How an MIT research project became a global programming language
It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the…
OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway
The OpenClaw team has just released OpenClaw 2.0. The team shipped nothing for nearly seven weeks, after 106 releases in…
Trump threatens to blow up Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub as hostilities escalate once again
The last major U.S. strikes on Iran were carried out in late July.
Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark
Time to first token (TTFT) is the metric teams use to pick an inference API for voice. It is also…
Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds
A team of researchers from Google Cloud AI Research, Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill has released…
Eight killed and others missing after ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus
A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.
8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions
Quick and simple tips to help you write better agent instructions The post 8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions…
Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists
How to apply the latest context engineering guidelines to your day-to-day data science work The post Context Engineering Is Changing.…
Noisy Text in RAG: Typos, OCR, and the Gap Classical Spell-Check Leaves
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B1] – Three sources of one problem. User typos, fast-typing transcription noise, OCR character errors. Classical…
Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU
Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government’s proposal to resume talks.
Icelanders reject reopening talks to join the EU despite Trump’s Greenland threats
Icelanders voted 52.8% to 47.2% against reopening talks to join the European Union.
Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents discover…
Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs
MirroS released Code-as-World: a paradigm that represents physical worlds through executable world representations. The argument is narrow and testable: pixels…
Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio
In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while…
4 Claude Skills Every Data Scientist Needs in 2026
Four skills worth adding to your workflow today if you don’t want to be left behind The post 4 Claude…
When to Use Claude Code and When to Use Codex
Learn where which coding agent is best The post When to Use Claude Code and When to Use Codex appeared…
Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (gemini-omni-1.1-flash), a production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model.…
RAG Is Not the Whole Toolkit: The NLP Techniques Real Problems Still Need
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B00] – Retrieval answers one kind of question. Classifying a request, matching free text to a…
Iran trade falls as Supreme Leader Khamenei urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar
Iran’s president says sanctions are hitting imports and exports, as its supreme leader urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar.
Trump announces deal with Venezuela to secure more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves
The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves,…
Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning
Most robotics launches ask you to trust a demo video. Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, is…
Footage of Tibet floods isn’t being shown in China – and we know little about victims there
Some of the most dramatic footage from the deadly flash flooding is hidden from public view in China.
Norway mourns King Harald as Haakon VIII ascends throne
Mourners gather outside the palace as royals, politicians and citizens remember a beloved king, whose son has adopted the family…
Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML)…
Human-in-the-Loop Without Killing Throughput
How we stopped reviewing every agent action and started routing human attention where it actually mattered The post Human-in-the-Loop Without…
GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
Two frontier open-weight models shipped within a day of each other this week. Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter multimodal MoE…
Analysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hike
After confusing markets at his July news conference, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used Jackson Hole to give a clearer view…
How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2
This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of…
From One Agent to a Team: Understanding Codex Subagents
A hands-on guide to defining specialist agents and coordinating their work in the Codex CLI The post From One Agent…
Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
Shaders are still the hardest thing to ship on a normal web team. WebGPU gives you the hardware, then hands…
Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres
How to run the backend locally with Docker or in the cloud The post Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to…
Fed Chairman Warsh expresses concern about inflation advocates for ‘quieter’ central bank: Watch live
He used the speech to outline his philosophy on policymaking while carefully sidestepping any signals
Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor
Be a better communicator with LLM programming The post Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor appeared first on Towards…
Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
Laura Bicker explains how a lake which formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border is raising fears of…
Found Friday S5I7: Agents are becoming real coworkers. Now comes the control layer.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 7 Agents are becoming real coworkers. Now comes the control layer. This week’s…
‘High risk’ of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China
China says a lake formed after a recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border may burst in the coming days.
Iran links Hormuz reopening to ending regional wars as Trump reportedly rejects return to June deal
Iran said the conflict in the Gaza Strip has to end, Israel has to withdraw from Lebanon and also halt…
Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for real-time voice interfaces and recorded audio. It ships as two…
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…