Better decisions at scale: How mathematical optimization delivers where intuition fails
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Iran releases footage of missiles launched at Israel
Iran said its attacks were “the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes.”
Iran announces ‘end of military operations’ against Israel, but warns Lebanon strikes could trigger escalation
Iran and Israel traded strikes on Sunday night for the first time since a ceasefire was agreed in April, threatening…
At least 19 dead after major earthquake strikes southern Philippines
The magnitude-7.8 quake triggered small tsunami waves in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan.
Oil prices spike over 4% as Iran and Israel trade strikes
Oil rises on Monday amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, raising concerns that the conflict may drag on.
Microsoft AI Introduces MAI-Transcribe-1.5: 2.4% WER on Artificial Analysis, Best-in-Class FLEURS Accuracy, and Up to 5x Faster Long-Audio Transcription
Last week Microsoft AI has announced MAI-Transcribe-1.5. It is the second iteration of the company’s in-house speech-to-text family. The model…
Google Research Adds Agentic RAG to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with a Sufficient Context Agent for multi-hop queries
Google Research team has introduced a new agentic RAG framework. It is built into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. It…
Rare footage captured of Great White shark in Mediterranean Sea
A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and…
Foreign investors have dumped billions of dollars of Korean stocks this year despite record rally. Here’s why
The selling intensified Monday as the benchmark Kospi plunged more than 8% at the open, even as it emerged as…
Fragile ceasefire in jeopardy as Iran reportedly fires first missiles at Israel
The fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran has been in place since early April.
Building Reflective Prompt Optimization with GEPA: Multi-Component Prompts, Structured Feedback, and Held-Out Validation
In this tutorial, we use GEPA as a reflective prompt-evolution framework to improve the way a language model solves arithmetic…
Israel strikes Beirut suburb days after US-brokered truce
Israel says the attacks on the Lebanese capital were ordered “in response to Hezbollah’s firing at Israeli territory”.
Zelensky criticises ‘vile’ Chornobyl drone strike ahead of London talks
Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone hit a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chornobyl nuclear plant.
Best 21 Low-Code and No-Code AI Tools in 2026
Low-code and no-code platforms have moved from simple drag-and-drop builders to AI-native development environments. In 2026, most of them ship…
Hegseth attacks Europe over migration with beach ‘invasion’ D-Day speech
The US defence secretary was speaking in Normandy, 82 years after allied forces launched their operation to liberate Nazi-occupied north-western…
Meet Harness-1: A 20B Retrieval Subagent Trained With Reinforcement Learning Inside a Stateful Search Harness on gpt-oss-20b
Most search agents are trained as policies over a growing transcript. The model decides how to search. It must also…
100 days of the Iran war: How global markets and the economy have been affected, in charts
The conflict is about to reach its 100th day, with peace negotiations hanging in the balance.
NVIDIA garak Tutorial: Build a Complete Defensive LLM Red-Teaming Workflow with Custom Probes and Detectors
In this tutorial, we analyze NVIDIA garak as a practical framework for defensive LLM red-teaming. We start by setting up…
Social media bans on teens risk strengthening Big Tech’s grip on the sector, Bluesky exec warns
“We’re living in a world where it’s almost impossible for smaller entrants to come in and build healthier spaces,” Bluesky’s…
Google’s New Colab CLI Lets Developers and AI Agents Run Python on Remote Colab GPUs and TPUs From the Terminal
This week, Google AI team released the Colab CLI. The tool connects your local terminal to remote Colab runtimes. It…
Bitcoin is cratering, but a new Wall Street crypto hype is on the rise
As bitcoin dropped to its lowest price since 2024, investors flock to a new type of crypto investment linked to…
Scores of Ukrainian drones target St Petersburg in attack Russia calls ‘unprecedented’
The regional governor urges residents to remain indoors for the first time since the beginning of the war.
Iran’s threats against this Red Sea choke point are a big vulnerability for the oil market
Oil prices would spike if Iran’s Houthi allies started attacking ships passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi Code CLI: A Terminal AI Coding Agent Built in TypeScript for Next-Gen Agents
Moonshot AI has released Kimi Code CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal. The tool reads and…
US and Iran exchange strikes in Gulf in latest test of ceasefire
The US military says it struck Iranian drones and radar sites. Tehran responds by targeting US bases in Kuwait and…
A Hands-On Coding Tutorial on Qualcomm AI Hub Models for Classification, Object Detection, and Hardware-Aware Deployment
In this tutorial, we work through an end-to-end workflow for Qualcomm AI Hub Models. We start by setting up the…
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 QAT Checkpoints: Q4_0 and a New Mobile Format Cut On-Device Memory
Google DeepMind released Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) checkpoints for the Gemma 4 family. The release targets local deployment on edge devices…
Putin says there is ‘no point’ meeting Zelensky over ending Ukraine war
The Russian president’s refusal comes after his Ukrainian counterpart wrote an open letter calling for face-to-face talks.
Amazon unveils latest warehouse robot as tech giants continue AI layoffs
“Our experience of robots is that it’s actually driven up employment rather than the reverse,” Amazon executive John Boumphrey told…
Nasa tells ISS astronauts to shelter during air leak repair attempt
Russian attempt to repair tunnel area sparks safe-haven procedure for five other astronauts onboard.
U.S. payrolls rose by 172,000 in May, much more than expected; unemployment at 4.3%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 80,000 in May while the unemployment rate held at 4.3%.
Ukraine strikes cargo ships and admits Romania drone blast as Putin prepares for key speech
Ukraine says it struck five ships carrying illegal cargo in the Sea of Azov and in coastal waters of Russian-occupied…
NVIDIA AI Releases Dynamo Snapshot: A CRIU-Based Fast Startup System for AI Inference on Kubernetes
In production inference deployments, demand fluctuates over time, requiring inference replicas to scale elastically. Cold-starting inference workloads on Kubernetes can…
How the Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped the energy security debate
Iran’s influence over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate.
China poaches more AI talent from the U.S. as it eyes the next ‘super-app’
Tencent Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, who joined the company from OpenAI, said Friday he aims to pursue artificial general…
India’s cenbank cuts growth outlook, raises inflation forecast as it keeps rates steady at 5.25%
RBI raised its inflation projection for the year ending March 2027 by 50 basis points to 5.1%, while cutting growth…
Asia tech stocks drop after Broadcom rattles AI trade and drags Wall Street names lower
Asian technology shares fell, tracking losses in U.S. semiconductor stocks after disappointing earnings Broadcom sparked a rotation out of AI-linked…
Zelensky proposes face-to-face talks in open letter to Putin
Ukraine’s president tells the Russian leader that only “direct engagement” between the two countries could end the war, with the…
Trump says he could meet Iran’s supreme leader ‘if it was to make a deal’
Khamenei was named the supreme leader in Iran after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed on the first day…
Building a Semantic Search Engine and Open-Status Classifier over the ResearchMath-14k Dataset
In this tutorial, we work with the amphora/ResearchMath-14k dataset, a collection of research-level mathematics problems mined from arXiv. We load…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we are excited to announce the day-zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this…
Hezbollah rejects renewed ceasefire agreed by Israel and Lebanon
The United States announced the ceasefire agreement on Wednesday night following a fresh round of talks.
Micron, Marvell, and Broadcom lead chipmakers’ premarket losses
U.S. chipmakers plunged in premarket trading after Broadcom earnings disappointed investors.
Partners Group warns it could cap more fund withdrawals after triggering private equity rout
Partners Group said it could cap capital withdrawals from more of its funds after a European gating sparked a private…
Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model. It generates expressive speech from both text and audio context.…
SoftBank shares plunge over 11% amid broader tech sell-off
Shares of SoftBank fell 11% following an overnight sell-off in the U.S. market on the back of wider profit taking…
Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
Researchers at Stanford University and Lambda Labs, have published the research paper for OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that runs inference,…
SoftBank’s OpenAI bet and rising debt are raising liquidity crunch concerns
Analysts warned that the market’s renewed optimism on SoftBank is masking mounting balance-sheet risks.
How to build self-driving AI operations on Amazon Bedrock at scale
Amazon Bedrock powers generative AI for more than 100,000 organizations worldwide—from startups to global enterprises across every industry. It provides…
Israeli strikes kill nine in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires rockets over border
The incidents strain a partial ceasefire agreed by Israel and the Lebanese armed group on Monday.