Footage of Tibet floods isn’t being shown in China – and we know little about victims there
Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.
Norway mourns King Harald as Haakon VIII ascends throne
Mourners gather outside the palace as royals, politicians and citizens remember a beloved king, whose son has adopted the family…
Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML)…
Human-in-the-Loop Without Killing Throughput
How we stopped reviewing every agent action and started routing human attention where it actually mattered The post Human-in-the-Loop Without…
GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
Two frontier open-weight models shipped within a day of each other this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE…
Analysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hike
After confusing markets at his July news conference, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used Jackson Hole to give a clearer view…
How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2
This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of…
From One Agent to a Team: Understanding Codex Subagents
A hands-on guide to defining specialist agents and coordinating their work in the Codex CLI The post From One Agent…
Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
Shaders are still the hardest thing to ship on a normal web team. WebGPU gives you the hardware, then hands…
Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres
How to run the backend locally with Docker or in the cloud The post Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to…
Fed Chairman Warsh expresses concern about inflation advocates for ‘quieter’ central bank: Watch live
He used the speech to outline his philosophy on policymaking while carefully sidestepping any signals
Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor
Be a better communicator with LLM programming The post Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor appeared first on Towards…
Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
Laura Bicker explains how a lake which formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border is raising fears of…
Found Friday S5I7: Agents are becoming real coworkers. Now comes the control layer.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 7 Agents are becoming real coworkers. Now comes the control layer. This week’s…
‘High risk’ of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China
China says a lake formed after a recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border may burst in the coming days.
Iran links Hormuz reopening to ending regional wars as Trump reportedly rejects return to June deal
Iran said the conflict in the Gaza Strip has to end, Israel has to withdraw from Lebanon and also halt…
Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio. It ships as two…
Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The Defense Department had barred the U.S. military from using Anthropic’s Claude in March
Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal
Creative teams face growing demand for more assets, formats, and revisions, while their scripts, references, models, and outputs often remain…
Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India, with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you…
The Sigmoid Function: From ‘e’ to Neural Networks
We use the equation all the time. But where did it actually come from? The post The Sigmoid Function: From…
Looking beyond natural sequences
A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by…
Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown
Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise ingestion. It is a 2.3B-parameter vision language…
I Trained Six Models for Fraud Detection, and the Best One Isn’t in Production
What a final-year project taught me about the gap between evaluation metrics and production decisions The post I Trained Six…
Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it. That “somewhere” is now a product category with at least…
Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese open AI models as it warns of White House crackdown
Nvidia is optimizing hardware for DeepSeek and Qwen while warning that potential U.S. restrictions on models originating in China could…
Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics
Self-hosted speech AI has historically carried an observability trade-off. The service can tell you an endpoint is up and how…
Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Analytics Stack But There’s One Skill It Still Can’t Touch
As AI handles more of the execution, what work should belong to agents vs humans and why does that distinction…
From In-Silico to Wet-Lab: Evaluating AI Protein Design Performance
In this tutorial, we use Anthropic’s claude-protein-binder-design dataset, which contains 1,440 AI-designed miniprotein binders tested against 16 targets. Because the…
How to Work with AI Coding Agents
A practical guide to getting better code, not just more code The post How to Work with AI Coding Agents…
Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations
The Operating Layer: Memory, Skills, Todos, Voice, Channels, and the Approval Boundary
The operating layer: human oversight over memory, skills, todos, voice, channels, and the approval boundary. Photo via Unsplash (Unsplash License).…
Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan…
Nvidia jumps 7% in after blockbuster earnings boost AI confidence
Nvidia shares rose on Thursday after the chip giant’s revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand will remain strong.
Tanker attack tests Trump’s claim that Hormuz is a ‘functioning strait’
An oil tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, keeping alive risks deterring vessesl from…
Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chips
The Chinese AI company said it had already launched the model globally in stealth mode for a week.
Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring. Its core move is…
China industrial profit growth in July slumps to 7-month low of 11.2%
Industrial corporate profitability has seen a notable turnaround, swinging from years of declines since 2021 and barely positive growth last…
Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hikes as core inflation stays elevated
The Bank of Korea hiked rates by 25 basis points to 3%, its highest since January 2025 and in line…
Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series and the cheapest capable coding model the…
Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
AI teams building production agents face a frustrating asymmetry: the diversity of agent frameworks keeps growing, but evaluation tooling has…
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick
GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and…
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3
In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script…
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for cost per token. The checkpoint pairs a…
Heart, hope and a steely determination: Dolly Parton’s musical legacy
BBC music correspondent Mark Savage looks back on the legacy of the “irreplaceable” late singer.
Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
Meta and state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that company misrepresented the extent of child-related mental…
What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers
I read every major model release. Most of them ship a coding number. The number goes up. The conclusion everyone…
Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say
A hospital official told the BBC that the door to the ward was not locked, but manned with security guards,…