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Top 10 — News
- UK lifts Russia-linked sanctions on British accountant John Michael Ormerod was added to UK sanctions lists as part of attempts to disrupt Russia’s shadow fleet of vessels
- TikTok won’t protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.
- ChatGPT’s new GPT-5.3 Instant model will stop telling you to calm down The company says the new model will reduce the "cringe" that's been annoying its users for months.
- FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger “a lot cleaner” than defunct Netflix deal FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
- Banijay Group to form £3.8bn television super-indie with The Traitors producers Chair of merged production company says move creates a ‘world-class’ offering across live events and programming The European maker of tele…
- What Trump’s war on Iran means for the US energy crunch Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether th…
- This Offshore Wind Turbine Will House a Data Center Underwater As data-center developers frantically seek to secure power for their operations, one startup is proposing a novel solution: Build them into…
- Stocks and bonds stabilise as Middle East war widens Oil briefly hit $85 a barrel as Iraqi production shuts down because so few tankers risk journey through Strait of Hormuz
- UK to deploy a warship and counter-drone helicopters to Cyprus France announces it is also sending air and naval assets to the Mediterranean and Middle East
- Energy prices up, markets down
What will the war in Iran mean for markets?
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant for smoother everyday conversations and better search OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant.
- Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds metadata sync with third-party catalogs Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports metadata and context sync across Atlan, Collibra, and Alation.
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable_gpt-5.3.patch1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
- Building Telco Reasoning Models for Autonomous Networks with NVIDIA NeMo Autonomous networks are quickly becoming one of the top priorities in telecommunications.
- microsoft/semantic-kernel: python-1.40.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.8 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-core==1.2.17 Release update (see link for changelog).
- ollama/ollama: v0.17.5
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
John Michael Ormerod was added to UK sanctions lists as part of attempts to disrupt Russia’s shadow fleet of vessels
Oil briefly hit $85 a barrel as Iraqi production shuts down because so few tankers risk journey through Strait of Hormuz
France announces it is also sending air and naval assets to the Mediterranean and Middle East
What will the war in Iran mean for markets?
New production from Texas will take months as drillers use windfall from price rise to pay investors
President promises to provide insurance for vessels transiting the region as Iran conflict disrupts energy flows
Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan will be affected by the move
Data provided to Commons committee highlights major flaw in post-Brexit inspection regime
Commons foreign affairs committee calls on prime minister to ‘end secrecy’ around push to improve bilateral relations
Chinese company’s investments in ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games and other creators have faced long-running US security review
US commerce secretary will be first Trump cabinet member to face questions from House panel about late child sex offender
Also in today’s newsletter: China prepares law curtailing minority language rights, and Pakistan urges Iran not to attack Saudi Arabia
Foreign minister highlights how Islamabad has a mutual defence pact with Riyadh
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Officials urge residents to return to normal but holidaymakers are cancelling
Justice department reverses decision from a day earlier to walk away from court case
TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.
The conflict in the Middle East has rattled financial markets and global energy prices have soared.
Trump lashed out after Spain barred the US from using its military bases to carry out strikes on Iran.
Chief Executive Sam Altman said the group would prohibit the use of its systems to spy on Americans.
Wages are forecast to go up over the next five years but you could pay more tax because of frozen thresholds.
The company says the new model will reduce the "cringe" that's been annoying its users for months.
The US President said he was taking steps to keep energy supplies flowing as oil and gas prices continued to surge.
Markets react as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies and concerns grow over how long it will last.
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals.
Chair of merged production company says move creates a ‘world-class’ offering across live events and programming The European maker of tele…
Extending settlement waits risks deepening labour shortages while misreading public concern about migration’s economic and demographic real…
An energy shock from war in the Gulf will expose the limits of rigid fiscal rules.
The chancellor promises more money in people’s pockets, but the Iran crisis makes steeper inflation a pressing worry Rachel Reeves used her…
Anthropic is stepping up its game in the AI coding space with the rollout of Voice Mode in Claude Code.
CEO cited AI advances in cutting 4,000 workers, but a weak crypto market and declining stock price may also be at play Jack Dorsey cited AI…
TikTok experienced a similar outage just days after ByteDance divested the app's U.S.
"Engineers are assessing what allowed the seal to become dislodged to prevent the issue from recurring."
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
There's a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3.
Fuel prices surged after the Trump administration launched strikes against Iran on Saturday, immediately raising questions about whether th…
The US version of TikTok is once again experiencing issues due to an Oracle outage, just a month after coming back online from a similar ou…
Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.
Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.
Crunchbase data shows a record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups last month, with AI startups nabbing 90% of the ca…
A tech billionaire-backed super PAC is spending $125 million to undercut candidates pushing for AI regulation.
The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril's Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuat…
Bad news: most Americans are about to lose an hour of sleep next week.
In a downtown Manhattan courtroom on Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 state and district attorneys general warned a jur…
If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup.
Another high-profile live-service game is shutting down soon after launch: this time it's the free-to-play squad shooter Highguard.
The Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal is SharkNinja's latest robot vacuum and mop.
As data-center developers frantically seek to secure power for their operations, one startup is proposing a novel solution: Build them into…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports metadata and context sync across Atlan, Collibra, and Alation.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google's latest model is an update to their inexpensive Flash-Lite family.
Google Deepmind has released a preview of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the fastest and cheapest model in the Gemini 3 series.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.
NVIDIA CUDA Tile is one of the most significant additions to NVIDIA CUDA programming and unlocks automatic access to tensor cores and other…
I'm moving to another service and need to export my data.
Autonomous networks are quickly becoming one of the top priorities in telecommunications.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for Visual ETL, notebook, and code-based data processing jobs.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
NVIDIA ACE is a suite of technologies for building AI agents for gaming.
Today, AWS announces the ability to remotely connect from Kiro IDE to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.
Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, providing organizations with centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-to…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Agentic Engineering Patterns > I like to include animated GIF demos in my online writing, often recorded using LICEcap .
AWS Config now supports 30 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Cognito.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
To make 6G a reality, the telecom industry must overcome a fundamental challenge: how to design, train, and validate AI-native networks tha…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).