Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy murder case, after jury deadlocks
The mistrial now puts the murder case – and Clancy’s future – in limbo as to whether she will be…
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Deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2.…
Designing lifecycle policies for AgentCore memory
Memory lifecycle policies help long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore stay effective by systematically managing what they remember and forget.…
Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage – and Russia is the chief suspect
Germany has blamed Russia for an attack on Leipzig airport but there has been a series of suspicious incidents elsewhere.
U.S. payrolls rose 162,000 in August, much more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.1%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 53,000 in August while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%, according to the…
‘Layer upon layer of miracles’: How Nepal flood survivors were rescued from tunnel
From searching for a buried tunnel entrance to blowing up rocks the size of cars, rescuers had to surmount multiple…
World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund plans to cut U.S. Treasury holdings
Norway’s $2.3 trillion investment fund says it can diversify into new areas with greater risk and returns.
Global bond sell-off likely not over yet, Mohamed El-Erian tells CNBC
In a wide-ranging interview, the renowned economist also said the U.S. Treasury had taken “a step too far” with its…
Nepal says it will need billions in funding to rebuild after flash floods
BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri is in Nepal where authorities are trying to begin rebuilding amid the debris.
EU joins U.S. sanctions push on Iran as South Korea weighs Hormuz deployment
The bloc’s endorsement came as the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors gathered in Asheville, North Carolina,…
Tensions flare as judge declines to remove juror in Lindsay Clancy trial
The defence lawyer is upset after the judge decides not to remove a holdout in the triple murder case.
South Korea’s AI rally is reshaping romance, reality shows and academic preferences
South Korea rally is changing what Koreans watch, how Koreans date, and what Koreans study.
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 Trains on Weather Station Observations to Deliver 5 km Global Forecasts, Refreshed Every Hour
AI weather models have spent three years closing the gap with physics-based forecasting, but two problems stayed open: resolution too…
Trump hints US would not back UK over Falkland Islands due to lack of Iran war support
The US president says the UK was not “there to help me” in his ongoing war with Iran.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra: A 1.05M-Context Computer-Use Model Gated Behind a ‘Critical’ Cyber Threshold
Today, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it its most intelligent and aligned model, and positions it primarily as…
Anthropic Released Claude Commerce Agents: An Apache-2.0 Blueprint for Shopping and Merchant Agents Across Retail, Travel, Telecom and Entertainment
Most teams building a shopping assistant or agent rebuild the same scaffolding: an agent loop, a tool layer over the…
Carney claps back at Lutnick, says Canada will resume trade talks ‘when the Americans are ready’
Canada has retaliated against President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs with “dollar for dollar” duties on U.S. goods, which are set…
AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and coding agents like Kiro often struggle with…
Hugging Face approached Nvidia’s Huang weeks ahead of $12.9B acquisition, CEO tells CNBC
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will “expand access to AI for developers and institutions…
The world appears to be entering a higher-rate era. Here’s who will pay the price
The bond sell-off is owed to a mix of high government debt issuance, an oil-price shock that has reignited inflation…
UN warns of ‘supersized’ El Niño as countries prepare for impact
The WMO has warned that the natural weather phenomenon could bring disruption to global economies.
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. It is a single-process runtime:…
Channel smuggling gangs resort to ‘mega-dinghies’ as crackdown limits small boat supply
Once-rival criminal groups are being forced to work together because of a shortage of small boats, a BBC investigation has…
Iran attacks Kuwait as Trump says renewed Mideast hostilities will not last ‘too long’
On Thursday, Kuwait’s army said it was confronting hostile missile and drone attacks from Iran.
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
Coding agents spend a large share of their tool budget on search. When the target is a known symbol, ripgrep…
Iranian attack on Saudi tanker killed two Filipino sailors, Saudi Arabia says
The kingdom condemns the targeting of Sidr, which was reportedly hit by unknown projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on…
Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI…
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and…
Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Teams running coding agents hit the same wall. Claude Code speaks the Anthropic Messages API, Codex CLI speaks OpenAI, and…
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes
Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the…
EU and Nato vow to step up pressure on Russia after ‘new escalation’ in Germany
Russia is accused of growing increasingly reckless after Berlin blamed Russia for a failed drone attack on Leipzig airport.
US sailors arrive in Thailand’s Pattaya after record 250 days at sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln is docking close to Pattaya, known for its neon-lit nightlife, and for sex tourism.
Zelensky says airlines should avoid Russian airspace as Ukraine escalates drone operations
Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its own…
Global bond rout gathers pace as inflation fears mount
Borrowing costs continue to extend multi-decade highs as nerves over inflation, higher rates and high debt remain at the fore.
Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection
Enterprise AI buyers have been stuck between two things they both need. Regulated teams need a zero data retention (ZDR)…
China’s Xi keeps Iranian president at arm’s length weeks ahead of Trump summit
China’s Xi gave Iran’s Pezeshkian a brief, low-profile audience at the SCO summit, as Beijing seeks to avoid appearing close…
Iran attacks US bases in Middle East after reports US strike killed five at wedding party
The Iranian Red Crescent says a child was among those killed when shrapnel from a US strike hit a home.…
Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing
Most production voice stacks are three systems stitched together. One model transcribes, a second separates speakers, and a detector decides…
Trump says U.S. is not forcing Iran to negotiate after fresh round of strikes
U.S. forces completed another wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday stateside, hitting multiple Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites across…
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, three months after the Fable 5 line shipped in June…
Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Fable 5.1 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude…
U.S. strikes Iran after new Hormuz Strait shipping attacks: Centcom
U.S. Central Command announced new strikes around the Strait of Hormuz following Iranian attacks on ships and U.S. military personnel.
Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack
A drone carrying an explosive device was discovered at the airport close to Ukrainian cargo planes on 4 August.
From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI
When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers from theory to delivery in agentic AI, the team faced a familiar…
Researchers from Princeton, Ant Group and Stanford Introduce AQuA: A Two-Part Agentic Framework for Autonomous Factor Discovery and Model Development in Quantitative Finance
Quantitative research agents that write their own experiments can corrupt the evidence they later learn from. A leaky feature that…
10-year yield hits highest since January 2025 as higher oil prices stoke inflation worries
Treasury yields increased on Tuesday as investors monitored a reignition of tensions in the Middle East.
Global bond yields soar to multi-decade highs as Middle East turmoil reignites inflation fears
Bond yields surged across major markets Tuesday as U.S.-Iran hostilities revived energy and inflation risks, with Japan and U.K. yields…
‘I’ve never been to Afghanistan’: Six million deportees forced to start over under the Taliban
As of August, the number forced to return this year from Pakistan and Iran had reached another million.
What it was like inside court for Tupac Shakur’s murder trial verdict
BBC presenter Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty describes what it was like when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was found guilty of murdering the…
Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
Voice agents fail on exactly the parts of a call that matter most: the order number, the callback digits, the…