Oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz might not return to levels seen before the Iran war
Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has seriously challenged freedom of navigation in the sea lane, raising questions about…
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Hundreds arrested in France after wild Champions League celebrations
Thousands of officers tried to quell unrest as crowds of fans – some firing flares – celebrated PSG’s victory over…
Trajectory Releases a Concurrent Multi-LoRA Training Stack for Continual Learning, Reporting a 2.81× Experiment-Throughput Gain
Trajectory’s concurrent multi-LoRA stack reports a 2.81× experiment-throughput gain over single-tenant RL, with all code in the NovaSky-AI/SkyRL GitHub repository.…
Best Text-to-Speech TTS Models in 2026: A Benchmark-Based Comparison
Text-to-speech TTS moved fast over the past year. The line between synthetic and human speech narrowed. Latency dropped below 100…
US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drone technology
The technology, developed under the Aukus military pact, is aimed at protecting undersea cables and boosting naval defence.
China is ‘losing a chance’ by not being at the Shangri-La Dialogue: German defense chief
Dialogue is still occurring with the members of the Chinese delegation at the forum, “but of course, it would be…
Genesis AI Releases Nyx, Quadrants, and Genesis World 1.0 Physics Platform for Scalable Robotics Foundation Model Evaluation
Genesis AI released Genesis World 1.0. The platform consists of four components: the Genesis World physics engine, Nyx (a real-time…
No deal announced after Trump meeting to make ‘final determination’ on Iran
The US president met his advisers, after officials confirmed the US and Iran had agreed a framework of a deal.
Hegseth praises Asian allies for ‘burden-sharing,’ calls out China’s role in the region
Hegseth said that China cannot impose its hegemony on U.S. partners and allies in the region.
Hermes Agent Ships Tool Search for MCP: Anthropic Evals Show 49% to 74% Accuracy Gain on Opus 4
Nous Research’s open-source Hermes Agent now ships a Tool Search feature. It directly addresses a growing bottleneck in AI agent…
Comprehensive observability for Amazon SageMaker AI LLM inference: From GPU utilization to LLM quality
Deploying large language models (LLMs) at scale on Amazon SageMaker AI Inference makes observability a critical pillar of any production…
How to Use AgentTrove: Streaming 1.7M Agentic Traces and Building a Clean ShareGPT SFT Dataset in Python
In this tutorial, we explore AgentTrove, one of the largest open-source collections of agentic interaction traces, and learn how to…
NVIDIA Introduces X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer KD That Outperforms GOLD by +3.82 Average Points on Llama-3.2-1B
Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers “dark knowledge” from a large teacher model to a smaller student. The student learns from the…
StepFun Releases Step 3.7 Flash: A 198B MoE Vision-Language Model for Coding Agents and Search Workflows
StepFun today released Step 3.7 Flash, a multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model targeting agentic use cases. It adds native vision input and…
‘Poison seller’ who sold toxic chemicals online to people across world admits aiding suicides
Kenneth Law admitted charges relating to Canadian victims – but families say he should also be charged in the UK…
Former US attorney general Pam Bondi testifies in congressional Epstein probe
The testimony comes about a month after America’s top prosecutor was ousted by US President Donald Trump.
Eight students arrested in Kenya after suspected deadly school arson attack
Sixteen pupils died in the fire that ripped through a dormitory while they were asleep.
Trump’s Oman outburst throws ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ into the spotlight
The Trump administration has threatened sanctions and military action against Oman, a longtime ally and close security partner.
Meet mKernel: A Multi-GPU, Multi-Node Fused Kernel Library for GPU-Driven Communication
GPU communication overhead is a measurable bottleneck in production AI workloads. According to data cited by the mKernel project, communication…
Hexo Labs Open-Sources SIA: A Self-Improving Agent That Updates Both the Harness and the Model Weights
Most AI agents stop improving once a human stops tuning them. The model is fixed. The scaffold around it is…
Nato condemns Russian ‘recklessness’ after drone hits Romanian apartment block
Romania will hold an emergency meeting following the incident, in which two people were injured.
Nvidia is investing billions into this emerging technology that could change the AI industry
Photonics is considered to be a more efficient alternative to the current process of transferring data using electricity, which could…
The ECB is in a bind over rate hikes — the private sector could be doing the bank’s job for it
Market expectations that the European Central Bank will hike interest rates this year have already contributed to tighter financial and…
How to Design an End-to-End Ansible Automation Lab with Playbooks, Inventories, Roles, Vault, Dynamic Inventory, and Custom Modules
In this tutorial, we build a complete Ansible lab that runs end-to-end in Google Colab or any Linux environment. We…
Asia markets rise as investors weigh Iran military activity against signs of temporary U.S.-Iran deal
Asia-Pacific markets rose as investors shrugged off renewed Iran tensions against ceasefire optimism.
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-8B-A1B: An On-Device MoE Model With 8.3B Total and 1.5B Active Parameters
Liquid AI just shipped LFM2.5-8B-A1B. It is an on-device Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built for tool calling. The model holds 8.3B…
US and Iran reach tentative deal to extend ceasefire, US officials say
But there has been conflicting information from Tehran, with one news agency reporting that no deal has been finalised or…
Iran reportedly launches missiles as Trump mulls deal to pause war for two months
The latest military and economic actions come as President Trump insists he feels no pressure to make a deal with…
Training Azerbaijani language models on Amazon SageMaker AI
This solution builds on open source tools including PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and Liger Kernels. The authors would also like…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Alongside Dynamic Workflows and Cheaper Fast Mode, With Workflows Capped at 1,000 Subagents
Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.8. Also, there two Claude Code updates shipped with it. Dynamic workflows run many subagents…
Build a test suite that grows with your agent with dataset management in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Agent evaluation is most powerful when you combine fast-moving online signals with stable offline baselines. To understand whether your agent…
Gaza City hospitals say several killed in strike, as Israel targets Hamas leaders
At least five children were reportedly killed in the strike, which appears to have targeted a Hamas commander.
Automate AML alert triage with Amazon Quick and Snowflake Cortex AI
Financial institutions running on AWS and Snowflake benefit from a deeply integrated framework that combines Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud with…
Are US and Iran close to peace or sliding back to war?
Neither side seems interested in a return to all-out conflict, despite the latest exchange of strikes.
Core inflation hit an annual rate of 3.3% in April, as expected, Fed’s preferred gauge shows
The PCE price index for April was expected to show an annual inflation rate of 3.8% for all items and…
Ferrari CEO defends $640,000 price tag for its first fully electric car
Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna on Thursday said the cost of the manufacturer’s new Luce model was a fair price to…
Gold tumbles to two-month low as inflation hedge status fades
Spot gold prices were trading at their lowest level since late March.
Perplexity AI Open-Sources Unigram Tokenizer That Achieves 5x Lower p50 Latency Than Hugging Face tokenizers Crate
Perplexity AI’s research team reimplemented their Unigram tokenizer from scratch in Rust and open-sourced the code in pplx-garden, their inference…
Bitcoin Has Outpaced XRP Since 2017, According To Analyst
XRP could fall another 59% to 62% against Bitcoin before finding solid ground, according to technical analysis shared by chart…
A Coding Guide to Implement a pgvector-Powered Semantic, Hybrid, Sparse, and Quantized Vector Search System
In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a…
Oil jumps 3% after Iran says it targeted U.S. airbase following fresh American strikes
Oil prices rose on Thursday after fresh U.S. strikes in Iran renewed concerns over disruptions to commercial shipping through the…
Kuwait air defenses activated against ‘missile and drone threats’; U.S. carries out new strikes in Iran
This comes as tensions in the Middle East escalated once again, with the U.S. military carrying out new strikes overnight…
US strikes Iran targets for second time in three days
The hostilities come during a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran, and protracted negotiations to end the three-month war.
Fed’s Kashkari says inflation fight takes priority as labor market is ‘in decent shape’
The Minneapolis Fed President warned that persistently high inflation risks becoming embedded in consumer expectations, potentially forcing tougher policy action…
Sakana AI Proposes DiffusionBlocks: a Block-wise Training Framework That Converts Residual Networks into Independently Trainable Denoising Modules
Researchers from Sakana AI and the University of Tokyo propose DiffusionBlocks. It trains transformer-based networks one block at a time.…
Process financial documents using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation
Financial institutions process thousands of documents daily, including tax forms, loan statements, and purchase orders. Each has a unique format,…
Building AI agents for business support using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Developing AI agents for business support presents unique challenges that many organizations face when trying to automate routine HR tasks.…
Israel strikes Tyre after ordering evacuation of south Lebanon city
Israel’s military says it struck Hezbollah targets after telling residents it would “act forcefully” against the group.
Powering agentic AI sales strategy with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
As agent adoption scaled, we saw a common pattern emerge across enterprises, including our own sales organization: specialized agents deliver…
NVIDIA Releases Polar, a Token-Faithful Rollout Framework for GRPO Training Across Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code
Reinforcement learning for language agents is growing more complex. Agents now manage multi-turn tool use, long-running contexts, and multi-agent orchestration.…