Spanish intelligence warned of Ceuta mass crossing plans before surge
Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day…
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ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in August 2026
A recap of the biggest Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Strands updates from August 2026. At AWS, we have long focused…
How Heurist Finance built an AI-native investment workbench on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Heurist uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to build AI-powered financial intelligence for retail investors. Its flagship product, Heurist Finance, brings several…
Treasury Department to buy back up to $6 billion in longer-term debt, triple the normal level
The much-anticipated announcement triples the normal buyback operation and follows an announcement from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Simplify and support your TorchServe workloads using Ray Serve Deep Learning Containers
TorchServe is no longer actively maintained. The official project notice states there are no planned updates, bug fixes, new features,…
Germany’s Merz attacks AfD in stormy debate after far-right election win
Germany’s chancellor clashes with AfD leader Alice Weidel, saying her migration policy amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers.
Brent crude hovers around $100 as U.S.-Iran tit-for-tat strikes stoke oil supply worries
Oil prices extended gains on Wednesday as escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran fueled concerns over further disruptions to…
Gradium Launches Voice Design: Write a Prompt, Get a Brand New Synthetic Voice in Seconds
Voice agent teams keep hitting the same wall. The catalog holds 400 voices and the brief asks for the one…
US strikes Iranian oil tankers as Tehran targets American base in Jordan
Oil prices edged closer to $100 a barrel after an escalation in the tit-for-tat strikes between the US and Iran.
Meta Introduces Muse, a Personal AI Agent That Runs on Its Own Dedicated Secure Cloud Computer
Today, Meta has introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that takes actions rather than just answering questions. Muse can send…
Take on your most ambitious work with GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI brings greater depth and judgment to your most demanding tasks and runs on the Amazon Bedrock…
U.S. downplays Iran’s seizure of unmanned sub in Hormuz Strait
The U.S. and Iran traded new attacks around the Strait of Hormuz, as President Donald Trump insists oil prices will…
NVIDIA Announces CUDA Rust with cuda-oxide (SIMT) and cutile-rs (Tile) for Compile-Time-Safe GPU Kernels
NVIDIA has announced CUDA Rust, a push to make Rust a first-class language for writing GPU kernels. Rust code could…
UK announces sanctions on West Bank settlements prompting furious Israeli response
Britain’s foreign secretary accuses settlers of carrying out the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, as Israel responds by shutting the UK…
Pathway’s brain-inspired architecture development on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
As AI systems take on more complex tasks, much of the industry’s progress has come from increasing model scale, training…
Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas With Precomputed Molecular Effect Predictions and AVI Scores for 9 Billion Human DNA Variants
Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue of precomputed predictions for the molecular effects of every possible single-nucleotide variant…
Govern models with MLflow and Amazon SageMaker AI Model Registry sync: Part 2
Governing models across accounts is the natural next step once automatic model registration is in place. In Part 1 we…
TikTok to expand data center capacity in Finland amid boom in AI infrastructure deals
TikTok plans to take roughly 150 MW of data center capacity in Finland as the country sees digital infrastructure deals…
Automated agent evaluation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and GitHub Actions
Build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) quality gate that deploys an agent with role-based MCP tools, evaluates it,…
Qualcomm stock pops 10% on data center infrastructure deal with Amazon
Qualcomm is trying to move into the data center business, where Nvidia has been the dominant player in the AI…
Brent crude nears $100 after strikes on Saudi energy sites amid renewed Mideast hostilities
Oil prices rose Tuesday on worries over escalating Mideast tensions after the U.S. and Iran traded strikes over the weekend.
Pharma major Novartis falls 9% after three drug trial setbacks
Shares of Novartis tanked on Tuesday after results from its del-desiran drug trial disappointed investors.
Canada braces for prolonged trade war as counter-tariffs on US take effect
The tariffs will apply to $20bn worth of American products, jeopardising the stability of the world’s largest bilateral trading relationship.
Iran foreign ministry takes aim at Canada for support of U.S. actions in Strait of Hormuz
Canada had condemned Iran’s “destabilizing actions” in the Middle East, saying that it would work with partners to maintain significant…
China’s imports in August miss estimates as exports pick up pace amid calls for rebalancing trade
China’s exports and imports gathered momentum in August, as the world’s second-largest economy faces mounting pressure to rebalance trade.
Reducto Releases r-1: A Single Pass Document Parsing Model That Cuts Errors 20% at 1 Cent Per Page
Last week, Reducto announced r-1. It is the first model in a new parsing family built on a rewritten architecture,…
Flight recorders recovered from ‘devastating’ Amazon cargo plane crash
Five people were killed and five others seriously injured when the Boeing 767-300 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.
Palestinian parents fear for children’s lives at school as settler attacks grow
A headteacher in the occupied West Bank has installed new barbed wire fencing after three pupils were killed this year.
OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On Device
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, the second checkpoint in the MiniCPM5 series and the follow-up to MiniCPM5-1B. It is a dense…
Trump says he’s made ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks’ for the U.S., in stream of AI posts
U.S. President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth…
Germany’s far-right AfD says ‘democracy demands’ parties work with them after state election win
The far-right party is trying to form a government in the state after falling three seats short of a majority.
Far-right AfD landslide in German state piles pressure on federal government
The “extraordinary” result may be the “most consequential German state-election result of the postwar era,” according to analysts.
Israel-Hezbollah clashes deepen threat to fragile truce as Lebanon’s president calls for U.S. support
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the U.S. to help stop Israeli attacks after Sunday strikes killed at least seven…
IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B
Most open model launches release one checkpoint and a benchmark table. The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) released something wider…
Germany’s far-right AfD set for big win in eastern state, just short of majority
Germany’s AfD has hailed a “historic result” and is projected to win 44% of the vote, far ahead of the…
H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
Most visual document retrievers in production today are hand-me-downs. ColPali and the models that followed it take a generative vision-language…
Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours
AI research agents can already propose, implement and score their own machine learning experiments. Idea generation is cheap; verification is…
Iran warns of ‘more painful’ response to U.S. attacks as economic pressure mounts
Iran warned of faster, heavier retaliation against U.S. attacks while acknowledging the war’s mounting toll on its economy.
Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms
Ten days ahead of the next Federal Reserve meeting, the Trump administration looks to be in a full-court press to…
UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley have released CUA-Lite, an open platform for computer-use agents (CUAs). The argument behind…
US envoys set for Ukraine talks after meeting Putin in Moscow
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner leave Moscow talks with hopes for “equally productive meetings” in Ukraine.
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Retrieval quality in an AI search product is bounded by two things: how good the embedding model is, and how…
Trump’s state capitalism comes to the oil industry with his unprecedented Venezuela deal
The deal comes eight months after Washington ousted former President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid.
GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per Coding Task in Copilot CLI
GitHub has released Project HydraFusion, a research preview that stops treating model choice as a one-time setting. Instead of routing…
Nous Research Adds One-Click Local Model Setup to Hermes Desktop
The hard part of running an open-weights model locally was never the model. It was everything before it, reading VRAM…
US envoys meet Putin in Moscow for Ukraine talks
President Trump says his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are “bringing with them a proposal to end the war”.
US hits three Iranian oil tankers after saying its warships were targeted
US Central Command says the attacks came after Iran launched ballistic missiles at two of its Navy warships.
From Trump’s takeover threats to a ‘northern neighborhood,’ why the EU chief is going to Greenland
The visit comes as Trump renews his push for greater U.S. control of the self-governing Danish territory.
Adaption Labs Introduces ‘Invent a Dataset’: Training Data Generated From a Task Description, Not a Seed Corpus
This week, Adaption Labs released Invent a Dataset. The feature generates a structured, training-ready dataset from a description of the…
Google Launches Agentic Video Understanding for Gemini Flash Models, Cutting Video Tokens by Up to 88%
Video has been the most expensive modality to reason over. A Gemini model handed a 90-minute lecture has, until now,…