Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture some time in the last twelve months. In March 2026 Cohere released…
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Houthis claim strikes on Saudi Arabian oil tankers as Rubio says Iran not ready to make a deal
Yemen’s Houthis said they had targeted two Saudi Arabian oil tankers with drones and missiles for allegedly violating its maritime…
Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Tokenization is the one part of the language modeling stack that almost nobody profiles. Gigatoken, released by Marcel Rød (a…
Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of…
Oil prices climb after tanker struck off Saudi Arabia, Trump escalates Iran threats
Oil prices rose after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iranian infrastructure in response to any attacks on ships…
Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system is a classifier that inspects each…
AI Teammates: how monday.com runs production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock
AI Teammates are agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock, and few engineering organizations run them in production at the scale that…
US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say
The agreement would fulfil a long-held Saudi ambition but could attract concern in Israel and from some US lawmakers.
Houthis deploy missiles and drones to attack ships in southern Red Sea, naval group says
Attacks on ships transiting the Bab el-Mandeb threaten to cut off millions of barrels per day of Saudi crude oil…
Ukrainian drones hit more sites of Russian online retailer Wildberries
Logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions were struck overnight.
Oil prices jump 4% as Rubio says Iran ‘not serious’ about peace talks
Oil prices rose as hopes for a ceasefire in the Middle East faded.
Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and…
Trump’s push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC’s margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.
Tehran’s Hormuz threat risks global fallout, Rubio warns as U.S. strikes Iran for 11th straight night
His comments come as U.S. Central Command hit Iranian targets for an 11th straight night.
Cisco Foundation AI Releases Antares: 350M and 1B Open-Weight Models That Localize Known Vulnerabilities Inside Real Codebases
Cisco Foundation AI has released Antares, a family of security small language models (SLMs) built for one narrow security task.…
Nike to cut off thousands of online distributors in China, restructure digital footprint
Nike is streamlining its online business in China as the company looks to stabilize pricing and branding and get back…
Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, an Open-Weight Agentic Coding Model Punching Above Its Weight Class on SWE-Bench Multilingual
Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model…
Zelensky sacks Ukraine’s top army commander after days of protests
Oleksandr Syrskyi is dismissed after days of unrest over the removal of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Lebanese army says troops deploying in ‘pilot zone’ after Israeli withdrawal
A US-brokered agreement should see Israeli troops pulling out of a small part of Lebanon occupied during their conflict with…
Google Releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: A Cheaper, More Token-Efficient Flash Tier Built for Agentic Workloads
Developers building production agents need higher token efficiency, lower latency, and more reliable performance. Today, Google has released three new…
Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model ‘theft’
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova
When you fine-tune a model using Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), creating high-quality chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning traces for your training data is…
Validating Distributed LLM Serving Benchmarks with NVIDIA srt-slurm, SLURM Recipes, Parameter Sweeps, and Pareto Analysis
In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s srt-slurm framework and learn how we use srtctl to convert declarative YAML configurations into…
U.S. strikes Iran and Houthis threaten Saudi Arabia shipping as mediators push 10-day ceasefire
The latest cycle of strikes comes amid reports that regional mediators have presented Washington and Tehran with a proposal for…
Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI
Meta has released Astryx, an open source design system that is fully customizable and built to be operated by both…
Iran War update: Five things to know after the resumption of hostilities
It’s been 10 days since U.S. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran “over.” Here’s what you need to…
Ships shun Strait of Hormuz as renewed fighting strains key oil corridor
Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has slumped since U.S. President Donald Trump’s blockade took effect last week.
Trump imposes 50% tariff on Canadian imports
The duties mark a major escalation in trade tensions between the North American neighbours.
US launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for death of soldiers
The US says the attacks were aimed at degrading Iran’s capabilities to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same…
Custom OS installation now available on AWS DeepRacer devices
With the stock firmware and software, developers couldn’t modify their AWS DeepRacer devices to use the latest operating systems. Now,…
Trump says US strikes hit Iran in ‘honour’ of American soldiers killed
Iran responded with attacks in Syria and Jordan, as two ships reportedly exploded in the Strait of Hormuz.
UK’s Andy Burnham becomes PM as Trump slams Britain as ‘Poverty Stricken Disaster’
The prospect of Burnham, considered more left-leaning than Starmer, replacing the incumbent prime minister sent jitters through bond markets earlier…
Boeing CEO says company still needs ‘a couple more years’ to repair finances before new jet
CEO Kelly Ortberg signalled Boeing is focused more on stabilizing its existing business than rushing to develop a successor to…
Ryanair stock slides 6% as higher fuel costs amid Iran war dent profit
Ryanair’s first-quarter profit took a 34% hit as consumers delayed bookings due to the Middle East crisis, while struggling airlines…
Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model
A community developer, GnLOLot, has published a 1B model that runs fully on local hardware. The model is MiniCPM5-1B-Claude-Opus-Fable5-Thinking, with…
Brent breaks past $90 as U.S.-Iran conflict rages on
American forces have started ninth consecutive night of strikes against Iranian targets.
Best Local LLMs You Can Run on a Single 24GB GPU in 2026: Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, DeepSeek Compared
A single 24GB card is the practical floor for serious local inference. It is enough for genuinely capable models, and…
Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query
Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task as translation. Feyn AI (YC-backed startup) reframes it around inspection. The Feyn team has…
U.S. says it targeted Iranian forces after attacks that killed two American service members
Centcom says it hit Iran’s coastal surveillance and air defense facilities a day after two U.S. troops were killed in…
Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
Research agents already handle real knowledge work today. Teams delegate competitive mapping, due diligence, and literature review to them. However,…
US and Iran exchange strikes after two US deaths in Jordan attack
US forces target Iranian sites for the eighth night in a row, while Iran says it fired drones at the…
Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
Three Chinese labs now hold the top of the open-weight leaderboard. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Zhipu…
Fine-Tuning Qwen3 with LoRA Using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: A Complete Single-GPU Google Colab Workflow Tutorial
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel workflow in Google Colab and use a single GPU to…
Two US troops killed and one missing after Iranian attack in Jordan
The announcement comes after Jordan said it intercepted 10 Iranian missiles fired into its airspace overnight into Saturday.
NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking
NVIDIA just released DeepStream 9.1. The update targets a persistent problem in video analytics. Tracking one object across many cameras…
Russian online retail warehouses hit by deadly Ukrainian strikes
Drones targeted Wildberries facilities near Moscow and in Tambov. Ukraine’s leader called them “major logistics facilities” supplying “sanctioned components”.
US strikes hit Iran for seventh consecutive night
Iran has retaliated against US allies in the region, with Kuwait reporting that a power and water plant had been…
U.S. military says it has completed the latest round of strikes against Iran, amid more disruptions to shipping
U.S. Central Command says it continues to enforce a naval blockade against Iran, while Kuwait and Bahrain say they have…
Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Most AI agents forget. They process a request, answer it, then drop the context. Google Cloud’s generative-ai repository now ships…