AI Agents Explained: What Is a ReAct Loop and How Does It Work?
How agents reason, act, and observe their way to a final answer, one step at a time The post AI…
Ukrainian suspect hunted by police after Monaco bomb attack was ‘disguised as a man’
Officials believe the suspect may not have acted alone and spent days casing out the scene of the attack.
MEXC Lists Ondo Yield Asset As Tokenized Treasury Demand Grows
Tokenized yield products are continuing to move toward retail-facing crypto venues. MEXC has listed an Ondo Finance-linked yield asset on…
Autheo Pitches Decentralized Operating System For AI Agents And Blockchain
Autheo is pitching a decentralized coordination layer for one of crypto’s hottest crossover themes: autonomous AI agents. The project says…
Long Context vs. Short Context Model: When Does a Long Context Model Win?
Balancing context capability against cost, speed, and data The post Long Context vs. Short Context Model: When Does a Long…
SEC Names Kathleen Hutchinson To Lead International Affairs Office
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made Kathleen M. Hutchinson the permanent director of its Office of International Affairs,…
SEC And CFTC Seek Comment On Portfolio Margining Harmonization
The SEC and CFTC are asking for public comment on how portfolio margining frameworks could be better aligned, a technical…
Ethereum Foundation Guide Targets Government And Institutional Blockchain Use
The Ethereum Foundation is making a more direct case to governments and institutions. A new guide from the foundation lays…
Tether Freezes USDT In 131 TRON Wallets After OFAC Sanctions Update
Tether has again shown how much control stablecoin issuers can exercise when sanctioned wallets enter the picture. Following an updated…
MiCA Deadline Puts EU Crypto Firms Under Full Licensing Pressure
The European Union’s crypto rulebook has moved from theory into day-to-day market pressure. ESMA has reminded crypto-asset service providers that…
Cardano Development Activity Pushes Back Against ADA Price Stagnation
Cardano’s market chart has been quiet, but its codebase is still moving. Recent Cardano node releases from IntersectMBO show continued…
The Untaught Lessons of RAG Retrieval: Cosine Is Not the Foundation
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7ter] – Six positions on the retrieval brick that contradict the cosine-first reflex of mainstream RAG…
Robinhood Launches Public L2 Mainnet Optimized For Real-World Assets
Robinhood is no longer just giving crypto users a trading button. The brokerage is now pushing deeper into blockchain infrastructure…
US Spot Bitcoin ETF Outflows Clash With Ethereum Fund Demand
Crypto ETF flows are starting to tell a more complicated story than simple risk-on or risk-off. Bitcoin funds have seen…
France records 2,025 excess deaths at peak of heatwave as Europe braces for more extreme weather
Forecasters are warning of further extreme temperatures on the continent in the next few days.
Oman walks a diplomatic tightrope over Strait of Hormuz fees, creating a ‘blind spot’ for markets
Oman is using strategic ambiguity as talks over possible Strait of Hormuz fees raise legal, diplomatic and oil market concerns.
Meet WebBrain: An Open-Source, Local-First AI Browser Agent That Reads Pages and Automates Tasks in Chrome and Firefox
WebBrain is a free, open-source browser agent for Chrome and Firefox. It reads pages, extracts data, and automates multi-step tasks.…
On the Strait of Hormuz, BBC finds seized ships and shark fishermen as uneasy calm returns
The BBC visits Bandar Abbas to see how the US-Israeli war with Iran has affected everyday life in the port…
Venezuela quake toll climbs to 2,595 as damage estimates mount after strongest tremor in a century
Death toll from twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela jumped to 2,595, as rescue operations continued after the country’s strongest tremors…
Interfaze Ships diffusion-gemma-asr-small, an Open-Source Diffusion ASR Model Transcribing Six Languages via DiffusionGemma’s Parallel Denoising Decoder
Interfaze, a young YC’s startup, has open-sourced a new speech recognition model. It is called diffusion-gemma-asr-small. The model transcribes audio…
U.S. Public Firm K Wave Media Liquidates Entire 88 BTC Portfolio to Repay Debt
The headline number is useful, but the real story is what it says about positioning. U.S. Public Firm K Wave…
XRP Price Faces Stubborn $1.07 Barrier After Repeated June Rejections
This is not just another ticker-level move. It points to a deeper shift in how capital, infrastructure, or regulation is…
US Accounts for 96% of Global Bitcoin ATM Reductions in First Half of 2026
For readers tracking where the market is actually changing, this is the part that matters. US Accounts for 96% of…
Tether Freezes USDT in 131 TRON Wallets Under Updated OFAC Sanctions
There is a reason this one is worth separating from the usual market noise. Tether Freezes USDT in 131 TRON…
RAG-Anything Tutorial: Build a Multimodal Retrieval Pipeline for Text, Tables, Equations, and Images in Colab
In this tutorial, we build a RAG-Anything workflow and use it to explore how multimodal retrieval works across text, tables,…
MiCA Rollout Shows Limited Impact On Dominance, Kaiko Analysis Reports
The headline number is useful, but the real story is what it says about positioning. MiCA Rollout Shows Limited Impact…
Ethlabs Launches with Five Former Ethereum Foundation Researchers to Speed Up Settlement
This is not just another ticker-level move. It points to a deeper shift in how capital, infrastructure, or regulation is…
Solana Foundation Launches Validator Governance Framework for On-Chain Voting
There is a reason this one is worth separating from the usual market noise. Solana Foundation Launches Validator Governance Framework…
Cardano Price Stuck in Consolidation as Devs Push Back on ‘Ghost Chain’ Accusations
There is a reason this one is worth separating from the usual market noise. Cardano Price Stuck in Consolidation as…
Crypto ETF Inflow Split: Ether and Solana Products Gain While Bitcoin Outflows Exceed $290M
For readers tracking where the market is actually changing, this is the part that matters. Crypto ETF Inflow Split: Ether…
Ethereum Institutional Backers Launch Independent Non-Profit to Target Wall Street Wealth
Crypto markets have had plenty to digest today, and this development adds another layer to the picture. Ethereum Institutional Backers…
How Amazon Bedrock catches AI-generated phishing
Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose…
Bitcoin Reclaims $61,000 as Dovish Inflation Outlook Softens Market Fear
The headline number is useful, but the real story is what it says about positioning. Bitcoin Reclaims $61,000 as Dovish…
Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era
A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but…
Tokenminning: How to Get More from Your Chatbot for Less
Tokenmaxxing is out. Real patterns for reducing costs without sacrificing AI effectiveness The post Tokenminning: How to Get More from…
Design Loops, Not Prompts
But don’t let the model check itself The post Design Loops, Not Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Venezuela quake survivor pulled out alive after eight days
Hernán Gil was trapped under a collapsed multi-storey car park, and cheered rescuers on as they inched closer to him.
U.S. job creation cools in June with payrolls growth of just 57,000; unemployment rate at 4.2%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to rise by 115,000 in June and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 4.3%.
Time-Series LLMs, Explained with t0-alpha
t0-alpha is a decoder-style patch transformer for probabilistic time-series forecasting. Raw series are split into 32-step patches, embedded, processed through…
The Untaught Lessons of RAG Question Parsing: Structure Before You Search
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #6ter] – Six positions on the question-parsing brick that contradict the mainstream RAG playbook The post…
AI agents will soon be able to match human traders, Robinhood CEO tells CNBC
Vlad Tenev spoke about the potential of AI agents in trading in an interview with CNBC.
The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data
The Google Health API is the official successor to the Fitbit Web API. It targets the Google Health API v4…
Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android’s mobile dominance.
Volkswagen braces for boardroom showdown over historic cost-cutting plan
Volkswagen is poised for a boardroom showdown following reports that the auto giant is weighing up shutting four factories and…
At least eight killed in major missile and drone strikes on Kyiv
Russia launched its biggest strikes on the city in weeks with children among the “significant number” of casualties, Ukrainian officials…
Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix shares tumble over 7% as chip rout spreads from Wall Street
Shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plummeted more than 7% in early Thursday trading.
Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells BBC she will give him ‘mother’s warmth’
Kleiber Moran, 2, was rescued on Wednesday, six days after last week’s deadly earthquakes.
MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America
Without federal support for curiosity-driven research, the innovation and talent pipeline that has helped ensure our nation’s prosperity and safety…
Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build a complete PDF-to-structured-data extraction workflow around Lift, with a focus on controlled evaluation rather than…