High-speed train crash kills at least 68 people in Spain
The crash, between a moving train and another that was stopped further up the track, was caused by an “inexplicable”…
Alphabet sinks 10% as it holds 2026 capex unchanged, expects significant increase in 2027
Alphabet missed Q3 expectations on earnings and revenue, its first top-and-bottom-line miss in nearly four years.
Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after defeat in Brazil’s presidential election
Bolsonaro’s arrival in the US ends speculation about his whereabouts after he failed to comply with an order to surrender…
Google DeepMind Introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, Its Top Model for Cyber Defense and Coding
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model to date. Gemini 4 Carbon is a frontier model from…
DailyAI Briefing: AI checks maths’ longest proof, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. AI agents have rewritten the longest proof in mathematics…
Netanyahu’s bloc leading Israel election but short of majority, partial results show
With 85% of ballots counted, Netanyahu’s Likud party and its allies are set to win 53 seats in the 120-seat…
Fed holds rates steady despite concerns over inflation
Two of the 12 Federal Open Market Committee voters dissented from the decision. Both wanted to raise rates by a…
Building an Agentic AI Platform on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
If you’ve tried to get an agent into production, the model and tool use are not the blocker. The main…
MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, the workflows and agent skills its team uses to build MiniMax Code. The MiniMax MCode…
AI Agents Checked Maths’ Longest Proof, 15,000 Pages, in 24 Days
The longest proof in mathematics runs to about 15,000 pages, spread over more than 500 articles by roughly 100 mathematicians.…
How could Israel break election deadlock? Here are four scenarios
With 85% of votes counted, all signs point to an impasse. The most likely outcome may be new elections.
3 Questions: Why infrastructure is entering a defining era
For centuries, infrastructure has evolved alongside technology. New materials and engineering techniques enabled taller buildings, longer bridges, and larger cities.…
UK brings forward defense spending target, pledging billions to Ukraine
Healey presented his first budget as Chancellor, and reiterated the UK’s support of Ukraine on Wednesday.
How to Make AI Work for End-to-End Business Processes
From simplifying workflows to connecting knowledge and rules, coordinating AI agents, and delivering measurable business results. The post How to Make…
Family Says ChatGPT Talked Their Daughter Off Her Seizure Medication
A new lawsuit says ChatGPT wrote a 31-year-old woman with epilepsy a 25-day plan to cut her seizure medication from…
Stellantis stock rises 12% as automaker’s turnaround plan, cost cuts gain traction
European car giant Stellantis said Wednesday that it recorded a 4 billion euro ($4.5 billion) cash shortfall in the third…
Where a Cell Sits Matters More Than How Many There Are
Using spatstat raster layers and point process models to ask how neurons, astrocytes and microglia sit relative to each other…
Google Takes Its AI Chips to Oracle, and OpenAI Plans to Buy Them
Google will sell its own AI chips through Oracle’s cloud, the first time they will be offered outside Google. On…
Building and Visualising Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks
Exploring what happens when neural networks learn functions instead of weights. The post Building and Visualising Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks appeared first…
At least 30 people reported dead in high-speed Spain train crash
It is the second deadly high-speed train collision in Spain this year.
Your RAG Pipeline Is Missing a 1994 Algorithm
Embeddings know that “broken” means “defective”. They may not notice that ZX-4821 is not ZX-4812. The post Your RAG Pipeline…
New York Law Makes Chatbots Check Ages Before Acting Like a Friend
New York has signed a law that bans 12 chatbot features for anyone under 18, from pretending to be human…
Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs
The Villa Vie Odyssey suspended its voyage and is working with passengers on “temporary living arrangements”.
Polymathic AI and Princeton Researchers Release FlashMap, a Flow Map Drafter for 6.14x Faster LLM Decoding
Researchers from Polymathic AI, Princeton University, USC ISI, NYU and the Flatiron Institute have released FlashMap. FlashMap speculative decoding replaces…
Australia Moves to Stop AI Chatbots Posing as Children’s Best Friends
Australia’s lower house has voted to make AI chatbots stop building fake friendships with children. The Digital Duty of Care…
Israel election appears to have no clear winner with Netanyahu, opponent Eisenkot far short of majorities
Exit polls show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s alliance and Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc both well off the numbers needed to…
Making machines that can listen
The crack of a bat accompanied by a roar from the crowd can capture a baseball fan’s attention, even if…
Trump says Iran war will end ‘when I want it to’ as costs reportedly balloon to $47 billion
Trump’s statement comes as a report from The Hill revealed that the costs of the Iran conflict has ballooned to…
SK Hynix announces over $25 billion in dividends and buyback as third-quarter profit beats estimates
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix on Wednesday announces over 25 billion in dividends and buyback as third-quarter profit sharply beats…
Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB
UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab built LEANN, an open-source vector index that stores almost no embeddings. The LEANN vector index…
Learner collaborates with MIT peers to develop book of AI insights
Like many leaders today, Prabha Jha has been feeling the significant impact artificial intelligence is having on business operations. While…
Liquid AI Releases LFM3: 6 Open-Weight 2B-Class Multimodal Models
Liquid AI has released LFM3, its new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. Liquid AI LFM3 is a family of 6…
Norway and Finland leaders hold rare call with Putin
An end to the conflict in Ukraine “will not be achieved through silence,” Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said.
Amazon’s anti-tokenmaxxing memo says engineers should be pickier about using AI
Amazon has rapidly integrated AI across the e-commerce giant’s sprawling business operations under CEO Andy Jassy.
DailyAI Briefing: AI breaks a computing rule, plus 4 more
Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. Two rival labs say their AI knocked down the…
AWS named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service
I’m proud to share that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant…
Siri AI Now Remembers Past Chats and Draws on Your Voicemails
Siri can now remember what you asked it last week. Apple’s iOS 27.2 update, out since Monday, lets Siri AI…
Flávio Bolsonaro’s passports cancelled after he fails to surrender them
The defeated presidential candidate is under investigation for alleged money laundering and barred from leaving Brazil.
Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs
Every minute your deep learning container image spends downloading is a minute you pay for and a minute your team…
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.
I Broke a Browser Agent on Purpose. Spotting the Fault Was Not the Same as Fixing It
I replayed correct model decisions through four broken browser actions. A simple page check missed half of the wrong clicks,…
OpenAI and Anthropic Say AI Broke the Same Computer Science Rule
Two rival AI labs say their models knocked down the same pillar of computer science, and both say it happened…
Fed expected to hold rates steady, but Warsh may point way to more hikes
Markets overwhelmingly expect no change in benchmark interest rates following September’s increase.
In the Age of Borrowed Thinking, How To Become More Valuable as AI Gets Smarter
A framework for staying relevant in the age of artificial intelligence The post In the Age of Borrowed Thinking, How…
Mirendil Launches Fern 0.1, Its First Model, With 10M-Token Context
Mirendil has released Fern, its first AI model. Mirendil Fern is a from-scratch coding model with a context window of…
Developers Felt 20% Faster With AI. They Were 19% Slower.
And that’s not even the worrying part. The post Developers Felt 20% Faster With AI. They Were 19% Slower. appeared…
Israel heads to polls for pivotal election defined by security and democracy
Many fear neither of the leading political blocs will win enough seats for a majority – meaning weeks or months…
Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta as tech giants deepen AI partnership
Meta on Monday announced plans to raise a total of $95 billion to support its investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Send a File to Beijing
Fewer than one in 100,000. That is how often Cohere says one of Alibaba’s newest Qwen models tried to contact…