Trump says Iran negotiations proceeding in ‘orderly and constructive manner;’ warns against rushing
The president said the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports would remain in effect until “an agreement is reached, certified,…
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Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
Most web agents today drive a browser one action at a time. The model receives the current page state —…
NVIDIA AI Releases Gated DeltaNet-2: A Linear Attention Layer That Decouples Erase and Write in the Delta Rule
Linear attention replaces the unbounded KV cache of softmax attention with a fixed-size recurrent state. This cuts sequence mixing to…
Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service near White House
Officials say a suspect approached a checkpoint near the building and opened fire, and that a bystander was wounded.
Iran ‘getting a lot closer’ to agreement with US, Trump says
Tehran also signals progress on talks but says the key issue of nuclear weapons is not part of an initial…
Tencent Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory: A 4-Tier Local Memory Pipeline for AI Agents
Tencent has released TencentDB Agent Memory, an open-source memory system for AI agents. The project ships under the MIT license.…
U.S. and Iran are closing in on a 60-day ceasefire extension with nuclear framework, FT reports
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 8, punctuated by skirmishes as the U.S. and Iran jockey over…
AI wealth must benefit the public, South Korea’s deputy PM says amid Samsung labor tensions
South Korea’s deputy PM tells CNBC there are concerns as to whether AI could worsen wealth gaps or lead to…
Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification
Instruction-tuned language models refuse harmful requests. But which part of the model is actually responsible — and how does that…
Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee: A Read-Only Supply-Chain Scanner for Developer Endpoints
Attackers increasingly target the packages, editor extensions, and AI tool configs on developer machines and not just production systems. Perplexity…
At least 90 dead in Chinese coal mine explosion, state media reports
The explosion took place at 19:29 local time on Friday at a coal mine in northern China.
Russia’s Putin vows retaliation after accusing Ukraine of hitting student dormitory
Ukraine said it hit Russia’s elite Rubicon drone military unit in a Moscow-occupied part of eastern Ukraine.
A Step-by-Step Coding Tutorial to Implement GBrain: The Self-Wiring Memory Layer Built by Y Combinator’s Garry Tan for AI Agents
Your AI agent is smart but forgetful. Every new session starts from zero — no memory of who you met,…
Ebola risk raised to ‘very high’ in DR Congo
The head of the UN health agency says the risk in the wider region is “high”, but it remains “low”…
Nato chief welcomes US sending 5,000 troops to Poland
President Trump’s announcement on Thursday night came ahead of a meeting of Nato foreign ministers.
Cubans grapple with fuel shortages and blackouts as US steps up pressure
The BBC speaks to Havana residents after the US charges the country’s former leader, Raúl Castro, with murder.
Microsoft Releases Fara1.5: A Family of Browser Computer-Use Agents (4B/9B/27B) That Outperform OpenAI Operator and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use on Online-Mind2Web
Microsoft Research’s AI Frontiers lab released Fara1.5. It is a family of computer-use agent (CUA) models for the browser. The…
US pauses $14bn weapons sale to Taiwan due to Iran war
US acting navy chief Hung Cao told a Senate hearing they were “doing a pause” on the sale to make…
U.S. and Iran signal peace progress — but remain at odds over uranium enrichment, Strait of Hormuz
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said there were “good signs” that an agreement to end the Middle…
Airlines are struggling but China’s ‘Big Three’ face a tougher year than most
China’s carriers face sky-high jet fuel, lack of hedging strategies, and a customer base that can easily pivot to cheaper…
Japan core inflation softens to over four year low, weakening case for BOJ rate hike
Core inflation — which strips out prices of fresh food — was lower than the 1.7% expected by economists polled…
Rubio says Cuba is threat to US as Havana accuses him of ‘lies’
Cuba’s foreign minister accused Rubio of trying to “instigate a military aggression”.
Amazon Nova Act is now HIPAA eligible
Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) organizations depend on repetitive, manual browser-based tasks for critical workflows like claims processing and referral…
How CopilotKit Is Redefining the Agentic AI Stack in 2026
For years, AI inside software meant a chat widget bolted onto the corner of an application. You typed, the model…
Angry crowd sets Ebola hospital tents on fire in DR Congo
Grieving relatives and friends of a suspected Ebola victim were prevented from taking his body for burial.
Intelligent radiology workflow optimization with AI agents
Many healthcare organizations report that traditional worklist systems rely on rigid rules that ignore critical context, radiologist specialization, current workload,…
Integrating AWS API MCP Server with Amazon Quick using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
As your AWS infrastructure scales, operational workflows naturally grow more complex. SREs and DevOps Engineers spend significant time context-switching between…
Building multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Software as a service (SaaS) providers building multi-tenant agentic applications must address architectural challenges beyond the typical concerns of security,…
Iran steps up claim to control Strait of Hormuz
Iran publishes a map claiming “armed forces oversight” across more than 22,000 sq km of the waterway.
Oil prices jump more than 3% after Iran supreme leader says uranium must remain in country
Iran’s position on its enriched uranium will likely complicate peace talks with the U.S.
Oil market could enter ‘red zone’ by July as stocks dwindle ahead of summer travel season, IEA chief says
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the single most important solution to the Iran war energy shock is the unconditional…
‘Europe doesn’t realize how dangerous it is’: Telecoms CEO warns of U.S. dominance in satellites, AI
Europe is vulnerable with a non-state actor like Starlink having the power to switch off the continent’s connectivity.
Iran reviews U.S. peace proposal as Trump says he’s willing to wait ‘a few days’
It comes after President Donald Trump said he was prepared to wait a few more days to “get the right…
One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing
Building a single model that can both understand and generate images and videos is harder than it sounds. The two…
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer: The AI Role OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Are Hiring in 2026
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer? The term ‘Forward Deployed Engineer’ (FDE) sounds military. That is intentional. A Forward Deployed…
Nvidia says it has ‘largely conceded’ China’s AI chip market to Huawei
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has “largely conceded” China’s advanced artificial intelligence chip market to Huawei.
Japan exports jump 14.8% in April, beating expectations as semiconductor shipments soar
The figure outperformed the 9.3% estimate from Reuters.
Announcing OpenAI-compatible API support for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI introduces OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. If you use the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or…
Meet Turbovec: A Rust Vector Index with Python Bindings, and Built on Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm
Vector search underpins most retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. At scale, it gets expensive. Storing 10 million document embeddings in float32…
US charges Cuba’s Raúl Castro with murder over 1996 downing of two planes
Castro and five others are charged with conspiracy to kill US nationals, murder, and destruction of aircraft
Rosenberg: Putin enjoys Xi’s Chinese welcome but heads home without pipeline deal
Russia and China showed they were shoulder-to-shoulder on the world stage, but it became clear there are limits, says the…
Multimodal evaluators: MLLM-as-a-judge for image-to-text tasks in Strands Evals
If you’re building visual shopping, image or document understanding, or chart analysis, you need a way to verify whether your…
How to Build Knowledge Graph Generation Pipelines From Text With kg-gen, NetworkX Analytics, and Interactive Visualizations
In this tutorial, we will generate knowledge graphs from plain text, conversations, and multiple source documents using kg-gen. We start…
U.S. crude oil falls below $100 per barrel after Trump says Iran talks in final stages
Trump told reporters that the administration was in the “final stages” of negotiations with Iran, according to a pool report.
Xi basks in spotlight as he hosts Putin days after Trump
Two presidential visits days apart is how Xi Jinping wants the world to see him: talking to everyone, tied to…
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B
NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports…
Trump exerts iron grip on Republican Party with Massie defeated
Victory over a Republican rebel in Kentucky shows the president’s strength but his power comes with risks for the midterms.
Iran threatens to extend conflict ‘beyond the region’ if U.S. and Israel resume attacks
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Wednesday threatened to extend the Middle East conflict “beyond the region” if the U.S. and Israel…
Trump’s Greenland envoy faces uphill battle on mission to make ‘friends’
Jeff Landry’s visit to the territory, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, has touched a nerve among some Greenlanders.
U.S. Treasurys are now firmly in the ‘danger zone,’ strategists say
U.S. Treasurys are in a “danger zone” as surging long-term yields raise fears that sticky inflation could begin spilling over…