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US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks
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US and Iran trade strikes for first time in weeks

August 31, 2026

Iran says the attack on Larak Island, the first known US strikes since late July, killed two people and injured…

OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway
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OpenClaw Releases OpenClaw 2.0: Guided Model Setup, 575 ms Control UI Startup, and One Trust Boundary Per Gateway

August 31, 2026

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
Business

Trump threatens to blow up Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub as hostilities escalate once again

August 31, 2026

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
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Lowest-Latency Inference APIs for Voice and Realtime Agents: A Time to First Token TTFT-First Benchmark

August 30, 2026

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
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Google AI Introduces EnvHarness: A Programmable Layer That Turns Static Agent Environments Into Adaptive Training Worlds

August 30, 2026

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
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Eight killed and others missing after ferry capsizes off northern Cyprus

August 30, 2026

A search and rescue operation is under way after a ferry carrying nearly 270 people turns over after leaving port.

Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU
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Iceland votes against restarting talks on joining EU

August 30, 2026

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
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Icelanders reject reopening talks to join the EU despite Trump’s Greenland threats

August 30, 2026

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
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Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS): A Shared Specification for AI Agents to Safely Operate Physical Devices

August 30, 2026

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
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Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs

August 30, 2026

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
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Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio

August 29, 2026

In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while…

Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling
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Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling

August 29, 2026

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.…

Iran trade falls as Supreme Leader Khamenei urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar
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Iran trade falls as Supreme Leader Khamenei urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar

August 29, 2026

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
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Trump announces deal with Venezuela to secure more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves

August 29, 2026

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
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Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning

August 29, 2026

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
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Footage of Tibet floods isn’t being shown in China – and we know little about victims there

August 28, 2026

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
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Norway mourns King Harald as Haakon VIII ascends throne

August 28, 2026

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
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Batch write and discover records in Amazon SageMaker Feature Store

August 28, 2026

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, share, and manage features for machine learning (ML)…

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture

August 28, 2026

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
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Analysis: Kevin Warsh sharpens inflation warning at Jackson Hole, signaling possible rate hike

August 28, 2026

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
Business

How Decathlon runs demand forecasting at scale with Chronos-2

August 28, 2026

This post is co-written with Vianney Bruned, Filippo Giruzzi, Belkiss Saidi, and Carlos Ramirez from Decathlon. Decathlon is one of…

Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders
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Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders

August 28, 2026

Shaders are still the hardest thing to ship on a normal web team. WebGPU gives you the hardware, then hands…

Fed Chairman Warsh expresses concern about inflation advocates for ‘quieter’ central bank: Watch live
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Fed Chairman Warsh expresses concern about inflation advocates for ‘quieter’ central bank: Watch live

August 28, 2026

He used the speech to outline his philosophy on policymaking while carefully sidestepping any signals

Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood
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Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause another Nepal-Tibet flood

August 28, 2026

Laura Bicker explains how a lake which formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border is raising fears of…

‘High risk’ of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China
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‘High risk’ of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China

August 28, 2026

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
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Iran links Hormuz reopening to ending regional wars as Trump reportedly rejects return to June deal

August 28, 2026

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
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Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages

August 28, 2026

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
Business

Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk

August 28, 2026

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
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Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal

August 27, 2026

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
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Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

August 27, 2026

Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models, Terra and Luna, in India, with India geographic cross-Region inference. If you…

Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown
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Cohere Releases Parse 5 (parse-v5.0): A 2.3B Vision Language Model That Turns Enterprise Documents Into Markdown

August 27, 2026

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…

Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel
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Best Agent Sandboxes in 2026: Cold Start, Per-Second Pricing, and Network Policy Across E2B, Daytona, Modal, Cloudflare, and Vercel

August 27, 2026

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
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Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese open AI models as it warns of White House crackdown

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics

August 27, 2026

Self-hosted speech AI has historically carried an observability trade-off. The service can tell you an endpoint is up and how…

From In-Silico to Wet-Lab: Evaluating AI Protein Design Performance
Business

From In-Silico to Wet-Lab: Evaluating AI Protein Design Performance

August 27, 2026

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…

Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
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Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Nvidia jumps 7% in after blockbuster earnings boost AI confidence

August 27, 2026

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’
Business

Tanker attack tests Trump’s claim that Hormuz is a ‘functioning strait’

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Z.ai shares surge 8% after releasing new AI model running only on Chinese chips

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Google Research Introduces GlucoFM: A 0.72M-Parameter Dual-Stream Foundation Model for Continuous Glucose Monitoring

August 27, 2026

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%
Business

China industrial profit growth in July slumps to 7-month low of 11.2%

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hikes as core inflation stays elevated

August 27, 2026

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
Business

Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context

August 26, 2026

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
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Evaluate any agent framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations

August 26, 2026

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
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How GoDaddy transformed its analytics with Amazon Quick

August 26, 2026

GoDaddy is one of the world’s largest domain registrar and web hosting companies, serving more than 20 million customers and…

Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3
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Bring your own model with Amazon SageMaker AI: Script mode in SDK v3

August 26, 2026

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
Business

Alibaba’s Qwen Team Releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A 125B Multimodal MoE With 6B Active Parameters Previewing the Qwen4 Architecture

August 26, 2026

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
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Heart, hope and a steely determination: Dolly Parton’s musical legacy

August 26, 2026

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
Business

Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion

August 26, 2026

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
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What Would Have to Be True for Agentic Coding to Replace Junior Engineers

August 26, 2026

I read every major model release. Most of them ship a coding number. The number goes up. The conclusion everyone…

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