Oil prices fall on hopes Strait of Hormuz could reopen
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both announced talks had progressed to allow shipments to…
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More than 150 migrants rescued after boat catches fire in Channel
The boat was attempting to cross to the UK when its engine caught fire, according to French authorities.
Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive
Reflex AI has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library for interactive 2D visualization. Most Python charting stacks create one…
Trump warns Iran talks are ‘last chance’ to end war — oil prices rise as Tehran denies negotiations
President Donald Trump has warned that the latest round of negotiations with Iran are the “last chance” to bring an…
BP profit more than doubles as Trump blasts Big Oil for ‘making too much money’
The result come after U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Big Oil for making “too much money” off higher fuel…
EU calls for stronger borders after Ceuta migrant crossings
Ursula von der Leyen has called for action ahead of an urgent EU interior ministers meeting to discuss the issue.
Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web
Y Combinator team has open-sourced QM (quartermaster), the multi-agent harness it uses internally. QM is described as a multiplayer agent…
India to raise up to $3.3 billion by selling stake in country’s largest life insurer at 10% discount
Indian government plans to raise up to $3.3 billion by selling its stake in the country’s top life insurance company.
Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across…
How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
Agents, MCP integrations, and LLM-powered applications are entering codebases faster than most security programs can track them. Mend.io’s new practitioner…
Russia says seven killed and 40 injured by Ukrainian drone hitting busy beach
Three children were killed when the drone crashed at a popular resort on the Black Sea.
Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe’s rivers
Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
From weeks to minutes: How Formula 1® uses agentic AI on AWS to accelerate data operations
Formula 1® (F1) engages an audience of over 800 million fans globally across digital platforms, F1 TV, social media, ticketing, and…
What the market is saying about the U.S. intervention to prop up the yen
Following the joint involvement the yen now sits at ¥157 to the dollar, down from just above ¥163, which represented…
Oil prices fall more than 5% as Middle East tensions ebb on diplomatic efforts
Oil prices fell on Monday as investors pared geopolitical risk premiums after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had called…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen3.8-Max: A 2.4 Trillion Parameter MoE Model and the Most Capable One in the Qwen Family to Date
Alibaba’s Qwen team has made Qwen3.8-Max broadly available and confirmed that its open weights ship next week. A second checkpoint,…
Trump says Iran talks to resume Monday after calling off planned strikes
The latest peace proposal calls for warring parties to return to negotiations and continue working out some of the thorny…
Trump suggests new talks with Iran to begin on Monday
Tehran has not responded to the suggestion that new talks are imminent. Trump has previously said a negotiated end to…
Why the U.S. stepped in after decades to prop up Japan’s yen — and what’s at stake
Washington’s decision to join Japan in supporting the battered yen has prompted questions over what motivated the rare coordinated intervention.
Onton Releases Ontology 1: A Neurosymbolic Search Model That is 2.7x More Accurate than the World’s Best E-commerce Search Engines
Onton, a San Francisco-based search and discovery company, has released Ontology 1, a neurosymbolic model for complex, conversational, multimodal product…
U.S., Japan confirm coordinated yen intervention, signal readiness for more
Japan’s Finance Ministry said Monday it conducted a coordinated yen-buying intervention with the U.S. Treasury on Friday.
A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin…
Helicopters fighting Greece wildfires collide in mid-air
Video of the incident shows one of the helicopters hitting the propellers of the other, which bursts into flames.
Trump says he has canceled a planned attack on Iran after reaching an agreement over the ‘perimeters of a deal’
The U.S. president said Iran and its regional neighbors asked the U.S. to hold off any attacks after ‘the perimeters…
NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework
Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification. New estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes. In mainstream frameworks each…
Trump says he is cancelling strikes on Iran subject to ‘rapidly’ making deal
The US president’s message came amid media reports that he was planning new, intense strikes on Iran over the weekend.
How Spain’s migrant crisis created a political storm – whipped up by social media
The Ceuta crossings have shaken Europe politically, exposing divisions over the sensitive issue of migration, the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford writes.
EU calls emergency meeting to discuss Ceuta migrant crossings
There have been tense exchanges between Spain and other EU states over the influx of migrants into the enclave of…
AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open Mixture-of-Experts LLM With 2.8B Active Parameters Trained On Instinct GPUs
AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. The model…
Accelerating Transformer Training with NVIDIA Transformer Engine, Fused Kernels, BF16, FP8, and GPU Benchmarking
In this tutorial, we explore how NVIDIA Transformer Engine accelerates transformer workloads by combining fused GPU kernels, BF16 computation, and…
Spain attacks ‘selfish’ response of some EU countries to Ceuta migrant crossings
Italy has temporarily suspended the Schengen arrangement with Spain as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called scenes in Ceuta “shocking”.
Tankers near Oman come under fire as Iran threatens to choke off shipping routes
The latest attacks come amid U.S. media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing a fresh round of strikes…
Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That Scores Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on Real Supabase Tasks
Supabase has open sourced Supabase Evals, its benchmark and framework for testing how well AI agents build using Supabase. It…
MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio
MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes…
Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan
Football’s world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president…
Iran’s overlapping power centers make ending the war more complicated
Iran’s power structure complicates efforts to enforce any ceasefire with the U.S., from the Supreme Leader to the Revolutionary Guards.
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
DeepSeek Upgrades DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 with Major Agentic and Coding Gains
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The…
Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick
As organizations embrace AI-powered analytics, the value of a natural language (Text2SQL) answer is only as good as the business…
LingBot-Map Tutorial: GPU-Aware Inference and Point Cloud Export
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline with LingBot-Map. We begin by configuring the input source,…
Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech’s AI buildout has ballooning price tag
Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta’s cash generation plummeted by 91%.
Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability
As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenges shift from getting them to work to keeping them…
About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory’s leader says
The estimated number of arrivals is more than 70% of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.
Exxon and Chevron profits surge on rising oil prices due to Iran war
ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday reported second-quarter profits that surged on rising oil prices due to the Iran war.
JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM: Smart Macros That Generate Kotlin Source Code at Runtime and Hot-Reload It Through JDI
JetBrains Research Open-Sources KotlinLLM. KotlinLLM is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Kotlin/JVM projects that adds a language feature called Smart…
Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz, Block’s Open Source Nostr Workspace for Humans and Agents
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block’s open source, self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share…
Iran targets strategic U.S. assets in Kuwait, Bahrain after Egypt drone attack
Iran’s army said it launched attacks on strategic U.S. assets and military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
Copper may hit new high as AI demand collides with deadly storms, strategists say
Deadly storms in Chile have disrupted mining operations, further straining supply and potentially driving prices higher, strategists say.
Oil prices ease as recovering Hormuz Strait traffic tempers war premium
Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a note on Friday that stronger oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz had…