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Agri-Query: A Case Study on RAG vs. Long-Context LLMs for Cross-Lingual Technical Question Answering
Julius Gun, Timo Oksanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18093 https://

Agri-Query: A Case Study on RAG vs. Long-Context LLMs for Cross-Lingual Technical Question Answering
We present a case study evaluating large language models (LLMs) with 128K-token context windows on a technical question answering (QA) task. Our benchmark is built on a user manual for an agricultural machine, available in English, French, and German. It simulates a cross-lingual information retrieval scenario where questions are posed in English against all three language versions of the manual. The evaluation focuses on realistic "needle-in-a-haystack" challenges and includes unanswerable que…

Slowakei und Ungarn stellen sich in EU bei Ukraine-Politik quer
Auf dem EU-Gipfel in Brüssel zeigen sich deutliche Differenzen in der Ukraine-Politik. Der slowakische Ministerpräsident Robert Fico meldete Widerstand gegen das geplante 18. EU-Sanktionspaket gegen Russland an. Sein Land könne so lange nicht zustimmen, bis die slowakischen Bedenken hinsichtlich der Gasversorgung nach 2027 ausgeräumt seien. Die Slowakei bezieht i…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ein Toter bei Angriff auf Region Cherson ++
Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurde nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben in der Nacht 50 ukrainische Drohnen abgeschossen.

Correlations in the Binding Energy of Triexcitons and Biexcitons in Single CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets Revealed by Heralded Spectroscopy
Daniel Amgar, Nadav Frenkel, Dekel Nakar, Dan Oron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17266

Correlations in the Binding Energy of Triexcitons and Biexcitons in Single CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets Revealed by Heralded Spectroscopy
Semiconductor nanoplatelets present reduced Auger recombination, giving rise to enhanced multiexciton emission. This virtue makes them good candidates to investigate higher-order carrier dynamics, allowing to extract important excitonic properties, such as biexciton and triexciton binding energies that highly influence applications involving high excitation fluxes. Here, we explore triexciton emission, emanating from single core/shell CdSe/CdS nanoplatelets. We apply heralded post-selection of …

Trump gambles his presidency on war
If Iran does not agree to peace on Trump’s terms,
the president’s vow that
“there are many targets left”
opened the door to a much deeper and potentially longer conflict.
Already, that prospect is angering some members of his political base.
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With fateful decision, Trump gambles his presidency on war
Trump rose to power criticizing Middle East wars. Now he may have his own.

Weighted Assumption Based Argumentation to reason about ethical principles and actions
Paolo Baldi, Fabio Aurelio D'Asaro, Abeer Dyoub, Francesca Alessandra Lisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18056

Weighted Assumption Based Argumentation to reason about ethical principles and actions
We augment Assumption Based Argumentation (ABA for short) with weighted argumentation. In a nutshell, we assign weights to arguments and then derive the weight of attacks between ABA arguments. We illustrate our proposal through running examples in the field of ethical reasoning, and present an implementation based on Answer Set Programming.

Lembram-se daquela cena da Amšlia, o "chatGPT português", anunciado com pompa e circunstância pelo Luís Spinumvivo?
Agora é mais um "chatGPT" americano.
https://expresso.pt/economia/economia_

11.23 Uhr:
Die IPC-Initiative verkündet: Die notwendigen Kriterien für die Ausrufung einer Hungersnot in Gaza sind erfüllt.
12.40 Uhr:
Die Regierung Netanjahu behauptet:
Es gibt keine Hungersnot in Israel, das ist alles Propaganda.
Derweil verzweifeln die Menschen über die Angriffe und den Hunger und die Sorge um ihre Angehörigen,
welche die Hamas
und Netanjahu über sie gebracht haben.
Ein Spiel, das nur Verlierer hervorbringt.
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The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
Collaboration, Halim, Abreu, Aglietta, Allekotte, Cheminant, Almela, Aloisio, Alvarez-Mu\~niz, Ambrosone, Yebra, Anchordoqui, Andrada, Dourado, Apollonio, Aramo, Arnone, Vel\'azquez, Assis, Avila, Avocone, Bakalova, Baluta, Barbato, Mocellin, Bellido, Berat, Bertaina, Bianciotto, Biermann, Binet, Bismark, Bister, Biteau, Blazek, Bl\"umer, Boh\'a\v{c}ov\'a, Boncioli, Bonifazi, B…

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in La Pampa Amarilla, Argentina, has been continuously acquiring data since 2004. It comprises a surface detector array covering 3,000 km$^2$ and 27 fluorescence telescopes, designed to detect extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. An upgrade to the Observatory was commissioned in 2024, enhancing the existing water-Cherenkov detectors with additional radio antennas, surface scintillator detectors, and a buried scintillator array. …

MobQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Semantic Understanding of Human Mobility Data through Question Answering
Hikaru Asano, Hiroki Ouchi, Akira Kasuga, Ryo Yonetani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11163

MobQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Semantic Understanding of Human Mobility Data through Question Answering
This paper presents MobQA, a benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the semantic understanding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for human mobility data through natural language question answering. While existing models excel at predicting human movement patterns, it remains unobvious how much they can interpret the underlying reasons or semantic meaning of those patterns. MobQA provides a comprehensive evaluation framework for LLMs to answer questions about diverse human GPS traje…

Drei Menschen sterben bei Angriff in Donezk
In der ostukrainischen Stadt Kostjantyniwka sind nach ukrainischen Angaben mindestens drei Menschen durch russischen Beschuss getötet worden. Vier weitere seien verletzt worden, teilte die Staatsanwaltschaft des Gebiets Donezk bei Telegram mit. Getroffen worden sei ein Wohngebiet mit einem Markt.
Das russische Militär habe demnach Raketenwerfer des Typs "Smertsch" (Wirbelsturm) ein…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Litauen bietet Truppen zur Friedenssicherung an ++
Litauen würde Soldaten und Ausrüstung zu einer möglichen Friedensmission in die Ukraine schicken - das sagte Präsident Nauseda in einem Interview. In der Ostukraine sind durch russischen Beschuss offenbar drei Menschen getötet worden.