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As you dip into the valley on the way into Merthyr Tydfil, a new earthy-toned building dominates the view. It's the new site of Saint Carlo Acutis Catholic School. With its rooftop science garden, solar panels and floor-to-ceiling windows, it's an impressive sight. Excited staff

I'm 12 and I want to try protein powder - should I? - Published Twelve-year-old Ben is desperate to try protein powder but there's one hurdle: me, his mum. "I've asked about 20 times and you just keep saying no!", he says, claiming it would make him "fitter and bigger" and that h

Plan or Retrieve First? A Scale Study of Tool Discovery Architectures AuthorsMingfei Zhang, Amit Surana, Ziauddin Majid, Chenxi Wang, Michael Xu Tool-augmented LLM agents discover relevant APIs from large registries before planning execution, yet finite context windows prohibit i

Welcome FLUX.3 Image Klein in Diffusers: The latest open image generation model from Black Forest Labs Black Forest Labs FLUX.3 Image Klein is here, and it runs in Diffusers from day one. One model does text-to-image and multi-reference image-to-image, and it adds something new,

Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private environment. The open-source array framework leverages the unified memory

Clerk MCP server - Category - Product - Published Manage Clerk applications, users, configuration, and production setup directly from your agent. Clerk's MCP server now works with your Clerk account. Alongside SDK snippets and quickstarts, your agent can create applications, conf

Meta just released weights for Muse Spark Open, and it’s now available on Modal Auto Endpoints. Muse Spark Open is built for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with native multimodal understanding and a 1M-token context window. It supports writing and debugging code, multi-st

View publication Multimodal agents commonly generate freeform reasoning before each action. For small models, limited model capacity can result in lengthy reasoning that provides little useful guidance for action generation while incurring substantial inference cost. To address

Introducing Fireround Introducing Fireround, a new company funding data provider built by Firecrawl. Use it in ChatGPT and Claude through Alexandria to follow new rounds as they're announced, explore $10B+ in weekly deals, and research 8,000+ investors. Fireround refreshes hourly

TL;DR: MotherDuck is coming to Microsoft Azure. Join the waitlist and tell us which Azure region you need. You don't have to wait to start on the AI side: the MotherDuck MCP server already works with Copilot Studio and GitHub Copilot. Many data teams don't get to pick their cloud

Welcome Muse Spark Open: open-weight frontier multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta Muse Spark Open is an open-weight model from Meta. The mixture of experts model brings text, images, audio, and video into a model with approximately 816 billion parameters, around 42 bill

Announcing the official Appwrite Helm chart for Kubernetes_ Self-host Appwrite on Kubernetes with the official Helm chart, using built-in or managed PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse, S3, and Functions and Sites. Self-hosted Appwrite has always shipped as a Docker Compose stack.

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” - Daniel Patrick Moynihan (senator, sociologist, and a person who never once had to reconcile two different NRR numbers in a board meeting) Self-serve analytics finally works. Hurray! Agents plus the MotherDuck

Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tr

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Surging gasoline prices accounted for more than half of last month's jump in U.S. inflation Oct 14, 2026, 7:50 PM ETUnited States Oil Fund LP ETF

Dog that hunts invasive 'sea vomit' honoured as animal of the year - Published A working dog from the Scottish Highlands has been named animal of the year by a charity for hunting down an invasive marine creature called the carpet sea squirt. This organism, also nicknamed "sea vo

Search fieldHome page Seeking Alpha - Power to InvestorsSearch for Symbols, analysts, keywordsAbout PremiumCreate free accountLog in Earnings Call Insights Educational Development outlines 2 main-season and 2 mid-season product intros each year as sales decline narrows to 11%

(Bloomberg) -- Copper slipped after BHP Group’s Escondida mine in Chile, the world’s largest, averted a strike that would have tightened supply as the industry struggles to keep pace with demand from data centers and power grids.Near-record copper prices have emboldened workers t

How backlash against data centres could shape the US midterm elections - Published A year ago, a longtime US senator was not thinking much about data centres. Now, according to one of his advisers, he is having regular meetings with staff to track their impact and working on new

Drug development has long relied on animal models, but differences between species mean what works in animals doesn’t always translate to humans, and most drugs still fail during development. Intero Biosystems, a Denver-based startup, is developing human intestinal organoids, lab

Guardiola's return, Man City's defiance - and a game of glorious chaos - Published Manchester City returned to the welcoming surroundings of home for the first time since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial regulations awash with defiance and presenting an 'u

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company is going to ask some entry-level candidates to have a 10-minute conversation with an AI simulation of a client as part of the interview process, according to The Wall Street Journal. McKinsey is making job applicants spar with a fake AI client S

In today’s newsletter: - Building a durable multi-agent system with LangGraph and LangSmith. - Jev for Agent Memory, clearly explained. - The AI engineering master stack for 2026! Building a durable multi-agent system with LangGraph and LangSmith Parts 5 and 6 of our hands-on Age

The nation's biggest banks delivered mixed third-quarter results this week, but Wall Street's reaction was overwhelmingly negative, with all six major bank stocks falling despite some strong results. CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday, on Day 2 of the financial earnings flood, that

Jackson steps up again as Aston Villa revival continues - Published Nicolas Jackson celebrated his first-half double by making a cutting motion which proved fitting on a night Aston Villa found their clinical edge. A first win at Villa Park this season, three first-half goals wit

Martinez outburst came out of 'anger and frustration' - Published Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez says he "spoke out of anger and frustration" when launching a scathing attack on the club's hierarchy. The Argentina international criticised United for not strengthenin

Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments - Published Warning: This report contains racist and offensive language. Reform UK has said "there is no room for racism" in its party after ITV News broadcast undercover filming, gathered over a year, of some

Apple’s first foldable smartphone will feature Alibaba’s AI when it launches in China next week, as Apple Intelligence — the company’s generative suite — gears up for its mainland appearance after years of regulatory delays. Apple sees AI features as critical to competing with Hu

Iran’s increasing attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz have made October one of the most violent months in the waterway since the war began, as Tehran looks to exploit US President Donald Trump’s political vulnerability ahead of midterm elections. Two Emirati cargo vessels sa

The Scoop The White House played a central role in the Justice Department’s antitrust investigation into major TV networks’ temporary suspension of pooled coverage of the president, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor. While the probe is progressing, some inside th

The US Treasury’s “debanking” probe found that the largest American banks had denied services to customers based on political considerations, in a boost to conservatives’ campaign against institutions’ perceived biases. US President Donald Trump ordered the inquiry last year afte

Ukraine’s leader said he felt betrayed by US President Donald Trump, blaming Washington and Elon Musk’s SpaceX for cutting off Kyiv’s Starlink use on Wednesday. “This is not the right side of history,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Piers Morgan, as relations between the two countries

The FBI on Tuesday said it arrested an OpenAI employee who was fired after allegedly bugging the startup’s office. The evidence against Abdulrahman Alfozan — a Saudi national who holds ties to Riyadh’s business elite — included chatbot logs about how to install recording devices,