Trump proposes 20% toll on cargo through Strait of Hormuz; restarts Iran blockade
The Strait of Hormuz is a major oil-shipping route and the epicenter of the U.S. and Israel’s ongoing war with…
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U.S. and Iran exchange strikes as Strait of Hormuz standoff escalates
Iran responded to a fresh wave of strikes by U.S. forces by launching an attack on American military bases in…
Stanford Researchers Introduce TRACE: A Capability-Targeted Agentic Training System That Turns Recurrent Agent Failures Into Synthetic RL Environment
Agentic LLMs often fail the same way, again and again. A Stanford research team traced this to missing, reusable capabilities.…
TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, reports 68% surge in June revenue
Ahead of its second-quarter earnings, TSMC reported its June and first-half revenue for 2026.
Prime Intellect Releases Verifiers v1: Composable Tasksets, Harnesses, and Runtimes for Agentic RL Training and Evaluations
Prime Intellect launched verifiers 0.2.0. It previews a rewritten core, shipped under the new verifiers.v1 namespace. Modern evaluations now run…
SK Hynix shares slide 10% in Seoul after stellar Nasdaq debut
SK Hynix Inc. shares tumbled over 10% in Seoul on Monday after the chipmaker’s blockbuster Nasdaq debut.
Meet NeuroVFM: A New Neuroimaging Foundation Model Trained With Vol-JEPA on Uncurated Clinical MRI and CT Volumes
Frontier models learn mostly from public internet data. However, clinical neuroimaging rarely appears there, because MRI and CT scans contain…
Oil prices rise as U.S. and Iran fight for control of Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. and Iran disputed whether Hormuz was open to ship traffic after trading strikes over the weekend.
At least 27 killed in Bangkok bar fire, Thai authorities say
Firefighters were called to the scene just after midnight local time and discovered patrons fleeing through the flame-enveloped front door…
Guide to Loop Engineering: How ‘autoresearch’ and ‘Bilevel Autoresearch’ Turn AI Agents Into Autonomous Machine Learning ML Research Loops
Most people still use AI like a 2015 search box. You type, you read, you type again. A newer pattern…
Senator Lindsey Graham has died after a brief illness, his office says
Graham, a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina, was 71.
U.S. launches airstrikes against Iran after Tehran attacks container ship in Hormuz, Pentagon says
Iran has attacked ships using a route along Oman’s coast protected by the U.S. military. Tehran demands vessels use a…
US launches fresh strikes as Iran closes Strait of Hormuz
The strikes follow an attack on a Cyrpus-flagged vessel travelling through the critical waterway.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Makes The Technical Case For Human-Centered AI Built On Customizable Model Weights
Thinking Machines Lab published a report to build AI that extends human will and judgment. Most AI in use today…
China’s second typhoon in a week makes landfall
Nearly two million people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of…
Trump threatens to ‘decimate’ Iran if it tries to kill him, as Treasury sanctions alleged Iranian financier
Trump says 1,000 missiles are “locked and loaded” and will hit Iran if it carries out its threats to assassinate…
Ant Group’s Robbyant Unveils LingBot-VA 2.0: A Causal Video-Action Model Built Natively for Physical AI
Robbyant, the embodied AI unit inside Ant Group, has released the LingBot-VA 2.0.The first embodied-native foundation model. It describes a…
US wants Iran to pledge to stop shooting at ships in Strait of Hormuz
Vice-President JD Vance is among US officials expected to take part in negotiations resuming on Saturday in Oman.
Kyutai Releases MuScriptor: An Open-Weight Decoder-Only Transformer for Multi-Instrument Music Transcription to MIDI
Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) converts an audio recording into symbolic notes, usually MIDI. Single-instrument transcription already works reasonably well. However,…
How to Build a T4-Friendly Autonomous Data Science Agent with DeepAnalyze-8B, Sandboxed Code Execution, and Iterative Analysis
In this tutorial, we build an autonomous data science agent around DeepAnalyze-8B and run it. We begin by preparing a…
East Asia braces for destructive typhoon as landslides kill 15 in Philippines
Heading for Taiwan and south-eastern China, the 1,000 km-wide Bavi is forecast to be one of the strongest storms in…
Fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models with Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization
Model customization transforms general-purpose AI models into specialized enterprise assets. By fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) on domain-specific data, businesses teach…
SK Hynix stock set for Nasdaq debut, opening the trillion-dollar chip giant to U.S. investors
SK Hynix has soared to a trillion-dollar market cap by serving some of the biggest names in technology, including Nvidia…
Huge crowds in Mashhad as Iran’s late supreme leader is buried
Ali Khamenei was buried at the Imam Reza shrine, Iran’s holiest Shia Muslim site, ending six days of public mourning…
Ukraine escalates attacks on tankers near Crimea as Russian fuel shortages bite
The drone strikes form part of Ukraine’s campaign designed to choke off supplies and transportation routes in and out of…
Google Research Introduces SensorFM: A Wearable Health Foundation Model Pretrained on One Trillion Minutes of Sensor Data
Most wearable health models are built one outcome at a time. That approach breaks down at thirty-five endpoints. Labels are…
At least 11 die in Spain wildfire as heatwave continues in Southern Europe
A local official said four of the victims may be British after a fire broke out near Los Gallardos, Almería.
EasyJet pops 14% as airline weighs $7.7 billion rival takeover bid from Apollo
A bidding war has broken out for budget carrier easyJet after Apollo and Castlelake have both submitted takeover offers.
Meet LingBot-World-Infinity: An Open Causal World Model With An Agentic Harness
Robbyant, Ant Group’s embodied-intelligence unit, has released LingBot-World-Infinity (LingBot-World 2.0). It is a causal video generation model that behaves as…
SK Hynix is set to make its Wall Street debut. Will that narrow the chipmaker’s ‘Korea discount’?
As global chip giant SK Hynix makes its Nasdaq debut Friday, the listing serves as a major test of whether…
Inside NATO’s extraordinary 48 hours that revealed Trump’s grip on global diplomacy
Steve Sedgwick goes behind the scenes of NATO’s dramatic 48 hours, where Trump’s changing tone reshaped diplomacy and left allies…
Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Spark 1.1: A Multimodal Reasoning Model for Agentic Tasks on Meta Model API
Today, Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1. Alongside it, Meta opened a public preview of the Meta Model API.…
MCP tool design: Practical approaches and tradeoffs
When Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools underperform, the cause is rarely the protocol itself but the tool design. Many teams…
Trump says Iran called to make a deal after U.S. strikes; adds it’s unclear if war is back on
When asked whether the U.S. and Iran are returning to full-scale military conflict, Trump responded: “I don’t know.”
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput at Matched User Throughput
Large hybrid MoE models like Nemotron-3-Super are accurate but expensive to serve. Their active parameters, KV cache, and Mamba state…
Ukraine’s drone playbook is wreaking havoc in Russia — and upending where NATO wants to invest
Ukraine’s deep drone strikes on Russian refineries are reshaping the war and pushing NATO toward a $40 billion counter-drone plan.
Oil extends gains as Iran-U.S. tensions raise concerns over supply disruptions
Oil rises Thursday, amid worries over supply disruptions in the Middle East following fresh strikes on Iran by the U.S. military.
China consumer price growth weakens in June while producer inflation rises to near 4-year high
Investors increasingly view China’s two-speed growth with robust export and tepid domestic demand as a defining long-term feature of the…
Ukraine to get licence to produce Patriot missiles, Trump says
Although the Patriots are highly effective against Russia’s ballistic missiles, they also have lengthy production times.
Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation
Ant Group’s Robbyant has released LingBot-VLA 2.0, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model for robots. The release includes a technical report,…
US launches new wave of strikes against Iran after promising to ‘hit them hard’
Explosions have been reported by Iranian state media in parts of the country’s south.
Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS
Enterprises deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across development teams need centralized control over access, cost, and policy. At scale,…
Netflix AI Team Cuts Wide-Partition Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds by Splitting Cassandra Partitions Per ID
Netflix’s engineering team published a method for handling wide partitions in Apache Cassandra. The research work targets Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction,…
Google AI Studio Adds ‘Import from GitHub’ to Build Mode, Turning an Existing Repo Into an Editable, Deployable App
Google AI Studio is rolling out an ‘import from GitHub’ feature inside its Build mode. It takes a repo and…
Trump says he’s ‘not sure’ he wants Iran deal as Hormuz Strait strife deepens
CENTCOM said it launched dozens of strikes on Iranian military infrastructure and small boats; Trump said the U.S. might take…
Powering scientific discovery: BYOKG and GraphRAG for intelligent pharmaceutical research
In pharmaceutical research, scientists face a fundamental challenge: accessing and connecting the vast amount of scientific knowledge scattered across disparate…
Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime with AWS WAF
When you deploy generative AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as production API endpoints, you might want to enforce web…
Trump says ceasefire is ‘over’ after US and Iran trade strikes
Speaking ahead of a Nato summit, the president says US negotiators can keep talking with the Iranians “if they want”.
Trump says Iran ceasefire is ‘over’ after latest round of strikes
The president was asked about the ceasefire after an escalation of fighting in the Middle East.
Will Le Pen rise again? French nationalist leader defiant after court’s ruling
Within hours of a court of appeal confirming a guilty verdict, Marine Le Pen had already launched her presidential campaign.