Uefa to boycott World Cups if Fifa plans approved
Uefa says “the World Cup is not for sale” after its 55 member associations vote to boycott future tournaments if…
Amazon hikes 2026 capex to $220 billion due to higher memory costs
AWS sales expanded 37% year over year, which trounced analysts’ expectations for 31% growth.
Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize
Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has…
UEFA threatens World Cup boycott over FIFA private equity investment plan
FIFA has faced backlash from global soccer governing bodies over the proposal to allow private investment.
Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon…
The Python Ecosystem That Changed AI Development
How one open-source ecosystem made state-of-the-art AI accessible The post The Python Ecosystem That Changed AI Development appeared first on…
Google DeepMind Ships Three Physical AI Models For Whole Body Control, Dexterity And Multi Robot Collaboration
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots. The release moves the…
How to Organize All of Your Coding Agent Tasks
Optimise how you interact with your coding agents The post How to Organize All of Your Coding Agent Tasks appeared…
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding,…
U.S. economy slowed to 1.5% growth rate in Q2; June core inflation at 3.3%
While the GDP number was below expectations, the miss appeared to come from a decline in federal government spending and…
How to Decode the Temperature Parameter in LLMs
How statistical physics explains the transition from deterministic predictions to generative AI. The post How to Decode the Temperature Parameter…
Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models
Tencent has released AngelSpec, an open-source, torch-native training framework for speculative-decoding draft models. The release covers both autoregressive multi-token prediction…
Meet Token Saver: An Open-Source MCP Extension Using Local Hybrid RAG to Cut Claude PDF Token Costs 90-99%
AI developers, researchers, and professionals frequently hit a frustrating wall when analyzing large documents with LLMs: the hidden, compounding cost…
Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
Moonshot AI has open-sourced MoonEP, an Expert Parallelism (EP) communication library for distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) workloads. The team announced the…
US launches ‘powerful’ strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops
The US military called the strikes “a powerful response” to Tuesday’s firing by Iran on US bases in Jordan.
China threatens retaliation against U.S. humanoid robot ban, says it ‘severely damages’ relations
China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repeatedly ignored Beijing’s restrained stance.
U.S. strikes Iran after surprise missile attack, dashing hopes of de-escalation
The U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran Wednesday stateside, plunging the two sides back into open conflict after a…
Samsung Electronics second-quarter operating profit beats estimates on soaring AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics extended its record run with second-quarter operating profit topping analysts’ estimates.
Here are the five big takeaways from this week’s Fed meeting
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday followed through on expectations for no interest rate change.
Saudi Arabia’s dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war
The kingdom faces a choice of whether to keep hitting back as a deterrent or to try to de-escalate the…
Divided Fed holds interest rates steady, but three members voted to hike
Despite increasing support for a rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds rate…
Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop…
Two firefighters die in Crete as wildfires threaten parts of southern Europe
Gale-force winds have whipped up the flames prompting the evacuation of several villages on the island, as parts of the…
Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your…
Prompt Engineering Is Solved—Prompt Management Isn’t
Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production…
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick can turn a five-day churn-response cycle into one that takes minutes. Last quarter,…
Why Your Best Predictive Model Gives the Wrong Treatment Effect
Why prediction-driven variable selection misses confounders and how Bayesian Adjustment for Confounding attempts to fix it. The post Why Your…
How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to…
Los Movimientos, Part II: Solving Large Pickup-and-Delivery Problems with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory driver breaks. The post Los…
More than 100 aftershocks hit Japan after deadly quake that killed 13
People are being urged to stay alert, with earthquake aftershocks potentially reaching magnitude 7, officials say
Ukraine has found a new pressure point in Russia’s wartime economy
Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia’s biggest online retailer Wildberries have ratcheted up the pressure on Moscow’s wartime economy.
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M: Bidirectional Encoders That Stay Fast at 8K Context on CPU
Liquid AI has released two open-weight bidirectional encoders, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M. Both are masked language models built on the LFM2…
Japan in a ‘race against time’ to rescue people trapped beneath rubble after quake
At least 13 people have been killed after the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday.
Oil jumps as U.S.-Iran resume strikes after a brief pause
Oil rose sharply amid renewed tensions in the Middle East after Iran launched an attack on U.S. forces using ballistic…
Asian technology stocks extend sell-off with SoftBank down 7% as AI plays take a hit
Chinese internet stocks listed in Hong Kong bucked the broader regional weakness with Tencent, Meituan, Baidu and Kuaishou all trading…
Watch: The moment quake hit Japan
Video shows locations across the region where a strong earthquake struck Japan’s Kyushu island on 28 July.
Iran launches surprise ballistic missile attack on U.S. forces in the Middle East
Centcom in a post on X said that the attack originated from Iran, but all missiles were intercepted.
SK Hynix second-quarter profit surges to a new high — but misses estimates
SK Hynix announced second quarter earnings on Wednesday, with profit reaching a record but still missing estimates. Revenue more than…
Building Non-Interactive Agentic Coding Workflows with Moonshot AI’s Kimi CLI, JSONL Streaming, Testing, and Session Memory
In this tutorial, we configure and operate Kimi CLI as a fully non-interactive AI coding agent. We install the CLI…
Ford raises guidance after Q2 earnings beat, says F-Series recovery is on track
Ford cited operational improvements, resilient vehicle pricing and a high sales mix of profitable products for its performance and the…
How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec
Today, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest and most significant revision of the protocol since…
Senate to set up key vote on Russia sanctions
The sanctions target Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, foreign persons, Russian banks and financial institutions and the Russian shadow…
Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore
As artificial intelligence applications evolve from simple chatbots to sophisticated autonomous systems, organizations face new challenges in orchestrating complex multi-agent…
How Much Does a Local LLM Actually Cost to Run? I Measured Every Watt on Apple Silicon
Five models, sustained generation, real wall-socket energy at $0.31/kWh — and the surprise the RTX-3090 numbers predicted, only bigger. The…
Gironde wildfires pick up as French region braces for new 40C heatwave
Firefighters are braced for a sharp rise in temperatures on Wednesday, which could complicate the containment of wildfires.
Don’t Just “Throw Adam at It”: Misunderstanding Adam Will Cost You
You “vibe coded” the import. Understand Adam’s optimization dynamics, why it fails spectacularly, and how to fix it. The post…
Zelensky to press Trump on air defences while in Washington
Ukraine’s leader is hoping to firm up US commitments to bolstering Kyiv’s anti-ballistic missile defences, as Russia has escalated deadly…
China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats
China is reportedly producing a key chip tool in a market dominated by ASML. But analysts questioned China’s ability to…
Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 2): There Has to Be a Better Way
The idea that makes backpropagation possible. The post Backpropagation Explained for Beginners (Part 2): There Has to Be a Better…