Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk
The Defense Department had barred the U.S. military from using Anthropic’s Claude in March
Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal
Creative teams face growing demand for more assets, formats, and revisions, while their scripts, references, models, and outputs often remain…
Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India, with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you…
The Sigmoid Function: From ‘e’ to Neural Networks
We use the equation all the time. But where did it actually come from? The post The Sigmoid Function: From…
Looking beyond natural sequences
A protein’s function is determined by its structure, and structure — the way a protein folds — is determined by…
Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown
Cohere has released Parse (parse-v5.0), a document parsing model aimed at high-volume enterprise ingestion. It is a 2.3B-parameter vision language…
I Trained Six Models for Fraud Detection, and the Best One Isn’t in Production
What a final-year project taught me about the gap between evaluation metrics and production decisions The post I Trained Six…
Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel
Every agent that writes code needs somewhere to run it. That “somewhere” is now a product category with at least…
Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese open AI models as it warns of White House crackdown
Nvidia is optimizing hardware for DeepSeek and Qwen while warning that potential U.S. restrictions on models originating in China could…
Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics
Self-hosted speech AI has historically carried an observability trade-off. The service can tell you an endpoint is up and how…
Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Analytics Stack But There’s One Skill It Still Can’t Touch
As AI handles more of the execution, what work should belong to agents vs humans and why does that distinction…
From In-Silico to Wet-Lab: Evaluating AI Protein Design Performance
In this tutorial, we use Anthropic’s claude-protein-binder-design dataset, which contains 1,440 AI-designed miniprotein binders tested against 16 targets. Because the…
How to Work with AI Coding Agents
A practical guide to getting better code, not just more code The post How to Work with AI Coding Agents…
Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world’s first double-blind AI evaluations
The Operating Layer: Memory, Skills, Todos, Voice, Channels, and the Approval Boundary
The operating layer: human oversight over memory, skills, todos, voice, channels, and the approval boundary. Photo via Unsplash (Unsplash License).…
Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan…
Nvidia jumps 7% in after blockbuster earnings boost AI confidence
Nvidia shares rose on Thursday after the chip giant’s revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand will remain strong.
Tanker attack tests Trump’s claim that Hormuz is a ‘functioning strait’
An oil tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, keeping alive risks deterring vessesl from…
Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chips
The Chinese AI company said it had already launched the model globally in stealth mode for a week.
Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring. Its core move is…
China industrial profit growth in July slumps to 7-month low of 11.2%
Industrial corporate profitability has seen a notable turnaround, swinging from years of declines since 2021 and barely positive growth last…
Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hikes as core inflation stays elevated
The Bank of Korea hiked rates by 25 basis points to 3%, its highest since January 2025 and in line…
Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series and the cheapest capable coding model the…
Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations
AI teams building production agents face a frustrating asymmetry: the diversity of agent frameworks keeps growing, but evaluation tooling has…
How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick
GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and…
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3
In 2021, we published Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker script mode. That post showed how to use script…
Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model built for cost per token. The checkpoint pairs a…
Heart, hope and a steely determination: Dolly Parton’s musical legacy
BBC music correspondent Mark Savage looks back on the legacy of the “irreplaceable” late singer.
Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion
Meta and state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that company misrepresented the extent of child-related mental…
What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers
I read every major model release. Most of them ship a coding number. The number goes up. The conclusion everyone…
Door was locked at Pakistan hospital where fire killed 14 babies, witnesses say
A hospital official told the BBC that the door to the ward was not locked, but manned with security guards,…
Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows core prices rose 3.3% annually in July
The personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to rise 0.1% monthly and 3.6% on a 12-month basis, according to…
How Does a RAG Reranker Really Work?
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #2D] – What data scientists say when asked, what the model actually does under the hood,…
AI helps design new materials that work in the real world
Today, anyone with a large enough artificial intelligence model can generate millions of new material designs in minutes. Unfortunately, that…
Iran and Oman prepare Hormuz deal as U.S. holds back on secondary sanctions
Iran and Oman are approaching a deal to secure safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz and future administration of…
Why Random Forest Needs to Be This Random
Bagging hits a wall no amount of trees can break — here’s the equation that explains why, and the experiment…
Oil falls as the U.S. pivots to economic pressure on Iran
Oil fell Wednesday, as investors continue to assess the U.S. pivot toward economic sanctions rather than military strikes to add…
Is Agentic AI Just Automation?
Why most agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead. The post Is Agentic AI Just Automation?…
IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of open reasoning language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. Unlike…
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…