Oil rises as Iran threatens retaliation if Trump targets country’s critical infrastructure
Oil prices rose Friday as investors weighed escalating threats between the United States and Iran.
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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context
Moonshot AI just released Kimi K3. It is a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window. Moonshot…
Blasts reported in Iran as US launches new wave of strikes
The US says its attacks aim to “further degrade Iranian military capabilities”, as fighting continued for the sixth day in…
Build enterprise search for agents with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Knowledge bases that ground agents and generative AI applications over your enterprise data are hard to build at scale. Teams…
Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
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OpenAI Details GPT-Red: An Internal Automated Red-Teaming Model That Beat Human Red-Teamers 84% To 13% On Prompt Injection
This week, OpenAI published details of GPT-Red, an internal-only automated red-teaming model. Its job is to attack OpenAI’s own models…
Building a restaurant telephony AI host with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic
Restaurants miss an average of 150 phone calls per location every month, and about 60 percent of those are customers…
Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43
The ex-head of Italy’s motorway operator Giovanni Castellucci was handed a 12-year term over the 2018 bridge collapse.
Protests in Ukraine’s cities against Zelensky’s removal of defence minister
Ukraine’s president has not explained Mykhailo Fedorov’s dismissal, which is causing great upset among civil society and the military.
Wall Street’s profit boom has Europe ripping up its banking rulebook
A major overhaul of Europe’s banking rules could provide a boost to the continent’s banking sector.
Iran warns U.S. of Hormuz ‘red line,’ says it will retaliate to Trump’s strike threats
Trump warned that the U.S. will target Iranian infrastructure next week if negotiations do not resume.
Patter SDK Guide to Building a Restaurant Booking Phone Agent with Dynamic Variables, Guardrails, Latency Dashboards, and Eval Checks
In this tutorial, we explore the Patter SDK by building a voice-agent workflow that simulates how an AI phone assistant…
Iran targets military bases as US launches wave of strikes
Explosions were heard across Iran overnight, shortly after neighbouring Gulf states began to report attacks.
TSMC second-quarter profit jumps over 77%, beating estimates, on high-end chip boom
TSMC announced a second-quarter profit, following its June revenue figures released earlier this week.
SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build: The Rust Agent Harness, TUI, and Tool Layer Behind Its Coding CLI
SpaceXAI has open-sourced Grok Build, the terminal-based AI coding agent behind its grok CLI. The source landed on GitHub today.…
SK Hynix shares plunge 11% as Asia sees tech rout, tracking U.S. chip losses
Asian semiconductor stocks tumbled on Thursday as a selloff in U.S. chipmakers spilled into the region.
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling: A 975B-Parameter Open-Weights Multimodal MoE With 41B Active Parameters And Controllable Thinking Effort
Thinking Machines Lab just released Inkling, their first model trained from scratch, weights are open, fine-tunable on Tinker. The lab…
Soofi Consortium Releases Soofi S 30B-A3B: An Open Hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE Foundation Model For German And English
A German research consortium has published the pretraining report for Soofi S 30B-A3B. It is an open base model for…
French MPs approve assisted dying law with strict rules after years of argument
The bill would allow assisted dying for terminally ill adults who meet strict criteria.
Built Technologies builds an AI-powered document intelligence solution on AWS to power agents across real estate finance
Document processing in real estate is complex and highly manual, impacting critical business decisions at scale, making it ripe for…
Building a Gin Config Controlled PyTorch Pipeline with Configurable MLP Variants, Cosine Scheduling, and Runtime Parameter Overrides
In this tutorial, we implement a Gin Config–controlled PyTorch experiment pipeline in which the executable training code remains stable. At…
Iran threatens to block more trade routes as US launches fresh strikes
US President Donald Trump vowed to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants next week if the country does not return…
U.S. launches fresh wave of strikes on Iran, as analysts warn conflict risks becoming ‘forever war’
Fighting in the Middle East has intensified in recent days, but could escalate further if Iran fails to cooperate, President…
PayPal jumps 16% in premarket on report of Stripe, Advent $53 billion takeover offer
Stripe and Advent International have reportedly made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc for $60.50 per share, in a deal that would value the payments company…
Google Releases LiteRT.js: A JavaScript Binding of LiteRT That Runs .tflite Models in Browsers via WebGPU
Google released LiteRT.js, a JavaScript binding of LiteRT. LiteRT is Google’s on-device inference library, previously called TensorFlow Lite. LiteRT.js runs…
ASML hikes sales forecast for second time this year on strong AI chip demand
ASML on Wednesday raised its guidance for a second time this year as its customers continue to ramp up their…
Oil rises as U.S. continues to strike Iran, reinstates naval blockade of the country’s ports
Oil prices rose Wednesday after U.S. forces struck Tehran and Washington reinstated its naval blockade of Iranian ports near the…
China posts slowest GDP growth since 2022 at 4.3%, missing expectations
That second-quarter growth came below Beijing’s full-year growth target range of 4.5% to 5%, the least ambitious goal in decades.
SK Hynix South Korean shares jump 11% as Asia tech stocks rally
SK Hynix led a broad rally in Asian technology shares on Wednesday, tracking a rebound in U.S. semiconductor shares after…
U.S. strikes Iran before Hormuz Strait blockade restarts
President Donald Trump has said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is over following multiple flare-ups of hostilities in the region.
PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged.…
Mistral Vibe for Code vs Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex: Four Agents Scored on One Scaffold-to-PR Task
Coding agents are the most contested category in developer tooling right now. Four names dominate the shortlist: Mistral Vibe for…
Trump scraps threat of 20% fee on Hormuz cargo as US prepares to resume blockade of Iran ports
Trump drops a 24-hour-old vow to charge cargo ships for using the Strait as the US continues its battle to…
Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their…
ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS
Healthcare organizations need efficient scheduling solutions, and ScienceSoft’s AI voice assistant, powered by Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails,…
How US commerce secretary’s Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
Warsh pledges Fed policy ‘regime change’ to rid inflation ‘tax’ on American people
Warsh pledged Tuesday to “get monetary policy right” and defeat the inflation that has bedeviled the central bank for the…
Global shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump’s Hormuz toll plan
For shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd, it is “fundamentally wrong” to charge tolls for passage through international waters, regardless of the country…
Is Hormuz open? Trump’s toll threat intensifies rush to bypass the Strait altogether
Gulf producers are increasingly relying on alternative routes to keep crude moving as shipping disruptions expose the risks of depending…
Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Hayden Bleasel, an expert developer from OpenAI, released Blume, an open-source documentation framework. Blume shipped to npm as version 1.0.3…
Death toll from Bangkok bar fire rises to 30 as police probe safety lapses
Survivors and first responders reported locked doors and a lack of signage marking emergency exits.
Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate: An 8B Model Enabling Robots to Navigate Complex Environments Using a Single RGB Camera
Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first model built for embodied navigation. The 8B model takes RGB images and…
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared
Anthropic just shipped Claude Sonnet 5. They call it its most agentic Sonnet model yet. It plans, drives browsers and…
Oil gains over 2% as Mideast tensions and Hormuz toll prospects raise supply worries
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to impose shipping fees in the Strait of…
Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity
Most reinforcement learning benchmarks reset the world after every episode. Real operations never reset. Skyfall AI’s MORPHEUS targets that gap.…
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Build with the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet, on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Organizations scaling autonomous agents…
Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and vows 20% charge on cargo passing through Hormuz
The US president also says Washington will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
AI as accessibility: what happened when a neurodivergent solutions architect stopped fighting his brain and started building. In this post,…
Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks
In this tutorial, we build a runnable reconstruction of the VideoAgent workflow, focusing on the core agentic pipeline behind video…
Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
When you deploy generative AI agents into multi-tenant production architectures, you face a specific identity problem: when an agent calls…