Iran reportedly weighs attacks on U.S. targets in Europe as UAE severs trade with Tehran
Washington and Tehran are considering next steps after negotiations fell apart, while the UAE has suspended trade with Iran.
Sacked Ukrainian defence minister calls for presidential election
Martial law has been in place in Ukraine since February 2022, under which elections are suspended.
Trump pauses 50% scheduled tariffs on Canada for three days, announces ‘deal’ with Ottawa
Trump has already imposed a variety of tariffs on Canada and its specific exports, including metals, lumber and auto parts.
Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, court hears
Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states…
NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of tools per…
Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Amazon Quick embedded chat provides a conversational AI interface that you can integrate directly into your web application. Your users…
From Prototype to Production: The Architecture Behind Secure & Governed AI Agents
Building the Responsible AI, security, and governance layers required for enterprise-ready agents The post From Prototype to Production: The Architecture…
When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center…
How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are expanding their offerings and adding AI agents. Common considerations for organizations when adding agentic workloads…
30-year Treasury yield tops 5.33%, new 19-year high on inflation, spending concerns
Long-dated fixed income hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher…
Building Enterprise Agent Systems that People can Trust, Verify and Improve
5 principles that determine whether an agent system succeeds in production, explained through one I built for a $100M+ company. The…
Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how…
‘Worrisome’: AI is driving a looming market correction, European central bank economists warn
History suggests valuations will tumble even if they are a fair reflection of the transformative power of AI, according to…
Ten Is Not a Hundred
The number that fooled every hallucination detector The post Ten Is Not a Hundred appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Meet SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh): A Zero-Config, Zero-Trust P2P Network for AI Agents
google/sam is not Segment Anything. SAM here means Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents. The…
Russia warns UK will pay for supplying drones to Ukraine
Russia accuses the UK of escalating the Ukraine war after British-made drones were used, but the MoD says it stands…
Global bond yields hit multi-decade highs as governments pay the price for U.S.-Iran stalemate
International government bond yields followed U.S. Treasury yields higher on Tuesday.
Cartesia Ships Sonic-3.6: A Streaming TTS Model That Now Leads Both Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, the newest version of its real-time text-to-speech model. It arrives roughly three months after Sonic-3.5. The…
The 30-year Treasury yield just hit a 19-year high. Three things could drive it even higher
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury has surged to its highest level in 19 years, and some strategists see…
IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus
Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by…
Ship attacked in Hormuz Strait as U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry risks prolonged conflict
U.S., Iran appeared to be digging in for a protracted conflict, hardening their positions and rejecting renewed negotiations after a…
Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session…
Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how…
MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. The model takes two separate inputs: lyrics carrying section tags, and a detailed…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed for the fast, specialized model execution required by high-volume agentic workloads. With NVIDIA Nemotron…
Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs
In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end OCR workflow with docTR and explore how modern document understanding pipelines combine text…
Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ over Iran issue
The US and Oman have been negotiating separately to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that has been closed…
Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California
Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and…
Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
This post is a collaboration between AWS and the OpenClaw Foundation. Autonomous agents that browse the web, call APIs, and…
Webwright: Why AI Web Agents Should Write Code, Not Click
For years, web agents have worked one click at a time—and often fallen apart on long tasks. Microsoft Research’s Webwright…
How to Perform Effective Project Management with AI
Become a more productive software engineer with LLMs The post How to Perform Effective Project Management with AI appeared first…
Loop Engineering for RAG: The Small Loops Inside Each Step, the Big Loops Across the Pipeline
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #13bis] – The four bricks return useful results most of the time. Loop engineering is what…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview and published the full source code under the MIT license. The project…
Strait of Hormuz shipping grinds to a halt ahead of U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry
Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz sank to a new low as a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran…
Top U.S. commander acknowledges mental health issues on USS Lincoln
Cooper’s visit and statement come after reports of widespread morale and mental health concerns aboard the Lincoln.
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
US President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday.
Japan second-quarter GDP grows 1.1% on an annualized basis, missing expectations
On an annualized basis, Japan saw growth of 1.1%, against estimates of 2%.
Trump says US will scale back military drills with South Korea
His decision to reduce the partnership came after South Korea recently declined to aid his war effort in Iran.
Designing a Persistent Knowledge Layer That Refuses to Guess
RAG Retrieves, It Never Remembers. A vendor-neutral blueprint for applications that accumulate understanding. Includes a complete Azure-native implementation (Microsoft Foundry,…
Running SQL Concurrently Across Three Remote DuckDB Servers with Quack
A small experiment in remote SQL execution The post Running SQL Concurrently Across Three Remote DuckDB Servers with Quack appeared first…
Secret outperformer: Dispelling the ‘myths’ about an unloved stock market
European markets fly under the radar when compared with larger and more liquid U.S. markets, but Goldman Sachs offered to…
Three killed as Russia launches fresh aerial attacks across Ukraine
Firefighters are tackling a fire at a market in Kyiv, while Moscow reports that a warehouse was hit.
Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations
The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the caverns that store the oil, experts warn.
Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
Officials say a rapid assessment into the impact of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 is…
Mathematical Experiments Are Becoming Abundant Through Human-Machine Teaming
Two open problems, exact-arithmetic checking and a proof assistant, over a single weekend. The post Mathematical Experiments Are Becoming Abundant Through Human-Machine…
How to Shine as a Data Scientist in the Vibe Coding Era
Here’s how to be the Data Scientist who thrives in a world where coding is a commodity. The post How…
Iran rebuffs Trump’s claim over Strait of Hormuz amid report of another ship being struck
Iran’s deputy foreign minister says Hormuz “will remain Iranian” after Trump’s claim that the waterway would soon become U.S. territory.
Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT.…
Powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake kills at least 20 in Indonesia
A search and rescue operation is under way to find survivors in Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia.