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…
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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.
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding
Liquid AI has announced LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, an experimental speculative-decoding draft model for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. The drafter adds about 280M…
Russia targeting ‘ordinary life’ with attacks on data centres, Zelensky says
Such strikes aim to disrupt “people’s ability to stay connected, study, work”, says Ukraine’s president.
Trump, Xi wrap state visit centered on spectacle over substance. Here are the top takeaways
President Trump and Chinese leader Xi went heavy on the ceremony and light on deliverables as they danced around Taiwan…
Special agents’ blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack
Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.
Scaling MoE reinforcement learning on Amazon EKS with EFA and DeepEP with 40% more throughput
When you post-train a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)…
Pope warns against ‘losing humanity’ to AI machines
The pontiff delivered the warning on the first day of his trip to France on Friday.
Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to…
US and China must act as responsible powers together, Xi says as Trump toasts friendship at state dinner
Trump said he and Xi had “never gotten along better” as he hosted the Chinese president at the lavish White…
Iran says it’s up to U.S. to end war as China presses for de-escalation
The remarks came as the Houthis launched a new wave of missile and drone attacks at Saudi targets Friday morning.
Xi got Trump’s red carpet welcome – but not everything he wanted
China wanted progress on trade, technology and Taiwan – but hasn’t got as much as it would have hoped for.
Trump, Xi to attend state dinner after White House meeting
Trump greeted China’s Xi at Joint Base Andrews, marking the U.S. president’s first time traveling to the facility to welcome…
Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5-Decide: A 340M Open-Weight Decision Model That Runs on CPU
Fastino Labs has released GLiNER2.5-Decide, a 340M-parameter open-weight decision model. It takes text and a schema of typed questions and…
Netanyahu defends Israeli military actions in Middle East in UN speech
Dozens of delegates walked out in protest as he took the podium, with the Israeli leader labelling them “moral cowards”.
Senate narrowly votes down resolution calling for end to Iran war
The vote came weeks before the midterm elections, where President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans are trying to retain their majorities…
BottleCap AI Releases ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B: 37.2% Fewer Thinking Tokens at a 0.86pp Accuracy Cost
BottleCap AI has released ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B, the second model in its ThinkingCap series. It is a fine-tune of the Qwen team’s…
Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI
Any team working with spoken audio hits the same wall with generic speech-to-text. Think contact-center calls, all-hands meetings, podcasts, depositions,…
White House ‘repeatedly violated’ court order to restore press access, say media outlets
Employees from CNN, Politico and MS Now reported being denied entry, with some having passes confiscated.
30-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2004
U.S. Treasury yields continued their upward momentum after hitting a 19-year high on Wednesday.
Global debt tops $365 trillion as economists sound alarm over ‘vicious cycle’
More is being paid out by advanced economies in debt interest than the whole world spends on AI, defense or…
Judge lifts Trump ban on CNN, MS NOW, Politico from White House
District Judge Tim Kelly said the three outlets should have their access immediately restored from the ban that the president…
Contrastive-LM Releases CLM-8B: An Open System One Model That Scores Agent Actions Up to 9× Faster Than Jev
Contrastive-LM has released CLM-8B, the first open model in a new class called Contrastive Language Models (CLMs). CLM does not…
OpenAI agent ‘infiltrated’ Australian government website, PM says
Albanese said he expressed “concern” to OpenAI founder Sam Altman, after authorities were informed three months after the breach in…
U.S.-China trade truce extended for two months, Bessent says, as Xi begins state visit
The deal, which was set to expire in November, will now be extended to Jan. 10, Bessent said, noting the…
A Coding Guide to TypeSafe AI Jev: Typed Decisions, Calibrated Confidence, and Speculative Fan-Out with a System One Model
In this tutorial, we work with Jev, TypeSafe AI’s first System One model, which does not generate text at all:…
America’s Asian allies want a Trump-Xi truce — but not at their expense
There are concerns that Trump could soften Washington’s position on Taiwan or other regional security issues in return for concessions…
AI superpower ambitions take centre stage as Trump and Xi meet
The US and China are vying for AI supremacy while seeking to keep it under human control.
As Trump and Xi meet, Chinese automakers could be a Pandora’s box for U.S. auto industry
Trump’s meeting with Xi comes as U.S. automakers and lawmakers push to keep restrictions on Chinese vehicles and manufacturers.
From portal-hopping to instant answers: HEMA’s journey with MCP and Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Mauro Rallo and Patrick van der Plas from HEMA. When engineers at HEMA needed an…
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, 2 new text-to-speech models in its Gemini Audio…
Agentic conversational video intelligence built on AWS
With video intelligence powered by agentic AI, you can ask natural language questions about uploaded videos and get answers within…
NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3 Diarization: A 100M-Parameter Open-Weight Model That Tracks 8 Speakers in Real Time
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face. It answers one question about any…
Iran’s president tells Trump it will never ‘bend the knee’
Masoud Pezeshkian’s defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to “annihilate” Iran if a peace deal…
Iran’s president blames U.S., Israel for global instability in defiant UN speech
Pezeshkian began his address to the UN General Assembly in New York City by holding up photos of children he…
Trump-Xi summit puts AI safety talks on the table but neither side wants to slow down
Recent weeks have seen AI safety fears reach new heights. That will be a key focus for the U.S. and…
Nokia Open-Sources AnyJev: A Training-Free Layer That Turns Any Open LLM Into a Calibrated Decision Model
Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It…
US and Iran hold first talks since June after Trump’s ‘annihilation’ threat
The talks are the first since a ceasefire collapsed in June, with the sides exchanging fire intermittently.
Iran floats conditions for Hormuz reopening as Trump says deal could come after midterms
Tehran’s proposal could pave the way for restoring traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, reviving fragile hopes for a diplomatic…
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Sol and Luna: 50% Cheaper API Pricing and Benchmarks
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, 2 new models in its GPT-6 family. They sit below GPT-6 Astra,…
Oil falls after U.S. and Iran talk for hours at UN meeting
Oil fell Wednesday, amid hopes of a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the Middle East after Iran and the…
SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone: Turning Your Voice into Polished Communication, and Action across Apps
Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most…
Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran in UN speech as officials meet on sidelines
In his speech, the US president pondered whether a peace deal would be agreed or whether he would have to…
US to build two military bases in Greenland under new deal with Denmark
The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark’s sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.
Bring more intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you more options to match intelligence and…
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Running Cost Than Opus 5
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs…
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Opus 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, the…
Sri Lanka court convicts 15 men over deadly Easter Sunday bombings
Three churches and three luxury hotels were targeted in the 2019 attacks which killed 270.
How Reactiv automates mobile commerce 80% faster with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Reactiv offers a mobile commerce product that helps Shopify merchants launch and manage native mobile apps, where shoppers convert at…