Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours
Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic…
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No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know
“These trials are often compared to the Big Tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and the outcome will likely be analogous…
Israel re-establishes closed West Bank settlement, defying growing international protests
Thirty “pioneer families” have arrived on a wave of nationalism driven by Israel’s government, but the rapid change has left…
Bitcoin on track for 20% weekly gain as investor optimism floods back
The flagship digital currency has enjoyed a strong week boosted by several contributing factors.
‘A delicate dance’: JD Vance says economic pressure is the best way to achieve Washington’s objectives in Iran
Vance said “what has been true over the last couple of weeks is they felt a lot more pressure than…
U.S. bond intervention is like ‘paying your mortgage with your credit card,’ JPMorgan’s Sullivan says
The U.S. government’s efforts to manage pressure in the Treasury market risk merely shifting the problem down the road, according…
Japan’s historic yen intervention has ‘turbo-charged’ the carry trade
Japan’s historic effort to prop up the yen may have had an unintended consequence: giving investors a better opportunity to…
UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada condemn Israel’s West Bank settlement project
European countries and Canada pile on pressure over Israel’s plans to expand settlements in a strategically vital part of the…
Japan headline inflation rate hits highest this year as energy prices bite
Core inflation — which strips out prices of fresh food but includes energy — was in line with expectations, coming…
Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock in…
Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text
Superwhisper has released the S1 family of models: S1-Voice, S1-Language, and S1-mini. S1-Voice is a cloud speech-to-text model, and S1-Language…
US says sanctions will ‘squash’ Iran’s economy and ‘collapse’ its regime
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says allies will need to decide whether they “are with us or against us”.
Meet UPDF: A Lightweight Adobe Alternative Built for the Agentic Era
PDFs sit at the end of almost every workflow. Contracts, invoices, research papers, scanned intake forms, manuals, and compliance filings…
Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AI agents can automate complex workflows but might take actions that don’t align with your organization’s policies or regulatory constraints…
Build intelligent security for healthcare APIs with Amazon Bedrock
If you manage Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) APIs, you must balance open patient data access with strict data protection…
Treasury yields rebound, wiping out the decline following Bessent’s intervention
Bond yields edged higher after pulling back sharply during Wednesday’s session.
Bitcoin, ether surge as Trump urges Congress to pass crypto Clarity Act
Bitcoin and ether surged after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a bill that would set a regulatory…
Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end preference-learning workflow using the Anthropic HH-RLHF dataset and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). We…
At least 12 killed in Kyiv as Ukraine grapples with air defence shortages
Apartment blocks and warehouses were targeted in the “massive attack” on Thursday, officials say.
Australia ‘outraged’ after Israel decides not to open criminal investigation into killing of aid worker in Gaza
Australia’s foreign minister summoned the Israeli ambassador over “insulting” Zomi Frankcom decision.
Trump announces ‘economic warfare’ on Iran, threatens ‘tremendous’ consequences for its backers
The announcement extends a pressure campaign the Trump administration has waged since April under the banner Operation Economic Fury.
Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore
When an AI agent uses Web Search to ground its answers on behalf of a customer, the organization behind that…
How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system
Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to solve a challenge unique to sports…
Trump touted a deal to avert new tariffs on Canada. Here’s what we know so far
Trump’s new tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian goods were set to take effect Wednesday, but were postponed…
Treasury doubles debt buybacks as Bessent moves to steady bond market
The announcement targets the sensitive longer-duration part of the Treasury market.
Israeli army orders criminal investigation into killing of Palestinian girl Hind Rajab in Gaza
The five-year-old spent hours on the phone to paramedics before her body was recovered days later in Gaza City in…
Moderna, Merck cancer vaccine shows promise in late-stage trial; Moderna stock soars 90%
The combination regimen significantly extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning, compared with Keytruda alone.
Iran reportedly weighs attacks on U.S. targets in Europe as UAE severs trade with Tehran
Washington and Tehran are considering next steps after negotiations fell apart, while the UAE has suspended trade with Iran.
Sacked Ukrainian defence minister calls for presidential election
Martial law has been in place in Ukraine since February 2022, under which elections are suspended.
Trump pauses 50% scheduled tariffs on Canada for three days, announces ‘deal’ with Ottawa
Trump has already imposed a variety of tariffs on Canada and its specific exports, including metals, lumber and auto parts.
Meta hooked children on Facebook and Instagram, court hears
Meta argued social media addiction does not exist, as a trial stemming from a major lawsuit brought by US states…
NVIDIA Releases TensorRT Model Connect in Public Preview: Hugging Face Checkpoint to Native C++ Inference in Two Commands
NVIDIA has released TensorRT Model Connect (TRTMC) in public preview, an open-source project that takes a supported Hugging Face or…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale
Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of tools per…
Customize Amazon Quick embedded chat into your application
Amazon Quick embedded chat provides a conversational AI interface that you can integrate directly into your web application. Your users…
How Axonius built secure multi-tenant AI agents on Bedrock AgentCore
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are expanding their offerings and adding AI agents. Common considerations for organizations when adding agentic workloads…
30-year Treasury yield tops 5.33%, new 19-year high on inflation, spending concerns
Long-dated fixed income hit their highest level in almost two decades amid a worsening U.S. fiscal situation and persistently higher…
‘Worrisome’: AI is driving a looming market correction, European central bank economists warn
History suggests valuations will tumble even if they are a fair reflection of the transformative power of AI, according to…
Meet SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh): A Zero-Config, Zero-Trust P2P Network for AI Agents
google/sam is not Segment Anything. SAM here means Sovereign Agent Mesh, an Apache-2.0 networking project for autonomous AI agents. The…
Russia warns UK will pay for supplying drones to Ukraine
Russia accuses the UK of escalating the Ukraine war after British-made drones were used, but the MoD says it stands…
Global bond yields hit multi-decade highs as governments pay the price for U.S.-Iran stalemate
International government bond yields followed U.S. Treasury yields higher on Tuesday.
Cartesia Ships Sonic-3.6: A Streaming TTS Model That Now Leads Both Artificial Analysis Speech Arenas
Cartesia has released Sonic-3.6, the newest version of its real-time text-to-speech model. It arrives roughly three months after Sonic-3.5. The…
The 30-year Treasury yield just hit a 19-year high. Three things could drive it even higher
The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury has surged to its highest level in 19 years, and some strategists see…
IVF staff accused of misleading UK parents about sperm and egg donors in northern Cyprus
Multiple children are feared to have been conceived using sperm and egg donors which were not the ones selected by…
Ship attacked in Hormuz Strait as U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry risks prolonged conflict
U.S., Iran appeared to be digging in for a protracted conflict, hardening their positions and rejecting renewed negotiations after a…
Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
Nous Research has shipped Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, its MIT-licensed open source agent. Bot Mode replaces the single-agent session…
MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model. The model takes two separate inputs: lyrics carrying section tags, and a detailed…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is designed for the fast, specialized model execution required by high-volume agentic workloads. With NVIDIA Nemotron…
Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs
In this tutorial, we develop an end-to-end OCR workflow with docTR and explore how modern document understanding pipelines combine text…
Trump threatens to bomb US ally Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ over Iran issue
The US and Oman have been negotiating separately to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that has been closed…