Here are the five big takeaways from this week’s Fed meeting
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday followed through on expectations for no interest rate change.
Saudi Arabia’s dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war
The kingdom faces a choice of whether to keep hitting back as a deterrent or to try to de-escalate the…
Divided Fed holds interest rates steady, but three members voted to hike
Despite increasing support for a rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds rate…
Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop…
Two firefighters die in Crete as wildfires threaten parts of southern Europe
Gale-force winds have whipped up the flames prompting the evacuation of several villages on the island, as parts of the…
Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your…
Prompt Engineering Is Solved—Prompt Management Isn’t
Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production…
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick can turn a five-day churn-response cycle into one that takes minutes. Last quarter,…
Why Your Best Predictive Model Gives the Wrong Treatment Effect
Why prediction-driven variable selection misses confounders and how Bayesian Adjustment for Confounding attempts to fix it. The post Why Your…
How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to…
Los Movimientos, Part II: Solving Large Pickup-and-Delivery Problems with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory driver breaks. The post Los…
More than 100 aftershocks hit Japan after deadly quake that killed 13
People are being urged to stay alert, with earthquake aftershocks potentially reaching magnitude 7, officials say
Ukraine has found a new pressure point in Russia’s wartime economy
Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s biggest online retailer Wildberries have ratcheted up the pressure on Moscow’s wartime economy.
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU
Liquid AI has released two open-weight bidirectional encoders, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. Both are masked language models built on the LFM2…
Japan in a ‘race against time’ to rescue people trapped beneath rubble after quake
At least 13 people have been killed after the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday.
Oil jumps as U.S.-Iran resume strikes after a brief pause
Oil rose sharply amid renewed tensions in the Middle East after Iran launched an attack on U.S. forces using ballistic…
Asian technology stocks extend sell-off with SoftBank down 7% as AI plays take a hit
Chinese internet stocks listed in Hong Kong bucked the broader regional weakness with Tencent, Meituan, Baidu and Kuaishou all trading…
Watch: The moment quake hit Japan
Video shows locations across the region where a strong earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu island on 28 July.
Iran launches surprise ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East
Centcom in a post on X said that the attack originated from Iran, but all missiles were intercepted.
SK Hynix second-quarter profit surges to a new high — but misses estimates
SK Hynix announced second quarter earnings on Wednesday, with profit reaching a record but still missing estimates. Revenue more than…
Building Non-Interactive Agentic Coding Workflows with Moonshot AI’s Kimi CLI, JSONL Streaming, Testing, and Session Memory
In this tutorial, we configure and operate Kimi CLI as a fully non-interactive AI coding agent. We install the CLI…
Ford raises guidance after Q2 earnings beat, says F-Series recovery is on track
Ford cited operational improvements, resilient vehicle pricing and a high sales mix of profitable products for its performance and the…
How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
Today, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest and most significant revision of the protocol since…
Senate to set up key vote on Russia sanctions
The sanctions target Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, foreign persons, Russian banks and financial institutions and the Russian shadow…
Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore
As artificial intelligence applications evolve from simple chatbots to sophisticated autonomous systems, organizations face new challenges in orchestrating complex multi-agent…
How Much Does a Local LLM Actually Cost to Run? I Measured Every Watt on Apple Silicon
Five models, sustained generation, real wall-socket energy at $0.31/kWh — and the surprise the RTX-3090 numbers predicted, only bigger. The…
Gironde wildfires pick up as French region braces for new 40C heatwave
Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires.
Don’t Just “Throw Adam at It”: Misunderstanding Adam Will Cost You
You “vibe coded” the import. Understand Adam’s optimization dynamics, why it fails spectacularly, and how to fix it. The post…
Zelensky to press Trump on air defences while in Washington
Ukraine’s leader is hoping to firm up US commitments to bolstering Kyiv’s anti-ballistic missile defences, as Russia has escalated deadly…
China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats
China is reportedly producing a key chip tool in a market dominated by ASML. But analysts questioned China’s ability to…
Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 2): There Has to Be a Better Way
The idea that makes backpropagation possible. The post Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 2): There Has to Be a Better…
Microsoft AI Releases MAI-Cyber-1-Flash: A 5B-Active-Parameter Cyber Model That Pushes MDASH to 95.95% on CyberGym
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first model built specifically for cyber defense. The model does not ship as a…
Iran hosts Hormuz calls with Saudi Arabia, Oman as Trump hails ‘good talks’
Talks over the Strait of Hormuz continue as Iran’s foreign ministry discussed the strategically vital maritime passage with Saudi and…
Deploying a 1-Bit Bonsai-27B Model with PrismML llama.cpp and OpenAI-Compatible Local Inference Workflows
In this tutorial, we deploy the 1-bit Bonsai-27B language model using the PrismML fork of llama.cpp, which provides the specialized…
On the front line of Ecuador’s drugs war, police fight gangs, guns and corruption
The BBC goes on patrol with Ecuador’s police, who are grappling with a huge surge in drug crime.
Oil drops more than 2% as a pause in U.S.-Iran hostilities raises de-escalation hopes
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday en route to Michigan, Trump dismissed suggestions that the U.S. was…
Shares of SK Hynix plunge 10% in Seoul as semiconductor selloff deepens
South Korean semiconductor shares tumbled on Tuesday, extending a rout in chipmakers after another weak session on Wall Street.
Apple ends day as world’s most valuable company, passing Nvidia
Nvidia had held the top spot as the most valuable company since June 2025, when it took the crown from…
Kimi AI and kvcache-ai Open Sources ‘AgentENV’: A Distributed System that Powers Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training for Kimi K3
Moonshot AI’s Kimi team and kvcache-ai have open-sourced AgentENV (AENV), a distributed platform for running agent environments at scale. AgentENV…
Wildfire now nine miles away from French city of Bordeaux, mayor warns
Thomas Cazenave says they are preparing if further evacuations are issued, as the mayor of a nearby town called the…
“Los Movimientos”: The Routing Problem That Nearly Broke My Spirit
Using mathematical optimization to solve a pickup-and-delivery problem with time windows. The post “Los Movimientos”: The Routing Problem That Nearly…
Designing Skill-Driven Financial Analysis Agents with Claude, Python, MCP Connectors, and Automated Deliverables
In this tutorial, we build an advanced workflow around Anthropic’s financial-services repository and reproduce its skill-driven architecture in pure Python.…
Beyond RAG: Task-aware knowledge compression for enterprise AI on AWS
If you’re using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for complex analytical tasks that span hundreds of documents, such as financial due diligence…
Reducing Human Annotation with ML Active Learning
In a world where human time is expensive, learn how to use it only when really necessary The post Reducing…
Devastating European wildfires in maps – and how they’re being tackled
A blaze near Bordeaux has torn through more than 162 sq miles (420 sq km) in less than four days,…
The Most Beautiful Statistic: The History and the Science of the Humble Mean
The mean keeps making its usefulness felt in all sorts of situations, often in truly non-obvious ways The post The…
Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks
The US says attacks on Iran have been halted to give “talks some space”, raising hopes of a resolution to…
How I Reproduced BM25, Dense Retrieval, and SPLADE on a 16GB MacBook
A practical reproduction of three retrieval baselines, including the crashes, fixes, and score checks that matter for RAG systems. The…
Three dead and several injured in shooting at food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle
Several others, including a two-year-old boy, were also injured. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson says a suspect is in custody.