Elliptic Report Shows How Bitcoin ATM Scams Move From Cash To On-Chain Wallets
Elliptic has published a new report explaining how Bitcoin ATM scams work, and the most useful part is not the…
Kraken Brings CFTC-Regulated Perpetual Futures To US Traders
Kraken is bringing perpetual futures to eligible US traders through a regulated derivatives structure, and that is a notable shift…
Poolin Files Chapter 11 As Bitcoin Miner Moves Toward $52M Asset Sale
Poolin Technology has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, setting up an orderly wind-down and asset sale process tied to…
Hester Peirce Warns Crypto Vaults And Lending Strategies May Still Trigger Securities Rules
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has issued a new statement on crypto vaults and lending strategies, and the message is more…
FATF Says Crypto Travel Rule Adoption Is Rising, But Enforcement Still Lags
The Financial Action Task Force says more jurisdictions are putting crypto rules into law, but enforcement remains the weak point.…
Ten killed in Russian attack on drone exhibition near Kyiv
The event, attended by prominent members of the Ukrainian defence industry, was hit by ballistic missiles in the middle of…
Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
Today, we announce the availability of Claude Opus 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 5…
SEC Enforcement Deputy Sam Waldon To Step Down As Agency Reshuffles Leadership
Sam Waldon, the Principal Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency on July 31, 2026,…
SEC Sets 24-Hour Trading Roundtable As Markets Move Toward Always-On Finance
The SEC is preparing to hold a public roundtable on 24-hour trading, and while the announcement is focused on US…
Build an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking on AWS
Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold…
Tabular LLMs: An Introduction to the Foundation Models That Predict Your Spreadsheet
Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text — and on…
Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8quater] – Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real…
France orders evacuation of tourist spot as hundreds flee wildfires by boat
The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap…
Trump considering a ‘massive attack’ on Iran as Tehran labels UK ‘accomplice’ to America
The president told Axios he was considering an operation “bigger than ever before.”
How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. We…
Working to automate nuclear plant operations
For nuclear to be considered as a viable clean energy source, it has to be competitively priced and economical to…
Trump’s new global tariff draws rebukes from trade partners over forced-labor justification
U.S. trading partners have rejected the forced-labor rationale behind Trump’s new global tariffs, while most signaled plans to keep negotiating.
US imposes tariffs on dozens of trade partners over ‘forced labour’ imports
The tariffs target around 60 trading partners over claims they failed to properly stop forced labour.
Japan core inflation rate in June creeps up from 4-year low as higher oil prices bite
This is the first rise in core inflation since March, and was in line with the1.6% growth expected by economists…
Best practices for applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to code generation workflows
This post continues our series on best practices with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. For the previous post, see Build safe generative…
Kraken’s UK Setup Shows Why Crypto Regulation Is More Complicated Than A Simple License
Kraken’s UK presence is a good example of how crypto regulation actually works in practice: not as one broad approval,…
Japan’s Crypto Law Changes Put Bitcoin ETF Hopes On A Longer Track
Japan’s latest crypto law changes have revived the country’s spot Bitcoin ETF discussion, but the important part is the timeline.…
Trump to slap ‘sweeping’ new tariffs on 60 trade partners as global duties expire
The Trump administration has ramped its tariff actions back up since the president’s trade agenda suffered major legal setbacks earlier…
BlackRock IBIT And MicroStrategy Show Two Very Different Ways To Accumulate Bitcoin
BlackRock’s IBIT and MicroStrategy are both huge Bitcoin accumulation stories, but they are not doing the same thing, and that…
Marathon’s Utah Landfill Gas Pilot Shows Bitcoin Mining’s Energy Story Is Getting More Practical
Marathon Digital has launched a small Bitcoin mining pilot in Utah powered by landfill methane gas, and while the project…
Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
Andrew Ng has announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent that produces finished work rather than conversation. OpenWorker asks the user…
S&P And Pantera Launch Crypto Index Built Around Protocol Fundamentals
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have launched a new digital asset benchmark that tracks crypto networks through a…
$67M Ethereum Short On Hyperliquid Shows How Institutional Trading Is Moving On-Chain
A large Ethereum short on Hyperliquid is giving the market another glimpse of how serious capital is starting to use…
Evaluating AI Agents: A production blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
This post was co-written with Motorway and the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. Motorway, a UK-based online…
When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an Overbooked Flight
$8 million vs $5k + Potentially Going Viral The post When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an…
You Didn’t Get the AI Model You Paid For
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a…
French Regulator Orders ISP Block On Polymarket Access
France’s National Gambling Authority has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, putting the prediction-market platform back under…
T. Rowe Price Crypto ETF Filing Puts Active Multi-Asset Funds In Focus
T. Rowe Price’s active crypto ETF filing is a reminder that the next phase of digital asset funds may not…
Agentic retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Your users ask multi-part, comparative, and exploratory questions that span PDFs, slides, tickets, transcripts, and web content. Classic single-shot retrieval…
Swiss Cantonal Bank BancaStato Adds Bitcoin And Ethereum Trading With Sygnum
A Swiss cantonal bank has moved crypto trading directly into its normal banking experience, and that is the part of…
Smarter Web Sells 178 Bitcoin To Repay $11.7M TOBAM Debt
The Smarter Web Company has sold part of its Bitcoin treasury to repay an $11.7 million convertible debt facility held…
Oil prices hit $100 for the first time since May
The price of Brent crude rose more than 6% on Thursday as the war in the Middle East continues to…
Tesla falls 12%, Alphabet sinks 6% as AI spending concerns spook investors
Both Tesla and Alphabet signaled higher spending as they invest in artificial intelligence.
Most RAG Hallucinations Are Extraction Errors: Seven Patterns for a Typed Generation Contract
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8ter] – Naming the RAG error correctly matters: model reads the context, so a wrong answer…
Saudis must recognise Israel for nuclear deal, says Trump
The US president says the landmark agreement to help Saudis develop nuclear energy is dependent on it joining the Abraham…
Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML
Patience, Optimism, Discipline, Projects, Teams The post Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Russia’s Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries is now in Ukraine’s crosshairs. Here’s why
Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia’s Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war.
Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower
The hidden cost of asynchronous systems, how tiny CPU tasks quietly became our biggest bottleneck while scaling hundreds of LLM…
MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission
MIT researchers are set to contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, with 15 collaborative projects among those…
Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released…
Houthis claim strikes on Saudi Arabian oil tankers as Rubio says Iran not ready to make a deal
Yemen’s Houthis said they had targeted two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with drones and missiles for allegedly violating its maritime…
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a…
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of…
Oil prices climb after tanker struck off Saudi Arabia, Trump escalates Iran threats
Oil prices rose after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure in response to any attacks on ships…
Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system is a classifier that inspects each…