A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
Republican Congressman Rob Wittman on Thursday called the US killing of three Indian sailors off the coast of Oman “a very, very unfortunate incident”, claiming that the US military is trying to “determine exactly what happened”. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to those Indian families who lost their loved ones there in that situation,” Wittman told the South China Morning Post. “I know that our ...
Republican Congressman Rob Wittman on Thursday called the US killing of three Indian sailors off the coast of Oman “a very, very unfortunate incident”, claiming that the US military is trying to “determine exactly what happened”. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to those Indian families who lost their loved ones there in that situation,” Wittman told the South China Morning Post. “I know that our United States military is looking into that to try to determine exactly what happened there, but...
Cops Bust India-Based Gold Scam Before Widow Loses $700K A widow who was told her Social Security funds were being used to support terrorism nearly lost $700,000 in a gold scam, according to WOOD ABC 8 . The fraudsters convinced her to buy gold, but a suspicious coin dealer alerted authorities before the transaction could be completed. Ben Soldaat, owner of Grand Rapids Coins, noticed several red ...
Cops Bust India-Based Gold Scam Before Widow Loses $700K A widow who was told her Social Security funds were being used to support terrorism nearly lost $700,000 in a gold scam, according to WOOD ABC 8 . The fraudsters convinced her to buy gold, but a suspicious coin dealer alerted authorities before the transaction could be completed. Ben Soldaat, owner of Grand Rapids Coins, noticed several red flags. The woman seemed confused, unusually urgent, and showed little interest in the gold itself. Concerned she was being manipulated, he contacted the Kent County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators learned the woman had been told by a caller posing as a Social Security agent that criminals were using her account for terrorism, drug trafficking, and money laundering. She was instructed to buy gold so law enforcement could supposedly track the offenders. Yug Chauhan Working with detectives, authorities set up a sting operation. Instead of real gold, an undercover officer posing as the woman delivered a package of chocolate gold coins to the courier sent to collect it. The report says that the courier, 20-year-old Yug Chauhan of Illinois, was arrested and charged with false pretenses over $100,000 and using a computer to commit a crime—both 20-year felonies. Investigators believe the scam originated in India and are continuing to pursue those behind it. Officials say gold-related scams targeting seniors are becoming increasingly common nationwide, often involving callers who impersonate government agents. They stress that family members and businesses play a critical role in spotting warning signs before victims lose their savings. The targeted woman ultimately recovered her money and later thanked Soldaat for intervening. She hopes her experience serves as a warning to others, noting that many scam victims are not as fortunate. Tyler Durden Thu, 06/11/2026 - 19:40
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they cannot be trained in the same way as the parameters of the un...
Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they cannot be trained in the same way as the parameters of the underlying AI model. Instead, users typically must update them manually by retyping the instructions in each file, playing a "guessing game" as to what changes might improve agentic AI performance and reduce errors. SkillOpt , a new, open source ( MIT Licensed ) framework developed by Microsoft, does one better: it introduces an optimizer designed for agent skills, turning the agent's skill .md document as a trainable object that evolves based on performance feedback. It uses deep-learning-style optimization to make it possible for the AI to systematically explore modifications to the document and find the best combination of instructions. Most importantly, it accomplishes this procedural adaptation without making changes to the underlying model's weights. On various industry benchmarks, SkillOpt outperforms existing baselines, significantly boosting accuracy for models like GPT-5.5 and Qwen. The result is a set of compact, transferable skill artifacts that allow AI agents to adapt to new domains effortlessly. The challenge of optimizing agent skills Agent skills package procedural knowledge into natural-language specifications, including domain heuristics, tool-use policies, output constraints, and known failure modes. These skills provide an external interface for agents to adapt to complex enterprise workflows. In practice, agent skills are stored as text documents and inserted into the agent's context before execution. One of the key benefits of skills is that they customize the behavior of the underlying model without changing its weights. However, the skill document its...
Gold held its biggest gain since March after President Donald Trump said the US could sign a deal with Iran over the weekend to end the war that’s rattled global markets and stoked inflation. Bullion edged up to near $4,215 an ounce, having advanced 3.4% in the previous session. Trump said on Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader had agreed to a deal, although he cautioned that the pact had not been...
Gold held its biggest gain since March after President Donald Trump said the US could sign a deal with Iran over the weekend to end the war that’s rattled global markets and stoked inflation. Bullion edged up to near $4,215 an ounce, having advanced 3.4% in the previous session. Trump said on Thursday that Iran’s supreme leader had agreed to a deal, although he cautioned that the pact had not been finalized. The US leader described the agreement as “a very strong memorandum of understanding that is a little bit conceptual.” There has been no confirmation from Tehran. That followed Trump’s decision to call off a third day of airstrikes on Iran. US forces had pounded the Islamic Republic for two days, with Tehran responding by announcing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels. Read More: Trump Insists Iran Deal Is Close After Scrapping New Strikes Now in its fourth month, the war in the Middle East has disrupted energy flows via Hormuz, causing oil prices to spike and increasing the prospects for interest-rate hikes as central banks struggle to tame inflation. The European Central Bank raised rates on Thursday for the first time in almost three years, with President Christine Lagarde warning inflation triggered by the conflict is widening beyond just energy. Gold is still about a fifth below where it traded before the war began at the end of February. The metal’s recent decline through its 200-day moving average – a widely watched measure of long-term momentum – has triggered additional selling this week, pushing bullion close to $4,000 an ounce on Thursday before it rebounded. Spot gold was 0.1% higher at $4,217.40 an ounce as of 7:26 a.m. Singapore time. Silver rose 0.4% to $67.54 an ounce. Platinum and palladium advanced. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index was flat after falling 0.3% in the previous session.