Oil prices fall as Saudi supply hopes outweigh fresh Houthi strikes
Oil prices fell on Friday as additional Saudi crude supplies help ease disruption fears.
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Microsoft Open-Sources TauGrid: A Kubernetes-Native Stack for GPU AI Workloads
Platform teams running AI on Kubernetes rarely run one thing. They run a queueing system, a distributed runtime, GPU node…
Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Hiring at scale in industries such as retail, logistics, hospitality, and others has its fair share of challenges. Recruiting teams…
Canada welcomes EU proposal to become ‘associate member’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Canada-EU alliance would create a “beacon for other democracies”.
Selecting a vector store for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
When building a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, selecting the right vector store impacts performance…
Ninth woman’s body found as South African police investigate string of deaths
South Africa police have cautioned against assuming that all the killings are linked but many women are afraid.
Carney says Canada will decide its own partnerships after Trump calls EU proposal ‘laughable’
U.S. President Donald Trump had described the prospect of Canada becoming the first associate member of the EU as “laughable.”
Bank of England defies Fed’s rate-hike lead, leaving rates unchanged
The Bank of England kept rates steady Thursday, even after U.K. inflation rose to 3.1% and energy costs put pressure…
OpenAI Releases a Model Misalignment Disclosure Framework With 3 Review Tracks and 6 Incident Reports From RL Training
OpenAI has released a new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing misalignment in its own models. The OpenAI team announced…
Assad regime planned US journalist’s kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
Google Research Introduces Retrieve-for-Train (R4T): An RL-Compiled Diffusion Retriever for 12× to 20× Faster Query Fan-Out
Search and recommendation systems increasingly need to return a set of results, not one best match. A query like ‘camping…
‘Hostile act’: Trump threatens EU with tariffs over Canada associate-membership proposal
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said EU is opening the door for Canada to become the first associate…
Nunchux AI Introduces VC-Attention: A Training-Free Low-Bit Attention Kernel That Speeds Up Video Diffusion Transformers
Nunchux AI has released VC-Attention, a training-free low-bit attention kernel built for video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). It targets 2 problems…
Stanford Researchers Release Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into AI Agents That Reproduce Results and Run on New Data
Computational papers ship code that readers must clone, install, configure and debug. That cost keeps useful methods locked inside PDFs.…
US interest rates raised for first time in three years
The Federal Reserve unanimously voted to increase interest rates to 3.75%-4% from 3.5%-3.75% on Wednesday.
Trump demands 1% or lower interest rate after first Fed hike since 2023
President Donald Trump previously threatened to cut off trade with countries that have trade surpluses with the U.S. if the…
Knowledgator Releases GLiFormer: A 575M-Parameter Encoder That Hits 91.10 F1 on Nested JSON Extraction Without Generating Tokens
Knowledgator Engineering has released GLiFormer, a schema-conditioned encoder framework for information extraction. One model handles named-entity recognition (NER), text classification,…
Fed approves interest rate hike, signals one more to come this year
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved its first interest rate hike since 2023 and indicated another to come.
Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills
AI agents built on foundation models (FMs) often misapply healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) decision frameworks, even when they’ve seen…
Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In a previous launch post, we introduced AgentCore optimization, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that can help you improve…
World’s top-performing sovereign wealth fund warns of looming pullback in U.S. stock market
New Zealand’s $54 billion pension fund returned 14.2% in the year to June.
EU chief opens door for Canada to become ‘associate member’
Canada is seeking closer ties with EU after a breakdown in relations with the US and its president Donald Trump.
Yield on 10-year Treasury hovers above 5% as investors await Fed decision
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to hike interest rates on Wednesday.
Canada invited to become EU’s first ‘associate member’ as Trump trade war intensifies
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said the bloc wants to open the door for Canada to become its first…
OpenAI boss says world ‘right to be afraid’ but should trust AI firms
Sam Altman and other tech CEOs say there are incentives to limit advancements in AI, as fears grow over the…
Saudi says Houthis targeted Mecca with a drone, Iran-backed group rejects claim
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the strike as a “heinous” attack. Mecca is Islam’s holiest site and the focal…
Prior Labs Releases TabPFN-3.5: A Tabular Foundation Model That Beats the Winning Otto Kaggle Solution With Default Settings
Prior Labs has released TabPFN-3.5, the newest version of its tabular foundation model. It predicts on a table in a…
Nums AI Releases Causilo: A Tabular Foundation Model That Tops TabArena Among Single Models
Nums AI has released Causilo, a pretrained tabular foundation model for classification and regression. Causilo comes with a scikit-learn interface,…
BOJ expected to hike rates by 25 basis points to fresh three-decade high: CNBC survey
The BOJ is expected to hike rates by 25 basis points to a fresh three-decade high, a CNBC survey shows.
All support acts on Ed Sheeran’s US tour quit after Macklemore dropped
The star said he was not responsible for Macklemore being dropped from the line-up after he made pro-Palestinian statements on…
Inside NVIDIA’s cuDNN Graph API: Fusion, Autotuning, and Plan Reuse with cuDNN Frontend
In this tutorial, we work through the cuDNN Frontend‘s graph API from below the framework: we describe a computation as…
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for Production Grade Voice Agents
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced live dialogue models to date.…
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic discussing collaboration on AI safety issues
Discussions have been ongoing since Google’s Demis Hassabis released a proposal in July calling for a U.S.-led “Standards Body,” the…
Denmark says Russian warship fired flares at military helicopter
The Danish prime minister has accused Russia of “reckless” behaviour, while the Kremlin is yet to comment.
Musk urges top AI labs, Chinese companies to test each other’s models amid calls for slowdown
Elon Musk called for the leading AI labs to peer review each others’ models before they’re released to the public…
Optimizing cost and latency with Amazon Bedrock prompt caching
Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can reduce your input token costs by up to 90 percent when you repeatedly send…
Trump says AI safety fears a ‘hoax’ as he rejects calls for greater safeguards
The US president’s comments come after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC an AI “kill switch” may need to…
10-year Treasury yield rises to highest since 2007 as Fed rate-hike expectations rise
The sell-off in U.S. government debt is deepening as investors increasingly price in an interest rate hike this week.
Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second
Meta engineering team introduced ZGateway, a proxy tier that now sits between client applications and ZippyDB, the Meta’s most widely…
China’s August retail sales miss forecast while investment slump deepens, piling pressure on Beijing
China’s investment slump deepened, retail sales growth slowed further in August while industrial output blew past estimates as Beijing warns…
Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale
AI agents now run in production at a scale of billions of operations a day, and a recurring architectural pattern…
Agent Harness vs Agent Framework vs MCP: Which Layer Owns the Loop, State, Tools, Permissions, and Recovery
Harness, framework, and MCP get used interchangeably in agent architecture discussions. They are not the same thing. They sit at…
Trump says no need for more AI regulation, slams Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
The Trump administration has encouraged AI’s rapid growth and the development of data centers as it seeks an insurmountable tech…
How Ninth Wave built AI-powered open finance onboarding on Amazon Bedrock
Financial institutions participating in open finance (the network where banks share customer-authorized financial data with third-party applications through standardized APIs)…
China criticises idea it is in ‘malicious competition’ over AI
It follows the Anthropic CEO’s calls for a slowdown in AI development – but in a way that prevents China…
Microsoft sets limits for future AI models as industry throttles frontier development
Microsoft wants to be seen as a responsible AI entity as it ramps up model development alongside partners Anthropic and…
OpenAI boss Sam Altman spells out how and why the AI industry wants to slow down: ‘We could lose control’
OpenAI’s chief has made comments detailing how AI safety frameworks and a slowdown could work, as the industry unites behind…
AI stocks slide after major CEOs unite to urge slowdown
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the industry “must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,”…
NVIDIA Open-Sources OSMO: One YAML Orchestrates Physical AI Training, Simulation, and Robot Testing
Robot developers do not have one compute problem. They have 3. A policy is trained on GB200 or H100 clusters,…
Trump says U.S. may keep Iranian oil ‘like Venezuela’ as Gulf-Iran Hormuz talks stall
Trump said revenue from the Venezuela arrangement has “paid for the war many times.”