Oil rises with Brent climbing back above $100 as optimism fades over Iran war de-escalation
Oil prices traded higher on Tuesday, with international benchmark Brent crude climbing back above $100 per barrel.
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Puig stock soars 15% after Estée Lauder confirms takeover talks with Charlotte Tilbury maker
Shares of Puig Brands soared as much as 15% Tuesday after beauty peer Estée Lauder confirmed it is in talks…
Gold sinks deeper into bear market territory as sell-off extends
Gold extended its slide, deepening its grip in bear market territory as investors continued to unwind positions and a strong…
Yann LeCun’s New LeWorldModel (LeWM) Research Targets JEPA Collapse in Pixel-Based Predictive World Modeling
World Models (WMs) are a central framework for developing agents that reason and plan in a compact latent space. However,…
Ultimatums, diplomacy and a trip to Graceland as Trump eyes a deal with Iran
America may be a nation at war, but the president’s activities have been a mix of diplomacy and diversions –…
Meta AI’s New Hyperagents Don’t Just Solve Tasks—They Rewrite the Rules of How They Learn
The dream of recursive self-improvement in AI—where a system doesn’t just get better at a task, but gets better at…
Japan core inflation in February misses estimates, headline CPI eases for a fourth straight month
The consumer price index fell to 1.3% last month, its lowest level since March 2022 and below the central bank’s…
A pharmacist and a homesick lifestyle blogger: The ‘alarming’ civilian cost of war in Iran
The toll on civilians is mounting fast as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues.
How to Design a Production-Ready AI Agent That Automates Google Colab Workflows Using Colab-MCP, MCP Tools, FastMCP, and Kernel Execution
In this tutorial, we build an advanced, hands-on tutorial around Google’s newly released colab-mcp, an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol)…
How Reco transforms security alerts using Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten by Tal Shapira and Tamir Friedman from Reco. Reco helps organizations strengthen the security of their…
Trump tells CNBC ‘we are very intent on making a deal’ with Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would order the military to postpone strikes on Iran’s power plants and…
Gold and silver in freefall as investors flee safe haven metals trade
Precious metals resumed their sharp sell-off on Monday as the Iran conflict weighs over investor sentiment.
Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York’s LaGuardia Airport halting flights
An Air Canada Express plane suffered significant damage after the collision.
Asia stocks slide as US and Iran threaten to intensify war
The International Energy Agency chief said the war could lead to the world’s worst energy crisis in decades.
Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build
Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats…
How BM25 and RAG Retrieve Information Differently?
When you type a query into a search engine, something has to decide which documents are actually relevant — and…
Asia markets tumble as Trump-Iran threats keep investors on edge; Nikkei, Kospi fall 4%
Asia-Pacific markets tumbled on Monday as investors weighed escalating tensions in the Middle East after the U.S. and Iran threatened…
Implementing Deep Q-Learning (DQN) from Scratch Using RLax JAX Haiku and Optax to Train a CartPole Reinforcement Learning Agent
In this tutorial, we implement a reinforcement learning agent using RLax, a research-oriented library developed by Google DeepMind for building…
Altcoin Trading Volumes Hit Multi-Month Lows, Market Interest Waning
Altcoin trading activity has continued to weaken across the crypto market, which is another sign of the current investor appetite…
The economy has a Strait of Hormuz deadline for Trump: Two weeks
Corporate executives are not panicking over a short-term increase in oil prices and Strait of Hormuz closure, but patience may…
Meet GitAgent: The Docker for AI Agents that is Finally Solving the Fragmentation between LangChain, AutoGen, and Claude Code
The current state of AI agent development is characterized by significant architectural fragmentation. Software devs building autonomous systems must generally…
Israeli settlers target Palestinian villages in occupied West Bank, attacking people and properties
The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a…
U.K. confirms Iran fired two missiles at British-American base in Indian Ocean which failed to reach their target
Iran fired the two missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean but they failed to…
A Coding Implementation for Building and Analyzing Crystal Structures Using Pymatgen for Symmetry Analysis, Phase Diagrams, Surface Generation, and Materials Project Integration
In this tutorial, we explore the capabilities of the pymatgen library for computational materials science using Python. We begin by…
Iranian strike hits near Israeli nuclear facility after Tehran says its site targeted
The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency called for “maximum military restraint” following the strikes.
Trump at a crossroads in US-Israel war with Iran
Statements from President Trump that the war is almost over are not matching up with the reality on the ground.
Safely Deploying ML Models to Production: Four Controlled Strategies (A/B, Canary, Interleaved, Shadow Testing)
Deploying a new machine learning model to production is one of the most critical stages of the ML lifecycle. Even…
U.K. says Iran unsuccessfully targeted British-American Diego Garcia base
The Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. officials as saying that one missile failed in flight, while the other was intercepted.
Trump says he doesn’t want Iran war ceasefire, but is considering ‘winding down’ military ops
President Donald Trump also said the Strait of Hormuz, “will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other…
Over Half A Billion Dollars Wiped Out As Bitcoin Locks In At $70,000
Whale wallets quietly shifted to buying mode over the past two weeks — even as the broader crypto market absorbed…
Iranian strikes on bases used by US caused $800m in damage, new analysis shows
Much of the damage was caused in initial retaliatory strikes by Iran in the week after the US and Israel…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Cascade 2: An Open 30B MoE with 3B Active Parameters, Delivering Better Reasoning and Strong Agentic Capabilities
NVIDIA has announced the release of Nemotron-Cascade 2, an open-weight 30B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B activated parameters. The model…
A Coding Implementation Showcasing ClawTeam’s Multi-Agent Swarm Orchestration with OpenAI Function Calling
In this comprehensive tutorial, we present the core architecture of ClawTeam, an open-source Agent Swarm Intelligence framework developed by HKUDS.…
Norway’s crown princess breaks silence, claiming she was ‘manipulated and deceived’ by Epstein
Crown Princess Mette Marit tells Norwegian TV she wishes she had never met the late sex offender.
Work from home, drive slower and don’t use gas cookers: IEA advice on weathering the global energy crisis
The IEA warns of “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market” due to the conflict…
Gold rebounds, but silver extends losses as oscillating oil prices spark market volatility
The metals saw bumpy trade on Friday morning, after joining a broad sell-off the previous day.
U.S. says Cuba is prohibited from taking Russian oil as two tankers head to island
The fuel-starved Caribbean island is facing its biggest test since the collapse of the Soviet Union under a U.S. oil…
The global winners and losers of the war in Iran
As the conflict triggers economic disruption some risk being hit hard, while others stand to benefit.
The Iran war is sending shockwaves through the world’s busiest IPO market
Market volatility and geopolitical tensions have choked liquidity in India’s IPO market, forcing high‑profile companies to hit pause.
LlamaIndex Releases LiteParse: A CLI and TypeScript-Native Library for Spatial PDF Parsing in AI Agent Workflows
In the current landscape of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), the primary bottleneck for developers is no longer the large language model…
Cardano Could Rocket 1,000% From Extended Accumulation Area, Analyst Says
Cardano may be sitting on one of the most significant buying opportunities in its history — with analysts projecting a…
Trump invokes Pearl Harbor in front of Japanese prime minister to defend Iran attack secrecy
During the meeting, Trump praised Japan for “stepping up” to assist in efforts to secure the Strait of Hormuz, “unlike…
Crypto Fear Gauge Hits Extreme Level Even As Traders Bet On Relief Rally
Bitcoin’s fear gauge plunged back into “Extreme Fear” on Wednesday — the same day traders flooded social media with bullish…
Netanyahu says Israel ‘acted alone’ in attack on Iranian gas field
Speaking at a news conference, the Israeli leader said Trump had requested that there be no further such attacks.
Super Micro co-founder, employee and contractor smuggled Nvidia chips to China, U.S. prosecutors charge
The U.S. government has been trying to crack down on illegal shipments of top-tier Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China.
Google Colab Now Has an Open-Source MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server: Use Colab Runtimes with GPUs from Any Local AI Agent
Google has officially released the Colab MCP Server, an implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that enables AI agents…
US considers lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent broached waiving sanctions on oil already at sea, which would be a stunning reversal of longstanding…
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock
Nemotron 3 Super is now available as a fully managed and serverless model on Amazon Bedrock, joining the Nemotron Nano…
Are US and Israel aligned on Iran war? Deciphering Trump’s post after gas field attacks
What does Trump’s Truth Social post after gas field attacks tell us about US-Israeli alignment?
Hegseth says potential $200 billion Iran war spending request could shift: ‘Takes money to kill bad guys’
President Donald Trump’s National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that the war has already cost $12 billion.