Texas carries out first US execution since Christa Pike’s botched lethal injections
Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike’s botched lethal injections.
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Trump says he is not keen on a deal with Iran as U.S. reportedly prepares for ‘massive bombing’
The U.S. president and his national security team have discussed possibly resuming large-scale U.S. military operations in the coming weeks,…
What Happens When a Trusted Model Repo Changes? Unsloth Studio Re-Checks Before It Runs
Beta Lessons Learned After over 500 million downloads, years of requests from the open-source community, and being a top product…
Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model to date. It targets high-volume work like summaries,…
Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Haiku 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According…
Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family. d1-3B reads text and…
Fed officials see another hike coming, but no sign as to when, minutes show
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released minutes from its Sept. 15-16 policy meeting.
10-year Treasury note yield hits highest level since 2002 as traders brace for key bond sale
U.S. Treasury yields climbed Wednesday after retreating in the previous session, as oil prices moved higher.
Beyond hours saved: Building the business case for agentic automation
Agentic automation, software that reasons and adapts to complete tasks, is showing up on AI center of excellence (AI CoE)…
France halts use of stun grenades after boy’s hand blown off in student protests
The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.
Google ordered to halt work on two data centers in ‘Texas of Europe’
Finland has emerged as a key location for data centers amid the AI boom.
Chevron CEO warns against ‘unwise’ diesel export ban, saying it could make things worse
His comments come as rising Middle East crude exports and an emergency G7 stockpile release appear to have helped to…
Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, a C++ library with a Python interface for solving assignment problems. It decides which objects go…
Oil rises as concerns over Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia eclipse supply recovery
Iran’s move to step up attacks on tankers which are transiting through the Strait of Hormuz has also led to…
A Developer’s Guide to Laya: Zero-Shot Decisions and Calibration
In this tutorial, we work with Laya, the open-source decision engine from Convai Innovations that became one of the most-starred…
US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say
Pike, 50, continues to receive critical medical care while handcuffed in hospital, according to a statement from her lawyers on…
Tear gas in Paris and Marseille as school protests grow across France
Crowds of mainly teenagers called for more resources for schools and an end to what they called police repression.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
Off-the-shelf AI assistants answer individual questions well, but they fall short on a different axis: continuity. Ask a stateless assistant…
Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open model that embeds text, code, images, video and audio into one 768-dimensional…
Rebounding oil exports through Strait of Hormuz are vulnerable to stepped-up Iranian tanker attacks
Nearly 20 commercial ships, mostly tankers, have come under attack over the past month while sailing through the Hormuz choke…
Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025
With generative AI adoption moving faster than the personal computer or the internet and global AI-related investment in 2025 representing…
Russia’s neighbor backs push to lift ban on nuclear weapons, prompting outcry from Moscow
Lithuania is seeking to bolster its security amid growing concerns over Russia.
Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason
August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information for a foreign power.
Trump allows cheaper, dyed diesel on highways to blunt historic fuel-cost spike ahead of midterms
The U.S. national average price of diesel topped $6 a gallon in September for the first time ever, as fuel…
Reka Releases Rho-1: A 19B Omni-Reasoning Model That Understands, Generates Video and Outputs Robot Actions in One
Reka has released a research preview of Rho-1, a 19B omni-reasoning model trained from scratch. A single neural network understands…
Britain is on ‘thin ice,’ warns ex-Bank of England chief economist — and it must act to ‘appease financial markets’
Britain has the highest government borrowing costs in the G7.
Beyond Domain-Specific World Models: JEPA-Anything Uses 1 Recipe for 7 Fields
Researchers from PhAI Labs, CUHK, Fudan, Stanford, Oxford and Princeton have released JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework for building world models.…
World Bank warns of AI concentration risks as it lifts East Asia and Pacific growth outlook to 4.5%
The World Bank now expects the region to grow 4.5% this year, but flagged that trade growth outside AI-related goods…
Trump offers U.S. help to Russia after plague death; WHO assesses the situation as low risk
WHO said it was in contact with Russian authorities, and has offered support if needed, while assessing the risk to…
Meet Together Link: A Free CLI That Runs Open Models Like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 Inside Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
Together AI has released Together Link, a free, MIT-licensed CLI now in beta. It connects the coding agents developers already…
Introducing GLM 5.3 on Amazon Bedrock
Coding and agentic workloads are asking more of AI models than ever: refactor a repository spanning hundreds of files, sustain…
Building a Streaming Robotics Learning Pipeline Using NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID
In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end streaming robotics learning pipeline around the NVIDIA Cosmos3-DROID dataset without downloading its 707…
Trump says ‘threat’ led US to pull bombers from RAF Fairford
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed the B1 bombers from the base in England back to their home…
‘We had a threat’: Trump explains U.S. moving long-range bombers from U.K.
The U.S. Air Force B-1 bombers removed from England have been used in strikes on Iran.
Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft once. Can he do it again in the AI era?
After succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014, Satya Nadella turned Microsoft into a cloud giant. Now he’s tasked with making the…
Making Amazon Quick enterprise-ready: Automated, auditable cross-account resource promotion
Amazon Quick is Amazon’s agentic AI companion built for work. You build agents that reason over your data, call action…
No10 insists UK military base RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base…
Russia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
According to local media reports, as many as 189 people have also been placed under medical observation in Irkutsk in…
Spanish PM Sánchez calls early election after housing protests
Sánchez says Spain will head to the polls on 29 November after recent defeats on measures aimed at addressing the…
Saudi Aramco chief says replenishing global oil stockpiles could take two years
Saudi Aramco’s CEO warned it could take up to two years to rebuild global oil inventories, saying the squeeze could…
Right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro wins first round of Brazil election
With neither candidate getting more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.
Yandex Introduces Sona: A Single Generative Recommender That Replaces Entire Recommendation Cascade
Most production recommenders are cascades. Candidate generators feed a pre-ranker, which feeds a heavy ranker built on hundreds of engineered…
US air force removes all bombers from British military base RAF Fairford
No reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted…
The Story of Qwen: Alibaba’s AI Models From 7B to 2.4T
In April 2023, Alibaba Cloud demoed a chatbot whose name roughly means ‘truth from a thousand questions.’ Three and a…
Trump tells South Korea to sign on to Alaska LNG deal or ‘I’ll just charge them more’
Trump is ramping up pressure on South Korea over Alaska LNG as Seoul remains cautious over investment projects announced by…
Can an Open Model Do Security Research? Cantina’s apex-flash-1 Solves 40 of 60 Held-Out Bug Tasks
Cantina Security, with Yeta Labs, has released apex-flash-1, an open-weights model trained specifically for vulnerability research. It is a reinforcement…
GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Fable 5.1: Which Frontier Model Fits Which Job
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind shipped 4 frontier-class models within 30 days. Claude Fable 5.1 arrived on September 1. GPT-6…
More tankers struck in the Middle East as Iran reiterates conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran’s conditions include a halt to U.S. “acts of aggression,” an end to the naval blockade and economic warfare, and…