving Ethereum a clearer…
MakerDAO Executes Sky Governance Changes As Endgame Transition Continues
MakerDAO governance has executed a new set of parameter adjustments under the broader Sky transition, including changes tied to Sky…
Arbitrum Foundation Seeks $43M Budget For 2027 Operations
The Arbitrum Foundation has proposed a $43 million operating budget for 2027, opening another debate over how major DAOs fund…
Ethereum ETF Inflows Extend To Third Day As BlackRock Offsets Fidelity Outflows
US spot Ethereum ETFs have recorded a third consecutive day of net inflows, giving ETH traders another sign that institutional…
AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that…
Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: iterate top-k one at a time
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8bis] – Two regimes for sending retrieved candidates to the generation brick, the sufficiency signal that…
US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say
The agreement would fulfil a long-held Saudi ambition but could attract concern in Israel and from some US lawmakers.
Houthis deploy missiles and drones to attack ships in southern Red Sea, naval group says
Attacks on ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb threaten to cut off millions of barrels per day of Saudi crude oil…
Build an LLM Agent That Can Write and Run Code
A hands-on walkthrough of code execution with the OpenAI Agents SDK and Docker The post Build an LLM Agent That…
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Detecting Vulnerabilities in Agent Skills with SkillSpector: From Green Checkmark to Real Security Judgment
Static analysis nailed the malicious skill and over-flagged the useful one. The gap between those results is where human judgement…
Ukrainian drones hit more sites of Russian online retailer Wildberries
Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight.
Oil prices jump 4% as Rubio says Iran ‘not serious’ about peace talks
Oil prices rose as hopes for a ceasefire in the Middle East faded.
Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and…
Trump’s push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC’s margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.
Tehran’s Hormuz threat risks global fallout, Rubio warns as U.S. strikes Iran for 11th straight night
His comments come as U.S. Central Command hit Iranian targets for an 11th straight night.