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Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox This is the follow up to our first blog post, The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. ThinkingBox-Training is now available on GitHub. We built ThinkingBox to evaluate an agent's work by c

In case there were any doubts, Mark Zuckerberg is staying in California. Meta was apparently concerned enough that its founder and CEO might depart its home state that the company put in place a new stock plan that could help offset the burden of higher taxes should a billionaire

In case there were any doubts, Mark Zuckerberg is staying in California. Meta was apparently concerned enough that its founder and CEO might depart its home state that the company put in place a new stock plan that could help offset the burden of higher taxes should a billionaire

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of “systemic” economic risks stemming from the AI boom, the Financial Times reported, as a global tech selloff fueled by AI spending fears continued into Thursday. Meta stock plunged after the hyperscaler

Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The results are a significant ad

Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The results are a significant ad

OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing ahead with an IPO. The AI lab is working on raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation in a round led by Coatue and investors in UAE, sources told CNBC. This f

A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses President Donald Trump and his family's crypto company of "corruptly profiting" off more than $2 billion in digital currency-related deals, violating constitutional restrictions on accepting foreign money. "No president in American history has pro

Mistral's Timestral Beats Larger Rivals at Zero-Shot Forecasting on CPUs Mistral's first time-series foundation model family runs on CPU, hits #1 on three forecasting benchmarks, and ships under a Modified MIT license. - Mistral released Timestral, its first time-series foundatio

Anthropic's Claude Proves 239 Open-Source Libraries Crash-Free, Exposing Fuzzing Blind Spots Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to produce machine-checked no-crash proofs for 123 open-source libraries at the assembly level, uncovering long-latent bugs. - Anthropic and Theorem used

Elon Musk's business empire is tying itself ever closer to the federal government just as he spends record sums to help decide who controls it in the 2026 midterm election. SpaceX has racked up at least $6.78 billion in federal work so far through Oct. 1 this year, according to F

Elon Musk's business empire is tying itself ever closer to the federal government just as he spends record sums to help decide who controls it in the 2026 midterm election. SpaceX has racked up at least $6.78 billion in federal work so far through Oct. 1 this year, according to F

NASA does not have, nor want, nuclear weapons. But when it comes to a particular metric that is part of the Artemis Program to land people on the Moon, NASA guards a particular number like they are trying to prevent outsiders from cracking nuclear codes. I am speaking of the numb

Moderna shares dropped as much as 25% on Thursday following the leak of partial data on its closely watched cancer vaccine developed with Merck. Shares of both drugmakers fell even though the data, released in full later Thursday following the leak, appeared meaningful for patien

Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing

Trump says Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network - Published Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access, US President Donald Trump has said after restrictions hampered Kyiv's armed forces. Trump made the comments after Ukrainian President Volodymyr

UK to draft in military aircraft to fight wildfires, Burnham says - Published Military planes and helicopters will be drafted in to tackle wildfires, Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to tell the UK's first summit on the issue. Civilian fire services in all four nations will be able

Dream night for Bournemouth - win over Milan a sign of Premier League power - Published At times, being a Bournemouth fan must feel like living in a simulation. That was certainly the case on Thursday night as the Cherries beat seven-time continental champions AC Milan 3-0 in onl

Prepare for supply chain disruption from cyber or climate emergencies, Streeting warns - Published Members of the public and businesses need to think more about how they would cope with natural disasters, cyber-attacks or state-sponsored terrorism, the defence secretary has said.

Ant Group's Ming-3.0 Beats Larger Voice Models at Just 0.5B Parameters Ant Group's Ming-3.0-tts packs top-tier speech synthesis into just 0.5B parameters, released MIT-licensed and holding its own against 3.5B+ rivals. - Ant Group released Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B, a dense MIT-licensed

Gasps as Prince William makes surprise appearance on Graham Norton Show - Published The Prince of Wales has made a surprise appearance on the Graham Norton Show, as part of a special edition to mark the Earthshot Prize. During the episode, which airs on Friday, he joined Cate Bla

Anthropic Brings Claude Directly to Google Cloud With Same-Day Feature Access Anthropic now runs Claude directly on Google Cloud with day-zero feature parity, GCP billing, IAM, and commitment drawdown, no Vertex AI required. - Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) is

Root turns Discord’s paywalled features into viral videos and a reason to switch.

Comcast reportedly plans significant job cuts in its cable division as the firm continues to lose residential broadband and TV customers. Comcast lost 144,000 residential broadband customers in Q3 2026, up from a 91,000-customer loss in the same quarter a year ago, the company sa

US crude oil exports to Asia are set to hit multi-year lows after the Iran war disrupted global shipping and pushed the cost to lease a tanker for the Pacific journey to a record of almost $80 million. Asian refinery orders for US crude for delivery in November tumbled roughly 50

EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn images and videos into lifelike 3D worlds. Rivian isn’t getting into gaming, but it does want to leverage Third Dimension’s techno

President Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to ease restrictions he had imposed on the military-grade version of SpaceX's Starlink system in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing U.S. officials. The Starshield system, which Ukraine depends on in its war against Ru

Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud Michael Gerstenhaber VP, Product Management, Gemini, Google Cloud Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model ch