Brent crude hovers around $100 as U.S.-Iran tit-for-tat strikes stoke oil supply worries
Oil prices extended gains on Wednesday as escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran fueled concerns over further disruptions to…
Gradium Launches Voice Design: Write a Prompt, Get a Brand New Synthetic Voice in Seconds
Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one…
US strikes Iranian oil tankers as Tehran targets American base in Jordan
Oil prices edged closer to $100 a barrel after an escalation in the tit-for-tat strikes between the US and Iran.
Meta Introduces Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Dedicated Secure Cloud Computer
Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can send…
Take on your most ambitious work with GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI brings greater depth and judgment to your most demanding tasks and runs on the Amazon Bedrock…
U.S. downplays Iran’s seizure of unmanned sub in Hormuz Strait
The U.S. and Iran traded new attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, as President Donald Trump insists oil prices will…
NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels
NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for writing GPU kernels. Rust code could…
UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements prompting furious Israeli response
Britain’s foreign secretary accuses settlers of carrying out the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, as Israel responds by shutting the UK…
Pathway’s brain-inspired architecture development on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
As AI systems take on more complex tasks, much of the industry’s progress has come from increasing model scale, training…
How to Maximize GPT-6 Astra
My first impressions of OpenAI’s new frontier model The post How to Maximize GPT-6 Astra appeared first on Towards Data…
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas With Precomputed Molecular Effect Predictions and AVI Scores for 9 Billion Human DNA Variants
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue of precomputed predictions for the molecular effects of every possible single-nucleotide variant…
Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2
Governing models across accounts is the natural next step once automatic model registration is in place. In Part 1 we…
A Beginner’s Guide to World Models
Learn how to simulate reality with Python The post A Beginner’s Guide to World Models appeared first on Towards Data…
TikTok to expand data center capacity in Finland amid boom in AI infrastructure deals
TikTok plans to take roughly 150 MW of data center capacity in Finland as the country sees digital infrastructure deals…
Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions
Build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) quality gate that deploys an agent with role-based MCP tools, evaluates it,…
Introducing ShipAI
Towards Data Science launches a video showcase for real-world AI work The post Introducing ShipAI appeared first on Towards Data…
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
Qualcomm stock pops 10% on data center infrastructure deal with Amazon
Qualcomm is trying to move into the data center business, where Nvidia has been the dominant player in the AI…
Brent crude nears $100 after strikes on Saudi energy sites amid renewed Mideast hostilities
Oil prices rose Tuesday on worries over escalating Mideast tensions after the U.S. and Iran traded strikes over the weekend.
Context Windows Don’t Know What’s Still True — I Built a Validity Layer That Does
A context window can be technically complete and still describe a world that no longer exists. I built a deterministic…
Pharma major Novartis falls 9% after three drug trial setbacks
Shares of Novartis tanked on Tuesday after results from its del-desiran drug trial disappointed investors.
Canada braces for prolonged trade war as counter-tariffs on US take effect
The tariffs will apply to $20bn worth of American products, jeopardising the stability of the world’s largest bilateral trading relationship.
Iran foreign ministry takes aim at Canada for support of U.S. actions in Strait of Hormuz
Canada had condemned Iran’s “destabilizing actions” in the Middle East, saying that it would work with partners to maintain significant…
China’s imports in August miss estimates as exports pick up pace amid calls for rebalancing trade
China’s exports and imports gathered momentum in August, as the world’s second-largest economy faces mounting pressure to rebalance trade.
Reducto Releases r-1: A Single Pass Document Parsing Model That Cuts Errors 20% at 1 Cent Per Page
Last week, Reducto announced r-1. It is the first model in a new parsing family built on a rewritten architecture,…
Flight recorders recovered from ‘devastating’ Amazon cargo plane crash
Five people were killed and five others seriously injured when the Boeing 767-300 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.
Tether Alloy Gold-Backed Reserves Cross $210M
Tether’s Alloy gold-backed synthetic dollar reserves have crossed $210 million, according to the company’s transparency materials. The milestone relates to…
Palestinian parents fear for children’s lives at school as settler attacks grow
A headteacher in the occupied West Bank has installed new barbed wire fencing after three pupils were killed this year.
Securitize Expands BlackRock BUIDL Collateral Use Across Prime Brokers
Securitize has expanded institutional collateral support for BlackRock’s BUIDL fund across participating crypto prime brokerages, giving tokenized Treasuries another step…
Bitwise Amends Ethereum ETF Filing To Include Staking Mechanics
Bitwise has filed an amended S-1 registration statement for its spot Ethereum ETF, adding language around staking mechanics, validator operations,…
OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On Device
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, the second checkpoint in the MiniCPM5 series and the follow-up to MiniCPM5-1B. It is a dense…
Philippines Central Bank Weighs Freeze On New Payment Operator Licenses
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is weighing a temporary moratorium on new Operator of Payment Systems licenses as part of a…
Kraken Files For CFTC-Regulated U.S. Perpetual Futures Product
Kraken parent Payward has filed to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for eligible U.S. traders through Bitnomial, the Designated Contract Market…
Bitget Wallet Launches Assetback Rewards In Bitcoin And Tokenized Assets
Bitget Wallet has launched Assetback, a card rewards program that lets users earn up to 3% cash-back in selected digital…
Capital B Raises €25.3M And Buys 376 Bitcoin For Treasury
Capital B SA has completed a €25.3 million capital increase and used the proceeds to buy 376 Bitcoin, adding another…
Bitcoin ETFs Add $3.8B Over Three Weeks As IBIT And FBTC Lead
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in $3.8 billion in net inflows over a three-week stretch, with BlackRock’s IBIT and…
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Wallet Moves 600 BTC After 16 Years
A Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallet has moved 600 BTC after more than 16 years of dormancy, drawing fresh attention to one…
Liquid Network Pauses After Purported $320M White-Hat Bitcoin Withdrawal
Liquid Network paused operations after a purported $320 million Bitcoin withdrawal from multisig reserve addresses, with the party behind the…
I Vibe-Coded an App in Just Two Hours (And Regretted It the Next Day)
I saved my day with a mere $52 bill. But you don’t have to repeat my mistake. The post I…
Trump says he’s made ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks’ for the U.S., in stream of AI posts
U.S. President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth…
Why Most Multi-Agent Systems Fail Even When Evaluation Passes
How to catch a payload that looks correct but isn’t, using a watchdog pattern with working Python. The post Why…
Germany’s far-right AfD says ‘democracy demands’ parties work with them after state election win
The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
Far-right AfD landslide in German state piles pressure on federal government
The “extraordinary” result may be the “most consequential German state-election result of the postwar era,” according to analysts.
Israel-Hezbollah clashes deepen threat to fragile truce as Lebanon’s president calls for U.S. support
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the U.S. to help stop Israeli attacks after Sunday strikes killed at least seven…
IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider…
Germany’s far-right AfD set for big win in eastern state, just short of majority
Germany’s AfD has hailed a “historic result” and is projected to win 44% of the vote, far ahead of the…
H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language…
Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours
AI research agents can already propose, implement and score their own machine learning experiments. Idea generation is cheap; verification is…
Text Watermarking in Python: Catch Whoever Copies Your Writing
AI companies quietly watermark billions of words a day. Here’s how to apply the same three families of techniques to…
Iran warns of ‘more painful’ response to U.S. attacks as economic pressure mounts
Iran warned of faster, heavier retaliation against U.S. attacks while acknowledging the war’s mounting toll on its economy.