Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
The defence lawyer is upset after the judge decides not to remove a holdout in the triple murder case.
South Korea’s AI rally is reshaping romance, reality shows and academic preferences
South Korea rally is changing what Koreans watch, how Koreans date, and what Koreans study.
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour
AI weather models have spent three years closing the gap with physics-based forecasting, but two problems stayed open: resolution too…
Tether Reports $1.3B Q2 Profit As Excess Reserves Reach $5.2B
Tether reported $1.3 billion in Q2 net operating profit in its latest BDO attestation statement, while excess reserves rose to…
Trump hints US would not back UK over Falkland Islands due to lack of Iran war support
The US president says the UK was not “there to help me” in his ongoing war with Iran.
SEC Approves Options Trading For WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund
The SEC has approved a Cboe Options Exchange rule amendment allowing listed options on the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund, opening another…
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold
Today, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it its most intelligent and aligned model, and positions it primarily as…
Marathon Mines 670 Bitcoin In August As Treasury Reaches 25,000 BTC
Marathon Digital reported August production of 670 Bitcoin, while its corporate treasury balance reached 25,000 BTC under its full HODL…
Circle Reserve Attestation Shows USDC Backing Above Circulating Supply
Circle has issued its latest monthly reserve attestation for USDC, with Deloitte’s review showing reserve assets above total circulating token…
ECB Digital Euro Report Keeps Preparation Phase Moving
The European Central Bank has released a progress report on the digital euro preparation phase, outlining work on offline functionality,…
Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the…
CleanSpark Hits 30 EH/s Hashrate After Mississippi Facility Deal
CleanSpark has expanded its operational deployed hashrate beyond 30 EH/s after completing the acquisition of two Mississippi data center facilities.…
CFTC Advisory Sets Expectations For Tokenized Collateral At Clearinghouses
The CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk has issued a staff advisory on how registered derivatives clearing organizations should handle…
Carney claps back at Lutnick, says Canada will resume trade talks ‘when the Americans are ready’
Canada has retaliated against President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs with “dollar for dollar” duties on U.S. goods, which are set…
BitGo Brings Gold, Real Estate And Fine Art Tokenization To Core Chain
BitGo has partnered with Core Chain to introduce a tokenization framework for real-world assets, including physical gold, real estate, and…
Metaplanet Buys 1,007 More Bitcoin As Treasury Hits 20,000 BTC
Metaplanet has bought another 1,007 Bitcoin for $69 million, lifting its total corporate treasury holdings to 20,000 BTC. The company…
SEC Issues New Reporting Guidance For Digital Asset Custody Firms
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has issued updated staff guidance on public reporting expectations for digital asset depositories and…
AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and coding agents like Kiro often struggle with…
My Model Worked Perfectly. Then I Tried to Make It Useful.
Turning a trained churn classifier into a FastAPI service that other software can actually call. The post My Model Worked…
Tables in PDFs for RAG: Don’t Flatten the Grid
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B4] – A diagnostic and five composable operations, not a decision tree The post Tables in…
Hugging Face approached Nvidia’s Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition, CEO tells CNBC
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will “expand access to AI for developers and institutions…
Changing One Prompt Can Affect 50 Others — I Built a Prompt Dependency Graph to Find What Needs Retesting
I built a prompt dependency graph that separates everything a component can reach from the smaller set that actually needs…
How to Solve the Right Problem in the Age of Agentic AI
A practical framework for reducing uncertainty before agents accelerate implementation The post How to Solve the Right Problem in the…
The world appears to be entering a higher-rate era. Here’s who will pay the price
The bond sell-off is owed to a mix of high government debt issuance, an oil-price shock that has reignited inflation…
UN warns of ‘supersized’ El Niño as countries prepare for impact
The WMO has warned that the natural weather phenomenon could bring disruption to global economies.
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime:…
Channel smuggling gangs resort to ‘mega-dinghies’ as crackdown limits small boat supply
Once-rival criminal groups are being forced to work together because of a shortage of small boats, a BBC investigation has…
Iran attacks Kuwait as Trump says renewed Mideast hostilities will not last ‘too long’
On Thursday, Kuwait’s army said it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran.
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep…
Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two Filipino sailors, Saudi Arabia says
The kingdom condemns the targeting of Sidr, which was reportedly hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on…
Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI…
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers.…
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and…
Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Teams running coding agents hit the same wall. Claude Code speaks the Anthropic Messages API, Codex CLI speaks OpenAI, and…
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes
Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the…
EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after ‘new escalation’ in Germany
Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 2, When Fuzzy Matching Stops Working
I built a matcher meant to finish the cleanup that normalization left behind. Testing it against real data showed that…
System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might…
Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply
A visual guide to how graph neural networks work under the hood The post Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and…
US sailors arrive in Thailand’s Pattaya after record 250 days at sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln is docking close to Pattaya, known for its neon-lit nightlife, and for sex tourism.
A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions
Why the standard groupBy function isn’t enough The post A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions appeared first on Towards Data…
Zelensky says airlines should avoid Russian airspace as Ukraine escalates drone operations
Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its own…
Global bond rout gathers pace as inflation fears mount
Borrowing costs continue to extend multi-decade highs as nerves over inflation, higher rates and high debt remain at the fore.
Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection
Enterprise AI buyers have been stuck between two things they both need. Regulated teams need a zero data retention (ZDR)…
China’s Xi keeps Iranian president at arm’s length weeks ahead of Trump summit
China’s Xi gave Iran’s Pezeshkian a brief, low-profile audience at the SCO summit, as Beijing seeks to avoid appearing close…
Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports US strike killed five at wedding party
The Iranian Red Crescent says a child was among those killed when shrapnel from a US strike hit a home.…
Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing
Most production voice stacks are three systems stitched together. One model transcribes, a second separates speakers, and a detector decides…
Trump says U.S. is not forcing Iran to negotiate after fresh round of strikes
U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites across…