US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s Press TV had earlier reported that parliament had approved a plan to close the Strait.
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Oil at $100 a barrel? U.S. role in Iran-Israel fight fuels market jitters
Oil markets are entering a new phase of uncertainty after the U.S. entered the war between Iran and Israel, said…
Decoy flights and seven B-2 stealth bombers – how US says it hit Iran’s nuclear sites
A timeline of how the complex mission unfolded was laid out in a Pentagon briefing.
Building Production-Ready Custom AI Agents for Enterprise Workflows with Monitoring, Orchestration, and Scalability
In this tutorial, we walk you through the design and implementation of a custom agent framework built on PyTorch and…
Watch: How successful have the US strikes on Iran been?
BBC security analyst Gordon Corera examines how much damage is likely to have been caused to Iran’s nuclear sites.
U.S. calls on China to prevent Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz and disrupting global oil flows
Iran’s foreign minister warned earlier Sunday that the Islamic Republic “reserves all options to defend its sovereignty” after U.S. airstrikes.
EmbodiedGen: A Scalable 3D World Generator for Realistic Embodied AI Simulations
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Iran says it reserves all options after ‘outrageous’ U.S. strikes, launches fresh attacks on Israel
Iran launched its 20th wave of missile and drone strikes against Israeli military targets, according to Iran state-owned media Fars.
Google Researchers Release Magenta RealTime: An Open-Weight Model for Real-Time AI Music Generation
Google’s Magenta team has introduced Magenta RealTime (Magenta RT), an open-weight, real-time music generation model that brings unprecedented interactivity to…
DeepSeek Researchers Open-Sources a Personal Project named ‘nano-vLLM’: A Lightweight vLLM Implementation Built from Scratch
The DeepSeek Researchers just released a super cool personal project named ‘nano-vLLM‘, a minimalistic and efficient implementation of the vLLM…
IBM’s MCP Gateway: A Unified FastAPI-Based Model Context Protocol Gateway for Next-Gen AI Toolchains
The development and deployment of advanced AI systems increasingly depend on flexible, robust orchestration layers that bridge diverse models, tools,…
Watch: Trump says strikes on Iran a ‘spectacular military success’ in address
The US president says strikes on three sites were a “spectacular military success”.
US strike on Iran is loaded with risks for Trump
As well as retaliation risks, the president who styled himself as a “peacemaker” could face party dissent over Iran attack.
Israel says it killed Iran’s military co-ordinator with Hamas
Saeed Izadi had been in charge of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’s ties with Palestinian armed groups.
Trump says U.S. attacked three Iran nuclear sites
President Donald Trump will address the nation at 10:00 p.m. Saturday.
This AI Paper Introduces WINGS: A Dual-Learner Architecture to Prevent Text-Only Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal LLMs: Expanding Capabilities Across Text and Vision Expanding large language models (LLMs) to handle multiple modalities, particularly images and…
Mistral AI Releases Mistral Small 3.2: Enhanced Instruction Following, Reduced Repetition, and Stronger Function Calling for AI Integration
With the frequent release of new large language models (LLMs), there is a persistent quest to minimize repetitive errors, enhance…
Building Event-Driven AI Agents with UAgents and Google Gemini: A Modular Python Implementation Guide
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to use the UAgents framework to build a lightweight, event-driven AI agent architecture on…
Why Generalization in Flow Matching Models Comes from Approximation, Not Stochasticity
Introduction: Understanding Generalization in Deep Generative Models Deep generative models, including diffusion and flow matching, have shown outstanding performance in…
Israel-Iran Conflict: Live Updates: Israel Kills Iranian Commander as Both Countries Trade Strikes
Israel said it had killed a senior commander of the force that oversees Iran’s proxy militias in the Middle East.…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in…
A lesson for the West? Japan was better prepared than most for China’s rare-earth mineral squeeze
Japan’s transformation is seen as both a template for Western nations and a stark reminder of just how difficult it…
Building an A2A-Compliant Random Number Agent: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing the Low-Level Executor Pattern with Python
The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol is a new standard by Google that enables AI agents—regardless of their underlying framework or developer—to…
China’s property sector has been in an extended slump. Shrinking population is making it worse
China’s shrinking population is estimated to dent home demand by 0.5 million units yearly in the 2020s, Goldman Sachs estimates.
Iran will consider diplomacy when aggression stops, foreign minister says
Iran says it will not resume talks with the US over its nuclear programme while under attack.
PoE-World + Planner Outperforms Reinforcement Learning RL Baselines in Montezuma’s Revenge with Minimal Demonstration Data
The Importance of Symbolic Reasoning in World Modeling Understanding how the world works is key to creating AI agents that…
‘A choice of two evils’: Young anti-regime Iranians divided over conflict
Anti-regime Iranians agree the Islamic Republic must fall, but differ on the Iran-Israel conflict and response.
Europe and Iran to hold talks as Trump sets two-week deadline for U.S. strikes decision
European officials are hoping for a last-minute diplomatic breakthrough with Tehran to deter further escalations of the Middle East conflict.
Tesla inks first deal to build China’s largest grid-scale battery power plant
The U.S. company posted on the Chinese social media service Weibo that the project would be the largest of its…
Mineral-rich Greenland says it doesn’t want to become a great mining nation. Here’s why
Greenland has little interest in harnessing its massive resource potential to become a top mining country.
Live Updates: Europe Pushes Diplomacy as Trump Delays Iran War Decision
Iran’s foreign minister is to meet his European counterparts Friday. President Trump said he would give diplomacy a chance, dashing…
U.S. private capital giant Apollo to supply £4.5 billion loan to UK nuclear project
The deal would be among the biggest private capital investments in a project of U.K. national interest.
Israeli military kills 23 Palestinians near aid site in Gaza, witnesses and medics say
The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed in this way since late May.
Starlink rival Eutelsat pops 14% as France backs capital raise
French President Emmanuel Macron said strengthening Eutelsat’s position was “ensuring its strategic independence and paving the way for Europe’s.”
Build an Intelligent Multi-Tool AI Agent Interface Using Streamlit for Seamless Real-Time Interaction
In this tutorial, we’ll build a powerful and interactive Streamlit application that brings together the capabilities of LangChain, the Google…
UC Berkeley Introduces CyberGym: A Real-World Cybersecurity Evaluation Framework to Evaluate AI Agents on Large-Scale Vulnerabilities Across Massive Codebases
Cybersecurity has become a significant area of interest in artificial intelligence, driven by the increasing reliance on large software systems…
This AI Paper from Google Introduces a Causal Framework to Interpret Subgroup Fairness in Machine Learning Evaluations More Reliably
Understanding Subgroup Fairness in Machine Learning ML Evaluating fairness in machine learning often involves examining how models perform across different…
From Backend Automation to Frontend Collaboration: What’s New in AG-UI Latest Update for AI Agent-User Interaction
Introduction AI agents are increasingly moving from pure backend automators to visible, collaborative elements within modern applications. However, making agents…
Rice prices in Japan more than double in May as core inflation jumps to highest levels since 2023
Rice prices have spiked 101.7% year over year, marking its largest increase in over half a century.
Trump to decide on US action in Israel-Iran conflict within two weeks
Trump’s press secretary said the president believes there is a “substantial chance of negotiations” with Iran.
Build a scalable AI video generator using Amazon SageMaker AI and CogVideoX
In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies has revolutionized various aspects of digital…
‘I was lying in bed… The ceiling fell in’: At the scene of Israeli hospital hit by Iran strike
A hospital in the Israeli town of Beersheba was hit as Iran fired a barrage of missiles at the country.
Update on the AWS DeepRacer Student Portal
The AWS DeepRacer Student Portal will no longer be available starting September 15, 2025. This change comes as part of…
MiniMax AI Releases MiniMax-M1: A 456B Parameter Hybrid Model for Long-Context and Reinforcement Learning RL Tasks
The Challenge of Long-Context Reasoning in AI Models Large reasoning models are not only designed to understand language but are…
Live Updates: Europe Pushes for De-escalation After Nearly 1 Week of War
European officials, who have been effectively sidelined, are trying to exert limited leverage to end the war between Israel and…
A ‘terrible spiral of escalation’: World braces for intensifying Iran-Israel conflict
Chances at diplomacy are looking bleak as Iran and Israel continue to trade increasingly deadly blows.
Israeli hospital hit by Iranian missile strike
Israel called the attack “criminal”, while Iran said it had targeted a site nearby and not the hospital itself.
Bank of England holds rates steady, but a summer cut could still be in the cards
Earlier this year, the Bank of England said that it expects inflation to rise to 3.7% in the third quarter,…
AI avatars in China just proved they are better influencers. It only took a duo 7 hours to rake in more than $7 million
Digital versions of human beings are now able to sell more than real people can, thanks to artificial intelligence, a…
Switzerland enters era of zero interest rates
Markets were widely expecting the Swiss National Bank to cut interest rates by 25 basis points.