‘It’s a special thing to be on Planet Earth’: Artemis crew welcomed home in Houston
The four astronauts flew around the Moon in a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans…
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Forget XRP Forecasts: The ‘Delusional’ Crowd Could Have The Last Laugh
Back in 2016 and 2017, when XRP was worth less than a penny, Ripple’s then-CTO David Schwartz laid out a…
Researchers from MIT, NVIDIA, and Zhejiang University Propose TriAttention: A KV Cache Compression Method That Matches Full Attention at 2.5× Higher Throughput
Long-chain reasoning is one of the most compute-intensive tasks in modern large language models. When a model like DeepSeek-R1 or…
How to Build a Secure Local-First Agent Runtime with OpenClaw Gateway, Skills, and Controlled Tool Execution
In this tutorial, we build and operate a fully local, schema-valid OpenClaw runtime. We configure the OpenClaw gateway with strict…
Artemis crew home safely after completing historic mission to the Moon
Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans.
Final push for votes as challenger to Hungary’s Orbán senses victory
As Péter Magyar’s opposition movement leads in the polls, tens of thousands of anti-Orbán supporters fill Heroes’ Square in Budapest.
U.S.-Iran talks set to begin in Pakistani capital after delegations arrive
Pakistan confirmed the arrival of Iran’s parliament speaker and foreign minister ahead of talks with a U.S. delegation led by…
How Knowledge Distillation Compresses Ensemble Intelligence into a Single Deployable AI Model
Complex prediction problems often lead to ensembles because combining multiple models improves accuracy by reducing variance and capturing diverse patterns.…
Historic Vance-Ghalibaf talks must bridge deep distrust
Face-to-face talks would mark the highest-level engagement between Iran and the US since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases VimRAG: a Multimodal RAG Framework that Uses a Memory Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a standard technique for grounding large language models in external knowledge — but the moment…
Lebanon and Israel officials to meet in US on Tuesday
A senior Lebanese official earlier told the BBC that Lebanon would only take part in talks if a ceasefire was…
A Coding Guide to Markerless 3D Human Kinematics with Pose2Sim, RTMPose, and OpenSim
In this tutorial, we build and run a complete Pose2Sim pipeline on Colab to understand how markerless 3D kinematics works…
NVIDIA Releases AITune: An Open-Source Inference Toolkit That Automatically Finds the Fastest Inference Backend for Any PyTorch Model
Deploying a deep learning model into production has always involved a painful gap between the model a researcher trains and…
Consumer sentiment hits record low, inflation fears rise amid Iran war
The university’s headline index of consumer sentiment tumbled to 47.6, down 10.7% from March to its lowest on record.
Ireland gridlocked by fuel protests as Iran War drives prices higher
Protestors are taking issue with the government’s response to the spike in fuel prices since the onset of the Iran…
U.S. oil climbs above $100 as U.S.-Iran ceasefire fails to boost tanker traffic via Strait of Hormuz
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday warned Iran to “stop now” if it was charging tankers to transit the Strait…
What this real-world oil price says about the level of stress in the energy market
Energy analysts warn that the Iran ceasefire is not likely to alleviate acute signs of stress in the physical oil…
European stocks set to rise amid U.S-Iran ceasefire uncertainty
Shares in Europe are set to open higher on Friday as the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Europe continues…
Five AI Compute Architectures Every Engineer Should Know: CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and LPUs Compared
Modern AI is no longer powered by a single type of processor—it runs on a diverse ecosystem of specialized compute…
China factory prices return to growth after 3 years, beating expectations on surging oil prices
China faces possible inflationary spillovers, though its massive strategic stockpiling onshore and diversified sources of energy provided some cushion.
An End-to-End Coding Guide to NVIDIA KVPress for Long-Context LLM Inference, KV Cache Compression, and Memory-Efficient Generation
In this tutorial, we take a detailed, practical approach to exploring NVIDIA’s KVPress and understanding how it can make long-context…
Ceasefire or no ceasefire, the Middle East’s reshuffling is not yet done
Both sides have reason to end the war but share no common ground.
Meta Superintelligence Lab Releases Muse Spark: A Multimodal Reasoning Model With Thought Compression and Parallel Agents
Meta Superintelligence Labs recently made a significant move by unveiling ‘Muse Spark’ — the first model in the Muse family.…
Israel to hold direct talks with Lebanon but no ceasefire, Netanyahu says
Lebanese officials had called for a ceasefire before talks begin.
Meta’s long-awaited AI model is finally here. But can it make money?
After releasing its first major AI model in a year called Muse Spark, Meta now has to figure out how…
Understanding Amazon Bedrock model lifecycle
Amazon Bedrock regularly releases new foundation model (FM) versions with better capabilities, accuracy, and safety. Understanding the model lifecycle is…
The future of managing agents at scale: AWS Agent Registry now in preview
Now available through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, use AWS Agent Registry to discover, share, and reuse agents, tools, and agent skills…
‘Endless fears’: Even if fighting stops, the damage to Iran’s children will endure
The BBC has been able to obtain testimony from parents and those trying to help children deal with the distress…
The Strait of Hormuz is not open as Iran controls access after ceasefire, UAE oil CEO says
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber demanded a full reopening of the strait, warning that the oil supply disruption will increase if…
Introducing stateful MCP client capabilities on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Stateful MCP client capabilities on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now enable interactive, multi-turn agent workflows that were previously impossible with…
Israeli strikes in Lebanon ‘grave violation’ of ceasefire, Iran minister tells BBC
Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the US must choose between ‘war and ceasefire’.
‘Weeks, if not months’: Strait of Hormuz tanker traffic won’t normalize anytime soon
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has yet to see a meaningful rebound and this could continue for weeks, warn…
Britain to call for toll-free Strait of Hormuz, says Lebanon must be part of Iran ceasefire
In an annual foreign policy speech, Cooper is expected to say that shipping must be toll-free through the strategically vital…
Sigmoid vs ReLU Activation Functions: The Inference Cost of Losing Geometric Context
A deep neural network can be understood as a geometric system, where each layer reshapes the input space to form…
Trump criticises Nato as alliance chief describes meeting as ‘very frank’
The US president says Nato “wasn’t there when we needed them” during the Iran war.
Google AI Research Introduces PaperOrchestra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated AI Research Paper Writing
Writing a research paper is brutal. Even after the experiments are done, a researcher still faces weeks of translating messy…
‘Poorly run, piece of ice’: Trump targets Greenland again as Iran war deepens NATO rift
Trump has set his eyes on Greenland again while venting frustration at NATO, as the diplomatic fallout from Iran war…
A Comprehensive Implementation Guide to ModelScope for Model Search, Inference, Fine-Tuning, Evaluation, and Export
In this tutorial, we explore ModelScope through a practical, end-to-end workflow that runs smoothly on Colab. We begin by setting…
Customize Amazon Nova models with Amazon Bedrock fine-tuning
Today, we’re sharing how Amazon Bedrock makes it straightforward to customize Amazon Nova models for your specific business needs. As…
U.S. has violated ceasefire agreement, Iran parliamentary speaker says
The two-week ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran appeared at risk of unravelling less than a day after it…
First ships pass Strait of Hormuz since Trump-Iran ceasefire, but traffic remains low amid confusion
Iran is reportedly planning to demand that shipping firms pay tolls in cryptocurrency to let their oil tankers through the…
Trump threatens tariffs of 50% on countries ‘supplying military weapons to Iran’
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will impose tariffs of 50% on goods imported to the country from any nation…
A fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire sparks market relief — but no clear path to lasting peace
The fragile ceasefire agreement is likely to face significant challenges, analysts told CNBC, citing a significant trust deficit on both…
Z.AI Introduces GLM-5.1: An Open-Weight 754B Agentic Model That Achieves SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro and Sustains 8-Hour Autonomous Execution
Z.AI, the AI platform developed by the team behind the GLM model family, has released GLM-5.1 — its next-generation flagship…
U.S.-Iran ceasefire relief rally lifts global assets as oil plunges below $100
A 2-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran sparked a broad-based relief rally across risk assets, and even buoying traditional…
Iran ceasefire deal a partial win for Trump – but at a high cost
The path to the two-week ceasefire with Iran may have fundamentally altered the way the rest of the world views…
How to Combine Google Search, Google Maps, and Custom Functions in a Single Gemini API Call With Context Circulation, Parallel Tool IDs, and Multi-Step Agentic Chains
In this tutorial, we explore the latest Gemini API tooling updates Google announced in March 2026, specifically the ability to…
Trump suspends Iran attack for two weeks, subject to Hormuz Strait opening
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had asked Trump for a two-week delay of his Iran deadline, and for the Strait…
Manage AI costs with Amazon Bedrock Projects
As organizations scale their AI workloads on Amazon Bedrock, understanding what’s driving spending becomes critical. Teams might need to perform…
Tracking recent US-Israeli strikes on Iranian infrastructure
Attacks have targeted bridges, steel plants and pharmaceutical facilities, verified videos show.