Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
As far back as she can remember, Cathy Wu ’12, MNG ’13 wanted to find ways to solve problems to…
NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark 64GB: A 1-PetaFLOP Grace Blackwell Desktop for Local AI Agents, Fine-Tuning, and Inference
NVIDIA announced a new 64GB configuration of DGX Spark — from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Gigabyte, HP and MSI — its…
Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
More than 600 schools have faced disruption as protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
Sweep thousands of leases for compliance using Amazon Quick and the Adjudicated Query pattern
Checking tens of thousands of apartment leases against constantly changing state landlord-tenant laws, and proving you actually checked all of…
Documenting the tech worker movement
Despite the “dot-com crash” in 2000, the tech industry remained an attractive career destination for many who believed technology represented…
Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks
Datalab has released OmniExtractBench, an open benchmark for structured document extraction. It tests how accurately a system fills a JSON…
Where the Agent Development Lifecycle Fits
Coordinating agent capability development with the application it powers The post Where the Agent Development Lifecycle Fits appeared first on…
The Recovery Loop: Why Safe Upgrades Taught Me More Than Clean Demos
Hermes Journey #7 The Recovery Loop: Why Safe Upgrades Taught Me More Than Clean Demos Seventh in the Hermes Journey…
How to Build a Control Plane for AI Agents
Giving an LLM permission to act, in 9 steps The post How to Build a Control Plane for AI Agents…
Celestia Says Fibre Sustained 3.07 Tb/s In 120-Validator Benchmark
TL;DR Celestia says its Fibre data-availability system sustained 3.07 terabits per second in an end-to-end benchmark across 120 validators. The…
Visa Says Business Payments Now Drive 17% Of Stablecoin-Linked Card Volume
TL;DR Visa says roughly 17% of its stablecoin-linked card volume in fiscal 2026 year-to-date came from business and commercial card…
Polymath And CineCity Explore Regulated Tokenized Film Investment Platform
TL;DR Polymath and Chicago-based CineCity Studios are exploring a platform for financing independent film through regulated digital securities. Polymath would…
Oil prices fall over 3% on report of potential diesel, crude stock release; Brent back below $100
It comes after Reuters reported that EU nations were discussing a proposal to release diesel reserves following pressure from the…
‘I was not going to let others die’ – pilot of Flydubai flight describes cockpit attack by co-pilot
Capt Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed during the flight, speaks to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
U.S. urges Europe to ‘immediately’ release diesel reserves as Iran war fuels record prices
EU countries are set for crisis talks on soaring diesel prices, with officials warning a U.S. export ban could hurt…
AWS Strands Labs Releases Strands Decider 2B: An Open Source Decision Model That Picks Options in About 115 ms
AWS Strands Labs releases Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model. It does not generate text. It reads a…
A Brexit reversal is on the table 10 years on from the vote that changed Britain. Here’s what’s at stake
Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
U.S. trade representative Greer says deal with India not ‘imminent’ after Modi-Trump call
Ties between the U.S. and India have been under strain for over a year, and New Delhi faces fresh risk…
3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs
The book “Disciplined Entrepreneurship” by Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the Ethernet…
US says Europe should ready fuel supplies as Trump threatens diesel ban
President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of…
Cloudflare Releases Clef and Clef-flash: Open-Weight Decision Models That Return Typed Probabilities Instead of Text
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by its Workers AI team. They are decision models, not…
Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
October 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Scaling cloud migrations with agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore…
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“What you see is what you get” is a guiding principle for many software engineers — create programs where the content…
Serve live, governed data in AI-built apps with Amazon Quick
Quick Apps could already bring live data into an app from connectors and content sources: action connectors (services like Jira,…
Build agent memory with NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and Amazon S3 Vectors
In my previous post: Building persistent memory for multi-agent AI systems with Amazon S3 Vectors, we explored why memory engineering…
Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI
Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model…
Tennessee halts executions after death row inmate Christa Pike survives hers
Christa Pike was transported to hospital after the failed attempts. Her condition remains unknown.
Simplify dashboard drill-down with the Amazon Quick Sight hierarchy filter
Amazon Quick Sight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) capability for building and publishing interactive dashboards. You can…
Autoencoders vs. PCA: I Rigged the Test and PCA Still Won
A theoretical advantage that didn’t survive contact with a real benchmark. The post Autoencoders vs. PCA: I Rigged the Test…
Can an Apartment Search Agent Call the Model Fewer Times and Still Find Good Matches?
I traced 2,500 listing checks with Weights & Biases Weave, removed avoidable model work one change at a time, and…
MEXC adds another 1,000 BTC to Guardian Fund, strengthening user protection
Mutsamudu, Comoros, October 1, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today announced the addition of another…
TopNod Wallet Debuts Access to Axil’s APT (Axil Pot), a T+0 On-Chain Yield Product for Everyday Idle Liquidity
Offering ~8% Target APY and Instant T+0 Liquidity with an Initial $10M Capacity Cap Singapore, October 1, 2026 —TopNod…
Oil prices rise as Chinese refiners reportedly ban October fuel exports; Brent crude near $100
It comes after a report that Chinese refiners suspended October fuel exports to protect domestic supplies.
What the ReLU Revolution Revealed About Biological Plausibility
The activation function was never a fixed biological commitment but a working hypothesis revised under empirical pressure. The post What…
These charts show how volatile the last quarter was for stocks and bonds
The third quarter was a mixed bag for assets.
Your AI Bill Is a Toll Booth. Stop Paying Twice.
The budget nobody saw coming The post Your AI Bill Is a Toll Booth. Stop Paying Twice. appeared first on…
10-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2002 as global bond rout gathers pace
Treasury yields were higher on Thursday ahead of jobs data.
NVIDIA Releases Kumo Tabular: Open Tabular Foundation Models That Predict New Rows in a Single Forward Pass
NVIDIA has released Kumo Tabular, a new family of tabular foundation models (TFMs) for classification and regression. If you have…
US death row inmate Christa Pike taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections, says lawyer
Her lawyer says Pike is being “provided life-saving measures” after two syringes of pentobarbital.
Kraken Completes Acquisition Of TradeStation Crypto Infrastructure Assets
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for Kraken Completes Acquisition Of TradeStation Crypto Infrastructure Assets.…
‘Hero’ pilot stabbed by other pilot on Israel-bound plane, Israeli PM says
Passengers and crew overpowered the attacker and safely landed the plane in Saudi Arabia.
South Korea’s Lee pours cold water on Alaska LNG project after Trump touts Seoul’s participation
The U.S. announced plans for up to $200 billion in South Korean investment, though Seoul has yet to finalize the…
Perplexity Releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview: A Contextual Embedding Model That Retrieves Answers and Their Supporting Evidence
Perplexity Research and turbopuffer have released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview, a contextual embedding model for RAG pipelines. Each chunk is embedded with the…
Solana Validator Codebase Tag v2.1.0 Released On Testnet
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for Solana Validator Codebase Tag v2.1.0 Released On Testnet.…
WisdomTree Deploys Tokenized Real World Asset Funds Natively On Arbitrum
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for WisdomTree Deploys Tokenized Real World Asset Funds Natively…
Orderly Network Surpasses $100 Billion In Cumulative Trading Volume
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for Orderly Network Surpasses $100 Billion In Cumulative Trading…
EigenLayer Unveils Dual-Staking Extension For Bitcoin Asset Security
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for EigenLayer Unveils Dual-Staking Extension For Bitcoin Asset Security.…
Trump ‘thinking about’ diesel export ban, but says it could have ‘negative impact’ on gasoline
Trump recently said he was “very seriously” considering a diesel export ban, despite warnings from the U.S. oil industry that…
Superstate Expands Tokenized Short-Duration US Treasury Fund (USTB) To Base
In a major development confirmed on SEPTEMBER 30, 2026, Confirmed announcement/filing for Superstate Expands Tokenized Short-Duration US Treasury Fund (USTB)…
Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense
Google DeepMind has just announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model and the first model of the Gemini 4…