U.S. oil falls below $90 on report Iran agreement would restore Hormuz traffic in one month
U.S. crude oil prices fell about 5% Wednesday on a report Iran would restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz…
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Ebola-hit DR Congo faces ‘catastrophic collision’ of disease and conflict, WHO warns
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said fighting in DR Congo was hampering efforts to stop spread
Russia to allow its central bank to down drones as Moscow struggles to defend against attacks
Russia’s State Duma has passed a law allowing certain financial institutions to operate anti-drone defense systems after attacks on its…
Israel says new head of Hamas’ military wing killed in Gaza City strikes
At least three people were killed in the attacks, which came despite a ceasefire with Hamas being in place.
European companies double down on China manufacturing despite EU de-risking push
Low manufacturing costs in China are keeping many European businesses’ supply chains in the country despite pressure in the EU…
Meet EAGLE 3.1: The Speculative Decoding Algorithm That Fixes Attention Drift in LLM Inference
Speculative decoding is a technique for speeding up large language model inference. A small, fast draft model proposes several tokens.…
MEMO: A Modular Framework for Training a Dedicated Memory Model on New Knowledge Without Modifying LLM Parameters
Large language models become static after pretraining. Their knowledge does not update as the world changes. Retraining a full LLM…
Dozens killed in Lebanon as Israel intensifies strikes
Israel says it struck 100 Hezbollah infrastructure sites and fighters in Lebanon, after PM Benjamin Netanyahu vows to “crush” the…
China industrial profits jump 24.7% in April, fastest gain in over two years despite headwinds
China’s industrial profits grew at their fastest pace in over two years in April, buoyed by stronger exports, higher producer…
SK Hynix hits $1 trillion valuation as AI boom lifts South Korean chip stocks
Shares of SK Hynix soared over 11% on Wednesday, pushing the South Korean memory-chip maker above the $1 trillion market…
Design a High-Precision Retrieve-and-Rerank Pipeline with ZeroEntropy Zerank-2 Reranker
In this tutorial, we use zeroentropy/zerank-2-reranker, a 4B Qwen3-based cross-encoder reranker, to improve retrieval quality. We start by setting up…
Stability AI Releases Stable Audio 3: A Family of Fast Latent Diffusion Models for Audio Generation and Editing
Stability AI has released open weights for Stable Audio 3 along with a technical research paper. Stable Audio 3 is…
Technical deep dive: AgentCore payments and innovation in agentic commerce
The industry is entering a world where billions of generative AI agents operate autonomously, acting on behalf of humans, making…
AgentWatch: Proactive AWS monitoring with ambient agents
AgentWatch delivers ambient AWS resource monitoring for your DevOps team, moving beyond the reactive cycle of managing Amazon CloudWatch alarms…
Micron hits $1 trillion market cap for the first time as stock surges 18%
A global memory shortage driven by AI is spiking demand for chipmakers like Micron.
From idea to AI app: Creating intelligent research assistants with Strands
Building an AI app shouldn’t require a PhD in machine learning (ML) or months of wrestling with complex architectures. Yet…
Iran condemns US strikes as ‘gross violation’ of ceasefire
The attacks took place while Iranian and Qatari negotiators were in Doha for peace talks.
ECB ‘will do what is necessary’ to tame inflation, Bank of France governor tells CNBC
Markets are overwhelmingly pricing in a rate hike from the central bank at its next meeting.
BP shares fall after board removes chairman Albert Manifold over ‘serious’ conduct concerns
The board of British energy major BP on Tuesday announced it had unanimously decided to remove Chairman Albert Manifold with…
‘The market has spoken’: Ferrari shares fall 6% after carmaker unveils first fully electric vehicle
Shares of luxury carmaker Ferrari fell sharply on Tuesday morning, shortly after the company launched its first fully electric vehicle.
Meet OmniVoice Studio: A Local, Open-Source Alternative to ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs charges between $5 and $330 per month for voice AI services. Every audio file you process goes through their…
Brent crude rises 2% as U.S. military strikes against Iran cloud Middle East peace prospects
Donald Trump had said negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely,” while warning that the U.S. could resume military action if…
Design a Complete Multimodal RLVR Pipeline with Open-MM-RL, Vision-Language Prompting, Reward Scoring, and GRPO Export
In this tutorial, we explore the TuringEnterprises/Open-MM-RL dataset as a practical foundation for multimodal reasoning and reinforcement learning with verifiable…
Bitcoin Bull Strategy Chooses Bonds In Unexpected Pivot
Strategy currently holds 843,738 BTC valued at around $65 billion, making it one of the largest corporate holders of the…
US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran
The strikes on Iranian missile launch sites and boats were taken in “self-defence”, US Central Command says.
U.S. conducts ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran as Trump tries to push for peace deal
Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines.
Oil prices fall 7% after Trump says Iran talks are ‘proceeding nicely’
Trump had said an agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, among other issues, was largely negotiated and…
Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR: An Attention-Aware 2-Bit KV Cache Quantization System for Long-Context LLM Serving
Long-context inference makes the KV cache one of the main costs of serving LLMs. During autoregressive decoding, the cache grows…
Step by Step Guide to Build and Compare FedAvg and FedProx Federated Learning on Non-IID CIFAR-10 with NVIDIA FLARE
In this tutorial, we build an advanced federated learning experiment with NVIDIA FLARE. We compare FedAvg and FedProx on a…
Best Authentication Platforms for AI Agents and MCP Servers in 2026
The Model Context Protocol has moved from Anthropic’s internal experiment to a de facto industry standard at a speed few…
Rubio says ‘solid’ Iran deal may come on Monday
The deal under discussion would involve a 60-day ceasefire extension during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened, US…
Iran is in the ‘process of blinking’ over the Strait of Hormuz, Petraeus says
Ex-CIA director David Petraeus said that an initial successful peace deal with Tehran would see the Strait opened without any…
WorkOS Releases auth.md: An Open Agent Registration Protocol Built on OAuth Standards
For years, authentication on the web followed one design assumption: a human sits behind a browser. Click a button. Fill…
Oil prices slide on hopes of US-Iran peace deal
Trump said on Saturday that an agreement would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without giving further details.
Oil market at ‘tank bottoms’ in Asia, and Europe isn’t far behind, warns market veteran Jeff Currie
Oil markets are nearing minimum operating levels in Asia, with Europe likely next and the U.S. potentially facing shortages by…
Japan’s Nikkei 225 tops 65,000 for first time as oil falls on Hormuz reopening hopes
Japan’s Nikkei 225 breached 64,000 for the first time Monday as a sharp decline in oil prices lifted risk sentiment…
Build a Complete Langfuse Observability and Evaluation Pipeline for Tracing, Prompt Management, Scoring, and Experiments
In this tutorial, we implement the Langfuse (an open-source LLM engineering platform) pipeline for tracing, prompt management, scoring, datasets, and…
Trump tells US negotiators ‘not to rush’ into deal with Iran
The deal under discussion would involve a 60-day ceasefire extension during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened, according…
Trump says Iran negotiations proceeding in ‘orderly and constructive manner;’ warns against rushing
The president said the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports would remain in effect until “an agreement is reached, certified,…
Microsoft Research Releases Webwright: A Terminal-Native Web Agent Framework That Scores 60.1% on Odysseys, Up from Base GPT-5.4’s 33.5%
Most web agents today drive a browser one action at a time. The model receives the current page state —…
NVIDIA AI Releases Gated DeltaNet-2: A Linear Attention Layer That Decouples Erase and Write in the Delta Rule
Linear attention replaces the unbounded KV cache of softmax attention with a fixed-size recurrent state. This cuts sequence mixing to…
Suspect killed after opening fire on Secret Service near White House
Officials say a suspect approached a checkpoint near the building and opened fire, and that a bystander was wounded.
Iran ‘getting a lot closer’ to agreement with US, Trump says
Tehran also signals progress on talks but says the key issue of nuclear weapons is not part of an initial…
Tencent Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory: A 4-Tier Local Memory Pipeline for AI Agents
Tencent has released TencentDB Agent Memory, an open-source memory system for AI agents. The project ships under the MIT license.…
U.S. and Iran are closing in on a 60-day ceasefire extension with nuclear framework, FT reports
A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 8, punctuated by skirmishes as the U.S. and Iran jockey over…
AI wealth must benefit the public, South Korea’s deputy PM says amid Samsung labor tensions
South Korea’s deputy PM tells CNBC there are concerns as to whether AI could worsen wealth gaps or lead to…
Nous Research Releases Contrastive Neuron Attribution (CNA): Sparse MLP Circuit Steering Without SAE Training or Weight Modification
Instruction-tuned language models refuse harmful requests. But which part of the model is actually responsible — and how does that…
Perplexity Open-Sources Bumblebee: A Read-Only Supply-Chain Scanner for Developer Endpoints
Attackers increasingly target the packages, editor extensions, and AI tool configs on developer machines and not just production systems. Perplexity…
At least 90 dead in Chinese coal mine explosion, state media reports
The explosion took place at 19:29 local time on Friday at a coal mine in northern China.
Russia’s Putin vows retaliation after accusing Ukraine of hitting student dormitory
Ukraine said it hit Russia’s elite Rubicon drone military unit in a Moscow-occupied part of eastern Ukraine.