U.S. and Iran trade fire in Strait of Hormuz; each claims other shot first
CENTCOM’s statement does not mention the status of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, which has already been frayed by repeated claims that…
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LightSeek Foundation Releases TokenSpeed, an Open-Source LLM Inference Engine Targeting TensorRT-LLM-Level Performance for Agentic Workloads
Inference efficiency has quietly become one of the most consequential bottlenecks in AI deployment. As agentic coding systems such as…
While many international brands retreat, McDonald’s is supersizing its China business
McDonald’s plans to have 10,000 locations in China by the end of 2028, and the country is its second largest…
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg set to join Trump on China visit next week
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is expected to join President Donald Trump on his visit to China next week, a source…
Secure short-term GPU capacity for ML workloads with EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and SageMaker training plans
As companies of various sizes adopt graphic processing units (GPU)-based machine learning (ML) training, fine-tuning and inference workloads, the demand…
Race to trace passengers who left hantavirus cruise ship at island
A 69-year-old woman who later died in South Africa is among those who left MV Hondius at St Helena.
Agents that transact: Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, built with Coinbase and Stripe
We’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in how software gets built and used. AI agents are moving beyond…
Gold and silver’s historic rally could resume ‘as fog of war lifts’, market watchers say
On Thursday, spot gold jumped 1.2% to $4,750 per ounce amid hopes that the U.S. and Iran could be nearing…
Shipping giant boss warns Iran war will have bigger impact in coming months as customers face price hikes
Maersk said the Iran war had introduced an “additional layer of uncertainty” as it reported first-quarter earnings on Thursday.
Meta AI Releases NeuralBench: A Unified Open-Source Framework to Benchmark NeuroAI Models Across 36 EEG Tasks and 94 Datasets
Evaluating AI models trained on brain signals has long been a messy, inconsistent topic. Different research groups use different preprocessing…
Shell tops profit estimates as Iran war boosts oil price, cuts share buybacks
Britain’s Shell posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as the Iran war sent fossil fuel prices soaring.
Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Reasoning MoE Trained on AMD Hardware That Punches Far Above Its Weight Class
Zyphra AI has released ZAYA1-8B, a small Mixture of Experts (MoE) language model with 760 million active parameters and 8.4…
SoftBank shares surge over 16% as Japan tech-fueled rally lifts Nikkei 225 to record highs
The benchmark Nikkei 225 surged over 5% to a record high as Japan reopened after extended Golden Week holidays.
Iran considering US proposal to end war, official says
The White House reportedly believes it could be closing in on a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 tops 61,000 for the first time as Asia markets look past Trump’s Iran threats
Asia-Pacific markets jumped, shrugging off renewed tensions in the Middle East.
A Groq-Powered Agentic Research Assistant with LangGraph, Tool Calling, Sub-Agents, and Agentic Memory: Lets Built It
In this tutorial, we build a Groq-powered agentic research workflow that runs directly using Groq’s free OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint. We…
Hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Cape Verde after three evacuated
A British man is among three evacuees sent to the Netherlands after displaying symptoms while aboard the MV Hondius.
CopilotKit Introduces Enterprise Intelligence Platform That Gives Agentic Applications Persistent Memory Across Sessions and Devices
Most agentic applications today have a memory problem. Every time a user opens a new session, the agent starts from…
Cost effective deployment of vision-language models for pet behavior detection on AWS Inferentia2
Tomofun, the Taiwan-headquartered pet-tech startup behind the Furbo Pet Camera, is redefining how pet owners interact with their pets remotely.…
Oil prices drop and stock markets rise after reports of deal to end Iran war
Reports have raised hopes of an agreement between the US and Iran after days of escalation.
Trump says Iran will be bombed ‘at much higher level’ if they don’t agree to peace deal
Washington reportedly expects responses from Tehran on several key points within the next 48 hours.
Oil prices fall sharply on report U.S. and Iran closing in on a deal to end war
Oil prices fell after Trump said the U.S. would pause its naval escort endeavor in the Strait of Hormuz, raising…
Google AI Releases Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) Drafters for Gemma 4: Delivering Up to 3x Faster Inference Without Quality Loss
Large language models are getting incredibly powerful, but let’s be honest—their inference speed is still a massive headache for anyone…
Novo Nordisk stock jumps 6% after drugmaker hikes forcast as Wegovy pill sales smash forecasts
Novo Nordisk raised its outlook for 2026 after a strong performance from its newly launched Wegovy pill.
When Claude Hallucinates in Court: The Latham & Watkins Incident and What It Means for Attorney Liability
There is a particular kind of irony that the legal profession rarely gets to witness in such pristine form. In…
To stay or risk the ‘Road of Death’ – Ukrainian civilians trapped in frontline city
People in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky say they have been cut off from fresh supplies of food or medicine…
China hosts Iran’s top diplomat just days ahead of Trump’s high-stakes visit
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi trip to Beijing on Wednesday marks the first time he has visited China since the…
Inworld AI Launches Realtime TTS-2: A Closed-Loop Voice Model That Adapts to How You Actually Talk
Voice AI has a dirty secret: most of it was never designed for conversation. The dominant paradigm — feed text…
Offensive stage of Iran war is over, US Secretary of State Rubio says
As a spate of incidents in the Strait of Hormuz test the ceasefire, an Iranian official says, “We are just…
Trump pauses U.S. bid to guide ships out of Strait of Hormuz, cites Iran deal progress
President Donald Trump said he is pausing “Project Freedom,” the U.S. military’s bid to guide commercial ships out of the…
AMD tops estimates for first quarter as data center revenue jumps 57%
AMD’s earnings report lands as investors rush into the stock on optimism that the AI boom is just getting started.
Closing the ‘Expressivity Gap’: How Mistral’s Voxtral TTS is Redefining Multilingual Voice Cloning with a Hybrid Autoregressive and Flow-Matching Architecture
Voice AI has a dirty secret. Most text-to-speech systems sound fine — until they don’t. They can read a sentence.…
Micron zooms past $700 billion market cap as rally in memory stocks accelerates
Micron has emerged as one of the most valuable U.S. tech companies thanks to insatiable demand for memory that’s needed…
How Hapag-Lloyd uses Amazon Bedrock to transform customer feedback into actionable insights
Hapag-Lloyd stands as one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies, operating a modern fleet of 313 container ships with…
Intel soars 14% on report of Apple chip talks, hits new all-time high
The jump comes on reports that Apple is discussing using Intel chips for its U.S. devices and follows a historic…
Secure AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity on Amazon ECS
AI agents in production require secure access to external services. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity, available as a standalone service, secures…
Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO says
Two cases of the virus, which rarely spreads between humans, have been confirmed on the ship, and three people have…
Markets on edge as fresh U.S.-Iran attacks dent optimism over a peace deal
The U.S.’ bid to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, dubbed “Project Freedom,” was nicknamed “Project Deadlock” by Iran.
Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 26 people
A blast at a fireworks factory in Hunan province has killed 26 people and injured 61, state media report.
Oil prices slide as new attacks in Strait of Hormuz threaten fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire
Oil prices declined on Tuesday, retreating from sharp gains in the previous session.
UniCredit CEO says taking control of Commerzbank ‘not the expected scenario’
The Italian lender is making a takeover bid for German rival Commerzbank, despite pushback in Germany.
Why Gradient Descent Zigzags and How Momentum Fixes It
Gradient descent has a fundamental limitation: on most real-world loss surfaces, it is inefficient. When the surface has uneven curvature—steep…
HSBC shares drop as first-quarter pre-tax profit misses estimates on higher expected credit losses
Europe’s largest lender HSBC on Tuesday reported first-quarter pre-tax profit of $9.4 billion, marginally missing analysts’ estimates.
A Coding Guide to Survey Bias Correction Using Facebook Research Balance with IPW CBPS Ranking and Post Stratification Methods
In this tutorial, we walk through a complete, end-to-end workflow for correcting bias in survey data using the balance library.…
US strikes Iranian fast boats as Iran attacks UAE oil facility
Meanwhile shipping company Maersk said one of its US-flagged commercial vessels had successfully exited the Strait of Hormuz under US…
Zyphra Introduces Tensor and Sequence Parallelism (TSP): A Hardware-Aware Training and Inference Strategy That Delivers 2.6x Throughput Over Matched TP+SP Baselines
Training and serving large transformer models at scale is fundamentally a memory management problem. Every GPU in a cluster has…
Beyond BI: How the Dataset Q&A feature of Amazon Quick powers the next generation of data decisions
Business leaders across industries rely on operational dashboards as the shared source of truth that their teams execute against daily.…
Top Search and Fetch APIs for Building AI Agents in 2026: Tools, Tradeoffs, and Free Tiers
Web search and content retrieval have quietly become the most critical infrastructure decisions in AI agent development. An agent without…
Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd in German city of Leipzig
Mayor Burkhard Jung said a suspect was detained and the motive was unclear.
Introducing the agent performance loop: AgentCore Optimization now in preview
Generate recommendations from production traces, validate them with batch evaluation and A/B testing, and ship with confidence. AI agents that…