Russia launches largest attack on Ukraine energy infrastructure since spring
In total 11 regions of the country were attacked overnight, with residential buildings and railways also targeted, the Ukrainian PM…
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Trump’s meeting with tech leaders leaves AI safety more unsettled than ever
Following Trump’s lunch with AI leaders at the White House, the industry remains largely unchanged on AI safety.
OpenAI is sued over rogue AI Hugging Face cyberattack
The lawsuit appears to be the first publicly reported case seeking to hold an AI developer liable for an incident…
Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms
Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had…
Hedge funds hold a record share of the $30 trillion Treasury market. What could go wrong?
Hedge funds can boost Treasury market liquidity, but their growing role also risks creating financial instability.
Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons
Mindgard said it discovered in July that Kimi models K2.6 and K3 Swarm could evade developer’s safety limits.
Beijing warns of retaliation if Europe imposes curbs on Chinese businesses
China must “respond firmly” if the EU introduces restrictions on Chinese businesses or products, the Commerce Ministry said, according to…
Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India
We’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 in India.…
One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can track them. They hold credentials, carry entitlements, and act…
Trump tries to rename AI ‘super intelligence’ as polls show him sinking on key issue
Trump shrugged when asked if he is concerned that his support for AI and data centers could hurt Republicans in…
Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens
Liquid AI has released d1, a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context…
Trump says he and tech leaders signed AI agreement that is ‘morally binding’
The artificial intelligence luncheon comes as calls for a slowdown and regulation reach a fever pitch
Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that…
OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers
OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets…
Spain announces ban on evictions after protests over 87-year-old woman’s removal from flat
The ban is part of a number of proposals that must be approved in parliament within 30 days.
Prompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick
Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick determines how accurately and reliably the platform’s AI-powered features respond to your natural-language requests. Whether…
Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Prizes, Nine Judges, and an October 25 Deadline
Once a physical AI product is in the field, the compute problem changes shape. Fleet data starts arriving faster than…
America’s Canadian import restrictions come into force. Here are the products barred from entry
President Donald Trump says he expects Ottawa to concede to its demands on trade in the coming weeks, but Canadian…
‘I was lured into a trap’: Evan Gershkovich on moment that led to 16 months in Russian jail
The US journalist says he realised he was a “a pawn in a greater game” when he was not interrogated…
Jamie Dimon has a plan to revive the West: A ‘big, beautiful’ deal with Europe
“Many of the current disputes between Europe and the U.S. are minor compared with this agreement’s size and benefits,” the…
Mistral CEO says U.S. AI safety debate masks competitors’ ‘negligence’
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch criticized rivals’ AI safety arguments as the industry faces scrutiny after several AI agents took unauthorized…
Putin orders army expansion as Zelenskyy warns Russia preparing to deploy 10,000 North Korean troops
The decree marks the fourth increase in Russia’s military staffing levels this year as the war in Ukraine continues into…
Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting
Google Cloud AI Research, with UNC-Chapel Hill, Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis, has released RRSI (Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement).…
Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a 5-model audio stack spanning ASR, TTS and realtime interaction. The main model is…
U.S., Iran hold separate mediator talks as Mideast oil exports hit war-time high
Iranian and U.S. officials reportedly met separately with mediators Monday to push for a ceasefire, as Middle Eastern crude exports…
Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at the Same $2/$10 Price
Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, following Claude Opus 5.5.…
OpenAI scraps rollout of new model over safety concerns
The AI giant’s safety chief said the model ‘didn’t quite meet the bar’ of the firm’s security standards.
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI’s Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge…
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude…
NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds
NVIDIA has launched the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system design for AI agent…
Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
Voice agents, interactive learning applications, accessibility tools, and customer service assistants need to respond without long silent pauses. In this…
Nvidia releases software platform to stop AI agents from misbehaving
Nvidia says its news software could have prevented OpenAI’s HuggingFace incident.
Trump ‘very seriously’ considering diesel export ban as global supply crunch worsens
Analysts warn an export ban could backfire, pushing up global diesel prices and potentially triggering higher U.S. gasoline prices as…
Fireworks AI Releases Ember-1: A Post-Trained Kimi K3 That Uses About 40% Fewer Tokens
Fireworks AI has released Ember-1, a specialized model from Fireworks Research built by post-training Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi K3. Ember-1…
Brent gains 2.7% as Trump rejects Iranian proposal to reopen Hormuz Strait
Iran offered to reopen the key shipping route and restart negotiations with the U.S. within seven days, if the Trump…
20 Agentic Use Cases of TypeSafe AI’s Jev
Last week, TypeSafe AI released Jev, its first System One model. Founder Diogo Almeida previously worked at OpenAI on the…
China posts weakest industrial profit growth this year, expanding 4.2% in August
Economists expect Beijing to lean harder on stimulus to stabilize corporate profitability, as consolidation accelerates in sectors facing sluggish demand…
Inside Yemen’s front-line city as Houthis battle for control
In rare access to Yemen’s conflict zone the BBC travels to the front line with pro-government soldiers.
Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran ready for ‘doomsday’ war with U.S., but leaves diplomacy on the table
Iran’s foreign minister says talks are the only way to break the deadlock, while its navy says it’s analyzing data…
Debt-hungry AI companies face increased risk as bond yields spike
The AI infrastructure buildout shows no sign of slowing, but the surge in Treasury yields means it’s at least going…
Iran says it will wait for official US response after Trump rejects Strait of Hormuz proposal
The US president earlier said that Tehran only made the proposal to open the strait within seven days because “they’re…
AI Coding Agents for Enterprise: IP Indemnity, Data Residency and 500-Seat Cost Compared
Our ‘Top AI Coding Agents and Development Platforms‘ guide covered what each AI coding agent does and where it fits.…
OpenAI expands review of model behavior after more rogue agent incidents emerge
OpenAI is conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity after disclosures involving an Australian government portal and other websites.
Sarvam AI Releases Saaras V4: A Speech-to-Text Model for All 22 Indian Languages and Global English
Sarvam AI has released Saaras V4, the newest generation of its speech recognition model. It covers all 22 scheduled Indian…
Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU
Supersonic Labs, a small AI lab from Brazil, has released Julia 1. It is a compact decision model, not a…
Huge crowds greet Pope in Paris for open-air Mass
More than half a million people are expected to attend the event in the heart of the French capital.
Trump rejects Iran’s conditional ceasefire proposal, WSJ reports, as Saudi coalition intercepts projectiles
Trump expects renewed U.S. bombing of Iran after the midterm elections, The Wall Street Journal reports, as Saudi-backed forces intercept…
Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building
Exa has released Agent Ultra, the highest effort level of its Exa Agent API. It is built for research that…
OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
Iran offers US deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days
Asked about the Iranian offer, a US official told the BBC “constructive discussions” were taking place through mediators.