Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock for foundation model grounding
When a foundation model needs to answer a question about last week’s earnings call, yesterday’s regulatory change, or this morning’s…
Solving the solvent problem
Lithium-ion batteries are the leading choice in today’s electric vehicle and battery energy storage system industries, but they contain a…
Cursor Open-Sources Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK): A Deterministic MoE Training Megakernel for GB300 NVL72 Racks
Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), the mixture-of-experts training megakernel behind its Composer models. MoK fuses every MoE communication and…
Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in ‘human safari’ attack
Ukraine said the video – showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely-controlled drone – amounted to a war…
Automated web insight extraction with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Extracting insights from dozens of websites often means manually checking each one, a process that quickly becomes overwhelming. Design teams…
The Medallion Data Architecture: An Introduction
A practical guide to Bronze, Silver and Gold, with a working Python and DuckDB example The post The Medallion Data…
Oil prices fall on hopes Strait of Hormuz could reopen
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both announced talks had progressed to allow shipments to…
How to Get More Statistical Power from Fewer Research Participants
An online simulation and a novel method for increasing power The post How to Get More Statistical Power from Fewer…
Are Home Teams Favoured by Referees in Football/Soccer?
Data Storytelling Series, Chapter 1 The post Are Home Teams Favoured by Referees in Football/Soccer? appeared first on Towards Data…
More than 150 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
The boat was attempting to cross to the UK when its engine caught fire, according to French authorities.
Using Agents as Tools
Building manager–specialist workflows with the OpenAI Agents SDK The post Using Agents as Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science.
The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise
A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A…
Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive
Reflex AI has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library for interactive 2D visualization. Most Python charting stacks create one…
Trump warns Iran talks are ‘last chance’ to end war — oil prices rise as Tehran denies negotiations
President Donald Trump has warned that the latest round of negotiations with Iran are the “last chance” to bring an…
BP profit more than doubles as Trump blasts Big Oil for ‘making too much money’
The result come after U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Big Oil for making “too much money” off higher fuel…
EU calls for stronger borders after Ceuta migrant crossings
Ursula von der Leyen has called for action ahead of an urgent EU interior ministers meeting to discuss the issue.
Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web
Y Combinator team has open-sourced QM (quartermaster), the multi-agent harness it uses internally. QM is described as a multiplayer agent…
India to raise up to $3.3 billion by selling stake in country’s largest life insurer at 10% discount
Indian government plans to raise up to $3.3 billion by selling its stake in the country’s top life insurance company.
Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across…
Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center
Alexander “Sasha” Rakhlin PhD ’06, the Distinguished Professor in Data, Systems, and Society at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems,…
How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
Agents, MCP integrations, and LLM-powered applications are entering codebases faster than most security programs can track them. Mend.io’s new practitioner…
Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beach
Three children were killed when the drone crashed at a popular resort on the Black Sea.
Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe’s rivers
Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
Formula 1® (F1) engages an audience of over 800 million fans globally across digital platforms, F1 TV, social media, ticketing, and…
Prompt, Context, Loop: The Three Engineering Layers Every RAG System Is Built On
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M2] – Every RAG system is built in three engineering layers stacked on one LLM call:…
Found Friday S5I5: The week agents needed guardrails.
Found Friday · Season 5 · Issue 5 The week agents needed guardrails. This issue starts with the OpenAI and…
How to Build CLI Agents with Python & Ollama
Create a local CLI Agent from scratch completely for free The post How to Build CLI Agents with Python &…
The AI Was the Easy Part: What Is a Forward-Deployed Engineer in a Supply Chain?
What actually makes a Forward Deployed Engineer, told through one supply chain project. The post The AI Was the Easy…
What the market is saying about the U.S. intervention to prop up the yen
Following the joint involvement the yen now sits at ¥157 to the dollar, down from just above ¥163, which represented…
Oil prices fall more than 5% as Middle East tensions ebb on diplomatic efforts
Oil prices fell on Monday as investors pared geopolitical risk premiums after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
Alibaba’s Qwen team has made Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and confirmed that its open weights ship next week. A second checkpoint,…
Trump says Iran talks to resume Monday after calling off planned strikes
The latest peace proposal calls for warring parties to return to negotiations and continue working out some of the thorny…
Trump suggests new talks with Iran to begin on Monday
Tehran has not responded to the suggestion that new talks are imminent. Trump has previously said a negotiated end to…
Why the U.S. stepped in after decades to prop up Japan’s yen — and what’s at stake
Washington’s decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention.
Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product…
U.S., Japan confirm coordinated yen intervention, signal readiness for more
Japan’s Finance Ministry said Monday it conducted a coordinated yen-buying intervention with the U.S. Treasury on Friday.
A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin…
Helicopters fighting Greece wildfires collide in mid-air
Video of the incident shows one of the helicopters hitting the propellers of the other, which bursts into flames.
How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks
Perform non-programming tasks with coding agents The post How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks appeared first on Towards…
I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI Agent
A step-by-step guide to building, running, and monitoring a stateful customer support agent using Python, LangGraph, and Langfuse. The post…
Trump says he has canceled a planned attack on Iran after reaching an agreement over the ‘perimeters of a deal’
The U.S. president said Iran and its regional neighbors asked the U.S. to hold off any attacks after ‘the perimeters…
NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework
Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification. New estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes. In mainstream frameworks each…
Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to ‘rapidly’ making deal
The US president’s message came amid media reports that he was planning new, intense strikes on Iran over the weekend.
How Spain’s migrant crisis created a political storm – whipped up by social media
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford writes.
EU calls emergency meeting to discuss Ceuta migrant crossings
There have been tense exchanges between Spain and other EU states over the influx of migrants into the enclave of…
AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. The model…
Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking
In this tutorial, we explore how NVIDIA Transformer Engine accelerates transformer workloads by combining fused GPU kernels, BF16 computation, and…
Coding Agents Don’t Need Bigger Context Windows — They Need a Context Compiler
Most coding agents treat prompt construction like retrieval: gather more files, add more context, hope the model figures it out.…
Put the Agent Inside the Workflow
A hybrid LLM application pattern that combines a predefined workflow with adaptive agent behavior The post Put the Agent Inside…