‘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…
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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.
Major Russian grain export terminals hit in Ukraine Black Sea port attack
Grain exports from both Russia and Ukraine are falling as both countries attack each other’s shipping facilities and ports.
Part 2: Amazon Bedrock cost attribution with Amazon Athena and CUDOS
Part 1 introduced granular cost attribution for Amazon Bedrock. This feature automatically traces every inference request back to the IAM…
AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end post-training pipeline for a compact instruction-tuned language model using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework.…
Strait of Hormuz ship traffic near three-month low as U.S.-Iran deal in doubt
Traffic is about 90% lower than the daily average of 130 ships that transited Hormuz before the U.S. and Israel…
Members of Trump’s cabinet remained on decoy plane, after Trump’s quiet exit
The president boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit to evade an Iranian threat.
Consumer prices rose 0.1% in July, as expected, putting the annual rate at 3.4%
The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.1% in July, with an annual rate of 3.4%.
How OneAdvanced deployed over 50 AI agents on UK-sovereign AWS
This post is co-authored with OneAdvanced team Deploying AI agents on a United Kingdom (UK)-sovereign AWS architecture requires careful decisions…
Trump confirms he switched planes after Nato summit because of possible threat
Journalists and White House staff who were on board the jet were unaware the president had left.
AI’s costly buildout complicates the Fed’s inflation fight
Tech leaders say AI will drive down costs. But slow corporate adoption and the data center buildout create inflation pressures…
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts record $184 billion profit as it reveals SpaceX stake for the first time
The fund — currently valued at around $2.34 trillion — is an investor in more than 7,000 companies across 60…
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router
NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5…
Houthi attack kills six in first fatalities in Red Sea in over a year; U.S. strikes container ship
A cargoship and containership have been hit in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman as the war inflicts a…
Oil prices rise as Red Sea, Gulf of Oman attacks heighten supply concerns
Oil prices rose on Wednesday after deadly attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman heightened concerns…
Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark
Object removal models have improved faster than the metrics used to judge them. Diffusion erasers now reconstruct shadows, reflections and…
Accelerate cyber defense with OpenAI and AWS: Daybreak Red & Daybreak Blue now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock
Cyber defenders have never had more capability at their fingertips, and they have never needed it more. Frontier models can…
The Video Production Stack Now Fits on One Desk: LTX-2.5 Launches as NVIDIA-Accelerated Open Weights World Model
Video production is shifting as social clips, ad creative and film pre-visualization move from cloud to local GPUs. LTX today…
Rescuers scramble for survivors with 180 dead in Colombia earthquake
Colombia experienced a number of aftershocks on Tuesday, as efforts continued to free survivors trapped in rubble and buildings.
How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC
This post was co-written by ONESTRUCTION, Inc. and Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. as part of GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator…
Building and Validating a Quantitative Trading Strategy with OctoBot, Walk-Forward Backtesting, Parameter Optimization, and Interactive Analysis
In this tutorial, we build a complete quantitative backtesting workflow with OctoBot and OctoBot-Script while keeping the environment isolated from…
Trump hid in catering truck in secret plane swap over Iran threat, reports say
The US president was moved from the old Air Force One to a military plane as he left a Nato…
Wall Street just endorsed Jensen Huang’s ‘big concept’ for AI. What now?
The first three-plus years of the AI buildout has been funded by record amounts of equity and debt issued by…
Intel upsizes stock offering to $20 billion at $95 per share as AI demand accelerates
Technology giants have shelled out trillions to support insatiable AI demand and the infrastructure buildout.
webAI Releases TwIL-LM: A 1.7B and 3B Formal-Logic Model Family for Autoformalization on Local Hardware
webAI has released TwIL-LM, a two-model family of formal-logic reasoners at 1.7B and 3B parameters. The 3B member, TwIL-LM3, is…
At least 132 killed in Colombia’s largest earthquake in years
The magnitude 7.4 quake had its epicentre in Chocó province, near the Pacific Coast, but could be felt in cities…
Trump claims total control of Hormuz, demands Iran pay reparations as standoff deepens
The dueling positions Washington and Tehran staked out showed how far apart the two sides remain even as both talked…
Run interactive IDEs on Amazon EKS with SageMaker AI to power up your AI workflows
To power up AI workflows on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), data scientists need interactive IDEs like JupyterLab and…
How nOps shipped FinOps agents 75% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
nOps, an AI-powered cloud optimization solution, recently reimagined its Financial Operations (FinOps) analytics capabilities by transitioning to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.…
Meta AI Releases Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open-Weights Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model distilled from Muse Spark. It is tuned for always-on local agent…
At least 13 killed in Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Tatarstan region, officials say
It is one of the deadliest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia since the start of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
U.S. reaffirms grip on Hormuz blockade, turning away 55 ships as talks stall
The escalating tally underscores how far the two sides remain from resolving a crisis that has choked the Strait of…
ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model
ByteDance’s Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM. The model fuses audio, video and text in a…
Oil rises amid uncertainty over U.S.-Iran Strait of Hormuz deal
Oil rose as traders assess mixed signals from the U.S. and Iran amid worries that a deal to open the…
Suspected crime boss Daniel Kinahan appears in court after extradition
The Irish Prison Service bought a bulletproof and bombproof van to transport the 49-year-old to court after his extradition from…
NVIDIA Releases NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B: An Open Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with ~450 ms Turn-Taking and Live Tool Calling
NVIDIA has released NemotronLabs VoiceChat 11B, an open 11B end-to-end speech-to-speech model for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Instead of chaining ASR,…
Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared
LLM applications fail in ways traditional software does not. The same prompt can produce different outputs. A retrieval step can…
Israel rejects Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says
Israel’s PM says its military will not pull-out from Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.
Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino
Fifa strongly criticises what it calls a “concerted and ongoing effort” to “undermine” the organisation and its president Gianni Infantino.
Saudi Aramco extinguishes fire at refinery as Houthis claim responsibility
Iran’s foreign minister reportedly said his country is not engaging in talks with the U.S., but added: “Messages are being…
IMDb Sentiment Analysis with DistilBERT LoRA, TF-IDF Baselines, Calibration, Interpretability, Robustness Testing, and Semi-Supervised Learning
In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end sentiment analysis workflow using the Stanford NLP IMDb Large Movie Review Dataset and…
Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites
Israel is planning large-scale land expropriations in historic, Palestinian areas of the West Bank.
Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long-running agents accumulate state that no transcript captures. A coding agent at step 10 holds edited files, a running dev…
Hormuz talks positive, Oman says, as Iran warns deal would not open strait
Both sides suggest progress in talks to agree a new shipping route through the strait, but a breakthrough remains unclear.
Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary
Long-horizon agents accumulate context faster than they resolve tasks. Every tool output, observation, and intermediate reasoning step stays in the…
Trump’s ex-lawyer Todd Blanche narrowly confirmed as US attorney general
The vote cements Trump’s former criminal defence lawyer as the nation’s top law enforcement official despite a rare pushback from…
UAE says one of its ships was targeted by missile as U.S.-Iran tensions over Strait of Hormuz remain high
Iran’s military stressed that the crucial waterway would only be reopened when the U.S. accepts Iran’s conditions.
Designing Scalable Interactive Visualizations with Reflex XY: Composition, Million-Point Rendering, Streaming, Custom Marks, and Export
In this tutorial, we explore the advanced visualization capabilities of the XY Python library by building interactive, scalable, and extensible…
Child among three killed in Russian missile attacks near Kyiv
Russia continued its overnight attacks after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Ukraine’s dwindling supplies of missile interceptors.
Mistral AI Releases Shieldstral 1.0 3B: An Open-Weights Policy-Adaptive Multimodal Safety Classifier Matching Models 7× Its Size
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that treats content moderation as a single…