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.
Russia’s economy has defied the skeptics. Cracks are getting harder to hide
Russia’s wartime economy is under growing strain as its budget deficit widens and analysts warn pressure could intensify next year.
Mangione admits killing healthcare CEO and pleads guilty to federal charges
“I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” the 28-year-old said after pleading guilty to charges of stalking resulting…
Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.
Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with paid advice for help to cross
BBC’s Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence.
Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge
In multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. A subtly wrong reward can…
A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in 2026
How AI has massively changed my day-to-day workflow The post A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in…
RAG Workflow and Loop Engineering: The Dispatcher That Decides When to Loop and When to Stop
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #13] – Putting the patterns together, and why this is what “agentic RAG” should look like…
Found Friday S5I6: Privacy and Practical AI
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 6 Privacy is the control layer for practical AI. This issue starts with…
My Model Was Cheating on Its Own Test
A preprocessing pipeline let my car price model peek at the test set before the exam, and the twelve points…
I Made an LLM Lay Siege to My Minecraft House
Can a language model do live adversarial level design? Yes, emphasis on the adversarial part The post I Made an…
AI’s infrastructure boom is getting more leveraged — and harder to track
AI’s infrastructure boom is increasingly being funded through bonds, leases and private capital, while leveraged investors add another layer of…
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai just released GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2. Every reported gain comes from scaled…
‘Unprecedented’ rains in Japan kill four people
The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire…
U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
“It will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in…
Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset…