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The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media acquires VideoVerse, whose AI tools let broadcasters extract highlights from sports footage, sources say for $200M-$250M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/09/blac

BlackRock-backed Minute Media acquires Indian AI startup that extracts sports highlights | TechCrunch
Minute Media's main reason behind the acquisition is to use VideoVerse's tech and its own publisher network to better distribute content across various sports properties and generate ad revenue out of distributed content.

Minute Media, owner of The Players' Tribune, acquires VideoVerse, a software platform for distributing real-time sports highlights, in its largest deal to date (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/09/minute-media-acquires-videoverse

Exclusive: Minute Media acquires VideoVerse in its largest deal ever
The deal marks the largest of the seven acquisitions completed in Minute Media's 14-year history.

🍇 Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grapevines-agricultural-biodegradable-sustainable-packaging.html

Grapevines can be converted from agricultural waste to biodegradable films for sustainable packaging
A new study from South Dakota State University reveals how grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that is stronger than traditional plastic and will decompose in the environment in a relatively short amount of time.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday drew instant jeers when she defended the mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers -- and suggested that they could be replaced by Americans who are currently enrolled in Medicaid.
While speaking in Washington, D.C., Rollins declared that there would be "no amnesty" for immigrant farm workers
despite President Donald Trump sayingjust days ago that he was willing to let these workers stay at their jobs.
Instead, …

Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

Trump and his Republican henchmen are pure evil
US agriculture secretary says Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/trump-agriculture-medicaid-migrant-farm-workers

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Wenting Zhao, Pranjal Aggarwal, Swarnadeep Saha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06870

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Scaling up test-time compute, by generating multiple independent solutions and selecting or aggregating among them, has become a central paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on challenging reasoning tasks. While most prior work relies on simple majority voting or reward model ranking to aggregate solutions, these approaches may only yield limited benefits. In this work, we propose to learn aggregation as an explicit reasoning skill: given a set of candidate solutions, we train an…

Sapphire: Von Radeon-Grafikkarten zurück zu Mainboards
Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte und MSI bekommen alte neue Konkurrenz. Sapphire stellt sechs Mainboards für AMDs AM5 und AM4 vor.
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A utility for posting across multiple social networks at once.
https://github.com/humanwhocodes/crosspost

Litauens Präsident sieht bewusste Ausweitung der Aggression
Das Eindringen von mehr als einem Dutzend Drohnen in den Luftraum von Polen zeigt nach Angaben von Litauens Präsident Gitanas Nauseda, dass Russland eine immer größer werdende Bedrohung für Europa darstellt. "Russland weitet seine Aggression bewusst aus", schrieb das Staatsoberhaupt des baltischen EU- und NATO-Landes auf dem Kurznachrichtendienst X. "Der Drohnenschwa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Reste von mehr als einem Dutzend Drohnen in Polen gefunden ++
In Polen sind laut Behörden bis zum Abend die Trümmer von mehr als einem Dutzend Drohnen gefunden worden. Nach Angaben von Ministerpräsident Tusk hat Polen konkrete Hilfsangebote von Verbündeten erhalten.

Sam Altman: Social Media seit KI-Bots fühle sich fake an
Der OpenAI-CEO wundert sich offenbar über die Auswirkungen von KI auf das Internet und vor allem auf soziale Netzwerke.
https://www.