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Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

The Next Web

Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on…

The Next Web

Cloud-Native Finance Transformation With Adinath Kadam

Cloud-Native Finance Transformation With Adinath Kadam

Financial planning and analysis departments are undergoing a structural shift as global organizations outgrow legacy processes and standardized software solutions. The historical reliance on manual spreadsheet consolidations and rigid…

Qwen3.6-27B Fable Fusion Breaks the 700 ARC-C Barrier

Qwen3.6-27B Fable Fusion Breaks the 700 ARC-C Barrier

Overview Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-MTP is a 27-billion-parameter fine-tuned language model built by DavidAU that exceeds ARC-C benchmark scores of 700 in both 8-bit and 4-bit quantization—the first open-source…

Beijing decries ‘bullying’ US tech curbs that ensnare Chinese firms and products

South China Morning Post

Beijing decries ‘bullying’ US tech curbs that ensnare Chinese firms and products

A mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party has urged Washington to expand its cooperation list with Beijing rather than add to a restrictive “Covered List”, pushing back against broadening US curbs on Chinese technology exports. The…

South China Morning Post

The €10 Million Signature That Quietly Transferred Control

The €10 Million Signature That Quietly Transferred Control

A Swiss asset manager once described a case to me that has stayed with me. A foreign investor purchased roughly €10 million worth of land abroad. The transaction appeared completely ordinary. He had local counsel, a trusted fiduciary, and…

Prediction Markets Pass the Fed Test—Now Comes the Hard Part

Prediction Markets Pass the Fed Test—Now Comes the Hard Part

Prediction markets defended the correct FOMC outcome, generated more quarterly revenue for Robinhood than equities or crypto, and moved deeper into corporate hedging. The signal is working. The next test is whether the category can create…

The Real Cryptography Behind a Fictional Quantum Machine

The Real Cryptography Behind a Fictional Quantum Machine

Most of the cryptography around that machine is not invented. Inventing cryptography would have been harder than looking it up, and considerably less interesting. Below are seven details a reader could reasonably assume were fiction, each…

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

MIT Technology Review

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies…

MIT Technology Review

Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge

TechRadar

Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge

Prompt engineering was briefly the face of the AI jobs boom. In 2025, technology recruitment firm SPG Resourcing reported that UK job listings for AI prompt engineers had grown by 180% over the previous year. It was an eye-catching figure…

TechRadar

How the Verus-Ethereum Bridge Exploit Bypassed Cross-Chain Validation

How the Verus-Ethereum Bridge Exploit Bypassed Cross-Chain Validation

The fundamental problem with cross-chain bridges is that they require two completely different state machines to agree on reality, which usually ends up looking like a blind man taking directions from a deaf guy at a four-way intersection…

What is Fields of Mistria? A magical new obsession for fans of Stardew Valley

The Guardian

What is Fields of Mistria? A magical new obsession for fans of Stardew Valley

Since Stardew Valley rejuvenated the farming sim genre a decade ago, games like Fields of Mistria are capitalising on its popularity with their own special touches Farming simulator games deliver on an escapist fantasy: going off-grid from…

The Guardian

Russia’s Deadly Missile Attack on Kyiv Exploits Ukraine’s Depleted Air Defenses

The New York Times