Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal reaches Congress as experts warn of proliferation risk
Some Democratic lawmakers and nonproliferation advocates have criticized the pact for not including a permanent prohibition on enrichment or reprocessing.
HP partners with U.S.-blacklisted Huawei for licensing the Chinese company’s WiFi tech
It’s a sign of adoption of Huawei technology outside China, despite the U.S. restricting the company from working with American…
How to Format Your TDS Draft: A New and Improved Guide
Everything you need to know about creating a draft on our Contributor Portal The post How to Format Your TDS…
Liquid AI Open-Sources Pipette: A Reproducible Benchmarking Suite That Measures On-Device Models, Quantization, Runtime and Hardware Together
Model cards report quality under server-class, full-precision conditions. Those numbers rarely predict how the same model behaves on a phone.…
Canada announces ‘dollar-for-dollar’ retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%
The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from…
Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps
Observability agents are fast. They query alerts, correlate logs with traces, and produce a root cause hypothesis in minutes. The…
A New Towards Data Science: A Faster Site and a Brand-New Contributor Portal
We’re excited to share some big news: We completely rebuilt the TDS website and our contributor portal. Whether you come…
Perplexity Ships Portable Computer on NVIDIA DGX Spark: Local Harness, OS-Enforced Sandbox, and Zero Per-Token Cost for Local Steps
Perplexity has released Portable Computer, a local-first build of its agentic Computer platform that runs the agent harness, orchestrator, planner,…
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP…
Meta AI Introduces MetaRoCE: A Clean-Sheet RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
Training and serving frontier models is now a networking problem as much as a compute problem. Collective operations like all-reduce…
Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods
Canadian trade negotiators left the U.S. last week after failing to clinch a trade deal that would stop President Donald…
I Deployed My Data Pipeline to AWS. Then Everything That Was “Local” Broke.
What moving a Dockerized pipeline off my laptop taught me about containers, networking, and hidden assumptions. The post I Deployed…
China needs U.S. dollars but is building a hedge against Washington’s sanctions
The U.S. can pressure Chinese banks over Iran through access to its financial system, while Beijing is building alternatives such…
China warns it will safeguard its interests after US widens sanctions against Iran
The US has threatened to isolate nations that continue to do business with Tehran, which sells much of its oil…
The ‘debasement trade’ returns after Bessent bond maneuver. Crypto and gold are back in style
Concern over the size and the cost of U.S. government spending has given new life to the debasement trade.
One Document Type, a Million Files: Structured Extraction into the SQL Table RAG Queries
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #14C] – One hour with two people, six to ten fields, and the two signals that…
From AI Experiments to AI Operations: Why I Stopped Playing with Agents and Started Building a System
From experiments to operations: a calm, organized workspace where AI becomes a real system. Photo via Unsplash (Unsplash License). Hermes…
Trump targets Iran’s trade lifelines — here are the countries most exposed
Washington’s threat of “economic D-Day” collides with a small group of governments that account for most of what remains of…
Treasury Proposes Stablecoin Licensing Rules Under GENIUS Act
The US Treasury Department has proposed new licensing rules for payment stablecoin issuers under Section 3 of the GENIUS Act,…
BitMEX Sets Close-Only Risk Limits Ahead Of September Wind-Down
BitMEX will move into strict risk-limit mode on August 26 as part of its planned exchange wind-down. Starting at 04:00…
Coinbase Investor Class Action Can Move Forward, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge has allowed parts of an investor class-action lawsuit against Coinbase and certain executives to proceed, keeping allegations…
Trump admin unveils anti-Iran global sanctions plan, signals China not exempt
The Trump administration unveiled a plan to isolate Iran’s economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s…
Crypto Groups Sue To Block Illinois Digital Asset Tax Act
The Blockchain Association and Crypto Council for Innovation have filed a joint lawsuit challenging Illinois’ Digital Asset Tax Act, setting…
Strategy Raises $2B As Bitcoin Holdings Stay Flat For The Week
Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, has raised $2.01 billion through an at-the-market equity offering while reporting no new Bitcoin purchases during…
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible…
Tron Inc. Expands TRX Treasury To $245M In Nasdaq Corporate Crypto Bet
Nasdaq-listed Tron Inc. has expanded its corporate treasury to 711.2 million TRX, bringing the value of its token holdings to…
CleanCore Dumps Dogecoin Treasury To Fund $100M AI Pivot
CleanCore has disclosed plans to liquidate its Dogecoin treasury holdings as part of a broader $100 million funding plan tied…
Bitcoin And Ethereum ETFs Add $492M As Inflow Streak Continues
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $492 million in net inflows for the August 21 session, extending…
Introducing new Ray capabilities on SageMaker HyperPod
Today, we are announcing new Ray capabilities on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that integrate Ray with the HyperPod purpose-built infrastructure for…
Grayscale Zcash ETF Filing Puts Privacy Coin Back In Regulatory Spotlight
Grayscale has filed Amendment No. 5 to its Form S-3 registration statement as part of its effort to convert the…
Put Your Own Logic Inside the Codex Agentic Loop
Understanding Codex hooks The post Put Your Own Logic Inside the Codex Agentic Loop appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And…
PrimeXBT: Is this the start of a Bitcoin bull run? A 2022 signal appeared before the rally
A weekly momentum divergence formed on the Bitcoin chart ahead of last week’s advance, and the daily reading has since…
Bitcoin Traders Watch Jackson Hole As Kevin Warsh Prepares First Fed Keynote
Bitcoin traders are turning their attention to Jackson Hole, where Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is scheduled to deliver his…
Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery
How AWS Agent Registry and the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification enable cross-environment discovery for your agents As organizations scale…
10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M3] – The ten positions the series argues from, and the map of every article that…
Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary
Scott Bessent says the US will sever all economic ties with the country and that any nation partnering with Iran…
Trump says U.S. will hike Canada auto tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates
President Donald Trump said the U.S. will raise tariffs on imports of cars, trucks and auto parts from Canada to…
Speculative Decoding on CPUs: Nearly 4x Faster Token Generation with DFlash
Speculative decoding can turn underused CPU compute into faster token generation, without changing the model’s output. In our vLLM tests,…
Generalist AI Releases GEN-1.5: A Robot Foundation Model That Learns New Tasks From One 3–12 Second Demo
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that learns a new physical task from a single demonstration. Drop…
Russia’s second-biggest online retailer targeted in Ukrainian strikes
Ozon says its warehouses across southern Russia, including in Dagestan and Krasnodar, were hit in the overnight strikes.
Bessent could tap near $1 trillion Treasury General Account to fund bond buybacks, sources said
Using the TGA would provide the Treasury with considerable firepower to influence long-term bond yields.
AI Agents Don’t Need More Context — They Need Typed Context
AI agents don’t just have a context problem—they have a context typing problem. When instructions, memory, retrieved evidence, and tool…
Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
The tech giant says it does not sell the devices in Russia, but they are widely available on resale markets.…
‘They asked too much’: Canadian dollar slides as Ottawa and Washington head for all-out trade war
“As a smaller, more open economy, Canada has more to lose from this,” ING strategists said Monday.
Divorce, smartphones and control – BBC sees how Taliban run Afghanistan
Five years after the Taliban’s return, the BBC follows senior figures as the group reshapes the country.
Burnham to visit Kyiv on first foreign trip and reaffirm UK support for Ukraine
It comes after Moscow warned of “consequences” over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine.
U.S. to unveil ‘greatest financial offensive’ against Iran as Tehran threatens ship seizures
The escalation came as both sides have missed a 60-day ceasefire window to reach a deal, closing off the formal…
Treasury Secretary to announce Iran sanctions as Tehran dismisses economic warfare threat
Bessent told CNBC that the sanctions will be the “toughest” in history.
Harvey Introduces Harvey Tenet: A Kimi K3 Base Post-Trained with Fireworks for Long-Horizon Legal Agent Work
Harvey has released Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained model, as a research preview as of today. Tenet is a Kimi…