Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents….
US to host women’s Club World Cup in 2028
PARIS: The United States will host the inaugural women’s football Club World Cup in 2028, FIFA announced Thursday. “The decision was taken in view of its experience in organising FIFA tournaments, the maturity of its infrastructure and services and the level of stakeholder interest in women’s football in the country,” world football’s governing body said….
You.com Launches Inference Router: 12 Open-Weight Models With 99.9% Uptime SLA
You.com has launched Inference Router, a managed API for running open-weight models in production. The You.com Inference Router is an OpenAI-compatible service that routes requests across 12 live models. It bundles a 99.9% minimum uptime SLA and zero data retention (ZDR). It adds 100% US hosting and server-side web search. It is pay-as-you-go, with no…
Experimental cancer vaccine reduces melanoma death or recurrence risk by 42%
The picture shows doctor gives a vaccine dose to a patient. — Reuters/File Moderna and Merck have said that their mRNA cancer vaccine, when combined with Merck’s widely used immunotherapy, cut the risk of melanoma death or recurrence by 42% in a large trial, potentially paving the way for a new era of personalised treatment….
Senators struggle in 6-2 loss to Sharks – Ottawa
OTTAWA – Back-to-back games are a reality for all NHL teams but the Ottawa Senators have struggled with them this year. Despite posting a season-high 43 shots, the Senators dropped a 6-2 decision to the San Jose Sharks on Thursday, one night after an emotional win over the Florida Panthers. Ottawa (7-4-0) is now 0-3…
Barcelona eye Clasico statement against Real Madrid
BARCELONA: For weeks La Liga leaders Barcelona have been eagerly awaiting Sunday’s Clasico as a chance to stretch the gap between themselves and rivals Real Madrid to a massive nine points. Some turbulence in the final approach to the clash at Camp Nou has complicated the picture for Hansi Flick’s Spanish champions, who suffered their…
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google Cloud has announced Agent Compute Engine, a compute service built specifically for AI agents. Google Agent Compute Engine gives each agent its own hardware-isolated microVM. The sandbox holds zero credentials. The service already powers Gemini as an agent for work tasks. Google unveiled it this week at AGNTCon + MCPCon. Customer preview is targeted…
Nugent-Hopkins returns as Oilers top Hurricanes – Edmonton
EDMONTON – While the Edmonton Oilers’ big guns continue to make a lot of noise, another weapon was added to their arsenal and paid immediate dividends on Thursday. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the shootout winner in his first game of the season as the Oilers came back for a 6-5 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Leon…
Carrick under pressure as Brighton eye Liverpool
MANCHESTER: Beset by infighting and off to their worst league start for decades, Manchester United host Bournemouth needing to snap a seven-game winless run to quell talk of another mid-season managerial change. Michael Carrick’s men are 13th in the Premier League and could even drop into the bottom three if results go against them this…
TinyFish Breaks Down Agentic Search Architecture for Production AI Agents
An AI search agent can work in a demo but fail under production workloads when retrieval returns incomplete evidence, retries repeat unsuccessful actions, or execution exceeds time and cost limits. TinyFish, which provides web infrastructure for AI agents, has published two technical guides addressing these challenges. The first defines a production agentic search architecture, while…
Nadra vaccination certificates made mandatory for Umrah pilgrims
A person receives a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Chinatown, in Chicago, Illinois, US. — Reuters/File Vaccination requirements cover polio, meningitis, others. Hajj pilgrims will also be required to get vaccinated before leaving. Umrah pilgrims advised to obtain certificates from Nadra centre. KARACHI: Umrah pilgrims departing from Karachi airport will need…
