U.S. forces sink 16 Iranian minelayers as reports say Tehran is mining the Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Trump warned of “military consequences … at a level never seen before” if mines were not removed.
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Bitcoin Worth Nearly $12 Million Moved By Bhutan In Fresh On-Chain Activity
Proceeds from Bitcoin sales have paid for healthcare, environmental programs, and government worker salaries in Bhutan — a detail that…
Asia-Pacific markets trade higher as investors weigh developments in the Middle East
Asia-Pacific markets opened higher on Wednesday as investors assessed the ongoing Middle East war.
NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Terminal: A Systematic Data Engineering Pipeline for Scaling LLM Terminal Agents
The race to build autonomous AI agents has hit a massive bottleneck: data. While frontier models like Claude Code and…
‘I just want to be able to sleep’: Attacks in Iran rock cities and cut power
Iranians in Tehran and Karaj tell the BBC they are exhausted and struggling to sleep after 10 days of Israeli…
Russia told Trump they have not shared intelligence with Iran during war, Witkoff says
U.S. officials have said Russia has given Iran information that could help its forces strike American military assets in the…
Accelerate custom LLM deployment: Fine-tune with Oumi and deploy to Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten by David Stewart and Matthew Persons from Oumi. Fine-tuning open source large language models (LLMs) often…
Iran war: Hegseth says Tuesday ‘will be our most intense day of strikes’
President Donald Trump on Monday had predicted that the war against Iran would be over “very soon,” and warned that…
Iran defends strikes on Gulf neighbors. They say a ‘huge trust gap’ will last for decades
Iran has defended its strikes against its Gulf countries but its neighbors say attacks have damaged trust for a long…
Rising prices, mixed messages: Iran war is fraught with political risk for Trump
The war’s price, measured in damage to the economy and in political costs to Trump, is still coming into view.
How to Build a Risk-Aware AI Agent with Internal Critic, Self-Consistency Reasoning, and Uncertainty Estimation for Reliable Decision-Making
In this tutorial, we build an advanced agent system that goes beyond simple response generation by integrating an internal critic…
Oil plunges 10% as Trump warns to hit Iran ‘twenty times harder’ if it blockades Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices plunged after Trump warned that Tehran would be hit “twenty times harder” if it attempted to halt oil…
Run NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano as a fully managed serverless model on Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten with Abdullahi Olaoye, Curtice Lockhart, Nirmal Kumar Juluru from NVIDIA. We are excited to announce that…
Andrew Ng’s Team Releases Context Hub: An Open Source Tool that Gives Your Coding Agent the Up-to-Date API Documentation It Needs
In the fast-moving world of agentic workflows, the most powerful AI model is still only as good as its documentation.…
Anthropic Introduces Code Review via Claude Code to Automate Complex Security Research Using Advanced Agentic Multi-Step Reasoning Loops
In the frantic arms race of ‘AI for code,’ we’ve moved past the era of the glorified autocomplete. Today, Anthropic…
Oil tankers transiting Strait of Hormuz ‘must be very careful,’ Iran Foreign Ministry warns
The price of crude oil has sharply spiked as the Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed as the United…
Prediction markets face questions on Iran war bets, from regime change to nuclear detonation
Prediction markets are facing backlash over bets related to war, with Polymarket recently archiving some predictions on nuclear detonation.
‘Sky is the limit’: Analysts warn oil prices could surge further
Energy analysts warned that there was no limit for oil prices as they rose in response to the war in…
Iran’s strategic oil island thrust into the spotlight as Middle East conflict escalates
Kharg Island serves as the centerpiece for Iran’s oil industry, accounting for roughly 90% of the country’s crude exports.
The ‘Bayesian’ Upgrade: Why Google AI’s New Teaching Method is the Key to LLM Reasoning
Large Language Models (LLMs) are the world’s best mimics, but when it comes to the cold, hard logic of updating…
A Coding Guide to Build a Complete Single Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis Pipeline Using Scanpy for Clustering Visualization and Cell Type Annotation
In this tutorial, we build a complete pipeline for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis using Scanpy. We start by installing the…
U.S. orders staff to leave Saudi Arabia as Iran war spreads and oil surges above $110
The U.S. ordered non-emergency government staff to leave Saudi Arabia as the widening Iran war rattled markets and sent oil…
Andrej Karpathy Open-Sources ‘Autoresearch’: A 630-Line Python Tool Letting AI Agents Run Autonomous ML Experiments on Single GPUs
Andrej Karpathy released autoresearch, a minimalist Python tool designed to enable AI agents to autonomously conduct machine learning experiments. The…
Japan, South Korea stocks tumble over 6% as oil tops $100 amid broader Asia market rout
Brent futures spiked 16.1% to last trade at $107.61, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose almost 17.7% to…
Who is Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader?
Many expect the 56-year-old, who has largely kept a low profile, to continue his father’s hardline policies.
Oil prices top $100 per barrel as big Middle East producers cut output amid Iran war
Gulf Arab oil producers are cutting production as they run out of storage space because they can’t export through the…
Beyond Accuracy: Quantifying the Production Fragility Caused by Excessive, Redundant, and Low-Signal Features in Regression
At first glance, adding more features to a model seems like an obvious way to improve performance. If a model…
War fuels debate in Cyprus over UK military bases
“British Bases Out” is the slogan of Cypriot protesters after a drone strike targeted the RAF Akrotiri airbase.
Iranian projectiles continue to strike Gulf countries; Tehran says new leader appointed
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates report more strikes on civilian targets as U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran continue.
China says ‘thorough preparations’ needed as Trump-Xi meeting hangs in the balance amid Iran war
China’s top diplomat Wang Yi signaled preparations are underway for a planned meeting between the presidents of the U.S. and…
Building Next-Gen Agentic AI: A Complete Framework for Cognitive Blueprint Driven Runtime Agents with Memory Tools and Validation
In this tutorial, we build a complete cognitive blueprint and runtime agent framework. We define structured blueprints for identity, goals,…
How to Build Progress Monitoring Using Advanced tqdm for Async, Parallel, Pandas, Logging, and High-Performance Workflows
In this tutorial, we explore tqdm in depth and demonstrate how we build powerful, real-time progress tracking into modern Python…
Dozens killed as Israeli special forces raid Lebanese village in search of 40-year-old remains
Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Kuwait cuts oil production as Strait of Hormuz closure disrupts global energy market
Brent oil prices could spike above $100 per barrel if the Gulf Arab countries run out of storage space and…
Iran will continue to defend itself against aggression, ambassador to UK says
Seyed Ali Mousavi tells Laura Kuenssberg Iran’s response depends on the actions of the US and Israel.
Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war
Ukraine has embarked on a programme to deploy armed robots on the battlefield against Russian forces.
Iran’s president vows not to hit neighbors as U.S.-Israeli strikes continue
The U.S. says it has hit more than 3,000 Iranian targets in the first week of the war, as Iran’s…
Google Launches TensorFlow 2.21 And LiteRT: Faster GPU Performance, New NPU Acceleration, And Seamless PyTorch Edge Deployment Upgrades
Google has officially released TensorFlow 2.21. The most significant update in this release is the graduation of LiteRT from its…
Trump demands ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran as Putin speaks with Iran’s president
The president also calls on Tehran to pick new leaders who are “acceptable” to the White House after six days…
Microsoft Releases Phi-4-Reasoning-Vision-15B: A Compact Multimodal Model for Math, Science, and GUI Understanding
Microsoft has released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15 billion parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model designed for image and text tasks that require…
OpenAI Introduces Codex Security in Research Preview for Context-Aware Vulnerability Detection, Validation, and Patch Generation Across Codebases
OpenAI has introduced Codex Security, an application security agent that analyzes a codebase, validates likely vulnerabilities, and proposes fixes that…
Google AI Releases Android Bench: An Evaluation Framework and Leaderboard for LLMs in Android Development
Google has officially released Android Bench, a new leaderboard and evaluation framework designed to measure how Large Language Models (LLMs)…
Trump says no deal with Iran to end war without ‘unconditional surrender’
The futures price of the global benchmark Brent crude oil rose, breaking $90 per barrel, after Trump posted his demand…
WTI crude tops $86, hits highest level since April 2024, Brent crude breaks above $89 a barrel
The oil market is worried that Gulf countries will have to shut production if tankers are unable to pass the…
Maersk, a bellwether for global trade, suspends two key shipping services due to Iran war
The update comes as the Iran war enters its seventh day and the escalating regional conflict continues to disrupt global…
Dogecoin (DOGE) Retreats, Market Eyes Potential Extended Pullback
Dogecoin corrected some gains and traded below $0.10 against the US Dollar. DOGE is now holding the $0.0920 support and…
XRP Faces High Risk Of Breakdown Below $1.30, Expert Flags Bitcoin As Main Threat
XRP has climbed back above the $1.40 mark this week, a level that previously acted as resistance, but analysts warn…
Liquid AI Releases LocalCowork Powered By LFM2-24B-A2B to Execute Privacy-First Agent Workflows Locally Via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Liquid AI has released LFM2-24B-A2B, a model optimized for local, low-latency tool dispatch, alongside LocalCowork, an open-source desktop agent application…
U.S. offers India a 30-day waiver for buying Russian oil as Iran war deepens energy supply worries
U.S. has given India a waiver to buy Russian oil for 30 days as conflict in Middle East impacts global…
Anthropic CEO says ‘no choice’ but to challenge Trump admin’s supply chain risk designation in court
Anthropic said even with the designation, the government can’t forbid it from working with companies in other capacities.