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…
IMDb Sentiment Analysis with DistilBERT LoRA, TF-IDF Baselines, Calibration, Interpretability, Robustness Testing, and Semi-Supervised Learning
In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end sentiment analysis workflow using the Stanford NLP IMDb Large Movie Review Dataset and…
Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites
Israel is planning large-scale land expropriations in historic, Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long-running agents accumulate state that no transcript captures. A coding agent at step 10 holds edited files, a running dev…
Hormuz talks positive, Oman says, as Iran warns deal would not open strait
Both sides suggest progress in talks to agree a new shipping route through the strait, but a breakthrough remains unclear.
Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary
Long-horizon agents accumulate context faster than they resolve tasks. Every tool output, observation, and intermediate reasoning step stays in the…
Trump’s ex-lawyer Todd Blanche narrowly confirmed as US attorney general
The vote cements Trump’s former criminal defence lawyer as the nation’s top law enforcement official despite a rare pushback from…
Before Q, K, and V: Reconstructing the Transformer
Many Transformer explainers start with the finished architecture. We ask why it looks the way it does. The post Before…
UAE says one of its ships was targeted by missile as U.S.-Iran tensions over Strait of Hormuz remain high
Iran’s military stressed that the crucial waterway would only be reopened when the U.S. accepts Iran’s conditions.
Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent
Building a production-ready web interface for a stateful LangGraph agent The post Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI…
Designing Scalable Interactive Visualizations with Reflex XY: Composition, Million-Point Rendering, Streaming, Custom Marks, and Export
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced visualization capabilities of the XY Python library by building interactive, scalable, and extensible…
Child among three killed in Russian missile attacks near Kyiv
Russia continued its overnight attacks after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Ukraine’s dwindling supplies of missile interceptors.
Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B: An Open-Weights Policy-Adaptive Multimodal Safety Classifier Matching Models 7× Its Size
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that treats content moderation as a single…
Spain imposes border controls against Italy as row over Ceuta migrant influx intensifies
Italy introduced border controls following an influx of about 78,000 migrants from neighbouring Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub for AI agents. The idea is super simple:…
Trump teased an Iran deal that didn’t come, but markets soared. Here’s why it keeps happening
As oil reserves and munitions stockpiles reportedly dwindle, analysts wonder how much longer markets will pounce when the Trump admin.…
Matplotlib vs Plotly: Which Python Chart Tool Should You Choose?
From Static Plots to Interactive Data Exploration The post Matplotlib vs Plotly: Which Python Chart Tool Should You Choose? appeared first…
How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Prior authorization is the approval process health plans require before covering certain medical services or medications. It remains one of…
Seven killed after teen shooter opens fire at home and school in Thailand
Authorities say the 14-year-old killed his grandparents before gunning down five teachers at his school.
Loop Engineering for Listing Questions: When the Answer Is Every Passage, Not the Top One
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #12] – The category of question most RAG pipelines silently fail on, and the pipeline shape…
U.S. economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July
Nonfarm payrolls were projected to increase by 83,000 in July while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, according to…
My Fall-Detection Model Scored 94%, and It Was Lying to Me
How a single evaluation choice inflated my results by 25 points, and what rebuilding honestly taught me about ML systems…
Solar stocks shine after Trump extends China tariffs to polysilicon products
Solar stocks rose in premarket trading President Donald Trump announced fresh import restrictions on polysilicon products.
Iran’s chief negotiator accuses Trump of ‘theater diplomacy’ with Hormuz traffic near standstill
The conflict is broadening across the region, with Gulf energy infrastructure and key shipping chokepoints under renewed threat.
Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot
Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot agent that writes unit tests and then proves they work. It ships in…
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B: An On-Device Agentic Model With 128K Context, Tool Calling, And Open Weights
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B, an agentic model that runs entirely on-device. It plans, calls tools, and works through multi-step tasks…
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it…
China’s exports jump 23% in July, beating estimates; imports cool
China’s exports rose more than expected in July, as global demand for high-tech components continues to absorb the country’s manufactured…
Oil rises amid supply disruption fears following Iran’s restrictive draft plan for the Strait of Hormuz
News of Iran’s restrictive draft plan for the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices higher, renewing concerns over supply disruptions.
Securing AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Before AI agents, it was generally sufficient for access controls to treat each action as an independent event. Applications relied…
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents. It runs entirely in V8 isolates on…
Configure rate limits for AI traffic on AgentCore gateway
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway is a fully managed, serverless AI gateway that provides a single, secure entry point for AI…
I Built an AI Data Agent Which Can Query Data and Answer Business Questions. Here’s How.
A step-by-step guide to building a data agent and conversational interface that let business users to explore data in natural…
Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide
In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete…
Trump denies US weapons shortage and says information ‘leakers’ being ‘hunted down’
While precise data is classified, publicly available information suggests the US has used up many difficult-to-manufacture weapons.
Build visibility for Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch
As organizations move from experimenting with coding agents to adopting them across engineering teams, the leadership question changes. It is…
Last Month’s Machine Learning Lessons Learned
The downside of conference travel The post Last Month’s Machine Learning Lessons Learned appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Ukraine hits two oil refineries deep in Russian territory
Ukraine’s president says the strikes aim to limit revenues Russia “used to finance” its war.