Spain imposes border controls against Italy as row over Ceuta migrant influx intensifies
Italy introduced border controls following an influx of about 78,000 migrants from neighbouring Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub for AI agents. The idea is super simple:…
Trump teased an Iran deal that didn’t come, but markets soared. Here’s why it keeps happening
As oil reserves and munitions stockpiles reportedly dwindle, analysts wonder how much longer markets will pounce when the Trump admin.…
Matplotlib vs Plotly: Which Python Chart Tool Should You Choose?
From Static Plots to Interactive Data Exploration The post Matplotlib vs Plotly: Which Python Chart Tool Should You Choose? appeared first…
How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Prior authorization is the approval process health plans require before covering certain medical services or medications. It remains one of…
Seven killed after teen shooter opens fire at home and school in Thailand
Authorities say the 14-year-old killed his grandparents before gunning down five teachers at his school.
Loop Engineering for Listing Questions: When the Answer Is Every Passage, Not the Top One
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #12] – The category of question most RAG pipelines silently fail on, and the pipeline shape…
U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July
Nonfarm payrolls were projected to increase by 83,000 in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, according to…
My Fall-Detection Model Scored 94%, and It Was Lying to Me
How a single evaluation choice inflated my results by 25 points, and what rebuilding honestly taught me about ML systems…
Solar stocks shine after Trump extends China tariffs to polysilicon products
Solar stocks rose in premarket trading President Donald Trump announced fresh import restrictions on polysilicon products.
Iran’s chief negotiator accuses Trump of ‘theater diplomacy’ with Hormuz traffic near standstill
The conflict is broadening across the region, with Gulf energy infrastructure and key shipping chokepoints under renewed threat.
Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot
Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot agent that writes unit tests and then proves they work. It ships in…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model With 128K Context, Tool Calling, And Open Weights
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that runs entirely on-device. It plans, calls tools, and works through multi-step tasks…
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it…
China’s exports jump 23% in July, beating estimates; imports cool
China’s exports rose more than expected in July, as global demand for high-tech components continues to absorb the country’s manufactured…
Oil rises amid supply disruption fears following Iran’s restrictive draft plan for the Strait of Hormuz
News of Iran’s restrictive draft plan for the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices higher, renewing concerns over supply disruptions.
Securing AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Before AI agents, it was generally sufficient for access controls to treat each action as an independent event. Applications relied…
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents. It runs entirely in V8 isolates on…
Configure rate limits for AI traffic on AgentCore gateway
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway is a fully managed, serverless AI gateway that provides a single, secure entry point for AI…
I Built an AI Data Agent Which Can Query Data and Answer Business Questions. Here’s How.
A step-by-step guide to building a data agent and conversational interface that let business users to explore data in natural…
Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide
In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete…
Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information ‘leakers’ being ‘hunted down’
While precise data is classified, publicly available information suggests the US has used up many difficult-to-manufacture weapons.
Build visibility for Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch
As organizations move from experimenting with coding agents to adopting them across engineering teams, the leadership question changes. It is…
Last Month’s Machine Learning Lessons Learned
The downside of conference travel The post Last Month’s Machine Learning Lessons Learned appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Ukraine hits two oil refineries deep in Russian territory
Ukraine’s president says the strikes aim to limit revenues Russia “used to finance” its war.
I Built a Tool-Calling Agent in Python. Here’s How I Debugged It
A minimal loop with real API calls, validation, compact outputs, and trace evidence before adding an agent framework The post…
Loop Engineering for Cross-References: When RAG Answers ‘see Section 7.2’ Instead of the Actual Answer
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #11] – When the first answer points elsewhere in the document, the pipeline loops back to…
Gold price hits highest level since June on weak payrolls data and Hormuz deal hopes
Spot gold rose as high as $4,295 per ounce before paring gains to $4,268 per ounce on Thursday. Gold futures…
SoftBank gets $8.2 billion boost from Intel as OpenAI takes a backseat
SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations.
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel
Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and…
In Odesa, no-one is safe from Russia’s new Black Sea strikes
Blackened ships and smashed docks mark Russia’s recent surge of attacks on Ukraine’s coastline.
Infantino sorry for errors but stays Fifa president
Gianni Infantino will remain Fifa president after receiving backing from senior executives, but “sincerely apologises” for errors in his controversial…
U.S. ready to return to ‘commitments,’ Iran says, after Trump signals deal is near
Iran denied it was in talks with Washington, despite claims by Trump to the contrary.
Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses
SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer developed by a team of researchers from Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and…
Iran says it has agreed Strait of Hormuz shipping route with Oman
A foreign ministry spokesman did not give details but said an agreement with the Gulf nation was “in the final…
End-to-End Bayesian Marketing Mix Modeling with Google Meridian: Media Measurement, ROI Analysis, and Budget Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the…
Meta AI Releases Muse Code (Beta): A Terminal Coding Agent Powered by the New Muse Spark 1.2 Model
Meta AI has released Muse Code (in beta), a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by its new Muse Spark…
How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock
Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people face, and LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant…
After deadly Kyiv strike, Ukraine warns interceptor shortage is costing lives
Without Patriot interceptors, Ukraine’s skies are wide open and people are fully exposed to Russia’s missile barrages.
How Mobileye transformed support operations using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
What if deploying production-grade AI agents required zero infrastructure management, came with enterprise observability built-in, and worked easily with your…
How a Frontier Model Gets Built, Read from the Kimi K3 Report
An open, 2.8-trillion-parameter model shipped with 47 pages of its own recipe. Reading it tells you what building a frontier…
Left-wing political outsider wins Democratic Senate primary in Michigan
Abdul El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants, would be the first Muslim US senator if elected in November.
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving in AI reshuffle after 27 years at company
Google’s AI divisions are getting reshuffled, the search giant announced on Wednesday.
Introduction to Semi-Supervised Learning
A primer about Semi-Supervised Learning, the approaches taken with different algorithms and the limitations of using unlabelled data. The post…
Oil prices move higher after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claim Saudi tanker strike
Crude prices rose Wednesday after Yemen’s Houthis claimed they had struck a Saudi Arabian oil tanker in the Red Sea.
Is This Slop? Detecting AI-Generated Content Without a Model
Research-backed cues to detect LLM-generated text along with the mathematical intuition as to ‘why’ The post Is This Slop? Detecting…
Fed’s Kashkari says ‘now is the time to start slowly moving’ rates up
Kashkari was one of three dissenters at last week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
Building Document Structure with Loop Engineering: Recovering a PDF’s Outline from Body Typography for RAG
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5octies] – Rules propose, LLM validates: six deterministic signals on span-level typography surface heading candidates, one…
Russian strike kills at least 17 as Zelensky says interceptors could have saved lives
The Russia defence ministry said it had struck logistics hubs and supply centres in Kyiv and the surrounding region.