Photos show heavily damaged US radar jet at Saudi base
US Central Command has not yet publicly commented on the incident.
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Trump reportedly warns to ‘take the oil in Iran’ as Tehran targets water, power plants in Kuwait
The Middle East conflict has entered its fifth week, with attacks expanding across the region and raising risks to energy…
South Korea stocks fall 5%, leading regional declines as Middle East war enters fifth week
Asia-Pacific markets fell Monday as the Middle East war enters its fifth week.
Agent-Infra Releases AIO Sandbox: An All-in-One Runtime for AI Agents with Browser, Shell, Shared Filesystem, and MCP
In the development of autonomous agents, the technical bottleneck is shifting from model reasoning to the execution environment. While Large…
Meet A-Evolve: The PyTorch Moment For Agentic AI Systems Replacing Manual Tuning With Automated State Mutation And Self-Correction
A team of researchers associated with Amazon has released A-Evolve, a universal infrastructure designed to automate the development of autonomous…
Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $56B As CEO Pitches Crypto Over Gold
Institutional money has been pouring into Bitcoin at a scale that would have seemed far-fetched just a few years ago.…
Eli Lilly reaches $2.75 billion deal with Insilico to bring AI-developed drugs to the global market
U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly will give Hong Kong-listed Insilico $115 million upfront to bring some of its AI-discovered drugs to the…
Bahrain aluminum giant says Iranian attack targeted its facility
Aluminium Bahrain, or Alba, hosts the world’s largest smelter and the attack adds to the pressure on global supplies of…
Chroma Releases Context-1: A 20B Agentic Search Model for Multi-Hop Retrieval, Context Management, and Scalable Synthetic Task Generation
In the current AI landscape, the ‘context window’ has become a blunt instrument. We’ve been told that if we simply…
Google-Agent vs Googlebot: Google Defines the Technical Boundary Between User Triggered AI Access and Search Crawling Systems Today
As Google integrates AI capabilities across its product suite, a new technical entity has surfaced in server logs: Google-Agent. For…
Trump is waging war based on instinct and it isn’t working
One month into the conflict in Iran, Trump’s gut-instinct approach is not proving effective.
Cardano Needs A 695% Jump To Hit $2 — One Trader Says It’s Possible In Under A Week
Cardano has been stuck below 30 cents for weeks, and its ranking among global cryptocurrencies has slipped to 12th place.…
What The Solana Open Interest Is Saying About The Cryptocurrency Right Now
Solana’s derivatives market is signaling something the price chart doesn’t fully show—and it matters right now. According to data from…
Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike, say broadcasters
The Israeli military confirms it killed Ali Shoeib from the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV.
Mistral AI Releases Voxtral TTS: A 4B Open-Weight Streaming Speech Model for Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Generation
Mistral AI has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model that marks the company’s first major move into audio generation.…
Iran-backed Houthis join war with attack against Israel
There are fears the Iranian proxy may attack shipping in the Red Sea, adding to global economic woes.
How the big oil and gas CEOs think the Iran war supply disruption will play out
The oil industry’s grim outlook for global oil and gas supplies stands in contrast to the Trump administration’s promise that…
Yemen’s Houthis launch Israel strike, the first time since the U.S.-Israel war began
The entry of the Houthis in the war marks a significant escalation in the conflict as it enters its second…
Iran war splits older and younger conservatives – as pressure builds for Trump to find exit ramp
More than a thousand miles from Washington, the conflict was a dominant topic of conversation at CPAC.
NVIDIA AI Unveils ProRL Agent: A Decoupled Rollout-as-a-Service Infrastructure for Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Turn LLM Agents at Scale
NVIDIA researchers introduced ProRL AGENT, a scalable infrastructure designed for reinforcement learning (RL) training of multi-turn LLM agents. By adopting…
XRP Positioned At The Center Of Wall Street’s Tokenization Boom — Is A Rally Emerging?
As Wall Street accelerates its shift toward tokenized assets, XRP is increasingly being viewed as a potential bridge at the…
Nepal’s ex-PM arrested over fatal protest crackdown
More than 70 people were killed during an uprising last year which ousted Oli’s government.
Iran-backed hackers breach FBI director Kash Patel’s personal emails
A hacker group shares Patel’s purported resume and photos – information, the FBI says, is “historical in nature”.
An Implementation of IWE’s Context Bridge as an AI-Powered Knowledge Graph with Agentic RAG, OpenAI Function Calling, and Graph Traversal
In this tutorial, we implement IWE: an open-source, Rust-powered personal knowledge management system that treats markdown notes as a navigable…
UN human rights chief calls on US to conclude probe into Iran school strike
The strike – which killed at least 168 people, mostly children – “evoked a visceral horror”, Volker Türk said.
openJiuwen Community Releases ‘JiuwenClaw’: A Self Evolving AI Agent for Task Management
Over the past year, AI agents have evolved from merely answering questions to attempting to get real tasks done. However,…
Gulf markets are splintering as the Iran war continues. Here’s what to know
Investors are grappling with sharp divergence across the Gulf’s markets, as the Iran conflict drives asset volatility in the region.
‘My daughter is under the rubble’: Inside Tehran as civilian toll of strikes rises
One month since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Tehran residents tell the BBC their lives have been…
Panic buying prompts PM to reassure Australians over fuel supply
Anthony Albanese says nation’s supply remains “secure” amid reports of panic buying and shortages.
Oil prices rise as Trump says Iran let 10 tankers through Strait of Hormuz as a ‘present’
Oil prices traded higher after U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran had allowed 10 oil tankers to pass through the…
‘Not unlike tariffs’: Iran war threatens to deepen Asia private equity’s worst fundraising slump in a decade
The Middle East war has introduced a new layer of uncertainty for Asia-focused private equity managers already navigating a multiyear…
Meta Releases TRIBE v2: A Brain Encoding Model That Predicts fMRI Responses Across Video, Audio, and Text Stimuli
Neuroscience has long been a field of divide and conquer. Researchers typically map specific cognitive functions to isolated brain regions—like…
Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: A Real-Time Multimodal Voice Model for Low-Latency Audio, Video, and Tool Use for AI Agents
Google has released Gemini 3.1 Flash Live in preview for developers through the Gemini Live API in Google AI Studio.…
China industrial profits surge 15% to start year, but oil price shock threatens outlook
Soaring energy prices are expected to impact China’s economy less than most other countries, due to its massive oil reserves…
Run Generative AI inference with Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Kia ora! Customers in New Zealand have been asking for access to foundation models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock from their…
A Coding Implementation to Run Qwen3.5 Reasoning Models Distilled with Claude-Style Thinking Using GGUF and 4-Bit Quantization
In this tutorial, we work directly with Qwen3.5 models distilled with Claude-style reasoning and set up a Colab pipeline that…
Zelensky visits Saudi Arabia after offering Ukraine’s drone expertise
There is renewed urgency for Ukraine to get a drone deal done, as the US increasingly focuses on Iran.
Rationing power and diluting petrol – how African countries are coping with effects of Iran war
The disruption in oil supplies has caused shortages and concerns in several African countries.
Building age-responsive, context-aware AI with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
As you deploy generative AI applications to diverse user groups, you might face a significant challenge that impacts user safety…
Trump says Iran let 10 oil ships through Strait of Hormuz as ‘present’ to U.S.
Trump said the U.S has “very substantial talks going on with respect to Iran,” though Tehran has denied that direct…
Cohere AI Releases Cohere Transcribe: A SOTA Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Model Powering Enterprise Speech Intelligence
In the landscape of enterprise AI, the bridge between unstructured audio and actionable text has often been a bottleneck of…
Prepare for turbulence – how a prolonged Middle East conflict could reshape how we fly
The Gulf’s hub airports made long-distance travel cheaper – but now their future looks unclear.
Iran war will spare no major economy, says OECD — but the UK is more vulnerable than others
The U.K. is predicted to be worse hit by the Iran war than its developed market counterparts, the OECD said…
What comes next? Three attack scenarios as U.S. sends thousands more troops to Middle East
One of Iran’s top lawmakers has said that they were anticipating a potential ground invasion of one its islands.
Iran war is a ‘catastrophe,’ G7 ministers warn — but there’s little they can do to stop it
European leaders and ministers issue warnings about the impact and potential consequences of the Iran war
Who wants what and why from US-Iran peace talks?
There is indirect contact and channels between the two sides – but a deal may still be a long way…
Tencent AI Open Sources Covo-Audio: A 7B Speech Language Model and Inference Pipeline for Real-Time Audio Conversations and Reasoning
Tencent AI Lab has released Covo-Audio, a 7B-parameter end-to-end Large Audio Language Model (LALM). The model is designed to unify…
Trump wants to squeeze Iran into peace talks with more troops — but it may backfire, analysts say
Trump’s threats to ramp up military presence may be to pressure Iran to negotiate but the battle may be harder…
How to Build a Vision-Guided Web AI Agent with MolmoWeb-4B Using Multimodal Reasoning and Action Prediction
In this tutorial, we explore MolmoWeb, Ai2’s open multimodal web agent that understands and interacts with websites directly from screenshots,…