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Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio
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Gradium AI Releases New Default TTS Model: 81.0% Hard-Case Pass Rate at 216 ms Time-to-First-Audio

September 1, 2026

Voice agents fail on exactly the parts of a call that matter most: the order number, the callback digits, the…

Tanker struck in Hormuz, raising worries over escalation, as Trump vows to hit Iran ‘hard’
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Tanker struck in Hormuz, raising worries over escalation, as Trump vows to hit Iran ‘hard’

September 1, 2026

Iran launched an attack on two American bases in Jordan on Monday in retaliation for the U.S. attack on its…

Venezuela grants U.S.-backed oil firm NABEP 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says
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Venezuela grants U.S.-backed oil firm NABEP 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says

September 1, 2026

Venezuelan interim authorities have granted North American Blue Energy Partners 100-year concessions for 17 oil fields, White House says.

Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour
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Keenable AI Open-Sources NEEDLE: A Live Search Benchmark That Rebuilds Its Query Set Every Hour

September 1, 2026

How do you benchmark a web search API when the thing being tested can read the answer key? A search…

Connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick
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Connect an AgentCore Runtime hosted MCP server to Amazon Quick

August 31, 2026

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers allow foundation models to access external data and tools, supporting standardized, secure access to files,…

AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025
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AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025

August 31, 2026

We’re excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4…

Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
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Google AI Releases TimesFM-3: A 330M Parameter Zero-Shot Foundation Model For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

August 31, 2026

Google Research has released TimesFM-3, a 330 million parameter time series foundation model that forecasts multiple related series in a…

Trump announced a massive oil deal with Venezuela. Why it won’t lower gas prices anytime soon
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Trump announced a massive oil deal with Venezuela. Why it won’t lower gas prices anytime soon

August 31, 2026

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. secured majority control over 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves.

Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry
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Manage agents, tools and skills at scale with AWS Agent Registry

August 31, 2026

Most organizations scaling their use of agents and tools hit the same challenges. Teams build in isolation, with no shared…

Nepal rescuers blast hillside in search of hydropower workers as families wait anxiously
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Nepal rescuers blast hillside in search of hydropower workers as families wait anxiously

August 31, 2026

Rescuers have resorted to explosives as they struggle to reach trapped workers, as the flooding death toll reaches 939.

Trump to meet with U.S. refiners as White House pushes to lower gas prices
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Trump to meet with U.S. refiners as White House pushes to lower gas prices

August 31, 2026

The White House says it is seeking near-term steps to boost refining capacity as affordability and gas prices loom over…

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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
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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.

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