Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in…
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises ‘gift to Putin’
Ukraine’s president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.
US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as ‘assault on rule of law’
Several member states of the international tribunal, including the UK, say they “strongly disagree” with the sanctions.
Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high as Iran tries to choke off oil exports
The escalating attacks are testing whether a rebound in crude oil exports from the Middle East can be sustained under…
Navi Pillay, former UN human rights chief, wins Nobel Peace Prize
Pillay is recognised for her “efforts to promote peace and international law”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.
Americans’ debt problems are flashing a warning not seen since the Great Recession
Researchers found that while wealth disparities narrowed somewhat, the ability to meet debt payments deteriorated significantly.
ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026 At AWS, we believe…
Can TypeSafe’s Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM?
How a decision-first model can catch risky tool calls before they turn into real-world actions The post Can TypeSafe’s Jev…
Found Friday Season 5 Issue 10: AI is moving from answers to authority. The defaults matter now.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 10 AI is moving from answers to authority. The defaults matter now. The…
Where Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents?
The cost of control The post Where Does the Money Go Across Long-Running Coding Agents? appeared first on Towards Data…
MEXC and Payward Highlight Collaboration as Crypto and TradFi Converge at TOKEN2049
October 9, 2026 – MEXC,a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, and Payward, the parent company of Kraken, shared their…
Nobel winner Krugman says France may have become ‘too big to save’
Economist Paul Krugman sounded the alarm on a looming “ugly crisis,” while former ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet said French politicians…
Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call
AI Agents for Beginners, Part 1 The post Build Your First AI Agent with One Tool Call appeared first on…
South Africa lawyer ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to prosecute war crimes, genocide
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting peace and international law.
Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
Underdog, the on-device assistant from Conway Research, has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0. Underdog Saluki 27B is a 2-bit…
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the “unprecedented” decision is on “uncertain legal…
OpenAI defends decision to fire researchers: ‘These decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out’
OpenAI has defended its decision to fire three safety researchers for what the AI lab has described as a “significant…
Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, One Universal Agent for Enterprise Work
Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The Gemini agent is a…
‘Real boss of India?’: Elon Musk takes aim at Indian billionaire Ambani as Starlink launch stalls
Musk claimed Starlink was not being allowed to launch in India despite spending five years complying with every single law…
Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents
In this tutorial, we implement RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a method that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness,…
Post-Quantum Custody Platform Strongpoint Adds Quantus As Development Partner
TL;DR: Project Eleven and Quantus plan to integrate the Quantus Network with Strongpoint, Project Eleven’s institutional custody platform for post-quantum…
Strategy Sets October 29 Date For Its Next Major Bitcoin Treasury Update
TL;DR: Strategy will report third-quarter 2026 results after US markets close on October 29 and hold a live webinar at…
PowerCompute Mines 8.1 Bitcoin In September After Using BTC To Slash Debt
TL;DR: PowerCompute mined 8.1 BTC in September, up 37% from a year earlier. Its month-end Bitcoin holdings fell to 63.7…
OSL Brings A USDGO Market-Neutral Fund On-Chain For Hong Kong Investors
TL;DR: OSL Group has tokenized the USDGO Plus SP fund on-chain and is providing custody and distribution through its licensed…
Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire breaks silence to BBC
Vitalii Zhykovych gives his own account of the attempted assassination of Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev.
3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?
With artificial intelligence capabilities continuing to expand, universities now face complex, urgent questions about how to navigate increasing challenges, as…
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $484.9 Million As BlackRock Leads A Broad Day Of Outflows
TL;DR: US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $484.9 million in net outflows on October 7, according to Farside Investors. BlackRock’s IBIT…
Sui’s Hashi Bitcoin Finance Network Launches With More Than $500 Million Committed
TL;DR: Hashi, Sui’s native Bitcoin finance infrastructure, will begin a phased mainnet rollout later this month with more than $500…
Polygon Opens Its Money Stack To TRON’s $94 Billion USDT Market
TL;DR: Polygon Open Money Stack now supports TRON, giving payment and fintech businesses a single infrastructure layer for bank transfers,…
Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API…
Coinbase And Samsung Bring USDC Directly Into Samsung Wallet
TL;DR: Coinbase is powering USDC inside Samsung Wallet, with the stablecoin feature due to reach 82 million compatible Galaxy devices…
Chainlink Launches One-Click Cross-Chain Vault Deposits Across 80+ Blockchains
TL;DR: Chainlink has launched CCIP Vault Adapters, allowing DeFi vaults on one network to accept deposits from users across more…
Trump says U.S. will not attack Iran before midterm election
Trump said talks with Tehran were “productive” as the Iran war pushes oil and gas prices higher and support for…
Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Multiple teams within the same company increasingly need shared access to expensive GPU clusters for their generative AI operations, while…
Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your Judgement
Three moves to decode the hype The post Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to Keep Your…
JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking…
U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green-card labor program in foreign worker crackdown
Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited “multiple active federal investigations” around the two companies’ involvement in the program Thursday.
Trump’s former defense secretary sees no end in sight for Iran war — to the benefit of America’s ‘greatest adversary’
Mark Esper, who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense during Trump’s first presidential term, said he did not see the…
AI Agents Beat PyTorch: Writing Faster CUDA Kernels
AI agents can now write CUDA kernels that outperform PyTorch—but proving those speedups are real is the harder problem. I…
Ray Dalio warns the stock market’s cushion against rising bond yields is shrinking
Ray Dalio says earnings have cushioned stocks from rising bond yields, but that buffer is shrinking as he warns free…
Your Model’s MSE Is Lying to You III: Time Series Diffusion
A diffusion head for probabilistic time series forecasting: why a forecast can get the mean and the variance right and…
Polygon Open Money Stack Expands to TRON, Extending Network Access to Regulated U.S. Payment Rails
Dubai, UAE – October 8, 2026 – Polygon Labs today announced that Polygon Open Money Stack now supports the TRON…
HTX Ventures Publishes New Report on the Convergence of CeFi, DeFi, and TradFi
HTX Ventures, the global investment arm of HTX, has published a new report titled The Convergence of CeFi, DeFi, and…
Gate Partners with Visa to Launch Crypto-linked Card Across 40+ Countries and Territories
Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in…
Russian strike on buses kills 33, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the crowded bus in the frontline city to kill as many civilians as possible.
America shut out Chinese EVs. Britain welcomed them — and now faces a difficult choice
Britain faces a finely balanced choice over whether to follow the EU in imposing tariffs on Chinese EVs.
Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference…
US and Lebanon protecting wanted Syrian general, BBC finds
Bassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice’s abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.
Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA
Perplexity has released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models. They come in 2 sizes: 0.6B for fast, cheap…
Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
The global building boom of power-hungry data centers is straining electrical grids, causing greater reliance on energy from polluting fossil…