Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine is ready to agree to energy ceasefire, but warns Russia must do same
If Russia doesn’t agree to Trump’s energy ceasefire, Ukraine will respond, Zelenskyy said in a live-streamed address Monday morning.
Top 12 AI Live Translation Tools in 2026: Latency, Languages, Pricing
AI live translation tools turn speech into translated captions or speech while people are still talking. The market now spans…
TII Releases Falcon-ASR: 1.6B Arabic Speech Model Hits 20.92% WER
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi has released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B parameter Arabic speech recognition model. It focuses…
Oil falls after Trump declares ‘energy ceasefire’ between Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on social media that “Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important…
Meet Cloudflare Clef-omni: A 30B-A3B Multimodal Decision Model for Audio, Video, Image and Text
Cloudflare has released Clef-omni, a new open-weight member of its Clef decision model family. Clef-omni is a Cloudflare decision model…
Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ claim welcomed by Zelensky but Russia silent
Zelensky says Kyiv would support such a truce. Moscow has yet to comment.
What is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Models
The vLLM Semantic Router team has released Decision 3.0, a family of multimodal decision models. Decision 3.0 multimodal decision models…
Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh airport hit by second Houthi strike in two days
The Yemeni group says it carried out attacks that killed 13 people over the weekend and targeted two airports and…
Ukraine strikes Russian data centre again despite Trump warning
It is the third time this week that Ukraine has targeted Russian tech giant Yandex, forcing the company to suspend…
Trump says he is ‘going to look at’ joining Saudi Arabia in the fight against Iran-backed Houthis after deadly airport strike
U.S. military involvement in the fight against the Houthis would stretch resources in the Middle East already committed to fighting…
OrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Context
OrcaRouter has released OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a model for authorized vulnerability research. The model is the successor to OrcaCyber Zero…
Sakana AI’s LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errors
Sakana AI has published Beyond Imitation, a TMLR research paper on LLM-assisted peer review built around error detection. Most AI…
‘Time for Ukraine to get new president,’ says Trump after Zelensky condemns diesel deal
Ukraine’s leader had said the deal with Russia to release diesel into the US would help Moscow fund the war.
Christa Pike discharged from hospital and returned to prison, her lawyers say
The convicted murderer was left in a critical condition after she survived two lethal injections.
‘Cockroach’ group leaders among hundreds detained in Delhi protest
Tens of thousands of security personnel were deployed and roads barricaded ahead of the demonstration.
Putin relayed Iran war proposal to Trump, Kremlin says
Putin’s reported call with Trump regarding the Iran war comes on the heels of a deal for the U.S. to…
Russian glide bomb attack on Zaporizhzhia kills at least 15 people
Children are among the victims, authorities say, and more victims could still be buried in the rubble of a large…
The world needs Ukraine’s grain. Its farmers are running out of reasons to plant
Cash-strapped farmers have no incentive to sow for 2027 with exports remaining trapped, as analysts say commodity markets could “flip…
Microsoft AI Releases Microsoft-Decision-1: A Qwen3.5-9B Decision-Scoring Model
Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a decision model for routing, classification, verification and agent control. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a decision-scoring model that…
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex 1.5: A 9B Decision Model That Scores Options, Not Text
Nace.AI has open-sourced Drex 1.5, a 9B decision model for agents and backend workflows. The Drex 1.5 decision model does…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in…
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky criticises ‘gift to Putin’
Ukraine’s president said allowing Russia to sell petroleum products would prolong a war that must be ended.
US unveils sanctions on ICC in move court condemns as ‘assault on rule of law’
Several member states of the international tribunal, including the UK, say they “strongly disagree” with the sanctions.
Tanker attacks in Strait of Hormuz surge to wartime high as Iran tries to choke off oil exports
The escalating attacks are testing whether a rebound in crude oil exports from the Middle East can be sustained under…
Navi Pillay, former UN human rights chief, wins Nobel Peace Prize
Pillay is recognised for her “efforts to promote peace and international law”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.
Americans’ debt problems are flashing a warning not seen since the Great Recession
Researchers found that while wealth disparities narrowed somewhat, the ability to meet debt payments deteriorated significantly.
ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026 At AWS, we believe…
Nobel winner Krugman says France may have become ‘too big to save’
Economist Paul Krugman sounded the alarm on a looming “ugly crisis,” while former ECB head Jean-Claude Trichet said French politicians…
South Africa lawyer ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to prosecute war crimes, genocide
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting peace and international law.
Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
Underdog, the on-device assistant from Conway Research, has released Saluki 27B under Apache 2.0. Underdog Saluki 27B is a 2-bit…
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the “unprecedented” decision is on “uncertain legal…
OpenAI defends decision to fire researchers: ‘These decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out’
OpenAI has defended its decision to fire three safety researchers for what the AI lab has described as a “significant…
Google Cloud Launches Gemini Agent, One Universal Agent for Enterprise Work
Google Cloud has introduced the Google Cloud Gemini agent, a single agent for enterprise work. The Gemini agent is a…
‘Real boss of India?’: Elon Musk takes aim at Indian billionaire Ambani as Starlink launch stalls
Musk claimed Starlink was not being allowed to launch in India despite spending five years complying with every single law…
Google Research RRSI Guide: Mastering Self-Improving AI Agents
In this tutorial, we implement RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement), a method that lets an LLM agent rewrite its own harness,…
Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire breaks silence to BBC
Vitalii Zhykovych gives his own account of the attempted assassination of Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev.
Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
When an AI agent runs, it often needs to buy something to finish a task: a model inference, an API…
Trump says U.S. will not attack Iran before midterm election
Trump said talks with Tehran were “productive” as the Iran war pushes oil and gas prices higher and support for…
Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Multiple teams within the same company increasingly need shared access to expensive GPU clusters for their generative AI operations, while…
JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking…
U.S. suspends Microsoft, Adobe from green-card labor program in foreign worker crackdown
Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cited “multiple active federal investigations” around the two companies’ involvement in the program Thursday.
Trump’s former defense secretary sees no end in sight for Iran war — to the benefit of America’s ‘greatest adversary’
Mark Esper, who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense during Trump’s first presidential term, said he did not see the…
Ray Dalio warns the stock market’s cushion against rising bond yields is shrinking
Ray Dalio says earnings have cushioned stocks from rising bond yields, but that buffer is shrinking as he warns free…
Russian strike on buses kills 33, say officials, as deadly attacks on Ukraine surge
Ukraine accused Russia of targeting the crowded bus in the frontline city to kill as many civilians as possible.
America shut out Chinese EVs. Britain welcomed them — and now faces a difficult choice
Britain faces a finely balanced choice over whether to follow the EU in imposing tariffs on Chinese EVs.
Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference
Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for every request. Liquid Inference…
US and Lebanon protecting wanted Syrian general, BBC finds
Bassam al-Hassan, linked to reporter Austin Tice’s abduction, is being sheltered in return for information.
Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA
Perplexity has released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models. They come in 2 sizes: 0.6B for fast, cheap…
Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike’s botched lethal injections
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike’s botched lethal injections.