What it was like inside court for Tupac Shakur’s murder trial verdict
BBC presenter Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty describes what it was like when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of murdering the…
Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities
Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology…
Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
Voice agents fail on exactly the parts of a call that matter most: the order number, the callback digits, the…
Tanker struck in Hormuz, raising worries over escalation, as Trump vows to hit Iran ‘hard’
Iran launched an attack on two American bases in Jordan on Monday in retaliation for the U.S. attack on its…
Venezuela grants U.S.-backed oil firm NABEP 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says
Venezuelan interim authorities have granted North American Blue Energy Partners 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says.
Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour
How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search…
Connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick
Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow foundation models to access external data and tools, supporting standardized, secure access to files,…
AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025
We’re excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4…
MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program
The MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next…
Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330 million parameter time series foundation model that forecasts multiple related series in a…
Trump announced a massive oil deal with Venezuela. Why it won’t lower gas prices anytime soon
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. secured majority control over 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves.
Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry
Most organizations scaling their use of agents and tools hit the same challenges. Teams build in isolation, with no shared…
FTX Insiders Ellison And Wang Finalize CFTC Settlements With Permanent Bans
Former FTX executives Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang have finalized CFTC consent orders that impose permanent trading and registration bans,…
Bitcoin ETF Outflows Hit $201M As Inflow Streak Breaks
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $201.9 million in net outflows for the August 28 session, ending a nine-day inflow streak…
SEC Charges 38 Entities Over False Investment Adviser Filings
The SEC has charged 38 entities for allegedly using false filings to make themselves appear legitimate as registered investment advisers.…
Nepal rescuers blast hillside in search of hydropower workers as families wait anxiously
Rescuers have resorted to explosives as they struggle to reach trapped workers, as the flooding death toll reaches 939.
Trump to meet with U.S. refiners as White House pushes to lower gas prices
The White House says it is seeking near-term steps to boost refining capacity as affordability and gas prices loom over…
CFTC Fines Former White House Staffer Over Event Contract Insider Trading
The CFTC has fined former White House staffer Gabriel Perez $172,000 over alleged insider trading in event contracts, marking another…
Your LLM Can Return Perfect JSON and Still Be Wrong
What I learned after thinking more carefully about Structured Outputs on messy, incomplete data The post Your LLM Can Return…
Charles Schwab Expands Crypto Platform Beyond Bitcoin And Ethereum
Charles Schwab is expanding its crypto platform beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum, adding support for Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink exposure, according…
Switchboard Halts Oracle Operations On SUI And Aptos After Potential Compromise
Switchboard has halted oracle operations on several networks, including SUI and Aptos, after detecting a potential security compromise. The precautionary…
CFTC Files Amicus Brief In Polymarket Event Contract Insider Trading Case
The CFTC has filed an amicus brief in a federal criminal case involving alleged insider trading on Polymarket event contracts,…
FAQ as RAG: When You Get to Design the Corpus
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B2] – The FAQ inverts every brick of the standard RAG pipeline. Parsing is trivial, retrieval…
Third Point’s Core Scientific Stake Puts Bitcoin Miner-To-AI Trade In Focus
Dan Loeb’s Third Point has disclosed an equity position in Core Scientific, adding another institutional name to the growing trade…
Bitcoin Holds $78K As Strait Of Hormuz Strike Lifts Oil Above $90
Bitcoin held near the $78,000 area as geopolitical tension around the Strait of Hormuz pushed Brent crude above $90, giving…
Robinhood Chain Revenue Tops Ethereum In 24-Hour App Metrics
Robinhood Chain recorded $2.66 million in daily app revenue, surpassing Ethereum mainnet and Hyperliquid over the same 24-hour measurement window,…
Why RAG Complexity Should Be Earned
A framework for building RAG pipelines that introduces complexity in response to observed failure modes, from lexical and hybrid search…
US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks
Iran says the attack on Larak Island, the first known US strikes since late July, killed two people and injured…
How an MIT research project became a global programming language
It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the…
OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway
The OpenClaw team has just released OpenClaw 2.0. The team shipped nothing for nearly seven weeks, after 106 releases in…
Trump threatens to blow up Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub as hostilities escalate once again
The last major U.S. strikes on Iran were carried out in late July.
Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark
Time to first token (TTFT) is the metric teams use to pick an inference API for voice. It is also…
Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds
A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research, Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill has released…
Eight killed and others missing after ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus
A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.
8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions
Quick and simple tips to help you write better agent instructions The post 8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions…
Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists
How to apply the latest context engineering guidelines to your day-to-day data science work The post Context Engineering Is Changing.…
Noisy Text in RAG: Typos, OCR, and the Gap Classical Spell-Check Leaves
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B1] – Three sources of one problem. User typos, fast-typing transcription noise, OCR character errors. Classical…
Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU
Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government’s proposal to resume talks.
Icelanders reject reopening talks to join the EU despite Trump’s Greenland threats
Icelanders voted 52.8% to 47.2% against reopening talks to join the European Union.
Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents discover…
Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs
MirroS released Code-as-World: a paradigm that represents physical worlds through executable world representations. The argument is narrow and testable: pixels…
Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio
In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while…
4 Claude Skills Every Data Scientist Needs in 2026
Four skills worth adding to your workflow today if you don’t want to be left behind The post 4 Claude…
When to Use Claude Code and When to Use Codex
Learn where which coding agent is best The post When to Use Claude Code and When to Use Codex appeared…
Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (gemini-omni-1.1-flash), a production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model.…
RAG Is Not the Whole Toolkit: The NLP Techniques Real Problems Still Need
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B00] – Retrieval answers one kind of question. Classifying a request, matching free text to a…
Iran trade falls as Supreme Leader Khamenei urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar
Iran’s president says sanctions are hitting imports and exports, as its supreme leader urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar.
Trump announces deal with Venezuela to secure more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves,…
Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is…
Footage of Tibet floods isn’t being shown in China – and we know little about victims there
Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.