Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms
Ten days ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting, the Trump administration looks to be in a full-court press to…
UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley have released CUA-Lite, an open platform for computer-use agents (CUAs). The argument behind…
US envoys set for Ukraine talks after meeting Putin in Moscow
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leave Moscow talks with hopes for “equally productive meetings” in Ukraine.
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Retrieval quality in an AI search product is bounded by two things: how good the embedding model is, and how…
Trump’s state capitalism comes to the oil industry with his unprecedented Venezuela deal
The deal comes eight months after Washington ousted former President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid.
GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per Coding Task in Copilot CLI
GitHub has released Project HydraFusion, a research preview that stops treating model choice as a one-time setting. Instead of routing…
Nous Research Adds One-Click Local Model Setup to Hermes Desktop
The hard part of running an open-weights model locally was never the model. It was everything before it, reading VRAM…
US envoys meet Putin in Moscow for Ukraine talks
President Trump says his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are “bringing with them a proposal to end the war”.
US hits three Iranian oil tankers after saying its warships were targeted
US Central Command says the attacks came after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two of its Navy warships.
Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For Time Series: A Visual Guide
From scalar observations to self-attention, and how positional information restores sequence order The post Why Transformers Need Positional Encoding For…
Dynamical System Transfer Learning with Reduced Order Models
Improving reinforcement learning for complex physics The post Dynamical System Transfer Learning with Reduced Order Models appeared first on Towards…
From Trump’s takeover threats to a ‘northern neighborhood,’ why the EU chief is going to Greenland
The visit comes as Trump renews his push for greater U.S. control of the self-governing Danish territory.
Adaption Labs Introduces ‘Invent a Dataset’: Training Data Generated From a Task Description, Not a Seed Corpus
This week, Adaption Labs released Invent a Dataset. The feature generates a structured, training-ready dataset from a description of the…
Google Launches Agentic Video Understanding for Gemini Flash Models, Cutting Video Tokens by Up to 88%
Video has been the most expensive modality to reason over. A Gemini model handed a 90-minute lecture has, until now,…
Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocks
The mistrial now puts the murder case – and Clancy’s future – in limbo as to whether she will be…
Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2.…
Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory
Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget.…
Optimal Traffic Allocation Under Heterogeneous Variant Cost
Why the default 50/50 split is the wrong move when your treatment is more expensive than your control, and how…
Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage – and Russia is the chief suspect
Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.
U.S. payrolls rose 162,000 in August, much more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.1%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 53,000 in August while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%, according to the…
Disaggregation Is a Thousand-GPU Problem
Three conditions that must hold before splitting prefill from decode pays off, and why chunked prefill is the right default…
The Power BI Developer’s Survival Guide to Microsoft Fabric
Power BI Premium is gone. Microsoft Fabric took its place. Here’s what actually changed for you, what didn’t, and where…
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B.AI, a next-generation AI infrastructure platform, recently set off a developer frenzy by offering free access to top-tier models. Within…
‘Layer upon layer of miracles’: How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnel
From searching for a buried tunnel entrance to blowing up rocks the size of cars, rescuers had to surmount multiple…
World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund plans to cut U.S. Treasury holdings
Norway’s $2.3 trillion investment fund says it can diversify into new areas with greater risk and returns.
Axis Robotics Open-Sources One of the Largest Franka Arm Simulation Datasets for Physical AI
Axis Robotics has released Axis Sim Dataset V1, one of the largest open-source simulation datasets for Franka arm manipulation, with…
Global bond sell-off likely not over yet, Mohamed El-Erian tells CNBC
In a wide-ranging interview, the renowned economist also said the U.S. Treasury had taken “a step too far” with its…
Nepal says it will need billions in funding to rebuild after flash floods
BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri is in Nepal where authorities are trying to begin rebuilding amid the debris.
EU joins U.S. sanctions push on Iran as South Korea weighs Hormuz deployment
The bloc’s endorsement came as the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors gathered in Asheville, North Carolina,…
Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
The defence lawyer is upset after the judge decides not to remove a holdout in the triple murder case.
South Korea’s AI rally is reshaping romance, reality shows and academic preferences
South Korea rally is changing what Koreans watch, how Koreans date, and what Koreans study.
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour
AI weather models have spent three years closing the gap with physics-based forecasting, but two problems stayed open: resolution too…
Tether Reports $1.3B Q2 Profit As Excess Reserves Reach $5.2B
Tether reported $1.3 billion in Q2 net operating profit in its latest BDO attestation statement, while excess reserves rose to…
Trump hints US would not back UK over Falkland Islands due to lack of Iran war support
The US president says the UK was not “there to help me” in his ongoing war with Iran.
SEC Approves Options Trading For WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund
The SEC has approved a Cboe Options Exchange rule amendment allowing listed options on the WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund, opening another…
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold
Today, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it its most intelligent and aligned model, and positions it primarily as…
Marathon Mines 670 Bitcoin In August As Treasury Reaches 25,000 BTC
Marathon Digital reported August production of 670 Bitcoin, while its corporate treasury balance reached 25,000 BTC under its full HODL…
Circle Reserve Attestation Shows USDC Backing Above Circulating Supply
Circle has issued its latest monthly reserve attestation for USDC, with Deloitte’s review showing reserve assets above total circulating token…
ECB Digital Euro Report Keeps Preparation Phase Moving
The European Central Bank has released a progress report on the digital euro preparation phase, outlining work on offline functionality,…
Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the…
CleanSpark Hits 30 EH/s Hashrate After Mississippi Facility Deal
CleanSpark has expanded its operational deployed hashrate beyond 30 EH/s after completing the acquisition of two Mississippi data center facilities.…
CFTC Advisory Sets Expectations For Tokenized Collateral At Clearinghouses
The CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk has issued a staff advisory on how registered derivatives clearing organizations should handle…
Carney claps back at Lutnick, says Canada will resume trade talks ‘when the Americans are ready’
Canada has retaliated against President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs with “dollar for dollar” duties on U.S. goods, which are set…
BitGo Brings Gold, Real Estate And Fine Art Tokenization To Core Chain
BitGo has partnered with Core Chain to introduce a tokenization framework for real-world assets, including physical gold, real estate, and…
Metaplanet Buys 1,007 More Bitcoin As Treasury Hits 20,000 BTC
Metaplanet has bought another 1,007 Bitcoin for $69 million, lifting its total corporate treasury holdings to 20,000 BTC. The company…
SEC Issues New Reporting Guidance For Digital Asset Custody Firms
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has issued updated staff guidance on public reporting expectations for digital asset depositories and…
AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and coding agents like Kiro often struggle with…
My Model Worked Perfectly. Then I Tried to Make It Useful.
Turning a trained churn classifier into a FastAPI service that other software can actually call. The post My Model Worked…
Tables in PDFs for RAG: Don’t Flatten the Grid
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B4] – A diagnostic and five composable operations, not a decision tree The post Tables in…