As Trump and Xi meet, Chinese automakers could be a Pandora’s box for U.S. auto industry
Trump’s meeting with Xi comes as U.S. automakers and lawmakers push to keep restrictions on Chinese vehicles and manufacturers.
From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Mauro Rallo and Patrick van der Plas from HEMA. When engineers at HEMA needed an…
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models in its Gemini Audio…
Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS
With video intelligence powered by agentic AI, you can ask natural language questions about uploaded videos and get answers within…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Diarization: A 100M-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Tracks 8 Speakers in Real Time
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any…
Bybit Adds Support For Avalanche v1.15.0 Network Upgrade
TL;DR Bybit has confirmed support for Avalanche’s v1.15.0 network upgrade. The exchange is updating its Avalanche node infrastructure while keeping…
Iran’s president tells Trump it will never ‘bend the knee’
Masoud Pezeshkian’s defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to “annihilate” Iran if a peace deal…
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.
Binance Lets bStocks Tokenized Equities Count As Futures Margin
TL;DR Binance now allows eligible bStocks tokenized-equity holdings to be used as collateral in Multi-Assets Mode. The feature lets users…
Bybit Opens Oura Pre-IPO Perpetual Trading With Up To 25x Leverage
TL;DR Bybit has launched OURAUSDT as a pre-IPO TradFi perpetual contract. Trading began September 22 at 13:30 UTC with leverage…
Iran’s president blames U.S., Israel for global instability in defiant UN speech
Pezeshkian began his address to the UN General Assembly in New York City by holding up photos of children he…
I Trained a Tiny Network to Compress Data. It Drew a Pentagon.
Reproducing Anthropic’s “Toy Models of Superposition” from scratch in NumPy, with hand-derived gradients and no borrowed numbers. The post I…
MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow
David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, will serve as the next MIT Innovation Fellow…
Binance Brings 24/7 FX Perpetuals To Crypto Traders With USD/BRL
TL;DR Binance Futures has launched a 24/7 perpetual contract tied to the USD/BRL foreign-exchange rate. USD/BRL is the first pair…
Bybit Adds PATH, CYPH And HUT Equity Perpetuals With Up To 25x Leverage
TL;DR Bybit has added USDT-margined perpetual futures tied to PATH, CYPH and HUT shares. The contracts offer up to 25x…
Trump-Xi summit puts AI safety talks on the table but neither side wants to slow down
Recent weeks have seen AI safety fears reach new heights. That will be a key focus for the U.S. and…
How GRPO Trains Small Language Models with Verifiable Rewards
The mechanics behind local reasoning experiments with Unsloth and why the reward function matters as much as the model. The…
OKX Shield Offers Up To €500K Account-Takeover Protection In Europe
TL;DR OKX has launched Shield in Europe, a discretionary reimbursement program for qualifying account-takeover losses. Protection limits rise from €100,000…
Ondo And Alpaca Add In-Kind Minting For Tokenized Stocks
TL;DR Ondo Finance has added in-kind minting and redemption for institutional Ondo Stocks users. Eligible institutions can contribute existing equity…
How to Make Your First World Model from Scratch
A beginner-friendly guide to building a world model in Python, letting it daydream its way through CartPole, and accurately measuring…
Anchorage Digital Taps LayerZero To Take USAT Stablecoin Cross-Chain
TL;DR Anchorage Digital has selected LayerZero as its interoperability partner for regulated stablecoins issued through its platform. Tether’s USAT is…
SEC Clears ARK Venture Fund For Tokenized And Exchange-Traded Share Classes
TL;DR The SEC granted ARK Venture Fund amended exemptive relief covering two new share classes. The structure allows an Exchange…
Ethereum ETFs Pull In $270M As BlackRock Leads September 21 Rebound
TL;DR US spot Ethereum ETFs recorded $270.0 million of net inflows for the September 21 session. BlackRock’s ETHA led the…
Nokia Open-Sources AnyJev: A Training-Free Layer That Turns Any Open LLM Into a Calibrated Decision Model
Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It…
US and Iran hold first talks since June after Trump’s ‘annihilation’ threat
The talks are the first since a ceasefire collapsed in June, with the sides exchanging fire intermittently.
Iran floats conditions for Hormuz reopening as Trump says deal could come after midterms
Tehran’s proposal could pave the way for restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic…
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna: 50% Cheaper API Pricing and Benchmarks
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 new models in its GPT-6 family. They sit below GPT-6 Astra,…
Oil falls after U.S. and Iran talk for hours at UN meeting
Oil fell Wednesday, amid hopes of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Middle East after Iran and the…
SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone: Turning Your Voice into Polished Communication, and Action across Apps
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most…
Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran in UN speech as officials meet on sidelines
In his speech, the US president pondered whether a peace deal would be agreed or whether he would have to…
US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark
The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark’s sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.
Bring more intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and…
Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research
Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major…
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Running Cost Than Opus 5
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs…
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, the…
Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over deadly Easter Sunday bombings
Three churches and three luxury hotels were targeted in the 2019 attacks which killed 270.
How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Reactiv offers a mobile commerce product that helps Shopify merchants launch and manage native mobile apps, where shoppers convert at…
Break Your Own RAG Pipeline Before Users Do
A small adversarial test set that catches the retrieval failures your evaluation set never will The post Break Your Own…
Build a Speaker-Recognition App with Claude Code
Learn how to effectively code up an internal tool using Claude code or Codex The post Build a Speaker-Recognition App…
Coincheck Group Confirms Executive Chairperson Change In SEC Filing
TL;DR Coincheck Group disclosed that Executive Chairperson Takashi Oyagi resigned effective September 21. The company said the resignation was for…
4 Ways to Use AI on a PhD Thesis
Finding citations, consolidating code, fact-checking and preparing for the defence The post 4 Ways to Use AI on a PhD…
Cipher Mining Expands AI Data Center Push With ERCOT Capacity And Long-Term Lease
TL;DR Cipher Mining disclosed conditional ERCOT interconnection capacity for up to 300 MW. The company also reported a 15-year hyperscaler…
MEXC Expands Opportunity Compass with Stock Trading Handbook to Help Crypto Users Build Investment Knowledge
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 22, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has expanded its Opportunity Compass education…
Kalshi Files To Bring Perpetual Futures To US Stocks And ETFs
TL;DR KalshiEX has filed proposed listing standards for perpetual security futures tied to 58 stocks and ETFs. The proposal was…
Major US outlets boycott shared Trump coverage in protest at media ban
Regular coverage of the president has been disrupted after he banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.
Novo defends diversification push as CEO eyes deals beyond obesity
Novo CEO Mike Doustdar told CNBC that it is considering M&A opportunities as it faces growing competition in the weight-loss…
Bitwise Updates XRP ETF Prospectus In New SEC Filing
TL;DR Bitwise filed a post-effective amendment updating disclosures for its XRP ETF trust. The September 21 filing registered zero new…
REX Launches 2X Leveraged ETF Tracking Bitcoin Treasury Firm Strive
TL;DR REX Shares has launched the T-REX 2X Long Strive Daily Target ETF under ticker ASSX. The fund seeks 200%…
USDT On TRON Overtakes Bitcoin In CoinsBee Payment Activity
TL;DR CoinsBee says USDT on TRON generated about 1.8 times as many completed payments as Bitcoin over its measured 90-day…