World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts record $184 billion profit as it reveals SpaceX stake for the first time
The fund — currently valued at around $2.34 trillion — is an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60…
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router
NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5…
Houthi attack kills six in first fatalities in Red Sea in over a year; U.S. strikes container ship
A cargoship and containership have been hit in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman as the war inflicts a…
Oil prices rise as Red Sea, Gulf of Oman attacks heighten supply concerns
Oil prices rose on Wednesday after deadly attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman heightened concerns…
Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and…
Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into…
Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients
Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its…
Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock
Cyber defenders have never had more capability at their fingertips, and they have never needed it more. Frontier models can…
Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex
Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that…
BitMine Pushes Ethereum Treasury Past 5.8M ETH
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added another 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million…
BlackRock Cuts IBIT In-Kind Conversion Minimum To $1M
BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making…
The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model
Video production is shifting as social clips, ad creative and film pre-visualization move from cloud to local GPUs. LTX today…
Wintermute Says Institutions Drove 72% Of Its Spot OTC Volume In H1 2026
Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in the first half of 2026, up from 59%…
Empery Digital Sells 1,635 Bitcoin As Treasury Buffer Shrinks
Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, using the proceeds to support debt repayment and…
SharpLink Reports $394M Q2 Loss As Ethereum Revaluation Hits Results
SharpLink reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the result driven largely by non-cash…
Rescuers scramble for survivors with 180 dead in Colombia earthquake
Colombia experienced a number of aftershocks on Tuesday, as efforts continued to free survivors trapped in rubble and buildings.
Luke Dashjr Removed As BIP Editor After BIP-110 Controversy
Luke Dashjr has been removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor after a dispute around BIP-110, marking a rare governance…
Stop Calling the First Significant Day a Win
Checking an A/B test until it crosses p < 0.05 can turn a nominal 5 percent false-positive rate into almost…
BTCPay Server Patches Critical LND Credential Bug After Lightning Wallet Drain
BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.2 to patch a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated remote access to LND credential files,…
How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC
This post was co-written by ONESTRUCTION, Inc. and Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. as part of GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator…
Should AI Developers Make the Switch from Polars to Pandas?
Not all Python data libraries are created equal! The post Should AI Developers Make the Switch from Polars to Pandas?…
Building and Validating a Quantitative Trading Strategy with OctoBot, Walk-Forward Backtesting, Parameter Optimization, and Interactive Analysis
In this tutorial, we build a complete quantitative backtesting workflow with OctoBot and OctoBot-Script while keeping the environment isolated from…
The Budget Split That Explains Itself
How to diversify a budget without losing the shadow prices that explain the result The post The Budget Split That…
Can a Local LLM Run My AI Assistant?
I replayed the same 27 real production tasks through two local models, one hardware upgrade apart, to find out what…
Trump hid in catering truck in secret plane swap over Iran threat, reports say
The US president was moved from the old Air Force One to a military plane as he left a Nato…
Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang’s ‘big concept’ for AI. What now?
The first three-plus years of the AI buildout has been funded by record amounts of equity and debt issued by…
Intel upsizes stock offering to $20 billion at $95 per share as AI demand accelerates
Technology giants have shelled out trillions to support insatiable AI demand and the infrastructure buildout.
webAI Releases TwIL-LM: A 1.7B and 3B Formal-Logic Model Family for Autoformalization on Local Hardware
webAI has released TwIL-LM, a two-model family of formal-logic reasoners at 1.7B and 3B parameters. The 3B member, TwIL-LM3, is…
At least 132 killed in Colombia’s largest earthquake in years
The magnitude 7.4 quake had its epicentre in Chocó province, near the Pacific Coast, but could be felt in cities…
Trump claims total control of Hormuz, demands Iran pay reparations as standoff deepens
The dueling positions Washington and Tehran staked out showed how far apart the two sides remain even as both talked…
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as…
Run interactive IDEs on Amazon EKS with SageMaker AI to power up your AI workflows
To power up AI workflows on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), data scientists need interactive IDEs like JupyterLab and…
How to Effectively Deploy Code With Claude Code
Learn how to optimize your CI/CD pipeline for coding agents The post How to Effectively Deploy Code With Claude Code…
How nOps shipped FinOps agents 75% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
nOps, an AI-powered cloud optimization solution, recently reimagined its Financial Operations (FinOps) analytics capabilities by transitioning to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.…
Building an Agent-Ready Data Warehouse: What Traditional Architectures Do Wrong
Giving an AI agent access to a data warehouse doesn’t automatically make it agent-ready. The real challenge lies in teaching…
Meta AI Releases Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open-Weights Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse Spark. It is tuned for always-on local agent…
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Explained: From Theory to ELBO and the Reparameterization Trick
A clear, math-first walkthrough of how VAEs learn to generate new data The post Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) Explained: From Theory…
SPP-Net Paper Walkthrough: Breaking the Fixed-Size Constraint
Learn how Spatial Pyramid Pooling enables CNNs to handle any image size, with a from-scratch PyTorch implementation The post SPP-Net…
At least 13 killed in Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Tatarstan region, officials say
It is one of the deadliest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
U.S. reaffirms grip on Hormuz blockade, turning away 55 ships as talks stall
The escalating tally underscores how far the two sides remain from resolving a crisis that has choked the Strait of…
ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a…
Oil rises amid uncertainty over U.S.-Iran Strait of Hormuz deal
Oil rose as traders assess mixed signals from the U.S. and Iran amid worries that a deal to open the…
Suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan appears in court after extradition
The Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bombproof van to transport the 49-year-old to court after his extradition from…
NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR,…
Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared
LLM applications fail in ways traditional software does not. The same prompt can produce different outputs. A retrieval step can…
I Thought Loading Data Was the Finish Line. It Was the Starting Point.
Building my first dbt models and learning what “analysis-ready” data actually means The post I Thought Loading Data Was the…
How to Implement Structured Output with Local LLMs
Why use it? How to implement it? What can we do when it fails? The post How to Implement Structured…
Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says
Israel’s PM says its military will not pull-out from Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.
Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino
Fifa strongly criticises what it calls a “concerted and ongoing effort” to “undermine” the organisation and its president Gianni Infantino.
Saudi Aramco extinguishes fire at refinery as Houthis claim responsibility
Iran’s foreign minister reportedly said his country is not engaging in talks with the U.S., but added: “Messages are being…