Trump administration advances $24.3 billion fighter jet deal to Saudi Arabia as Houthis escalate attacks
The deal comes as Iran-backed Houthis escalate attacks on Saudi Arabia and seek control of the strategically important Bab el-Mandeb…
Salesforce Agentforce: Bridging the Enterprise AI Gap from ‘Vibe Coding’ to Battle-Tested Orchestration
Spinning up a flashy prototype with an LLM has never been easier, but in production, building an agent is just…
UN mission finds evidence signaling U.S. war crimes in Iran; Washington rejects report
The UN mission pointed out the missile strike on a primary school that killed over 150 people, as well as…
Oil prices fall as Saudi supply hopes outweigh fresh Houthi strikes
Oil prices fell on Friday as additional Saudi crude supplies help ease disruption fears.
Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid: A Kubernetes-Native Stack for GPU AI Workloads
Platform teams running AI on Kubernetes rarely run one thing. They run a queueing system, a distributed runtime, GPU node…
Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Hiring at scale in industries such as retail, logistics, hospitality, and others has its fair share of challenges. Recruiting teams…
Canada welcomes EU proposal to become ‘associate member’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Canada-EU alliance would create a “beacon for other democracies”.
Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
When building a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, selecting the right vector store impacts performance…
Building a Data Lakehouse with DuckDB and DuckLake
Starting with a local Parquet file, then joining it to data stored in the cloud The post Building a Data…
Ninth woman’s body found as South African police investigate string of deaths
South Africa police have cautioned against assuming that all the killings are linked but many women are afraid.
How I Built a Multi-Agent System for Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA)
What it takes to turn counterfactual analysis into an AI product The post How I Built a Multi-Agent System for…
Carney says Canada will decide its own partnerships after Trump calls EU proposal ‘laughable’
U.S. President Donald Trump had described the prospect of Canada becoming the first associate member of the EU as “laughable.”
Why You Think Like a Bayesian but Were Taught Like a Frequentist
From a chocolate bar with no price tag to a marketing mix model in PyMC, and the 200-year-old integral that…
From Information to Action: MEXC Upgrades AI Across the Trading Journey
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 17, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has announced a major upgrade to…
Bank of England defies Fed’s rate-hike lead, leaving rates unchanged
The Bank of England kept rates steady Thursday, even after U.K. inflation rose to 3.1% and energy costs put pressure…
When Does Graph RAG Actually Add Value? A Hands-On Experiment
I built four AI retrieval architectures on a laptop and benchmarked them against the same set of documents and questions.…
Unlocking the Trillion-Token Era: B.AI’s Global Settlement Layer for the Agent Economy
Summary: Positioned squarely between foundation models and AI agents, B.AI is integrating compute routing, decentralized settlement, and full-stack agent infrastructure…
HTX Research Examines Stock-Linked Memecoins: A New Connection Between Equity Assets and Crypto Liquidity
Apia, Samoa, September 17 – HTX Research, the dedicated research arm of HTX, has released a new report titled Stock-Linked…
OpenAI Releases a Model Misalignment Disclosure Framework With 3 Review Tracks and 6 Incident Reports From RL Training
OpenAI has released a new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing misalignment in its own models. The OpenAI team announced…
Assad regime planned US journalist’s kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
Google Research Introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T): An RL-Compiled Diffusion Retriever for 12× to 20× Faster Query Fan-Out
Search and recommendation systems increasingly need to return a set of results, not one best match. A query like ‘camping…
‘Hostile act’: Trump threatens EU with tariffs over Canada associate-membership proposal
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said EU is opening the door for Canada to become the first associate…
Nunchux AI Introduces VC-Attention: A Training-Free Low-Bit Attention Kernel That Speeds Up Video Diffusion Transformers
Nunchux AI has released VC-Attention, a training-free low-bit attention kernel built for video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). It targets 2 problems…
Stanford Researchers Release Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into AI Agents That Reproduce Results and Run on New Data
Computational papers ship code that readers must clone, install, configure and debug. That cost keeps useful methods locked inside PDFs.…
US interest rates raised for first time in three years
The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to increase interest rates to 3.75%-4% from 3.5%-3.75% on Wednesday.
Trump demands 1% or lower interest rate after first Fed hike since 2023
President Donald Trump previously threatened to cut off trade with countries that have trade surpluses with the U.S. if the…
Knowledgator Releases GLiFormer: A 575M-Parameter Encoder That Hits 91.10 F1 on Nested JSON Extraction Without Generating Tokens
Knowledgator Engineering has released GLiFormer, a schema-conditioned encoder framework for information extraction. One model handles named-entity recognition (NER), text classification,…
Fed approves interest rate hike, signals one more to come this year
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved its first interest rate hike since 2023 and indicated another to come.
Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills
AI agents built on foundation models (FMs) often misapply healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) decision frameworks, even when they’ve seen…
Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In a previous launch post, we introduced AgentCore optimization, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that can help you improve…
How to Make Linear Regression Survive Outliers
Robust Estimation Series: comparing classical and modern robust estimators through theory, code, and experiments The post How to Make Linear…
New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
Researchers created a new technique that accurately and rapidly matches X-rays captured during surgery with a patient’s preoperative 3D medical…
World’s top-performing sovereign wealth fund warns of looming pullback in U.S. stock market
New Zealand’s $54 billion pension fund returned 14.2% in the year to June.
Silent Broadcasting Can Ruin Your Model
PyTorch and TensorFlow tensor broadcasting: how silent shape errors cause difficult-to-debug machine learning bugs The post Silent Broadcasting Can Ruin…
The KV Cache Tax: Why Inference Servers Run Out of Memory Before Compute
A VRAM budget formula for LLM serving, and three optimization strategies mapped to the traffic patterns that trigger the OOM.…
AI Agent Statistics 2026: Every Number Checked at Its Source
The most-quoted AI agent statistics count intent, and real use in any single department is no more than 10 percent,…
MEXC Releases July–August Security Report: Over 38 Million USDT in Risk-Related Funds Intercepted, Futures Insurance Fund Reaches 792 Million USDT
Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 16, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its July–August 2026 security…
Justin Sun Establishes the Justin Sun Prize: “My Wealth Came from Mathematics and Will Return to Mathematics”
Geneva, Switzerland — September 16, 2026 — The Office of Justin Sun today announced the establishment of the Justin Sun…
EU chief opens door for Canada to become ‘associate member’
Canada is seeking closer ties with EU after a breakdown in relations with the US and its president Donald Trump.
Yield on 10-year Treasury hovers above 5% as investors await Fed decision
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates on Wednesday.
Canada invited to become EU’s first ‘associate member’ as Trump trade war intensifies
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc wants to open the door for Canada to become its first…
OpenAI boss says world ‘right to be afraid’ but should trust AI firms
Sam Altman and other tech CEOs say there are incentives to limit advancements in AI, as fears grow over the…
Saudi says Houthis targeted Mecca with a drone, Iran-backed group rejects claim
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the strike as a “heinous” attack. Mecca is Islam’s holiest site and the focal…
Prior Labs Releases TabPFN-3.5: A Tabular Foundation Model That Beats the Winning Otto Kaggle Solution With Default Settings
Prior Labs has released TabPFN-3.5, the newest version of its tabular foundation model. It predicts on a table in a…
Measure by measure, studying society accurately
Let’s agree at the outset the world is a complicated place, and social scientists have exacting jobs when it comes…
Nums AI Releases Causilo: A Tabular Foundation Model That Tops TabArena Among Single Models
Nums AI has released Causilo, a pretrained tabular foundation model for classification and regression. Causilo comes with a scikit-learn interface,…
BOJ expected to hike rates by 25 basis points to fresh three-decade high: CNBC survey
The BOJ is expected to hike rates by 25 basis points to a fresh three-decade high, a CNBC survey shows.
All support acts on Ed Sheeran’s US tour quit after Macklemore dropped
The star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on…
Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend
In this tutorial, we work through the cuDNN Frontend‘s graph API from below the framework: we describe a computation as…
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date.…