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EU and China Say They Will Ease Rare-Earth Export Licences. It Is an Understanding, Not a New Rule
After talks in Beijing, China says it is willing to keep facilitating rare-earth and magnet export licences for the EU. It is an understanding, not a rule change.
Hightouch Says It Has Acquired Strata, a Startup That Builds API Integrations With AI Agents
Hightouch says it has acquired Strata, a startup whose AI agent builds API integrations without code. Terms were not disclosed, and the account is Hightouch's own.
Polars 2.0 Is Out: Streaming Is the Default and Row Order Is No Longer Guaranteed
Polars 2.0, released 6 October, makes the streaming engine the default for lazy queries and no longer guarantees row order in joins and group-bys. Its benchmarks are its own.
Timer-M1 Preprint Says It Ranks First on Two Forecasting Benchmarks, With Its Authors’ Own Caveats
A preprint says Timer-M1, a forecasting model, ranks first on FEV and TIME. Its authors call the TIME margin over TimesFM-3 narrow. Not peer reviewed.
Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TeamAI, a Git-Based “Team Harness” for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud's TeamAI shares skills, rules and MCP settings across a team's AI coding agents via Git, under MIT. The 76% cost claim is Tencent's own.
Databricks Lets Genie One Run Code, While Snowflake Starts Two Previews
Databricks put code execution in Genie One into public preview and Snowflake began previews of agent-led marketplace search and a decision model. No prices or benchmarks yet.
Fibre Roundup: IPS’s Wakayama Cable Landing Station Is Selected, and Strathclyde Gets £5.47 Million for Hollow-Core Fibre Research
IPS says its Wakayama cable landing station proposal was selected, and will now apply for a grant. Strathclyde gets £5.47m from ARIA to test protein-guided hollow-core fibre.
Claude Dashboards Is in Beta and Connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift and ClickHouse
Anthropic's Claude Dashboards, now in beta on paid plans, builds live charts from data platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery and shows the query behind each one.
Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE: APC Chairman Says $800 Million Is Secured for 90,000 km of New Fibre
Nigeria's ruling-party chairman says $800m is secured for 90,000 km of new fibre, with deployment scheduled for October 2026. A statement and a schedule, not a start.
DuckDB’s Unreleased v2.0 Will Include an “Agent Mode” for AI Coding Agents
DuckDB says the command-line tool in its unreleased v2.0 will print leaner results for AI coding agents. Its own test cut tokens read by 59%, but not total cost or runtime.
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