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Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/

Jazzaria – Uncertain Horizon
#byncnd

Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-to-acquire-american-legaltech-vlex-for-1-billion…

Clio to acquire American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD
vLex offers an extensive legal and regulatory database alongside an AI-powered assistant.

Wrote a post summarizing the recommendations I give to new #neocaridina shrimp keepers
https://unixorn.github.io/post/aquarium/2025-05-31-advice-for-new-neocaridina-keepers/
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Steelers acquire Jonnu Smith from Dolphins: Why he helps Aaron Rodgers as do-it-all weapon

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

TECH 2025: Europas Abhängigkeit von US-Clouds und Rüstungsgütern ist gefährlich. Die Konferenz in Heilbronn fordert: Mehr Investitionen in eigene Technologien, weniger Bürokratie – und ein „Buy European Act“ für digitale Souveränität. #Handelsblatt:
TECH 2025: „Europa hat alles außer Zeit“ – TECH-Aufbruch in Heilbronn

Warner Music and Bain announce a $1.2B joint venture to buy song rights; sources: Warner is in talks to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers' catalog for $300M (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e50bf81-d346-49ec-a4a5-6b379e632140

Warner Music and Bain target $300mn Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue deal
Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm’s new song rights joint venture

AURA: Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use in Voice-Driven Tasks
Leander Melroy Maben, Gayathri Ganesh Lakshmy, Srijith Radhakrishnan, Siddhant Arora, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23049

AURA: Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use in Voice-Driven Tasks
Despite advances in language and speech technologies, no open-source system enables full speech-to-speech, multi-turn dialogue with integrated tool use and agentic reasoning. We introduce AURA (Agent for Understanding, Reasoning, and Automated Tool Use), the first open-source, speech-native assistant capable of completing complex, goal-driven tasks through dynamic tool invocation and multi-turn conversation. AURA combines open-weight ASR, TTS, and LLMs in a cascaded pipeline and supports tools …

Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs
Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich, Lena A. J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22232

Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs
A growing body of work has been querying LLMs with political questions to evaluate their potential biases. However, this probing method has limited stability, making comparisons between models unreliable. In this paper, we argue that LLMs need more context. We propose a new probing task, Questionnaire Modeling (QM), that uses human survey data as in-context examples. We show that QM improves the stability of question-based bias evaluation, and demonstrate that it may be used to compare instruct…