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.
I Built a Tool-Calling Agent in Python. Here’s How I Debugged It
A minimal loop with real API calls, validation, compact outputs, and trace evidence before adding an agent framework The post…
Loop Engineering for Cross-References: When RAG Answers ‘see Section 7.2’ Instead of the Actual Answer
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #11] – When the first answer points elsewhere in the document, the pipeline loops back to…
Gold price hits highest level since June on weak payrolls data and Hormuz deal hopes
Spot gold rose as high as $4,295 per ounce before paring gains to $4,268 per ounce on Thursday. Gold futures…
SoftBank gets $8.2 billion boost from Intel as OpenAI takes a backseat
SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations.
Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel
Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and…
In Odesa, no-one is safe from Russia’s new Black Sea strikes
Blackened ships and smashed docks mark Russia’s recent surge of attacks on Ukraine’s coastline.
Infantino sorry for errors but stays Fifa president
Gianni Infantino will remain Fifa president after receiving backing from senior executives, but “sincerely apologises” for errors in his controversial…
U.S. ready to return to ‘commitments,’ Iran says, after Trump signals deal is near
Iran denied it was in talks with Washington, despite claims by Trump to the contrary.
Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses
SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer developed by a team of researchers from Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and…
Iran says it has agreed Strait of Hormuz shipping route with Oman
A foreign ministry spokesman did not give details but said an agreement with the Gulf nation was “in the final…
End-to-End Bayesian Marketing Mix Modeling with Google Meridian: Media Measurement, ROI Analysis, and Budget Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the…
Meta AI Releases Muse Code (Beta): A Terminal Coding Agent Powered by the New Muse Spark 1.2 Model
Meta AI has released Muse Code (in beta), a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by its new Muse Spark…
How LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant on Amazon Bedrock
Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people face, and LendingTree built a multi-agent mortgage assistant…
After deadly Kyiv strike, Ukraine warns interceptor shortage is costing lives
Without Patriot interceptors, Ukraine’s skies are wide open and people are fully exposed to Russia’s missile barrages.