Iran attacks Kuwait as Trump says renewed Mideast hostilities will not last ‘too long’
On Thursday, Kuwait’s army said it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran.
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep…
Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two Filipino sailors, Saudi Arabia says
The kingdom condemns the targeting of Sidr, which was reportedly hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on…
Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI…
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers.…
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and…
Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Teams running coding agents hit the same wall. Claude Code speaks the Anthropic Messages API, Codex CLI speaks OpenAI, and…
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes
Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the…
EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after ‘new escalation’ in Germany
Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 2, When Fuzzy Matching Stops Working
I built a matcher meant to finish the cleanup that normalization left behind. Testing it against real data showed that…
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might…
Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply
A visual guide to how graph neural networks work under the hood The post Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and…
US sailors arrive in Thailand’s Pattaya after record 250 days at sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln is docking close to Pattaya, known for its neon-lit nightlife, and for sex tourism.
A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions
Why the standard groupBy function isn’t enough The post A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions appeared first on Towards Data…
Zelensky says airlines should avoid Russian airspace as Ukraine escalates drone operations
Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its own…
Global bond rout gathers pace as inflation fears mount
Borrowing costs continue to extend multi-decade highs as nerves over inflation, higher rates and high debt remain at the fore.
Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection
Enterprise AI buyers have been stuck between two things they both need. Regulated teams need a zero data retention (ZDR)…
China’s Xi keeps Iranian president at arm’s length weeks ahead of Trump summit
China’s Xi gave Iran’s Pezeshkian a brief, low-profile audience at the SCO summit, as Beijing seeks to avoid appearing close…
Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports US strike killed five at wedding party
The Iranian Red Crescent says a child was among those killed when shrapnel from a US strike hit a home.…
Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing
Most production voice stacks are three systems stitched together. One model transcribes, a second separates speakers, and a detector decides…
Trump says U.S. is not forcing Iran to negotiate after fresh round of strikes
U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites across…
Fed Research Compares Wholesale CBDC Settlement With Tokenized Deposits
A Federal Reserve research paper has compared wholesale CBDC settlement with tokenized commercial bank deposits, adding another official research layer…
Belgium Police Target Crypto Wallets In Cross-Border Piracy Crackdown
Belgian federal police have targeted crypto wallets linked to offshore piracy platforms in a cross-border enforcement action, according to an…
SEC Charges 38 Entities Over False Investment Adviser Filings
The SEC has charged 38 entities for allegedly using false filings to make themselves appear legitimate as registered investment advisers,…
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management,…
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June…
Bitcoin ETFs Add $142M As September Trading Opens With Inflows
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $142 million in net inflows as September trading opened, giving Bitcoin traders a positive flow…
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude…
CFTC Issues Event Contract Guidance As Prediction Markets Face Scrutiny
The CFTC has issued regulatory enforcement guidance for event contract derivatives, sharpening the lines around prediction markets at a time…
Tokenized Real-World Assets Reach Monthly High As Collateral Demand Grows
Tokenized real-world assets and equities collateral have reached a monthly high, according to DeFiLlama RWA data, adding to signs that…
Solana ETFs Record $925K In Daily Inflows As New Month Opens
U.S. spot Solana ETFs recorded $925,000 in net daily inflows as September trading opened, giving SOL markets a fresh regulated-demand…
U.S. strikes Iran after new Hormuz Strait shipping attacks: Centcom
U.S. Central Command announced new strikes around the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian attacks on ships and U.S. military personnel.
Crypto Losses Hit $136M Across 50 Security Incidents In August
Crypto security losses reached $136 million across 50 incidents in August, according to PeckShieldAlert data, keeping exploits, phishing, and incident…
Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack
A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.
From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI
When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers from theory to delivery in agentic AI, the team faced a familiar…
Researchers from Princeton, Ant Group and Stanford Introduce AQuA: A Two-Part Agentic Framework for Autonomous Factor Discovery and Model Development in Quantitative Finance
Quantitative research agents that write their own experiments can corrupt the evidence they later learn from. A leaky feature that…
BitMine Adds 53,501 ETH In $131M Corporate Treasury Move
BitMine has added 53,501 ETH to its corporate treasury in a $131 million acquisition, giving the market another example of…
Ethereum ETFs See Positive Inflows As September Trading Opens
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net positive inflows as September trading opened, giving ETH markets an early signal that institutional…
Your JSON Is Valid but Your Data Is Wrong: Five Failure Modes LLM Structured Outputs Won’t Catch
Five failure modes that survive constrained decoding, and why your schema validator will never catch them. The post Your JSON…
10-year yield hits highest since January 2025 as higher oil prices stoke inflation worries
Treasury yields increased on Tuesday as investors monitored a reignition of tensions in the Middle East.
Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks
More informed decision-making through uncertainty quantification The post Beyond Point Predictions: A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Neural Networks appeared first…
Global bond yields soar to multi-decade highs as Middle East turmoil reignites inflation fears
Bond yields surged across major markets Tuesday as U.S.-Iran hostilities revived energy and inflation risks, with Japan and U.K. yields…
5 AI Skills That Will Keep Data Scientists Relevant in 2027
What each one solves, and runnable code you can paste into a notebook. The post 5 AI Skills That Will…
Taking the Journey Public: A Blog, a Category, a Book, and What It Means for Small Business AI
Turning a private AI journey into a public playbook. Photo via Unsplash (Unsplash License). Hermes Journey #3 Taking the Journey…
‘I’ve never been to Afghanistan’: Six million deportees forced to start over under the Taliban
As of August, the number forced to return this year from Pakistan and Iran had reached another million.
What it was like inside court for Tupac Shakur’s murder trial verdict
BBC presenter Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty describes what it was like when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of murdering the…
Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities
Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology…
Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
Voice agents fail on exactly the parts of a call that matter most: the order number, the callback digits, the…