What next for France as riots rattle markets? Three questions facing investors ahead of more protests
French unrest pushed bond yields to a 24-year high as investors weigh budget, growth and sectors risks ahead of more…
France prepares for day of protest a week after nationwide riots
More than 70,000 police officers are to be deployed over fears protesters will defy restrictions on demonstrations.
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB: An Open Small Language Model for Local Voice Agents, Game Characters and Robots
NVIDIA has just released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model for fast conversational agents. It targets…
Kyutai CADRE: Video Autoencoders That Cut World Model Lag Below 230 ms
Kyutai has released CADRE, open causal diffusion representation autoencoders for interactive world models. The Kyutai CADRE video autoencoder targets one…
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
Moonshot AI has just released Kimi K3.1 Pro, the first model in its K3.1 series. Kimi K3.1 Pro is a…
At MIT, Martha Minow speaks on sustaining democracy, both by using and overcoming AI
Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy —…
Musk’s SpaceX is still restricting Starlink in Ukraine and the toll is rising
Since last week, Ukraine has reported restrictions on a version of Starshield, a version of SpaceX’s Starlink, hampering its military…
Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide
Most fine-tuning teaches a model to produce a better answer to a single prompt. Agentic tasks are different. An agent…
AI’s ‘Black October’: Critical PHP flaws set off global security scramble
Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.
Orchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK
Updating the Amazon Sagemaker AI real-time endpoint configuration (changing the instance type, instance count, or environment variables) causes deployments through…
Don’t Let Messy Data Bend Your Curves
Robust Estimation Series: Building Accurate Curves with Polynomials and Splines With Spurious Data The post Don’t Let Messy Data Bend…
Anthropic Says Claude Proved 123 Open-Source Libraries Can’t Crash
Anthropic says Claude has mathematically proven that fuzz-tested code in 123 open-source libraries can’t crash on any input under 64MB,…
Deadly shooting near Paris investigated as ‘crime of terrorism’, minister says
One person is killed and five wounded in a series of attacks and the suspected gunman has been apprehended.
Skewness and Kurtosis: From Moments to Machine Learning
The mathematics, intuition, interpretation, and practical use of higher-order moments. The post Skewness and Kurtosis: From Moments to Machine Learning appeared…
Found Friday Season 5 Issue 11: The agent got the keys. Ownership is the hard part.
FOUND FRIDAY · SEASON 5 · ISSUE 11 The agent got the keys. Ownership is the hard part. This week…
Why Parameter Count Is Not Model Complexity: An Introduction to Effective Dimension
What does effective dimension reveal about redundancy, generalization, and trainability that parameter count, loss, and accuracy do not? The post…
Hugging Face’s Carbon-X Lets Researchers Chat With DNA
Hugging Face has released Carbon-X, an open 14.8-billion-parameter model that lets researchers paste raw DNA into a chat and ask…
U.S. oil holds above $100, Brent at five-month high as Iran says it’s prepared for warfare
U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran on Thursday of trying to manipulate the oil market.
Your Six AI Models Are Really Two: The Math of Correlated Mistakes
Ask several models the same question, take a vote, and you get fewer independent opinions than you paid for. One…
Ukraine says Starlink still restricted after Trump says limits lifted
Ukraine relies on Starlink for a range of military uses – its owner Elon Musk has repeatedly denied restricting access.
France is flashing euro crisis signals. This time, the fault lines are different
French borrowing costs have surged as debt and political risks mount, raising questions over whether the stress could spread across…
TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents
An AI search agent can work in a demo but fail under production workloads when retrieval returns incomplete evidence, retries…
Microsoft’s AI Diagnosis Panel Beats Doctors 83% to 36% in Science Study
Microsoft’s AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in a peer-reviewed study…
Volvo Cars shares plunge 28% amid China sales slump and fresh job cuts
The Swedish automaker cited a deteriorating environment led by “tougher” market conditions in China and the U.S., which “negatively affected…
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents. Google Agent Compute Engine gives…
Defense giant Saab sees orders triple after Gripen fighter jet deal with Ukraine
European governments race to turn defense spending pledges into military capability, boosting companies’ order books.
Q&A: How AI came to model the “messy” human mind
Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential…
SK Hynix shares slide after chipmaker scraps Solidigm IPO plans
SK Hynix has shelved plans for a potential U.S. IPO of Solidigm amid market volatility and share price concerns.
Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan’s RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds
The UN human rights chief Volker Türk says the multiple attacks may amount to war crimes.
Japan core inflation in September surges to its highest this year at 2.1%
Core inflation, which strips out prices of fresh food, was in line with than the 2.1% forecast by economists polled…
Trump asked Musk to lift Starlink slowdown, WSJ reports
Elon Musk, a critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had ordered the slowdown of SpaceX’s Starlink, The Wall Street Journal…
This design software reimagines everyday objects as self-aware devices
As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups, and toys, as…
OpenAI nears up to $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation led by UAE investors
OpenAI is close to finalizing a new funding round that is meant to be a bridge to its 2027 IPO,…
OpenAI Says Its Coding Agents Weakened Safety Monitoring, and One Denied It
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its internal coding agents weakened the company’s misalignment monitoring while carrying out routine software…
Amazon Polly delivers a major upgrade to its Generative engine
Amazon Polly Generative engine now offers more natural and accurate speech output. We’re introducing an upgrade to the Amazon Polly…
Liquid AI Launches RIPL, a Real-Time Inference Engine for Sub-50 ms LFMs
Liquid AI just announced Liquid RIPL, short for Real-time Inference Pipeline. RIPL is a low-latency engine that serves Liquid Foundation…
Newborn twins fight for survival as conflict fuels Yemen’s hunger crisis
Raghad and Raad’s family had to flee their home on foot because of the fighting between pro-government forces and the…
Meta stock sinks 6% as AI spend pushes free cash flow negative
Prices for the social media giant’s 5-year credit default swaps are reaching all-time highs as investors signal growing credit concerns.
Stop guessing auto scaling targets for TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI
A traffic spike hits your self-hosted text-to-speech (TTS) endpoint, and requests start queueing. Latency climbs past your service level objective…
Does Agentic RAG Actually Retrieve Better Evidence? I Tested It on 298 Questions
I let an AI agent search again whenever it chose. It found some papers plain search had missed, lost some…
Raman Spectra Preprocessing and Non-Negative Least Squares Modelling in Python: Monitoring Zeolite Crystallization
A short, reproducible tutorial on spectral unmixing using real in situ interzeolite conversion data The post Raman Spectra Preprocessing and…
Beyond tree cover: mapping the world’s forest types
A global map categorizing every 10-meter patch of land on Earth into distinct forest types.
Same Answer, Different Reason: What a Reasoning Model Says When It Follows a Planted Hint
I put wrong answers in front of 200 exam questions and read what a small model’s reasoning said when it…
Police investigate Married at First Sight Australia after ‘inappropriate’ allegations
New South Wales Police say inquiries took place “following a report of inappropriate content being shared”.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says neocloud demand is ‘off the charts’ but capital is scarce
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that demand for neocloud firms is “off the charts,” but scarce capital is…
Could On-Policy Self-Distillation Revolutionize Post-Training?
Teaching foundation models new skills without breaking them is hard. A new reinforcement learning-based approach might have the power to…
World’s largest wealth fund posts $30 billion loss after bond market turbulence
The fund has a current value of around $2.3 trillion.
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
U.S. pulls diplomats from Saudi Arabia as it reportedly readies Iran strikes after midterms
The U.S. ordered non-emergency staff out of Saudi Arabia after Houthi strikes on an airport and an oil field, reviving…
IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation
IBM has released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a new open speech-language model for transcription and translation. Granite Speech 5.0 2B…