As U.S.-Canada trade talks collapse, Carney says retaliatory tariffs will start Sept. 8
New 50% Trump administration tariffs on some Canadian exports went into place after the U.S. and Canada failed to reach…
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The Developer’s Guide to NeMo Guardrails for Enterprise AI Safety
In this tutorial, we build an in-depth NeMo Guardrails pipeline that demonstrates how layered guardrails can control an LLM-based financial…
Carney calls Trump’s fresh tariffs a ‘miscalculation’ after trade talks collapse
Canada’s prime minister said he was “reluctantly” announcing retaliatory tariffs as he accused the US of starting a trade war.
Carney faces crucial test after walking away from Trump’s deal
The Canadian prime minister will have the sell his gamble that walking away from talks with the White House will…
Decoding AI’s Open-Source Course Maps Three Ways to Run an Agent Loop and the Provider Economics Behind Each
Most teams treat ‘which model’ as the important decision. The harness engineering literature keeps pointing somewhere else. In LangChain’s Terminal-Bench…
Ahead of tough new U.S. sanctions, Iran criticizes ‘extraterritorial sovereignty’
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC on Thursday that the proposed economic measures will likely negate the need for major U.S. military operations.
Canada says it will match US tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’ as trade talks break down
New 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after last minute breakdown in trade talks.
Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
Anthropic is poised to debut on the stock market at a time when the public is increasingly upset about data…
‘We have more work to do’, says Canada negotiator as US trade deadline looms
Negotiations to finalise a deal between the US and Canada are going down to the wire ahead of a Friday…
Best GPU Neoclouds 2026: CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda, Crusoe, and Groq Ranked by Published Pricing and Contracted Power
The ‘neocloud’ label now covers five companies with very different business models. CoreWeave and Nebius are public companies that publish…
Building Agentic Document Intelligence Pipelines: Creating Scientific Figures with AutoFigure
In this tutorial, we explore AutoFigure as a practical toolkit for generating scientific figures directly from text descriptions, paper-like content,…
Trump tariff deadline looms as Canada says it’s working to resolve ‘trade issues’ with U.S.
Businesses have warned that Trump’s new 50% duties could cripple their U.S. sales if they take effect.
Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours
Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic…
No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know
“These trials are often compared to the Big Tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and the outcome will likely be analogous…
Israel re-establishes closed West Bank settlement, defying growing international protests
Thirty “pioneer families” have arrived on a wave of nationalism driven by Israel’s government, but the rapid change has left…
Bitcoin on track for 20% weekly gain as investor optimism floods back
The flagship digital currency has enjoyed a strong week boosted by several contributing factors.
‘A delicate dance’: JD Vance says economic pressure is the best way to achieve Washington’s objectives in Iran
Vance said “what has been true over the last couple of weeks is they felt a lot more pressure than…
U.S. bond intervention is like ‘paying your mortgage with your credit card,’ JPMorgan’s Sullivan says
The U.S. government’s efforts to manage pressure in the Treasury market risk merely shifting the problem down the road, according…
Japan’s historic yen intervention has ‘turbo-charged’ the carry trade
Japan’s historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving investors a better opportunity to…
UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemn Israel’s West Bank settlement project
European countries and Canada pile on pressure over Israel’s plans to expand settlements in a strategically vital part of the…
Japan headline inflation rate hits highest this year as energy prices bite
Core inflation — which strips out prices of fresh food but includes energy — was in line with expectations, coming…
Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock in…
Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models: S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. S1-Voice is a cloud speech-to-text model, and S1-Language…
US says sanctions will ‘squash’ Iran’s economy and ‘collapse’ its regime
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says allies will need to decide whether they “are with us or against us”.
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs sit at the end of almost every workflow. Contracts, invoices, research papers, scanned intake forms, manuals, and compliance filings…
Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints…
Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock
If you manage Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs, you must balance open patient data access with strict data protection…
Treasury yields rebound, wiping out the decline following Bessent’s intervention
Bond yields edged higher after pulling back sharply during Wednesday’s session.
Bitcoin, ether surge as Trump urges Congress to pass crypto Clarity Act
Bitcoin and ether surged after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a bill that would set a regulatory…
Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end preference-learning workflow using the Anthropic HH-RLHF dataset and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). We…
At least 12 killed in Kyiv as Ukraine grapples with air defence shortages
Apartment blocks and warehouses were targeted in the “massive attack” on Thursday, officials say.
Australia ‘outraged’ after Israel decides not to open criminal investigation into killing of aid worker in Gaza
Australia’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador over “insulting” Zomi Frankcom decision.
Trump announces ‘economic warfare’ on Iran, threatens ‘tremendous’ consequences for its backers
The announcement extends a pressure campaign the Trump administration has waged since April under the banner Operation Economic Fury.
Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore
When an AI agent uses Web Search to ground its answers on behalf of a customer, the organization behind that…
How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system
Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to solve a challenge unique to sports…
Trump touted a deal to avert new tariffs on Canada. Here’s what we know so far
Trump’s new tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods were set to take effect Wednesday, but were postponed…
Treasury doubles debt buybacks as Bessent moves to steady bond market
The announcement targets the sensitive longer-duration part of the Treasury market.
Israeli army orders criminal investigation into killing of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza
The five-year-old spent hours on the phone to paramedics before her body was recovered days later in Gaza City in…
Moderna, Merck cancer vaccine shows promise in late-stage trial; Moderna stock soars 90%
The combination regimen significantly extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning, compared with Keytruda alone.
Iran reportedly weighs attacks on U.S. targets in Europe as UAE severs trade with Tehran
Washington and Tehran are considering next steps after negotiations fell apart, while the UAE has suspended trade with Iran.
Sacked Ukrainian defence minister calls for presidential election
Martial law has been in place in Ukraine since February 2022, under which elections are suspended.
Trump pauses 50% scheduled tariffs on Canada for three days, announces ‘deal’ with Ottawa
Trump has already imposed a variety of tariffs on Canada and its specific exports, including metals, lumber and auto parts.
Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, court hears
Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states…
NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of tools per…
Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Amazon Quick embedded chat provides a conversational AI interface that you can integrate directly into your web application. Your users…
How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are expanding their offerings and adding AI agents. Common considerations for organizations when adding agentic workloads…
30-year Treasury yield tops 5.33%, new 19-year high on inflation, spending concerns
Long-dated fixed income hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher…
‘Worrisome’: AI is driving a looming market correction, European central bank economists warn
History suggests valuations will tumble even if they are a fair reflection of the transformative power of AI, according to…