NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers...
With over 90% of Iraq’s annual budget still coming from oil exports and historically around 95% of that crude shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, securing an alternative export route while the Strait remains effectively blockaded has become an existential...
A deep blue wave is rising, and establishment Democrats are panicking. After progressive primary wins in New York , Colorado , and Michigan , the center-left’s headquarters, Third Way, announced a $15 million program to destroy the Democratic Socialists of...
President Donald Trump and self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are pushing for a post-World War II record $1.6 trillion Pentagon budget for next year, a sum so obscenely high that it is almost impossible to comprehend. The proposed $600...
European countries have found themselves in a trap: by restricting the supply of agricultural products from Russia through sanctions, they are now trying to arrange imports via third countries, Anatoly Tikhonov, head of the Center for International Agribusiness and Food...
Words are weapons, and the Zionists use control over language to criminalise their political enemies. Marchella Ward is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. She is currently writing a book entitled Classicism: How the West Invented the Ancient World. Cross-posted...
The strangest part of America's latest offshore-wind retreat is not that several projects have been cancelled. Some were early-stage, expensive and increasingly difficult to permit. Weak projects should be allowed to fail. The strange part is that the U.S. government...
There’s lots of ways to interpret the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact: one is that it is a deliberate snub to the US-Israel axis. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region...
The fallout from Ceuta has much more to do with politics than it does the reality of the EU’s external borders Dr Matilde Rosina is Lecturer at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. An expert...
Residents of Warraq Island suspended on Monday a sit-in they had convened, blocking the supply of building materials to a government construction project on the island, to demand access to their own materials and to demand the improvement of basic...
In 2002, Jamal Kiyemba, a Ugandan national living in the United Kingdom, was arrested in northwest Pakistan after allegedly attempting to join Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and was sent to the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Released in...
About a year ago, references to the American JDAM bomb suddenly disappeared from Russian Defense Ministry reports. That does not necessarily mean Ukrainian forces stopped using it; more likely, it simply became lost among other weapons of the same type,...
Complex systems reveal their true characteristics only under stress. Disturbance exposes assumptions that routine operation conceals and becomes the catalyst for adaptation. Capital reassesses risk, governments reconsider policy, and markets establish a new equilibrium. The resulting system may ultimately prove...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
Monday, August 10th, 2026 — Today, Palestine Legal sent a legal letter on behalf of Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) to urge the American Sociological Association (ASA) to uphold its ethical and governing obligations by allowing membership to amend their bylaws,...
Bank of America (BoFA) is warning that oil prices could continue climbing into the winter if the U.S. and Iran fail to reach an agreement reopening the Strait of Hormuz, with severe shortages already emerging in diesel, gasoline and global...
The U.S. Army entered the war with Iran as the world’s most powerful military machine, bringing strategic bombers, advanced fighter aircraft, carrier strike groups, destroyers, submarines, missile-defense systems and thousands of precision munitions into the conflict. The concentration of forces...
The US is losing leverage in Somalia as frustration with Mogadishu threatens critical African Union support and risks strengthening Al Shabaab’s hold. In Mali, renewed US airstrikes against JNIM raise a parallel concern—whether air power alone, without a ground strategy...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has replaced Mohammad Baqer Zolqard as his representative on the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), appointing the veteran commander Mohsen Rezaei as the new secretary of the council. The move came after days of speculation...
Synopsys and Intel Foundry are expanding their collaboration to accelerate customer adoption of Intel 14A, connecting advanced process technology with production-ready electronic design automation, silicon intellectual property, multiphysics analysis, and multi-die integration. Announced at the 2026 DAC Chips to …...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Aug 10 2026 (IPS) I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the sun rise over an ocean that has fed, protected and defined the Seychellois people...
Egypt and Libya are reportedly nearing a deal to build an 800-kilometer oil pipeline connecting Tobruk with Alexandria, creating a direct route for growing Libyan crude production to reach Egyptian refineries as the war with Iran disrupts Egypt’s traditional Gulf...
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Iran’s January protests were a “bloodbath,” Nasrin Sotoudeh said as she called for international support for women from Tehran in February. Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, has been repeatedly arrested over the past two decades for her activism...
Asia and the Pacific is urbanizing faster than any other region. By 2050, its cities will be home to 3.4 billion people, up from 2.2 billion today – the equivalent of adding around two Delhi-sized cities every year. The region’s future will depend on...
In April 2024, an enormous container ship got stuck in the canal, side by side, blocking the flow of international trade for six days. The incident was a reminder: commerce runs along a few key choke points, and those who...
The U.S. oil industry got a scare last week. News reports claimed that the Trump administration may be considering an export ban on crude oil and refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel in order to bring those prices...
The statements seem as belligerent as Pete Hegseth on a bad hair day. “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” says Jonathan Cowan. Cowan is president of Third Way, described by The New York Times as a “leading centrist Democratic group.” Cowan’s...
Messi and his family had traveled from Miami on a private plane and were escorted by a police motorcade to a Rosario cemetery, where a private family wake was held before the burial early on Sunday. Messi's father Jorge Messi died...
Photo by Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra on Unsplash Once upon a time, many countries had regions that were known for different things. Here in the United States, we knew West Virginia was for coal, Detroit was for cars, Pennsylvania gave us steel,...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on August 9, 2026. Many Democratic Party candidates emerging on what one might call the populist left are finding success in primaries across the country. But most of them have a shared...
Russia is ramping up work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear expansion, according to TASS news agency, with Rosatom planning to increase its Russian workforce at the site from 25 to around 100 by autumn as construction advances on two additional reactors,...
This story was originally published by Canary Media . In Wisconsin , utility Alliant Energy has called off a project meant to reduce power outages in disadvantaged and tribal communities after the Trump administration terminated a federal grant that would have supported it. In...
On July 23, more than 4,000 Israelis overran the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem under the protection of a police escort. The “ storming ” of the mosque grounds was in direct contravention of the 1924 treaty...
The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. The president of the United States has the sole, unfettered authority to launch a nuclear weapon whenever he wants, for whatever reason he wants. No one can stop him. When you tell people...
Central Asia’s energy market is experiencing a rapid shake-up thanks to Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian energy infrastructure. Russia stands to lose leverage and market share in the region over the long term as Central Asian states rush to diversify...
The biggest Indian state-controlled refiners that have been selling liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) on the retail market have seen their losses on these sales narrow so far in August, an Indian energy ministry official said on Monday. Indian Oil Corporation...
Increased longevity presents both new opportunities and significant challenges for individuals, families, healthcare systems, and societies. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Aug 10 2026 (IPS) Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains...
As the United States and its Western allies remain preoccupied with the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions with Iran, and a broader series of geopolitical crises, China has sought to use the resulting strategic space to expand its economic,...
Money managers have reduced their bullish bets on both Brent and WTI crude futures over the past two weeks despite little progress on a potential reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. In the latest reporting week to August 4, portfolio...
Ukraine's long-range "miracle missiles,” the Flamingo, which their manufacturer has used to threaten Iran, have shown little effectiveness in strikes against Russian territory. Flamingo Missiles Struggle to Find an Effective Flight Path On July 8, Ukrainian forces attacked Russia with five Flamingo...
Shares in Australia-listed Sunrise Energy Metals Ltd (SRL:ASX) jumped by 29% at opening on Monday after the U.S. Department of War announced a conditional commitment for a US$400-million loan for the company to build out its scandium operations. The Department...
On July 30, the Senate again rejected an effort to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to continue military operations against Iran, this time by 49-50 . A week earlier, another Senate war powers measure failed 47-49 , while the House...
DAC was abuzz this year with new AI-fueled approaches to chip design and debug. New tools powered by deeply trained models opened substantial possibilities to deliver higher quality designs much faster, potentially with less resources. Every new technology has its...
This year’s heat waves and related productivity declines and lower agricultural output could erase as much as 1% of the gross domestic product of the European Union, wiping out most of the EU’s economic growth expected for 2026, according to...
Iran has appointed Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of its Supreme National Security Council, promoting a prominent hardliner and close ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to a key security role more than five months into the conflict with the...
Trump’s latest Gaza roadmap hinges on two deeply contested conditions: Hamas must disarm, while Israel must withdraw from the territory. Hamas has endorsed the roadmap in principle, but Israel has rejected the idea of withdrawing before Hamas’s weapons are fully...
Kazakhstan is looking to re-route part of its crude oil exports away from its Black Sea export terminal and on pipelines through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey amid continued threats to its shipments from the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk....
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