Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.
Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with paid advice for help to cross
BBC’s Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence.
Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge
In multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. A subtly wrong reward can…
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in 2026
How AI has massively changed my day-to-day workflow The post A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in…
RAG Workflow and Loop Engineering: The Dispatcher That Decides When to Loop and When to Stop
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #13] – Putting the patterns together, and why this is what “agentic RAG” should look like…
Found Friday S5I6: Privacy and Practical AI
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 6 Privacy is the control layer for practical AI. This issue starts with…
My Model Was Cheating on Its Own Test
A preprocessing pipeline let my car price model peek at the test set before the exam, and the twelve points…
I Made an LLM Lay Siege to My Minecraft House
Can a language model do live adversarial level design? Yes, emphasis on the adversarial part The post I Made an…
AI’s infrastructure boom is getting more leveraged — and harder to track
AI’s infrastructure boom is increasingly being funded through bonds, leases and private capital, while leveraged investors add another layer of…
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai just released GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2. Every reported gain comes from scaled…
‘Unprecedented’ rains in Japan kill four people
The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire…
U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
“It will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in…
Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset…
Palestinians told to leave homes in village where Israeli settlers besieged houses
The mayor of Qusra says Israeli troops have been telling families to leave their houses, using some as barracks.
The Iran war risks bringing the G7’s fastest-growing economy to a halt
The U.K. economy is showing further signs of a long-awaited rebound, but the picture is complicated by the fallout from…
Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability
When you deploy AI agents built with frameworks like Strands Agents, LangGraph, and CrewAI, you need observability into their performance.…
How to Utilize OKF Efficiently to Enable Knowledge Exchange Among LLMs
Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is a Markdown+YAML skeleton for sharing knowledge between humans and AI agents. This post reuses…
Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, the newest model in its Flash tier, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash. The…
An inside look at SK Hynix $720 billion AI-fueled buildout that’s taking over South Korea
SK Hynix, the leading maker of high-bandwidth memory, is pouring $720 billion into memory factories to meet AI demand. We…
Ukraine attacks Russian grain export terminals in Black Sea, prompting warning about food markets
Ukraine has launched a heavy drone assault on warships and major Russian grain export terminals in the Black Sea port…
Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model for robot manipulation. It was pre-trained on more than one million hours…
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work
SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.6. The release is a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5 rather than a larger base model.…
Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only “destroy Ukraine, not…
‘Hormuz remains blocked’: Iran disputes Trump claims as traffic sinks to near 3-month lows
The Persian Strait Gulf Authority said “the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran’s conditions…
South Korea stocks have entered bull market in about a month as AI trade roars back
South Korean stocks rallied on Thursday, pushing the benchmark Kospi into a technical bull market.
Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack
Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other’s shipping facilities and ports.
Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS
Part 1 introduced granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock. This feature automatically traces every inference request back to the IAM…
AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end post-training pipeline for a compact instruction-tuned language model using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework.…
Strait of Hormuz ship traffic near three-month low as U.S.-Iran deal in doubt
Traffic is about 90% lower than the daily average of 130 ships that transited Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel…
Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5nonies] – Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s…
Members of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after Trump’s quiet exit
The president boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit to evade an Iranian threat.
Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 3): How Backpropagation Really Works
From one gradient to every gradient The post Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 3): How Backpropagation Really Works appeared first…
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Consumer prices rose 0.1% in July, as expected, putting the annual rate at 3.4%
The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.1% in July, with an annual rate of 3.4%.
How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS
This post is co-authored with OneAdvanced team Deploying AI agents on a United Kingdom (UK)-sovereign AWS architecture requires careful decisions…
Building Multimodal Workflows with a Local LLM
Image inputs and structured outputs with Gemma 4 and Ollama The post Building Multimodal Workflows with a Local LLM appeared…
Trump confirms he switched planes after Nato summit because of possible threat
Journalists and White House staff who were on board the jet were unaware the president had left.
How to Place Vertiport Locations in Any City Using Geospatial Machine Learning
A reproducible Lagos case study with population data, transport access, and airspace constraints The post How to Place Vertiport Locations…
AI’s costly buildout complicates the Fed’s inflation fight
Tech leaders say AI will drive down costs. But slow corporate adoption and the data center buildout create inflation pressures…
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts record $184 billion profit as it reveals SpaceX stake for the first time
The fund — currently valued at around $2.34 trillion — is an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60…
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router
NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5…
Houthi attack kills six in first fatalities in Red Sea in over a year; U.S. strikes container ship
A cargoship and containership have been hit in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman as the war inflicts a…
Oil prices rise as Red Sea, Gulf of Oman attacks heighten supply concerns
Oil prices rose on Wednesday after deadly attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman heightened concerns…
Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and…
Riot’s Anthropic Deal Shows Bitcoin Miners Are Moving Deeper Into AI Compute
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into…
Coinbase Expands Derivatives Trading To UK Professional Clients
Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its…
Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock
Cyber defenders have never had more capability at their fingertips, and they have never needed it more. Frontier models can…
Strategy Boosts Cash Reserve As Bitcoin Treasury Model Gets More Complex
Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, showing again that…