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,…
Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows core prices rose 3.3% annually in July
The personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to rise 0.1% monthly and 3.6% on a 12-month basis, according to…
How Does a RAG Reranker Really Work?
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #2D] – What data scientists say when asked, what the model actually does under the hood,…
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that…
Iran and Oman prepare Hormuz deal as U.S. holds back on secondary sanctions
Iran and Oman are approaching a deal to secure safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz and future administration of…
Why Random Forest Needs to Be This Random
Bagging hits a wall no amount of trees can break — here’s the equation that explains why, and the experiment…
Oil falls as the U.S. pivots to economic pressure on Iran
Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add…
Is Agentic AI Just Automation?
Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead. The post Is Agentic AI Just Automation?…
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike…
Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal reaches Congress as experts warn of proliferation risk
Some Democratic lawmakers and nonproliferation advocates have criticized the pact for not including a permanent prohibition on enrichment or reprocessing.
HP partners with U.S.-blacklisted Huawei for licensing the Chinese company’s WiFi tech
It’s a sign of adoption of Huawei technology outside China, despite the U.S. restricting the company from working with American…
How to Format Your TDS Draft: A New and Improved Guide
Everything you need to know about creating a draft on our Contributor Portal The post How to Format Your TDS…
Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone.…
Canada announces ‘dollar-for-dollar’ retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from…
Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps
Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The…
A New Towards Data Science: A Faster Site and a Brand-New Contributor Portal
We’re excited to share some big news: We completely rebuilt the TDS website and our contributor portal. Whether you come…
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner,…
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP…
Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce…
Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods
Canadian trade negotiators left the U.S. last week after failing to clinch a trade deal that would stop President Donald…
I Deployed My Data Pipeline to AWS. Then Everything That Was “Local” Broke.
What moving a Dockerized pipeline off my laptop taught me about containers, networking, and hidden assumptions. The post I Deployed…
China needs U.S. dollars but is building a hedge against Washington’s sanctions
The U.S. can pressure Chinese banks over Iran through access to its financial system, while Beijing is building alternatives such…
China warns it will safeguard its interests after US widens sanctions against Iran
The US has threatened to isolate nations that continue to do business with Tehran, which sells much of its oil…
The ‘debasement trade’ returns after Bessent bond maneuver. Crypto and gold are back in style
Concern over the size and the cost of U.S. government spending has given new life to the debasement trade.
One Document Type, a Million Files: Structured Extraction into the SQL Table RAG Queries
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #14C] – One hour with two people, six to ten fields, and the two signals that…
From AI Experiments to AI Operations: Why I Stopped Playing with Agents and Started Building a System
From experiments to operations: a calm, organized workspace where AI becomes a real system. Photo via Unsplash (Unsplash License). Hermes…
Trump targets Iran’s trade lifelines — here are the countries most exposed
Washington’s threat of “economic D-Day” collides with a small group of governments that account for most of what remains of…
Treasury Proposes Stablecoin Licensing Rules Under GENIUS Act
The US Treasury Department has proposed new licensing rules for payment stablecoin issuers under Section 3 of the GENIUS Act,…
BitMEX Sets Close-Only Risk Limits Ahead Of September Wind-Down
BitMEX will move into strict risk-limit mode on August 26 as part of its planned exchange wind-down. Starting at 04:00…
Coinbase Investor Class Action Can Move Forward, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge has allowed parts of an investor class-action lawsuit against Coinbase and certain executives to proceed, keeping allegations…
Trump admin unveils anti-Iran global sanctions plan, signals China not exempt
The Trump administration unveiled a plan to isolate Iran’s economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s…
Crypto Groups Sue To Block Illinois Digital Asset Tax Act
The Blockchain Association and Crypto Council for Innovation have filed a joint lawsuit challenging Illinois’ Digital Asset Tax Act, setting…
Strategy Raises $2B As Bitcoin Holdings Stay Flat For The Week
Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, has raised $2.01 billion through an at-the-market equity offering while reporting no new Bitcoin purchases during…
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible…
Tron Inc. Expands TRX Treasury To $245M In Nasdaq Corporate Crypto Bet
Nasdaq-listed Tron Inc. has expanded its corporate treasury to 711.2 million TRX, bringing the value of its token holdings to…
CleanCore Dumps Dogecoin Treasury To Fund $100M AI Pivot
CleanCore has disclosed plans to liquidate its Dogecoin treasury holdings as part of a broader $100 million funding plan tied…
Bitcoin And Ethereum ETFs Add $492M As Inflow Streak Continues
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $492 million in net inflows for the August 21 session, extending…