‘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…
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Meet SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh): A Zero-Config, Zero-Trust P2P Network for AI Agents
google/sam is not Segment Anything. SAM here means Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents. The…
Russia warns UK will pay for supplying drones to Ukraine
Russia accuses the UK of escalating the Ukraine war after British-made drones were used, but the MoD says it stands…
Global bond yields hit multi-decade highs as governments pay the price for U.S.-Iran stalemate
International government bond yields followed U.S. Treasury yields higher on Tuesday.
Cartesia Ships Sonic-3.6: A Streaming TTS Model That Now Leads Both Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, the newest version of its real-time text-to-speech model. It arrives roughly three months after Sonic-3.5. The…
The 30-year Treasury yield just hit a 19-year high. Three things could drive it even higher
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury has surged to its highest level in 19 years, and some strategists see…
IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus
Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by…
Ship attacked in Hormuz Strait as U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry risks prolonged conflict
U.S., Iran appeared to be digging in for a protracted conflict, hardening their positions and rejecting renewed negotiations after a…
Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session…
MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. The model takes two separate inputs: lyrics carrying section tags, and a detailed…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed for the fast, specialized model execution required by high-volume agentic workloads. With NVIDIA Nemotron…
Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs
In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end OCR workflow with docTR and explore how modern document understanding pipelines combine text…
Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ over Iran issue
The US and Oman have been negotiating separately to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that has been closed…
Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California
Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and…
Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
This post is a collaboration between AWS and the OpenClaw Foundation. Autonomous agents that browse the web, call APIs, and…
DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview and published the full source code under the MIT license. The project…
Strait of Hormuz shipping grinds to a halt ahead of U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry
Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz sank to a new low as a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran…
Top U.S. commander acknowledges mental health issues on USS Lincoln
Cooper’s visit and statement come after reports of widespread morale and mental health concerns aboard the Lincoln.
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
US President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday.
Japan second-quarter GDP grows 1.1% on an annualized basis, missing expectations
On an annualized basis, Japan saw growth of 1.1%, against estimates of 2%.
Trump says US will scale back military drills with South Korea
His decision to reduce the partnership came after South Korea recently declined to aid his war effort in Iran.
Secret outperformer: Dispelling the ‘myths’ about an unloved stock market
European markets fly under the radar when compared with larger and more liquid U.S. markets, but Goldman Sachs offered to…
Three killed as Russia launches fresh aerial attacks across Ukraine
Firefighters are tackling a fire at a market in Kyiv, while Moscow reports that a warehouse was hit.
Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage to caverns, operations
The rapid drawdown of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve could damage the caverns that store the oil, experts warn.
Rescuers search for survivors of powerful Indonesia earthquake
Officials say a rapid assessment into the impact of the earthquake that destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed 47 is…
Iran rebuffs Trump’s claim over Strait of Hormuz amid report of another ship being struck
Iran’s deputy foreign minister says Hormuz “will remain Iranian” after Trump’s claim that the waterway would soon become U.S. territory.
Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT.…
Powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake kills at least 20 in Indonesia
A search and rescue operation is under way to find survivors in Flores, an island in eastern Indonesia.
Russia’s economy has defied the skeptics. Cracks are getting harder to hide
Russia’s wartime economy is under growing strain as its budget deficit widens and analysts warn pressure could intensify next year.
Mangione admits killing healthcare CEO and pleads guilty to federal charges
“I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” the 28-year-old said after pleading guilty to charges of stalking resulting…
Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.
Instagram accounts fuelling Ceuta crisis with paid advice for help to cross
BBC’s Top Comment podcast has found a network of Instagram profiles glamourising the swim around the Morocco-Ceuta border fence.
Custom reward functions for multi-turn reinforcement learning with Amazon Nova Forge
In multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), your custom reward function decides what the model actually learns. A subtly wrong reward can…
AI’s infrastructure boom is getting more leveraged — and harder to track
AI’s infrastructure boom is increasingly being funded through bonds, leases and private capital, while leveraged investors add another layer of…
Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks
Z.ai just released GLM-5.3. GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2. Every reported gain comes from scaled…
‘Unprecedented’ rains in Japan kill four people
The storm cut power to more than 20,000 households and left 7,000 people stranded at Tokyo’s Narita airport.
Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire…
U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
“It will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in…
Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus. We stream a representative subset…
Palestinians told to leave homes in village where Israeli settlers besieged houses
The mayor of Qusra says Israeli troops have been telling families to leave their houses, using some as barracks.
The Iran war risks bringing the G7’s fastest-growing economy to a halt
The U.K. economy is showing further signs of a long-awaited rebound, but the picture is complicated by the fallout from…
Monitor on-premises and multi-cloud AI agents with AgentCore Observability
When you deploy AI agents built with frameworks like Strands Agents, LangGraph, and CrewAI, you need observability into their performance.…
Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, the newest model in its Flash tier, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash. The…
An inside look at SK Hynix $720 billion AI-fueled buildout that’s taking over South Korea
SK Hynix, the leading maker of high-bandwidth memory, is pouring $720 billion into memory factories to meet AI demand. We…
Ukraine attacks Russian grain export terminals in Black Sea, prompting warning about food markets
Ukraine has launched a heavy drone assault on warships and major Russian grain export terminals in the Black Sea port…
Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video
Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model for robot manipulation. It was pre-trained on more than one million hours…
SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work
SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.6. The release is a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5 rather than a larger base model.…
Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC
In an exclusive interview with the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, Dmitry Muratov says the Kremlin leader can only “destroy Ukraine, not…
‘Hormuz remains blocked’: Iran disputes Trump claims as traffic sinks to near 3-month lows
The Persian Strait Gulf Authority said “the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran’s conditions…
South Korea stocks have entered bull market in about a month as AI trade roars back
South Korean stocks rallied on Thursday, pushing the benchmark Kospi into a technical bull market.