No clear winner after tight New Zealand general election
Weeks of coalition talks could follow after preliminary results pointed to a highly divided national parliament.
Risk of Iran war escalation remains high despite Democratic sweep in U.S. midterm elections
The U.S. and Iran are on a collision course as tensions in the Middle East simmer.
Timestral, t0, Tabby, and Morpheus-2.0 Compared on GIFT-Eval
All four time-series foundation models scale, patch, and predict quantiles; the real split is how series share information. The post…
How to Prioritize Product Feedback by Revenue at Risk
Bellwether joins support tickets, store reviews, sales calls, and NPS to CRM accounts, then stress-tests the ranking on 6,693 synthetic…
With Stephen Miller pick, Trump readies for a battle
The US president’s promotion of Miller, a loyal partisan firebrand to be his new chief of staff sets up likely…
Why a wave of bomb threats is proving so difficult for Europe’s aviation authorities to contain
The “weakest point of aviation is targeting it in-flight,” analysts say — but any change to procedures will be a…
Buoyant Releases Kinference: An Open Source Inference Control Plane for Kubernetes and vLLM
Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, has released Kinference, an open source project for building inference platforms on Kubernetes. Kinference is…
Paraguay’s president impeached and under house arrest after bank collapse
Santiago Peña was ousted due to a banking crisis which left millions of people unable to access their money.
Investors brace for lower Anthropic valuation, calling $1.5 trillion a ‘stretch’
Anthropic could list below a $1.5 trillion valuation, trailing previous expectations, as the AI trade sours on Wall Street.
SageMaker Inference now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for model endpoints
When you deploy a model to a GPU endpoint, the smallest unit of GPU you can request is one whole…
How to predict the behavior of molecules from scant data
Discovering new molecules for specific uses is a major driver of progress in a wide variety of industries, whether it’s…
Zyphra ZYFA: FP8 FlashAttention for AMD MI355X, Up to 1.76x Faster
Zyphra has released ZYFA (Zyphra FlashAttention on AMD), a set of FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct…
AI stocks climb after trillions wiped from market values
Investors had been selling off tech shares in part due to concerns the Democrat election victory would mean slower AI…
Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate
Organizations building applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI) face a recurring challenge: giving large language model (LLM) agents access to…
How to Measure AI Adoption, Performance, and ROI With 12 KPIs
Includes a worked example with 50 users and $110,000 in first-year cost, plus baselines, targets, and ownership rules for every…
ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Had a Hole That Leaked Chats
A setting meant to stop ChatGPT from leaking private chats could itself be bypassed. Check Point Research says attackers could…
10-year Treasury yield rises after much stronger-than-expected October jobs report
Investors assessed the path of monetary policy following a blowout October jobs report on Friday.
How to Manage Python Environments with uv Instead of venv and pip
A side-by-side walkthrough of venv plus pip and uv init, uv add, uv run, and uv sync, with a lockfile…
Found Friday Season 5 Issue 12: The assistant got a desk. The signature is still yours.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 12 The assistant got a desk. The signature is still yours. Grok Bot,…
Democratic sweep gives markets a reason to rethink path of interest rates
Rate hikes could be curbed by an Iran war resolution, slower U.S. growth and fresh fiscal policy — but none…
Build Your First Multi-Tool AI Agent with Ollama and Python
AI Agents for Beginners, Part 2: The agent picks between three database tools, uses each result to choose its next call,…
Google Backstops $19B Anthropic Lease at TeraWulf Campus
About $19 billion of Anthropic’s data-centre rent at a Kentucky campus now has Google standing behind the debt that finances…
Hoax Bomb threats repeatedly disrupt flights across Europe this week. Here’s what we know
Dozens of flights across Europe reported bomb threats this week, disrupting air travel across London, Dublin, and Helsinki.
Give Your Python AI Agent Persistent Memory with One JSON File
Three Python classes, an OpenRouter key, and gpt-4.1-mini give the agent a calculator, a stub web search, and conversation recall…
Anthropic Speeds Up 2x, but METR Says Evidence Is Hidden
Anthropic is improving its AI models about twice as fast as it did a year earlier, according to an independent…
White House denies Hegseth and Rubio to leave jobs after Republican election losses
US media reports there are calls to replace Pete Hegseth, who also faces a possible impeachment vote, while Marco Rubio…
Oil prices rise as investors weigh renewed U.S.-Iran conflict risks after midterm elections
Oil prices rose Friday as investors weighed the risk of renewed U.S.-Iran military escalation after the midterms, alongside prospects for…
Thinking Machines Releases Inkling 2 Small, a 594B MoE With 17B Active
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling 2 Small, the first model of its second Inkling generation. The Inkling 2 Small…
Nasdaq sell-off batters Asian chip stocks as SK Hynix, Samsung, Softbank, TSMC tumble
Asian technology stocks tumbled Friday, tracking a sharp sell-off on Wall Street overnight that sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite into…
Google Releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: 15-Second AI Video at $0.07 per Second
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, the newest version of its video generation and editing model. Gemini Omni 1.2…
Major tech stocks plunge as US midterms add to fears of AI slowdown
The market has been reacting to possible tougher scrutiny of data centre construction and the AI industry following the US…
AI meltdown: Nvidia and Qualcomm drop more than 9%, pushing Nasdaq to worst day since April 2025
Companies tied to the AI buildout are all selling off as concerns mount about a slowdown following the midterm elections.
Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: A 280B MoE Base Model With 14B Active Parameters
Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, the raw pre-training checkpoint of its new sparse Mixture-of-Experts language model. ERNIE 5.5…
Top Democrats call to rein in AI buildout after midterms sweep: ‘National data center moratorium now’
Democratic winners and progressive lawmakers are calling for tougher limits on AI and data centers after the 2026 midterm elections.
Getting started with Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. With Web Answer, agent builders get…
Hoax bomb threats target European airlines and airports for second time in a week
At least 21 flights across Europe are affected in what the UK government calls a “malicious hoax threat”.
How Amazon Marketplace evaluates content quality with Amazon SageMaker AI
A+ Content is the rich media widget on the Amazon product detail page. Through visual assets, brands communicate unique product…
DailyAI Briefing: Data centres lose 40 of 41 local votes, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. US voters turned down AI data centres in 40…
How to Report for 100+ Clients With One Semantic Model
Configuration-driven reporting: one semantic model, one metric catalog, and a few lines of configuration per audience The post How to…
Voters Turned Down AI Data Centres in 40 of 41 Local Ballots
AI data centres were on 41 local ballots across 10 US states on Tuesday. Voters sided against them in 40.…
How We Built NASA’s Zero-Shot Detector for Gas Leaks from Space
We trained one model on methane. Without retraining, it also maps carbon monoxide, ammonia and nitrogen dioxide plumes, including the…
Apple Cuts Staff AI Budgets From $300 a Day as Its Costs Climb
Some Apple engineers could once spend $300 a day on AI tools. Last month that fell to $200, and some…
Here’s what the Democratic election rout could mean for the U.S. economy
The biggest forces shaping the economy aren’t going to change just because the party in power did.
How GEO, WebMCP, and Bot Paywalls Are Building the AI-Native Internet
The internet of the future will look much different than the one today. Businesses are already transitioning. The post How…
ChatGPT Now Makes Animated GIFs as Image Use Hits 4 Billion a Week
People now make 4 billion images a week with OpenAI’s tools, up from 3 billion in September. From this week,…
How the midterms could fuel the K-shaped AI trade
U.S. midterm results could slow data center development, raising the value of existing AI capacity while increasing pressure on debt-funded…
OpenAI’s Agents Found 948 Ways to Take Over Linux, at $1,279 Each
OpenAI says a team of its AI agents found 948 separate flaws in Linux that let an ordinary user take…
Together AI Releases Together Compiler: Agents Make Inference Up to 2.6x Faster
Together AI has introduced Together Compiler (TKCC), an agent-driven system that keeps re-optimizing inference as production traffic changes. Together Compiler…
US to Spell Out the Laws AI Labs Must Follow Before Congress Acts
Within the next two weeks, the US government plans to publish a list of every existing law and regulation that…