Volvo Cars shares plunge 28% amid China sales slump and fresh job cuts
The Swedish automaker cited a deteriorating environment led by “tougher” market conditions in China and the U.S., which “negatively affected…
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents. Google Agent Compute Engine gives…
Defense giant Saab sees orders triple after Gripen fighter jet deal with Ukraine
European governments race to turn defense spending pledges into military capability, boosting companies’ order books.
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential…
SK Hynix shares slide after chipmaker scraps Solidigm IPO plans
SK Hynix has shelved plans for a potential U.S. IPO of Solidigm amid market volatility and share price concerns.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan’s RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
Japan core inflation in September surges to its highest this year at 2.1%
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, was in line with than the 2.1% forecast by economists polled…
Trump asked Musk to lift Starlink slowdown, WSJ reports
Elon Musk, a critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had ordered the slowdown of SpaceX’s Starlink, The Wall Street Journal…
This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as…
OpenAI nears up to $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation led by UAE investors
OpenAI is close to finalizing a new funding round that is meant to be a bridge to its 2027 IPO,…
OpenAI Says Its Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring, and One Denied It
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its internal coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while carrying out routine software…
Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine
Amazon Polly Generative engine now offers more natural and accurate speech output. We’re introducing an upgrade to the Amazon Polly…
Liquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs
Liquid AI just announced Liquid RIPL, short for Real-time Inference Pipeline. RIPL is a low-latency engine that serves Liquid Foundation…
Newborn twins fight for survival as conflict fuels Yemen’s hunger crisis
Raghad and Raad’s family had to flee their home on foot because of the fighting between pro-government forces and the…
Meta stock sinks 6% as AI spend pushes free cash flow negative
Prices for the social media giant’s 5-year credit default swaps are reaching all-time highs as investors signal growing credit concerns.
Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI
A traffic spike hits your self-hosted text-to-speech (TTS) endpoint, and requests start queueing. Latency climbs past your service level objective…
Does Agentic RAG Actually Retrieve Better Evidence? I Tested It on 298 Questions
I let an AI agent search again whenever it chose. It found some papers plain search had missed, lost some…
Raman Spectra Preprocessing and Non-Negative Least Squares Modelling in Python: Monitoring Zeolite Crystallization
A short, reproducible tutorial on spectral unmixing using real in situ interzeolite conversion data The post Raman Spectra Preprocessing and…
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Same Answer, Different Reason: What a Reasoning Model Says When It Follows a Planted Hint
I put wrong answers in front of 200 exam questions and read what a small model’s reasoning said when it…
Police investigate Married at First Sight Australia after ‘inappropriate’ allegations
New South Wales Police say inquiries took place “following a report of inappropriate content being shared”.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says neocloud demand is ‘off the charts’ but capital is scarce
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is “off the charts,” but scarce capital is…
Could On-Policy Self-Distillation Revolutionize Post-Training?
Teaching foundation models new skills without breaking them is hard. A new reinforcement learning-based approach might have the power to…
World’s largest wealth fund posts $30 billion loss after bond market turbulence
The fund has a current value of around $2.3 trillion.
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
U.S. pulls diplomats from Saudi Arabia as it reportedly readies Iran strikes after midterms
The U.S. ordered non-emergency staff out of Saudi Arabia after Houthi strikes on an airport and an oil field, reviving…
IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation
IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a new open speech-language model for transcription and translation. Granite Speech 5.0 2B…
Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
The vulnerabilities with PHP, a programming language widely used across the internet, have been described as the most significant ever…
Critical web security flaws spark global alarm as Google, OpenAI and Amazon respond
Critical PHP security flaws trigger global warnings as Google, OpenAI and Amazon respond to potential cyber threats.
A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU
In this tutorial, we use Whistle, Cactus Compute’s speech-to-text model, a 16.9 MB file that runs on a CPU, transcribes…
China’s stock market sinks into bear territory as CSI 300 set to extend 10-week rout
China’s benchmark CSI 300 index has entered bear-market territory, falling 20% from its June peak, as a prolonged selloff in…
Bank of Korea holds rates after President Lee calls for boosting housing supply
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the Bank of Korea to hold rates.
Securing Quick access from corporate networks with AWS PrivateLink
When enterprise data sits behind a corporate firewall or in a private on-premises data center, there’s no direct network path…
Metaplanet Bitcoin Investment Clears Super League Shareholder Vote
TL;DR: Super League shareholders have approved proposals connected to Metaplanet’s plan to contribute 2,100 BTC and cash to a new…
Hyperliquid Policy Center Calls For Five Changes To SEC Crypto Rule
TL;DR: The Hyperliquid Policy Center supports the SEC’s proposed crypto framework but says five changes are needed to make the…
Probly Wraps Up TOKEN2049 Singapore and WHALE3RA, Strengthening Its Presence in On-Chain Prediction Markets
The British Virgin Islands, Road Town, October 2026 — Probly, an on-chain prediction market for sports, politics, crypto, finance, and…
Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Active Params
Recursive Superintelligence has released Flint, its first model. The Recursive Flint local coding model is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with…
Adaptive agentic intelligence framework using Strands Agents
Organizations building AI agents face a common challenge: Every request, whether a routine status check or complex analysis, typically gets…
How U.S. Hunger connects leaders and data using Amazon Quick
For U.S. Hunger, feeding families takes more than delivering food to them. It takes understanding the people behind each request,…
OCC Finalises US Stablecoin Rules Ahead Of January 2027 Start
TL;DR: The OCC has published its final GENIUS Act rule, setting out how payment stablecoin issuers under its supervision will…
Standard Chartered Moves To Take Full Control Of Zodia Custody
TL;DR: Standard Chartered has signed definitive agreements to acquire Zodia Custody, deepening its push into institutional digital asset safekeeping. Standard…
Russia says it is ready to resume talks with Ukraine and US to end war
The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.
How Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia crippled the world’s second-largest diesel supplier
President Donald Trump has blamed Ukraine for surging diesel prices that are hurting Republicans’ election chances with the midterms just…
Decision Models in Action: Build a Hybrid LLM Workflow
A hands-on guide to building browser automation by combining decision models with LLMs. The post Decision Models in Action: Build…
How to Turn Long-Running Python Simulations Into a Self-Service Platform
What I learned about queues, failure recovery, and reproducibility while building asynchronous workloads on AWS The post How to Turn…
Spatial Reasoning in AI Models, Taken Apart
Grid puzzles that people solve almost perfectly show where language and vision models still break The post Spatial Reasoning in…
French 10-year bond yield hits 5% for first time since 2002 amid unrest
France is grappling with intense pressure to slash spending, while trying to quell violent protests demanding the government spends more.
I Built a Pipeline to Track the Job Market I’m Trying to Break Into.
Building an incremental pipeline with dbt snapshots, and the API that quietly lied to me along the way. The post…
Russia frees US citizen Stephen Hubbard, state media reports
Stephen Hubbard has been taken to Pulkovo Airport, Putin said during talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff.
SpaceX up 10% in premarket after earnings beat and Musk hints at Tesla tie-up
SpaceX shares jumped after the company reported surging revenue growth in its third quarter, and owner Elon Musk floated a…