@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-10 17:36:01
Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, raised $30M at a $400M valuation, bringing its total raised to $74M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/prezent-raises…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-09 20:35:22
Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-09 13:30:08
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.page2025-12-08 12:17:11
Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
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- Imaging atomic scattering potential in centroidal diffraction of elastic electrons
R. Aiswarya, Jobin Jose, Nenad Simonovi\'c, Bratislav P. Marinkovi\'c, Himadri S. Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04466 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/114816830706448493
- Nonadiabatic corrections to electric quadrupole transition rates in H$_2$
Krzysztof Pachucki, Micha{\l} Si{\l}kowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02716 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115496115851400980
- Demonstration of magic dressing of $^3$He
Raymond Tat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02443 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115654579955357210
- First observation and measurement of the ${}^{198}\text{Hg}$ bosonic transition in an optical lat...
Zyskind, Laupr\^etre, Shang, Pointard, Le Targat, Lodewyck, Bize
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04920 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot/115666084295921110
- Two-Mode Bosonic State Tomography with Single-Shot Joint-Parity Measurement of a Trapped Ion
Honggi Jeon, Jiyong Kang, Wonhyeong Choi, Kyunghye Kim, Jaehun You, Taehyun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12628 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114698759566941964
- Phase-locked amplification enhanced by spin squeezing
Yan Zhang, Jing Zhang, Hou Ian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114794342738854491
- Temperature-Dependent Evolution of Coherence, Entropy, and Photon Statistics in Photoluminescence
Tomer Bar Lev, Carmel Rotschild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01953 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot/114975598886927233
- Application of Quantum Annealing to Computation of Molecular Properties
Pradyot Pritam Sahoo, V. S. Prasannaa, B. P. Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12779 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115055154966701578
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@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-10-10 06:05:18
Xia & Lindell have also published a response (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518837122) – unsurprisingly, we don’t agree with most of their arguments. What puzzles us most is their claim that the re-analysis (their Table 1) "strengthens [their] conclusions." On the contrary:
In the Polysynthesis analysis, Small_Family has a minuscule averaged effect estimate (0.02) with a standard error more than four times larger (0.085). Together with a posterior inclusion probability (PIP) of just 0.085, this means the variable is rarely included in the best-supported models and its estimated effect is highly uncertain – essentially indistinguishable from zero. We therefore still struggle to see how this could be taken as support for their earlier statement that "different measures of language isolation – social, physical and *phylogenetic* – are important predictors of polysynthesis."
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-08 22:05:47
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/snowflake-announces-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 14:45:50
Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-10 05:45:49
D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/d-wave-quantum-agrees-to…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-10 16:15:55
A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-09 02:30:45
Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
