Why the United Arab Emirates is a target for Iran’s aggression
Iran is looking to test a state that has positioned itself as the Gulf’s safest bridge between East and West…
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Iran vows to kill Israel’s Netanyahu as impact of war on Gulf region widens
Israel says it has killed two senior Iranian intelligence officials as oil loading reportedly resumes in the UAE’s Fujairah port…
LangChain Releases Deep Agents: A Structured Runtime for Planning, Memory, and Context Isolation in Multi-Step AI Agents
Most LLM agents work well for short tool-calling loops but start to break down when the task becomes multi-step, stateful,…
Zhipu AI Introduces GLM-OCR: A 0.9B Multimodal OCR Model for Document Parsing and Key Information Extraction (KIE)
Why Document OCR Still Remains a Hard Engineering Problem? What does it take to make OCR useful for real documents…
Trump urges UK and other nations to send warships to Strait of Hormuz
The US president says he hopes China, France, Japan and South Korea will also send ships to defend the key…
How to Build Type-Safe, Schema-Constrained, and Function-Driven LLM Pipelines Using Outlines and Pydantic
In this tutorial, we build a workflow using Outlines to generate structured and type-safe outputs from language models. We work…
BBC visits aftermath of Israeli strike on Lebanon that killed family as IDF targets Hezbollah
A relative tells BBC those killed were civilians and not Hezbollah operatives, but the Israel Defence Forces says it was…
The biggest release of emergency oil stockpiles in history was announced. Why crude may keep rising
Oil prices have surged more than 17% since the International Energy Agency announced the largest release of crude stockpiles in…
Three more Iran football team members change minds over asylum
Four of seven members of the women’s football delegation who originally sought to stay in Australia have now chosen to…
Hamas urges key ally Iran to halt attacks on Gulf states
The Palestinian group also affirms Tehran’s right to defend itself from “aggression” by the US and Israel.
Why has the US targeted Iran’s Kharg Island?
The tiny island is home to one of the most critical pieces of Iran’s energy infrastructure.
Garry Tan Releases gstack: An Open-Source Claude Code System for Planning, Code Review, QA, and Shipping
What if AI-assisted coding became more reliable by separating product planning, engineering review, release, and QA into distinct operating modes?…
More US Marines and warships to be moved to Middle East, reports say
The reinforcements will come from an amphibious ready group that is usually based in Japan, an official told CBS, the…
Trump says U.S. ‘obliterated’ military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island but didn’t ‘wipe out’ oil infrastructure
President Trump said in a Truth Social post that he directed U.S. Central Command to execute a bombing raid that…
P-EAGLE: Faster LLM inference with Parallel Speculative Decoding in vLLM
EAGLE is the state-of-the-art method for speculative decoding in large language model (LLM) inference, but its autoregressive drafting creates a…
Trump says he thinks Putin is helping Iran
Russian leaders told President Trump they aren’t sharing intelligence with Iran as it fights the U.S. and Israel, special envoy…
Iran’s ‘oil lifeline’ has been left untouched in the conflict. What happens if it’s seized?
Analysts say any attempt to attack or seize Iran’s strategic oil hub is likely to be fraught with risk.
U.S. ‘misadventure’ in Iran has no clear exit strategy, Russia’s UK ambassador says
His comments to CNBC come as the U.S. and Israeli-led war appears poised to enter its third week.
Oil holds above $100 as Trump says America ‘has ammunition and plenty of time’ to fight Iran war
WTI crude saw its biggest weekly gain since the 1980s last week.
US refuelling plane crashes in Iraq, military says
The US Central Command says rescue efforts are under way after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq.
European stocks trade lower as oil prices stay above $100 a barrel
European stocks traded lower Friday as the conflict in the Middle East weighs over markets.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs. AI Agent Skills: A Deep Dive into Structured Tools and Behavioral Guidance for LLMs
In recent times, many developments in the agent ecosystem have focused on enabling AI agents to interact with external tools…
U.S. launches fresh Section 301 probes into 60 economies over forced-labor trade practices
The Trump administration announced new trade investigations of 60 economies over importation of goods made with forced labour.
Mission accomplished? The 2003 boast that haunts today’s Iran conflict
The echoes between the conflicts are certainly there but there are also profound differences.
U.S. allows temporary purchases of Russian oil already at sea to stabilize energy markets
The U.S. has temporarily authorized the purchase of Russian oil stranded at sea to stabilize energy markets.
How to Build an Autonomous Machine Learning Research Loop in Google Colab Using Andrej Karpathy’s AutoResearch Framework for Hyperparameter Discovery and Experiment Tracking
In this tutorial, we implement a Colab-ready version of the AutoResearch framework originally proposed by Andrej Karpathy. We build an…
Iran’s new supreme leader vows to block Strait of Hormuz in first statement
A message attributed to Mojtaba Khamenei also says Iran will continue targeting US bases in the region.
Improve operational visibility for inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock with new CloudWatch metrics for TTFT and Estimated Quota Consumption
As organizations scale their generative AI workloads on Amazon Bedrock, operational visibility into inference performance and resource consumption becomes critical.…
Stanford Researchers Release OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for Building On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
Stanford researchers have introduced OpenJarvis, an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run entirely on-device. The project comes…
‘What if we’re left with ruins?’: Doubts creep in for Iranians who supported war
Teachers, engineers and shopkeepers tell the BBC they fear Iran falling into chaos.
Multimodal embeddings at scale: AI data lake for media and entertainment workloads
This post shows you how to build a scalable multimodal video search system that enables natural language search across large…
Strait of Hormuz must remain closed as ‘tool to pressure enemy,’ Iran’s new supreme leader says
Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said all U.S. military bases in the Middle East should close immediately as…
Why gold hasn’t moved since the Iran conflict — and where it could go next
Though the war in Iran has continued for almost two weeks, the price of the yellow metal has barely moved.
‘Fingers on the trigger’: Deadly warnings for Iranians being urged to take action
Iran’s police chief has warned that his forces would treat anyone taking to the streets “at the enemy’s request” as…
Three more ships struck in the Persian Gulf as Iran warns of oil prices hitting $200
The latest incidents in or near the Strait of Hormuz come shortly after Iran warned the world to prepare for…
Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves
It comes as Iranian attacks on ships intensify in the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway.
Brent crude hits $100 a barrel as reserve release plans fail to ease Iran war-led supply worries
The IEA said Wednesday that its 32 member countries would release 400 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves.
How to Design a Streaming Decision Agent with Partial Reasoning, Online Replanning, and Reactive Mid-Execution Adaptation in Dynamic Environments
In this tutorial, we build a Streaming Decision Agent that thinks and acts in an online, changing environment while continuously…
Trump administration launches Section 301 trade probes into Mexico, China, EU, others
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, said President Trump was not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act,…
Operationalizing Agentic AI Part 1: A Stakeholder’s Guide
Agentic AI isn’t a feature you turn on. It’s a shift in how work is defined, who does it, and…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Super: A 120B Parameter Open-Source Hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE Model Delivering 5x Higher Throughput for Agentic AI
The gap between proprietary frontier models and highly transparent open-source models is closing faster than ever. NVIDIA has officially pulled…
Bowen: Trump has called for an Iran uprising but the lessons from Iraq in 1991 loom large
The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC’s international editor.
IEA agrees to release record 400 million barrels of oil to address Iran war supply disruption
The move comes as the Iran war continues to choke off traffic through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
G7 welcomes potential record release of oil reserves in bid to curb soaring prices
The group of nations welcomes the idea of releasing oil in response to the surge in prices since the US-Israel…
Steve Rosenberg: Russia seeks diplomatic and economic gains from Iran war
President Putin pits himself as a potential mediator but that’s not an easy sell, writes the BBC’s Russia editor.
Three cargo ships struck off Iran’s coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz
The incidents mark the latest in a string of reported attacks in or near to the Strait of Hormuz, where…
Oil prices hold below $90 as traders shrug off prospect of historic reserve release
Oil prices were choppy on Wednesday morning as markets continue to watch developments in the U.S.-Iran war.
Google AI Introduces Gemini Embedding 2: A Multimodal Embedding Model that Lets Your Bring Text, Images, Video, Audio, and Docs into the Embedding Space
Google expanded its Gemini model family with the release of Gemini Embedding 2. This second-generation model succeeds the text-only gemini-embedding-001…
Fish Audio Releases Fish Audio S2: A New Generation of Expressive Text-to-Speech (TTS) with Absurdly Controllable Emotion
The landscape of Text-to-Speech (TTS) is moving away from modular pipelines toward integrated Large Audio Models (LAMs). Fish Audio’s release…
How to Build a Self-Designing Meta-Agent That Automatically Constructs, Instantiates, and Refines Task-Specific AI Agents
In this tutorial, we build a Meta-Agent that designs other agents automatically from a simple task description. We implement a…