Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems,…
How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
Agents, MCP integrations, and LLM-powered applications are entering codebases faster than most security programs can track them. Mend.io’s new practitioner…
Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beach
Three children were killed when the drone crashed at a popular resort on the Black Sea.
Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe’s rivers
Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
Formula 1® (F1) engages an audience of over 800 million fans globally across digital platforms, F1 TV, social media, ticketing, and…
Prompt, Context, Loop: The Three Engineering Layers Every RAG System Is Built On
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M2] – Every RAG system is built in three engineering layers stacked on one LLM call:…
Found Friday S5I5: The week agents needed guardrails.
Found Friday · Season 5 · Issue 5 The week agents needed guardrails. This issue starts with the OpenAI and…
How to Build CLI Agents with Python & Ollama
Create a local CLI Agent from scratch completely for free The post How to Build CLI Agents with Python &…
The AI Was the Easy Part: What Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer in a Supply Chain?
What actually makes a Forward Deployed Engineer, told through one supply chain project. The post The AI Was the Easy…
What the market is saying about the U.S. intervention to prop up the yen
Following the joint involvement the yen now sits at ¥157 to the dollar, down from just above ¥163, which represented…
Oil prices fall more than 5% as Middle East tensions ebb on diplomatic efforts
Oil prices fell on Monday as investors pared geopolitical risk premiums after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
Alibaba’s Qwen team has made Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and confirmed that its open weights ship next week. A second checkpoint,…
Trump says Iran talks to resume Monday after calling off planned strikes
The latest peace proposal calls for warring parties to return to negotiations and continue working out some of the thorny…
Trump suggests new talks with Iran to begin on Monday
Tehran has not responded to the suggestion that new talks are imminent. Trump has previously said a negotiated end to…
Why the U.S. stepped in after decades to prop up Japan’s yen — and what’s at stake
Washington’s decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention.
Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product…
U.S., Japan confirm coordinated yen intervention, signal readiness for more
Japan’s Finance Ministry said Monday it conducted a coordinated yen-buying intervention with the U.S. Treasury on Friday.
A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin…
Helicopters fighting Greece wildfires collide in mid-air
Video of the incident shows one of the helicopters hitting the propellers of the other, which bursts into flames.
How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks
Perform non-programming tasks with coding agents The post How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks appeared first on Towards…
I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI Agent
A step-by-step guide to building, running, and monitoring a stateful customer support agent using Python, LangGraph, and Langfuse. The post…
Trump says he has canceled a planned attack on Iran after reaching an agreement over the ‘perimeters of a deal’
The U.S. president said Iran and its regional neighbors asked the U.S. to hold off any attacks after ‘the perimeters…
NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework
Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification. New estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes. In mainstream frameworks each…
Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to ‘rapidly’ making deal
The US president’s message came amid media reports that he was planning new, intense strikes on Iran over the weekend.
How Spain’s migrant crisis created a political storm – whipped up by social media
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford writes.
EU calls emergency meeting to discuss Ceuta migrant crossings
There have been tense exchanges between Spain and other EU states over the influx of migrants into the enclave of…
AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. The model…
Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking
In this tutorial, we explore how NVIDIA Transformer Engine accelerates transformer workloads by combining fused GPU kernels, BF16 computation, and…
Coding Agents Don’t Need Bigger Context Windows — They Need a Context Compiler
Most coding agents treat prompt construction like retrieval: gather more files, add more context, hope the model figures it out.…
Put the Agent Inside the Workflow
A hybrid LLM application pattern that combines a predefined workflow with adaptive agent behavior The post Put the Agent Inside…
Spain attacks ‘selfish’ response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
Italy has temporarily suspended the Schengen arrangement with Spain as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called scenes in Ceuta “shocking”.
Tankers near Oman come under fire as Iran threatens to choke off shipping routes
The latest attacks come amid U.S. media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing a fresh round of strikes…
Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks
Supabase has open sourced Supabase Evals, its benchmark and framework for testing how well AI agents build using Supabase. It…
MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio
MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes…
Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan
Football’s world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president…
Iran’s overlapping power centers make ending the war more complicated
Iran’s power structure complicates efforts to enforce any ceasefire with the U.S., from the Supreme Leader to the Revolutionary Guards.
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
DeepSeek Upgrades DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Major Agentic and Coding Gains
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The…
ENS Labs Scales Back Treasury Proposal After Delegate Pushback
ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational…
NEAR Adds Staking-Based Payments For AI Compute Credits
NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive…
Bitcoin And Ethereum Edge Higher As Traders Watch Altcoin Rotation
Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching…
Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick
As organizations embrace AI-powered analytics, the value of a natural language (Text2SQL) answer is only as good as the business…
LingBot-Map Tutorial: GPU-Aware Inference and Point Cloud Export
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline with LingBot-Map. We begin by configuring the input source,…
CleanCore’s $800M AI Contract Shows Dogecoin Treasury Firms Are Changing Shape
CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not…
Uniswap Fee Switch Activation Puts UNI Burn Mechanics Back In Focus
Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees…
Lite Strategy Funds $5.4M Buyback With Litecoin Sales And Covered Calls
Lite Strategy has repurchased 4.9 million shares for $5.4 million, using Litecoin treasury activity and covered-call premiums to fund the…
Kansai Electric Rewards App Opens JPYC Stablecoin Conversion On Polygon
A rewards subsidiary of Kansai Electric Power has launched a loyalty-points conversion route into JPYC on Polygon, giving Japanese users…
The 3× Token Bill We Didn’t See Coming
How a seemingly harmless move to a multi-agent architecture quietly tripled our LLM costs and what actually fixed it. The…
Granite Protocol Listing Shows Bitcoin DeFi Is Still Building On Stacks
Granite Protocol has been listed on Borrow on Bitcoin, adding another lending route for users who want to put Bitcoin-linked…
Ethereum Turns 11 With $148B Stablecoin Base But Cooler Mainnet Fees
Ethereum has turned 11, and the network’s birthday arrives with a very Ethereum-style contradiction: it is still one of the…