Ethereum Turns 11 With $148B Stablecoin Base But Cooler Mainnet Fees
Ethereum has turned 11, and the network’s birthday arrives with a very Ethereum-style contradiction: it is still one of the…
Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech’s AI buildout has ballooning price tag
Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta’s cash generation plummeted by 91%.
Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability
As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenges shift from getting them to work to keeping them…
When the Code Becomes the CEO: Why Your Next Manager Might Be a Decentralized Agentic Loop
In five to ten years, the sharpest manager in your company might not be human, might not sleep, and might…
Coldcard Security Notice Puts Bitcoin Wallet Entropy Risk Back In Focus
A Coldcard security issue has put Bitcoin hardware-wallet safety back under the microscope after reports that a firmware flaw affected…
How to Debug AI Coding Agents When They Change the Wrong Thing
A practical tutorial for recording model tool requests, real function results, patches, checks, screenshots, and a saved run log. The…
About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory’s leader says
The estimated number of arrivals is more than 70% of the population of the city, which is about 83,600.
Exxon and Chevron profits surge on rising oil prices due to Iran war
ExxonMobil and Chevron on Friday reported second-quarter profits that surged on rising oil prices due to the Iran war.
How Benders Decomposition Works Part I: Optimality Cuts
A friendly introduction to one of the most powerfull optimization techniques using the uncapacitated facility location problem The post How…
JetBrains Open-Sources KotlinLLM: Smart Macros That Generate Kotlin Source Code at Runtime and Hot-Reload It Through JDI
JetBrains Research Open-Sources KotlinLLM. KotlinLLM is an IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Kotlin/JVM projects that adds a language feature called Smart…
Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz, Block’s Open Source Nostr Workspace for Humans and Agents
Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block’s open source, self-hostable workspace where humans and AI agents share…
Iran targets strategic U.S. assets in Kuwait, Bahrain after Egypt drone attack
Iran’s army said it launched attacks on strategic U.S. assets and military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
Copper may hit new high as AI demand collides with deadly storms, strategists say
Deadly storms in Chile have disrupted mining operations, further straining supply and potentially driving prices higher, strategists say.
Oil prices ease as recovering Hormuz Strait traffic tempers war premium
Commonwealth Bank of Australia said in a note on Friday that stronger oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz had…
PolyAI Releases Dialog-RSN-1: An Audio-Native Dialog Model That Fuses Turn-Taking, Speech Recognition, Function Calling, And Response
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives the caller’s audio directly instead of reading a transcript. It fuses…
BOJ holds rates at 1%, warns of core inflation exceeding 2% target
The decision comes as speculation continues to swirl around whether the Bank of Japan will hike rates at a faster…
China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracts in July as export rush fades
China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracted in July, as the export rush that powered a second-quarter rebound began to unwind.
Hamas says it has agreed to disarm after Trump announces Board of Peace plan
A senior Hamas official has told the BBC they have agreed to the Board of Peace’s plan. Israel has not…
SK Hynix and Samsung shares surge over 20% as AI rally roars back
South Korea’s chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics soared more than 20% on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in…
Uefa to boycott World Cups if Fifa plans approved
Uefa says “the World Cup is not for sale” after its 55 member associations vote to boycott future tournaments if…
Amazon hikes 2026 capex to $220 billion due to higher memory costs
AWS sales expanded 37% year over year, which trounced analysts’ expectations for 31% growth.
Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize
Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has…
UEFA threatens World Cup boycott over FIFA private equity investment plan
FIFA has faced backlash from global soccer governing bodies over the proposal to allow private investment.
Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon…
The Python Ecosystem That Changed AI Development
How one open-source ecosystem made state-of-the-art AI accessible The post The Python Ecosystem That Changed AI Development appeared first on…
Google DeepMind Ships Three Physical AI Models For Whole Body Control, Dexterity And Multi Robot Collaboration
Google DeepMind has released Gemini Robotics 2, the intelligence layer for its next generation of robots. The release moves the…
How to Organize All of Your Coding Agent Tasks
Optimise how you interact with your coding agents The post How to Organize All of Your Coding Agent Tasks appeared…
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration
Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding,…
U.S. economy slowed to 1.5% growth rate in Q2; June core inflation at 3.3%
While the GDP number was below expectations, the miss appeared to come from a decline in federal government spending and…
How to Decode the Temperature Parameter in LLMs
How statistical physics explains the transition from deterministic predictions to generative AI. The post How to Decode the Temperature Parameter…
Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models
Tencent has released AngelSpec, an open-source, torch-native training framework for speculative-decoding draft models. The release covers both autoregressive multi-token prediction…
Meet Token Saver: An Open-Source MCP Extension Using Local Hybrid RAG to Cut Claude PDF Token Costs 90-99%
AI developers, researchers, and professionals frequently hit a frustrating wall when analyzing large documents with LLMs: the hidden, compounding cost…
Moonshot AI Open-Sources MoonEP: A Perfectly Balanced Expert Parallelism Library for MoE Training
Moonshot AI has open-sourced MoonEP, an Expert Parallelism (EP) communication library for distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) workloads. The team announced the…
US launches ‘powerful’ strikes on Iran after attempted attack on American troops
The US military called the strikes “a powerful response” to Tuesday’s firing by Iran on US bases in Jordan.
China threatens retaliation against U.S. humanoid robot ban, says it ‘severely damages’ relations
China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has repeatedly ignored Beijing’s restrained stance.
U.S. strikes Iran after surprise missile attack, dashing hopes of de-escalation
The U.S. forces began launching strikes against Iran Wednesday stateside, plunging the two sides back into open conflict after a…
Samsung Electronics second-quarter operating profit beats estimates on soaring AI chip demand
Samsung Electronics extended its record run with second-quarter operating profit topping analysts’ estimates.
Here are the five big takeaways from this week’s Fed meeting
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday followed through on expectations for no interest rate change.
Saudi Arabia’s dilemma as it tries to stay out of US-Iran war
The kingdom faces a choice of whether to keep hitting back as a deterrent or to try to de-escalate the…
Divided Fed holds interest rates steady, but three members voted to hike
Despite increasing support for a rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds rate…
Prompt Engineering vs Loop Engineering vs Graph Engineering: What Changes at Each Layer
Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop…
Two firefighters die in Crete as wildfires threaten parts of southern Europe
Gale-force winds have whipped up the flames prompting the evacuation of several villages on the island, as parts of the…
Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports Private Key JWT client authentication for agents. With Private Key JWT client authentication, your…
Prompt Engineering Is Solved—Prompt Management Isn’t
Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production…
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick
Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick can turn a five-day churn-response cycle into one that takes minutes. Last quarter,…
Why Your Best Predictive Model Gives the Wrong Treatment Effect
Why prediction-driven variable selection misses confounders and how Bayesian Adjustment for Confounding attempts to fix it. The post Why Your…
How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to…
Los Movimientos, Part II: Solving Large Pickup-and-Delivery Problems with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search
Building an ALNS heuristic in Python for vehicle routing, time windows, capacity constraints, and mandatory driver breaks. The post Los…
More than 100 aftershocks hit Japan after deadly quake that killed 13
People are being urged to stay alert, with earthquake aftershocks potentially reaching magnitude 7, officials say