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Fox acquires Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform, and appoints longtime industry exec Carlos Martinez to oversee its broadcast strategy in LatAm (Melissa Repko/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/fox-acquires-sports-bro…

Fox acquires sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV
The media company is bulking up its sports offerings to better compete with other streaming services.

Rheinmetall und US-Ausrüster Anduril wollen Drohnen "made in Europe" bauen
Die Rüstungsfirma Rheinmetall hat mit Anduril eine Kooperation vereinbart, um europäische Varianten der autonomen Kampfsysteme Barracuda und Fury zu entwickeln.

Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/mult

Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups | TechCrunch
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.

"Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower

Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England - Carbon Brief
Reform UK’s local-election victories in May 2025 could put 6 gigawatts (GW) of new clean-energy capacity at risk, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

Local Differential Privacy for Distributed Stochastic Aggregative Optimization with Guaranteed Optimality
Ziqin Chen, Yongqiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15106

Local Differential Privacy for Distributed Stochastic Aggregative Optimization with Guaranteed Optimality
Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization variables. Existing distributed aggregative optimization approaches typically require access to accurate gradients of the objective functions, which, however, are often hard to obtain in real-world applications. For example, in machine learning, gradients ar…

Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…

Inhibiting Alzheimer's Disease by Targeting Aggregation of Beta-Amyloid
Ananya Joshi, George Khoury, Christodoulas Floudas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14052

Inhibiting Alzheimer's Disease by Targeting Aggregation of Beta-Amyloid
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by dangerous amyloid plaques formed by deposits of the protein Beta-Amyloid aggregates in the brain. The specific amino acid sequence that is responsible for the aggregates of Beta-Amyloid is lys-leu-val-phe-phe (KLVFF). KLVFF aggregation inhibitors, which we design in this paper, prevent KLVFF from binding with itself to form oligomers or fibrils (and eventually plaques) that cause neuronal death. Our binder-blocker peptides are designed such that, on one s…

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Chenchen Yuan, Zheyu Zhang, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14625

Probabilistic Aggregation and Targeted Embedding Optimization for Collective Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive moral reasoning abilities. Yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas. To address these discrepancies, we propose a framework that synthesizes multiple LLMs' moral judgments into a collectively formulated moral judgment, realigning models that deviate significantly from this consensus. Our aggregation mechanism fuses continuous moral acceptability scores (beyond binary labels) into a collective probability,…

See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/climate/see-how-marine-heat-waves-are-spreading-across-the-globe.html

Ocean Temperatures Are Increasing Around the World. See Where.
Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave.

A new study of 14 open-source LLMs: larger models use exponentially more energy and produce more greenhouse gas emissions, but do not always give better answers (Sachi Kitajima Mulkey/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…

Your A.I. Queries Come With a Climate Cost
When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.