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.
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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.
Trump says he doesn’t want anything to do with Spain: ‘Cut off all trade’
U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Spain for not contributing enough to NATO, as he attended the defense alliance summit in…
NVIDIA’s Cosmos-Framework Tutorial: Designing a Colab-Friendly Miniature of Cosmos 3 World Models with Omnimodal Mixture-of-Transformers
In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA’s cosmos-framework from a practical Colab-friendly angle while staying honest about the hardware limits of…
Denmark PM vows to defend Greenland after Trump revives push for U.S. control
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s latest push for U.S. control of Greenland.
Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Vision: A 1B Boundary-Centric Vision Foundation Model for Dense Spatial Perception
Robbyant, the embodied-AI company within Ant Group, has open-sourced LingBot-Vision, a family of self-supervised Vision Transformers built for dense spatial…
Oil jumps as U.S. ‘powerful strikes’ against Iran risk unraveling fragile Mideast truce
Oil prices rose on Wednesday after the U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks on commercial vessels…
NVIDIA Releases Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B): A Unified Audio-Text LLM That Preserves the Text Intelligence of Its Backbone
NVIDIA has released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model. It understands and generates both audio and speech. It…
US launches strikes on Iran after tankers hit in Strait of Hormuz
The US says the strikes are intended to impose “heavy costs”, while Iran warns it will “take decisive measures” in…
Marine Le Pen to run for French presidency and appeal conviction in top court
The hard-right National Rally leader has ended months of speculation, after a court ruled she could run but would have…
Enrich your datasets with business context: Migrating from legacy Topics to semantic datasets in Amazon Quick
If you’ve been managing Amazon Quick legacy Topics alongside your datasets, you know the challenge: two assets that must stay…
Liquid AI Open-Sources Antidoom: A Final Token Preference Optimization (FTPO) Method that Reduces Doom Loops in Reasoning Models
Liquid AI has released Antidoom, an open-source method that targets a common failure mode in reasoning models. That failure mode…
Marine Le Pen found guilty, but court clears way for presidential run if she wears tag
The National Rally leader now has to decide whether she will run with an electronic tag and will speak on…
Trump renews Greenland threats at NATO summit, says U.S. could remove troops from Europe
NATO fell into a crisis earlier this year as Trump demanded that the U.S. must take control of Greenland on…
Oil prices rise after report of Iranian attack on commercial ships in Strait of Hormuz
Brent and U.S. crude futures rose after a report of an Iranian attack on commercial ships in the Strait of…
Trump heads to Turkey as NATO is strained by Russian attacks, U.S. impatience
Trump frequently vented about NATO members’ refusal to heed U.S. calls for help clearing the Strait of Hormuz during its…
Tencent Releases Hy3: An Open 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Model with 21B Active Parameters and 256K Context
Tencent’s Hy team released Hy3. Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model. It activates only 21B parameters per token. The…
OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API
OpenAI has released two new Realtime models in its API. They are named gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. Both target low-latency voice…
Zelensky to press Nato for air defence systems after intense Russian strikes
The Ukrainian president will use the Nato meeting in Turkey to argue he needs more interceptor missiles.
Building a Scaffold-Split Random Forest QSAR Co-Scientist for EGFR Inhibitor Discovery Using ChEMBL, RDKit, SHAP, and BRICS
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end autonomous AI co-scientist workflow for next-generation EGFR inhibitor discovery, focusing on the C797S…
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Today, we’re excited to announce a deep-link integration between Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI. Developers can now go from…
Teaching models to forget: Selective unlearning with Amazon Nova
Organizations deploying foundation models (FMs) often encounter a common challenge: model safeguards designed for content moderation can also prevent legitimate,…
Run MiniMax models on Amazon Bedrock
Organizations are increasingly adopting open-weight foundation models (FMs) to power production AI workloads, from agentic coding assistants to long-context document…
Trump confirms he asked Fifa to review Balogun ban
President Donald Trump confirms he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match suspension at the World Cup.
NATO tensions are ‘growing pains,’ U.S. ambassador says as Trump presses allies
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said NATO’s allies boosting defense spending under pressure from Trump reflects “growing pains,” not…
Versant agrees to buy golf simulator company Full Swing for $530 million
The deal for Full Swing will expand Versant’s nontraditional media assets in an effort to diversify revenue from cable television.
EasyJet shares soar 10% as budget airline agrees $7.3 billion Castlelake takeover
EasyJet shares surged in early dealmaking Monday after it agreed in principle to takeover bid from Castlelake.
Sakana AI Launches Sakana Translate, a Namazu-Powered Japanese–English–Chinese Translation Tool With Translate, Proofread, and Ask Modes
Sakana AI has added a new feature called Sakana Translate to its chat service, Sakana Chat. It handles bidirectional translation…
Nine killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv on eve of Nato summit in Turkey
Crews are racing to find survivors under rubble as Russia targets Kyiv in air strikes for the second time in…
Training Gemma-3 for Structured Mathematical Reasoning with Tunix GRPO, LoRA Adapters, and GSM8K Rewards
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end GRPO training workflow that teaches Gemma-3 to reason through GSM8K math problems using…
Lockheed Martin leading race for $3.5 billion purchase of naval defense firm Ultra Maritime
Ultra is owned by private equity firm Advent International, and specialises in anti-submarine technology.
Meituan Releases LongCat-2.0: A 1.6T-Parameter Open MoE Model with Native 1M Context and LongCat Sparse Attention
Meituan has released LongCat-2.0, a large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model. It carries 1.6 trillion total parameters and activates about 48…
Trump thanks FIFA after Folarin Balogun’s World Cup red card suspension is reversed
Folarin Balogun was surprisingly cleared by FIFA to play for the United States Men’s National Team in the World Cup…
Cargo vessel in Red Sea reports coming under attack, UK maritime body says
The incident was reported in one of the world’s most crucial trade transit routes amid a fragile ceasefire between Iran…
Iran’s supreme leader absent as senior officials attend ayatollah’s funeral
Ali Khamenei’s son Mojtaba is conspicuously absent from his father’s funeral on Sunday, amid speculation about his condition.
From Macron to Modi, governments are rolling out the red carpet for AI giants
Macron and Modi are courting tech CEOs as France and India seek AI data center investment and cloud infrastructure.
LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Tools
LlamaIndex has published legal-kb, a public reference application on GitHub. It is described as a knowledge base for legal documents,…