OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon, hours after rival Anthropic was blacklisted by Trump
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X that his company has come to terms with the Defense Department for use…
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Bill Clinton asked about hot tub photo and testifies he knew ‘nothing’ of Epstein crimes
The former president told the committee that he would never have flown on Epstein’s plane if he “had any inkling…
Google DeepMind Introduces Unified Latents (UL): A Machine Learning Framework that Jointly Regularizes Latents Using a Diffusion Prior and Decoder
Generative AI’s current trajectory relies heavily on Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) to manage the computational cost of high-resolution synthesis. By…
A Coding Implementation to Build a Hierarchical Planner AI Agent Using Open-Source LLMs with Tool Execution and Structured Multi-Agent Reasoning
In this tutorial, we build a hierarchical planner agent using an open-source instruct model. We design a structured multi-agent architecture…
Trump ‘not thrilled’ with Iran after latest talks on nuclear programme
President Trump said he was not happy with Iran’s stance, but had not yet decided whether to attack.
How to Build Interactive Geospatial Dashboards Using Folium with Heatmaps, Choropleths, Time Animation, Marker Clustering, and Advanced Interactive Plugins
In this Folium tutorial, we build a complete set of interactive maps that run in Colab or any local Python…
Tram derails in Milan, leaving one dead and dozens injured
The crowded tram was travelling in the centre of Milan at rush hour when it appeared to crash into the…
Sakana AI Introduces Doc-to-LoRA and Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetworks that Instantly Internalize Long Contexts and Adapt LLMs via Zero-Shot Natural Language
Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) currently presents a significant engineering trade-off between the flexibility of In-Context Learning (ICL) and the…
Pakistan defence minister says country in ‘open war’ with Afghanistan after strikes
The latest attacks by Pakistan follow months of clashes between the two countries. despite agreeing to a fragile ceasefire in…
What we know after latest escalation in Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions
Bombings by Pakistan are the most significant development in tensions between the two neighbours – though the physical impact remains…
Big Tech and banking stocks helped Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund book a $250 billion profit in 2025
Norges Bank Investment Management manages the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund.
UK PM Keir Starmer suffers major blow after his party comes third in key vote
The result in a seat that Labour has dominated for nearly a century represents an embarrassing setback for the prime…
Hillary Clinton tells House panel she ‘had no idea’ of Epstein’s crimes
The ex-secretary of state called for President Trump to be questioned under oath about his past association with the sex…
U.S. and Iran wrap up ‘most intense’ nuclear talks with no deal — more negotiations ahead
Iran’s nuclear program, enrichment of uranium and its ballistic-missle development program have been at the crux of the negotiations.
Perplexity Just Released pplx-embed: New SOTA Qwen3 Bidirectional Embedding Models for Web-Scale Retrieval Tasks
Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to…
Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior
Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a…
American citizen among those killed in Cuba boat shooting, US official says
Cuba has accused those on board of planning “an infiltration with terrorist aims” and firing first.
Microsoft Research Introduces CORPGEN To Manage Multi Horizon Tasks For Autonomous AI Agents Using Hierarchical Planning and Memory
Microsoft researchers have introduced CORPGEN, an architecture-agnostic framework designed to manage the complexities of realistic organizational work through autonomous digital…
Learnings from COBOL modernization in the real world
There’s a lot of excitement right now about AI enabling mainframe application modernization. Boards are paying attention. CIOs are getting…
Google AI Just Released Nano-Banana 2: The New AI Model Featuring Advanced Subject Consistency and Sub-Second 4K Image Synthesis Performance
In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled…
Danish PM calls snap election with Greenland issue centre-stage
The issue of Greenland, which Donald Trump wants to annex, is likely to dominate the election campaign.
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund is using Anthropic’s Claude AI model to screen investments for ethical issues
Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund is reviewing its ethical framework after decisions on U.S. and Israeli companies drew ire from…
US justice department accused of withholding Trump-related Epstein files
The top Democrat on the congressional panel investigating Epstein has called on the attorney general to publish the material.
Russia says Cuba situation is escalating after deadly incident with U.S.-tagged speedboat
The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Havana.
US and Iran begin talks seen as crucial to prevent conflict
The indirect negotiations in Geneva are seen as a last-ditch effort, but the chances of a nuclear agreement are unclear.
Nvidia’s stock sees only marginal gains after better-than-expected results. Here’s the latest
Better-than-expected results drew a muted investor response as AI bubble concerns remain
Nous Research Releases ‘Hermes Agent’ to Fix AI Forgetfulness with Multi-Level Memory and Dedicated Remote Terminal Access Support
In the current AI landscape, we’ve become accustomed to the ‘ephemeral agent’—a brilliant but forgetful assistant that restarts its cognitive…
Shot in school uniform: BBC reveals police order led to Gen Z protest killings in Nepal
New evidence reveals what happened when 19 people were shot dead in Kathmandu last September.
Rolls-Royce jumps 6% after aerospace giant boosts profit outlook
Rolls-Royce sees profits of over £4 billion this year as the engine and power systems maker banks on another year…
Crypto’s Biggest Bull Run Could Come From The Most Unexpected Place: AI Bubble
The crypto markets are sitting in a mood that rarely looks like hope. Fear sits very high, and that kind…
Tailscale and LM Studio Introduce ‘LM Link’ to Provide Encrypted Point-to-Point Access to Your Private GPU Hardware Assets
For the modern AI developer productivity is often tied to a physical location. You likely have a ‘Big Rig’ at…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says markets ‘got it wrong’ on AI threat to software companies
Investors had grown weary that the massive run-up in spending on AI hardware might not be sustainable, stoking fears of…
New ETH Zurich Study Proves Your AI Coding Agents are Failing Because Your AGENTS.md Files are too Detailed
In the high-stakes world of AI, ‘Context Engineering’ has emerged as the latest frontier for squeezing performance out of LLMs.…
‘Fear is everywhere’: BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.
Nvidia set to report quarterly results after the bell
Nvidia has been the best performer on Wall Street this year among tech’s megacap companies.
Efficiently serve dozens of fine-tuned models with vLLM on Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock
Organizations and individuals running multiple custom AI models, especially recent Mixture of Experts (MoE) model families, can face the challenge…
What to expect from the next round of U.S.-Iran talks as Trump threatens Tehran
The upcoming talks come as the U.S. continues to build up military forces in the region and as Trump warns…
These 4 charts show the scale of Novo Nordisk’s woes
Despite being first to launch a GLP-1 drug for weight loss, Novo’s market share has eroded, and the company now…
Liquid AI’s New LFM2-24B-A2B Hybrid Architecture Blends Attention with Convolutions to Solve the Scaling Bottlenecks of Modern LLMs
The generative AI race has long been a game of ‘bigger is better.’ But as the industry hits the limits…
Why Chile is the latest LATAM country to be caught in a U.S.-China power struggle
The spat comes just days before a Latin American leader’s summit in Miami and two weeks before Chile’s incoming right-wing…
Analysis: Trump issues patriotic rallying cry with eye on crucial elections
The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher says the US president appealed to his base and taunted his opponents in a marathon speech.
Drones hammer Sudan’s gold and oil zone – the pivotal new front line
Intensified attacks in the Kordofan region have led to mass casualties as peace remains elusive.
HSBC annual pre-tax profit drops over 7%, revenue jumps as bank’s results top estimates
Europe’s largest lender HSBC on Wednesday reported annual pre-tax profit of $29.91 billion, beating the bank’s estimates.
U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling will likely allow India to keep buying Russian oil
India is unlikely to eliminate Russian oil imports and the U.S. may not have enough leverage to push New Delhi…
South Korea and Japan stocks hit fresh highs amid regional gains after Wall Street’s AI relief rally
Asia-Pacific markets rose, tracking Wall Street gains after after investors’ concerns around AI disruption to select industries eased.
Meta AI Open Sources GCM for Better GPU Cluster Monitoring to Ensure High Performance AI Training and Hardware Reliability
While the tech folks obsesses over the latest Llama checkpoints, a much grittier battle is being fought in the basements…
A Coding Implementation to Simulate Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Asyncio, Malicious Nodes, and Latency Analysis
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) simulator using asyncio. We model a realistic distributed…
Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series: A Production Powerhouse Proving that Smaller AI Models are Smarter
The development of large language models (LLMs) has been defined by the pursuit of raw scale. While increasing parameter counts…
Build an intelligent photo search using Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon Bedrock
Managing large photo collections presents significant challenges for organizations and individuals. Traditional approaches rely on manual tagging, basic metadata, and…
Classic ‘TACO’? Investors shrug off Trump’s latest tariff announcement
Global equity markets were muted as Trump’s latest tariffs came into effect at 10%, a lower-than-expected rate.