U.S. strikes Iran before Hormuz Strait blockade restarts
President Donald Trump has said the U.S.-Iran ceasefire is over following multiple flare-ups of hostilities in the region.
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PrismML Releases Bonsai 27B: 1-bit and Ternary Builds of Qwen3.6-27B That Run on Laptops and Phones
PrismML just released Bonsai 27B. It is a low-bit representation of Qwen3.6-27B, not a new pretrain. The architecture is unchanged.…
Mistral Vibe for Code vs Claude Code vs Cursor vs Codex: Four Agents Scored on One Scaffold-to-PR Task
Coding agents are the most contested category in developer tooling right now. Four names dominate the shortlist: Mistral Vibe for…
Trump scraps threat of 20% fee on Hormuz cargo as US prepares to resume blockade of Iran ports
Trump drops a 24-hour-old vow to charge cargo ships for using the Strait as the US continues its battle to…
Multi-agent social intelligence with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock
Your prospects leave trails across multiple sources: a founder asks “What should I use for X?” in r/SaaS while their…
ScienceSoft’s HIPAA-compliant AI voice scheduler built on AWS
Healthcare organizations need efficient scheduling solutions, and ScienceSoft’s AI voice assistant, powered by Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails,…
How US commerce secretary’s Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
Warsh pledges Fed policy ‘regime change’ to rid inflation ‘tax’ on American people
Warsh pledged Tuesday to “get monetary policy right” and defeat the inflation that has bedeviled the central bank for the…
Global shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump’s Hormuz toll plan
For shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd, it is “fundamentally wrong” to charge tolls for passage through international waters, regardless of the country…
Is Hormuz open? Trump’s toll threat intensifies rush to bypass the Strait altogether
Gulf producers are increasingly relying on alternative routes to keep crude moving as shipping disruptions expose the risks of depending…
Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Hayden Bleasel, an expert developer from OpenAI, released Blume, an open-source documentation framework. Blume shipped to npm as version 1.0.3…
Death toll from Bangkok bar fire rises to 30 as police probe safety lapses
Survivors and first responders reported locked doors and a lack of signage marking emergency exits.
Mistral AI Releases Robostral Navigate: An 8B Model Enabling Robots to Navigate Complex Environments Using a Single RGB Camera
Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first model built for embodied navigation. The 8B model takes RGB images and…
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 vs Sonnet 4.6 vs Opus 4.8: Agentic Coding Benchmarks, API Pricing, and Cost-Performance Tradeoffs Compared
Anthropic just shipped Claude Sonnet 5. They call it its most agentic Sonnet model yet. It plans, drives browsers and…
Oil gains over 2% as Mideast tensions and Hormuz toll prospects raise supply worries
Oil prices rose on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to impose shipping fees in the Strait of…
Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity
Most reinforcement learning benchmarks reset the world after every episode. Real operations never reset. Skyfall AI’s MORPHEUS targets that gap.…
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Build with the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet, on Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine. Organizations scaling autonomous agents…
Trump reinstates Iran port blockade and vows 20% charge on cargo passing through Hormuz
The US president also says Washington will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility
AI as accessibility: what happened when a neurodivergent solutions architect stopped fighting his brain and started building. In this post,…
Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks
In this tutorial, we build a runnable reconstruction of the VideoAgent workflow, focusing on the core agentic pipeline behind video…
Implement on-behalf-of token exchange for multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
When you deploy generative AI agents into multi-tenant production architectures, you face a specific identity problem: when an agent calls…
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…
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…