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…
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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,…
Unlocking video insights at scale with Amazon Bedrock multimodal models
Video content is now everywhere, from security surveillance and media production to social platforms and enterprise communications. However, extracting meaningful…
Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction trial
The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.
Reinforcement fine-tuning on Amazon Bedrock with OpenAI-Compatible APIs: a technical walkthrough
In December 2025, we announced the availability of Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) on Amazon Bedrock starting with support for Nova models.…
‘There’s no safety anymore’: Palestinians warn of expanding West Bank settler violence
There has been a surge of attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian villages across the occupied territory since the start…
Iran won’t accept U.S. effort at ceasefire in war, state media reports
President Donald Trump has claimed the United States and Iran are “in negotiations now.” But the Islamic Republic denies any…
Oil falls over 5% as Iran signals safe passage for ‘non-hostile’ ships through Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices fell after Donald Trump that Washington and Tehran are “in negotiations right now” and indicated Iran is keen…
NVIDIA AI Introduces PivotRL: A New AI Framework Achieving High Agentic Accuracy With 4x Fewer Rollout Turns Efficiently
Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for long-horizon agentic tasks—such as software engineering, web browsing, and complex tool use—presents a persistent…
‘He liked the fear in our eyes’, Epstein survivors tell BBC
In an interview with BBC Newsnight, five women abused by the disgraced financier describe the impact of their shared ordeal.
Google Introduces TurboQuant: A New Compression Algorithm that Reduces LLM Key-Value Cache Memory by 6x and Delivers Up to 8x Speedup, All with Zero Accuracy Loss
The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) is increasingly constrained by memory communication overhead between High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and SRAM.…
U.S. sent Iran 15-point plan to end war, report says; Trump says ‘in negotiations right now’
“Operation Epic Fury continues unabated” to achieve President Donald Trump’s military objectives, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
Oil at $150 will trigger global recession, says boss of financial giant BlackRock
Larry Fink says if oil prices stay high for a sustained period it will have “profound implications” for the world…
Paged Attention in Large Language Models LLMs
When running LLMs at scale, the real limitation is GPU memory rather than compute, mainly because each request requires a…
Deploy SageMaker AI inference endpoints with set GPU capacity using training plans
Deploying large language models (LLMs) for inference requires reliable GPU capacity, especially during critical evaluation periods, limited-duration production testing, or…
A Coding Implementation to Design Self-Evolving Skill Engine with OpenSpace for Skill Learning, Token Efficiency, and Collective Intelligence
In this tutorial, we explore OpenSpace, a self-evolving skill engine developed by HKUDS that makes AI agents smarter, more cost-efficient,…
Pakistan offers to facilitate U.S.-Iran war talks as Trump and Tehran give mixed signals
Trump said top U.S. negotiators and their Iranian counterparts have been engaged in “very, very strong talks,” but Tehran has…
Accelerating custom entity recognition with Claude tool use in Amazon Bedrock
Businesses across industries face a common challenge: how to efficiently extract valuable information from vast amounts of unstructured data. Traditional…
Iran war shows norms of international conflicts have been upended
US threats against energy infrastructure, and Iran’s retaliation on its Gulf neighbours, signal a clear change.
Israel says it will take control of large buffer zone in southern Lebanon
Thousands of displaced Lebanese residents will not be allowed to return home until northern Israel is safe, he says.
Stagflation alarm bells ring in the euro zone as energy crunch hits the global economy
Economists warn stagflation — high inflation and stalling growth — is facing the region because of the Iran war.
Oil rises with Brent climbing back above $100 as optimism fades over Iran war de-escalation
Oil prices traded higher on Tuesday, with international benchmark Brent crude climbing back above $100 per barrel.
Puig stock soars 15% after Estée Lauder confirms takeover talks with Charlotte Tilbury maker
Shares of Puig Brands soared as much as 15% Tuesday after beauty peer Estée Lauder confirmed it is in talks…
Gold sinks deeper into bear market territory as sell-off extends
Gold extended its slide, deepening its grip in bear market territory as investors continued to unwind positions and a strong…
Yann LeCun’s New LeWorldModel (LeWM) Research Targets JEPA Collapse in Pixel-Based Predictive World Modeling
World Models (WMs) are a central framework for developing agents that reason and plan in a compact latent space. However,…
Ultimatums, diplomacy and a trip to Graceland as Trump eyes a deal with Iran
America may be a nation at war, but the president’s activities have been a mix of diplomacy and diversions –…
Meta AI’s New Hyperagents Don’t Just Solve Tasks—They Rewrite the Rules of How They Learn
The dream of recursive self-improvement in AI—where a system doesn’t just get better at a task, but gets better at…
Japan core inflation in February misses estimates, headline CPI eases for a fourth straight month
The consumer price index fell to 1.3% last month, its lowest level since March 2022 and below the central bank’s…
A pharmacist and a homesick lifestyle blogger: The ‘alarming’ civilian cost of war in Iran
The toll on civilians is mounting fast as the US-Israeli war on Iran continues.
How to Design a Production-Ready AI Agent That Automates Google Colab Workflows Using Colab-MCP, MCP Tools, FastMCP, and Kernel Execution
In this tutorial, we build an advanced, hands-on tutorial around Google’s newly released colab-mcp, an open-source MCP (Model Context Protocol)…
How Reco transforms security alerts using Amazon Bedrock
This post is cowritten by Tal Shapira and Tamir Friedman from Reco. Reco helps organizations strengthen the security of their…
Trump tells CNBC ‘we are very intent on making a deal’ with Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would order the military to postpone strikes on Iran’s power plants and…
Gold and silver in freefall as investors flee safe haven metals trade
Precious metals resumed their sharp sell-off on Monday as the Iran conflict weighs over investor sentiment.
Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York’s LaGuardia Airport halting flights
An Air Canada Express plane suffered significant damage after the collision.
Asia stocks slide as US and Iran threaten to intensify war
The International Energy Agency chief said the war could lead to the world’s worst energy crisis in decades.
Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build
Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats…
How BM25 and RAG Retrieve Information Differently?
When you type a query into a search engine, something has to decide which documents are actually relevant — and…
Asia markets tumble as Trump-Iran threats keep investors on edge; Nikkei, Kospi fall 4%
Asia-Pacific markets tumbled on Monday as investors weighed escalating tensions in the Middle East after the U.S. and Iran threatened…
Implementing Deep Q-Learning (DQN) from Scratch Using RLax JAX Haiku and Optax to Train a CartPole Reinforcement Learning Agent
In this tutorial, we implement a reinforcement learning agent using RLax, a research-oriented library developed by Google DeepMind for building…
Altcoin Trading Volumes Hit Multi-Month Lows, Market Interest Waning
Altcoin trading activity has continued to weaken across the crypto market, which is another sign of the current investor appetite…
The economy has a Strait of Hormuz deadline for Trump: Two weeks
Corporate executives are not panicking over a short-term increase in oil prices and Strait of Hormuz closure, but patience may…
Meet GitAgent: The Docker for AI Agents that is Finally Solving the Fragmentation between LangChain, AutoGen, and Claude Code
The current state of AI agent development is characterized by significant architectural fragmentation. Software devs building autonomous systems must generally…
Israeli settlers target Palestinian villages in occupied West Bank, attacking people and properties
The violence began after 18-year-old settler Yehuda Sherman was killed after reportedly being hit by a vehicle driven by a…
U.K. confirms Iran fired two missiles at British-American base in Indian Ocean which failed to reach their target
Iran fired the two missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean but they failed to…
A Coding Implementation for Building and Analyzing Crystal Structures Using Pymatgen for Symmetry Analysis, Phase Diagrams, Surface Generation, and Materials Project Integration
In this tutorial, we explore the capabilities of the pymatgen library for computational materials science using Python. We begin by…
Iranian strike hits near Israeli nuclear facility after Tehran says its site targeted
The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency called for “maximum military restraint” following the strikes.
Trump at a crossroads in US-Israel war with Iran
Statements from President Trump that the war is almost over are not matching up with the reality on the ground.
Safely Deploying ML Models to Production: Four Controlled Strategies (A/B, Canary, Interleaved, Shadow Testing)
Deploying a new machine learning model to production is one of the most critical stages of the ML lifecycle. Even…
U.K. says Iran unsuccessfully targeted British-American Diego Garcia base
The Wall Street Journal quoted U.S. officials as saying that one missile failed in flight, while the other was intercepted.
Trump says he doesn’t want Iran war ceasefire, but is considering ‘winding down’ military ops
President Donald Trump also said the Strait of Hormuz, “will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other…