Nous Research Updates Hermes Agent With a Blank Slate Mode That Pins Toolsets via platform_toolsets.cli and disabled_toolsets
Nous Research has added a Blank Slate setup mode to its open-source Hermes Agent. It inverts the usual onboarding. Instead…
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Iran reportedly closes Strait of Hormuz again, casting shadow over nuclear talks
Iran’s joint military command said the closure was in response to continued Israeli military operations in Lebanon.
Iran says Strait of Hormuz will be closed over Israel attacks on Lebanon
Iran said Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon are a breach of Tehran’s agreement with the US to end the war.
Massive bonuses for South Korea’s chip workers puts central bank on inflation alert
Workers from tech industries receive bonus worth millions of won, prompting the Bank of Korea to warn of the upward…
Israel and Hezbollah continue strikes despite ceasefire agreement
Several people are reported killed in southern Lebanon, with the IDF saying it hit “Hezbollah terrorist targets” after the group…
Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed
TLDR YaFF is Yandex’s open-source zero-copy wire format for Protobuf — Apache 2.0, currently C++, v0.1.0. The .proto file stays…
NVIDIA AI Introduce SpatialClaw: A Training-Free Agent That Treats Code as the Action Interface for Spatial Reasoning
NVIDIA Research has released SpatialClaw, a training-free framework for spatial reasoning. It targets a persistent weakness in vision-language models (VLMs).…
Israel and Hezbollah agree ceasefire, US says, as more Lebanon strikes reported
The agreement followed concerns that continued clashes would undermine the deal to end the war between the US and Iran.
Oil tanker traffic in Strait of Hormuz jumps after U.S. and Iran implement deal to open sea lane
The U.S.-Iran deal has raised questions about how the Strait of Hormuz will be governed after the toll-free period ends.
Italy’s Meloni says Trump ‘made up’ story that she ‘begged’ him for photo at G7
The highly public exchange is an indication that their earlier close ties have frayed since Trump’s decision to go to…
Oil prices turn negative after U.S. official says Israel, Hezbollah agree to ceasefire
Oil prices turned lower after Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire from 4 p.m. local time on Friday,…
Introducing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents are changing how organizations find and act on information, but they share one structural limitation: their knowledge is…
Musk’s SpaceX stake is worth over $1 trillion. Here are the other billionaire shareholders
SpaceX shares were up 37% after its historic debut last week, which offered shares at a set price of $135.
Liquid AI Introduces LFM2.5-Embedding-350M and LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M: Dense Bi-Encoder and Late-Interaction Models for Fast Multilingual Search Across 11 Languages
This week, Liquid AI released two new retrieval models. They are LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M and LFM2.5-Embedding-350M. Both hold 350M parameters. Both are…
US-Iran talks postponed as Vance pulls out of Switzerland trip
Eighteen people and four IDF soldiers are also killed in clashes in Lebanon, officials say, despite a truce meant to…
U.S.-Iran accord hits early snag after Swiss talks fail to proceed as planned
Analysts reckon a lasting resolution to the Middle East conflict will take some time to materialize.
Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks
In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen. We load a CodeGen model from Hugging Face, prepare…
Trump claims Iran deal is ‘unconditional surrender,’ says his power has ‘no limits’: Axios
Trump said in an interview with Axios on Thursday evening stateside that he negotiated the deal to prevent the conflict…
Monitor and debug generative AI inference with SageMaker detailed metrics and Insights dashboard on CloudWatch
Monitoring and troubleshooting generative AI inference endpoints operating at scale is challenging. When your large language model (LLM) endpoint’s P99…
US lifts naval blockade as Iran’s supreme leader says Trump made deal ‘out of desperation’
Iran’s supreme leader says he disagrees with the deal and Donald Trump signed it “out of desperation”.
Perplexity Launches Brain, a Self-Improving Memory System That Builds a Context Graph of an Agent’s Work and Learns Overnight
Most AI memory remembers the user. It stores your preferences, your tastes, and your role. Perplexity is taking a different…
Vance says U.S. isn’t giving Iran ‘a cent’ as he defends Trump peace deal
“The only way the Iranians get any of these resources … is if they comply fully” with the terms of…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available: Go from idea to production-grade agent in minutes
A year ago, Simon Willison wrote one of the cleanest definitions of an agent that has stuck around: An LLM…
Bowen: US-Iran deal raises inescapable question of what the war was for
While the human cost is clear, the Iranian regime has not just survived the war, it has been empowered.
Oil prices fall after Vance says more than 12 million barrels exit Strait of Hormuz
Oil declines as Mideast peace prospects rise following U.S.-Iran deal.
Weapons, money and ships: How is this Iran deal different from others?
BBC Verify examines how the new deal between the US and Iran affects three key areas.
Moscow hit by largest Ukrainian attack since start of Russia’s full-scale war
A refinery and a shopping centre were burning after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of…
Trump hits back at critics as Iran peace deal fuels debate over U.S. concessions
The deal sees both sides commit to further talks to reach a final agreement over the next 60 days and…
Intel surges 9% after Trump says company will partner with Apple on U.S. chip design
The boost continues Intel’s recent rally as the chipmaker bounces back from years of headwinds.
The KV Cache Compression Race: TurboQuant vs OSCAR vs EpiCache
Long-context large language models (LLMs) face a memory bottleneck that has nothing to do with model weights. During decoding, transformers…
What’s in the US-Iran agreement that’s now in effect
The 14-paragraph memo includes an end to fighting, an agreement that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and a…
OpenAI Releases LifeSciBench, a 750-Task Benchmark Grading AI Models on Real Life-Science Research With Expert-Written Rubric
Most biology benchmarks ask narrow, fact-based questions with clean answers. Scientists weigh imperfect evidence and make decisions. OpenAI released LifeSciBench…
Here are the five big takeaways from Kevin Warsh’s first meeting as Fed chairman
The Federal Reserve and Chairman Kevin Warsh on Wednesday followed the script on interest rates closely.
Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference now supports inline request payloads
Today, we’re announcing inline payload support for Amazon SageMaker AI Async Inference. Customers can now send inference payloads directly in…
Chairman Warsh abstains from giving rate forecast as several members signal a hike in 2026
The median projection called for the federal funds rate to end 2026 at 3.8%, a quarter percentage point above the…
Trump says he likes idea of blaming Vance if Iran deal doesn’t work out
President Trump at the G7 summit said the memorandum of understanding reached with Iran “might not be the kind of…
Context intelligence for your data and AI agents at scale
Agents are only as intelligent as the context they can reason over. Today, that context is scattered across data lakes,…
Vercel Releases Eve: An Open-Source AI Agent Framework Where Each Agent is a Directory of Files Mapped to Capabilities
Vercel has released eve, an open-source framework for building, running, and scaling agents. The project is published as the npm…
Iran sends tankers loaded with oil past US military blockade
Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data…
New in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Build agents with broader knowledge and continuous learning
The models powering today’s agents are remarkably capable. They can reason across complex problems, plan multi-step workflows, and generate nuanced…
Trump says U.S. will ‘go right back to dropping bombs’ if he doesn’t like Iran deal
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday at the G7 conference that the U.S. will “go right back to dropping bombs”…
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism
Speaking on Tuesday, Trump said Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu needed “to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon”.
From supply shock to oil glut: IEA flags scale of demand destruction caused by Iran war
The energy supply shock triggered by the Iran War has prompted the IEA to slash its global oil demand forecast.
MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA): a Two-Branch Block-Sparse Attention Trained on a 109B-Parameter MoE With a 3T-Token Budget
MiniMax released MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), a sparse attention method built directly on Grouped Query Attention (GQA). It targets one…
‘A signal of where power sits’: Trump and world leaders joined by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google at G7
Frontier AI risks, infrastructure and sovereignty are all expected to be discussed at the world leaders’ summit.
Three Iranian tankers exit U.S. blockade for first time in months as shipowners eye Hormuz in ‘wary disbelief’
At least three Iranian tankers carrying nearly five million barrels of crude oil have exited the U.S. Navy blockade.
OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation Extends Pre-Deployment Risk Assessment to Agentic Coding Through Simulated Tool Calls
OpenAI published a new pre-deployment safety method called Deployment Simulation. The idea is direct. Before a model ships, simulate its…
Japan May exports grow at fastest pace in over three years, beating estimates, as chip demand soars
Japan’s exports in May grew at their fastest pace since November 2022, boosted by robust demand for cars and semiconductors.
How to Build Memory-Efficient Transformers with xFormers Using Packed Sequences, GQA, ALiBi, SwiGLU, and Causal Attention
In this tutorial, we implement xFormers: a practical toolkit for building fast, memory-efficient Transformer models on GPUs. We begin by…
Safeguard your agentic AI applications with the Amazon Bedrock Guardrails InvokeGuardrailChecks API
Today, we’re announcing a new API with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. With this API, you can apply individual safeguards, also referred…