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Inside Pangyo Techno Valley, South Korea's "Silicon Valley" that is home to 1,800 startups, R&D centers, and global tech firms, as it strives for global impact (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/sout

South Korea's 'Silicon Valley' struggles to live up to its global ambitions | TechCrunch
South Korea’s Pangyo continues to anchor the nation’s tech economy, though accessibility and competition test its edge.

Best-of-$\infty$ -- Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time Compute
Junpei Komiyama, Daisuke Oba, Masafumi Oyamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21091 https://arx…

Best-of-$\infty$ -- Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time Compute
We study best-of-$N$ for large language models (LLMs) where the selection is based on majority voting. In particular, we analyze the limit $N \to \infty$, which we denote as Best-of-$\infty$. While this approach achieves impressive performance in the limit, it requires an infinite test-time budget. To address this, we propose an adaptive generation scheme that selects $N$ based on answer agreement, thereby efficiently allocating inference-time computation. Beyond adaptivity, we extend the frame…

Nano Bio-Agents (NBA): Small Language Model Agents for Genomics
George Hong, Daniel Trejo Banos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19566 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Nano Bio-Agents (NBA): Small Language Model Agents for Genomics
We investigate the application of Small Language Models (<10 billion parameters) for genomics question answering via agentic framework to address hallucination issues and computational cost challenges. The Nano Bio-Agent (NBA) framework we implemented incorporates task decomposition, tool orchestration, and API access into well-established systems such as NCBI and AlphaGenome. Results show that SLMs combined with such agentic framework can achieve comparable and in many cases superior performan…

A Category Theoretic Approach to Approximate Game Theory
Neil Ghani (MSP Group, University of Strathclyde)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20932 https://arxiv.o…

A Category Theoretic Approach to Approximate Game Theory
This paper uses category theory to develop an entirely new approach to approximate game theory. Game theory is the study of how different agents within a multi-agent system take decisions. At its core, game theory asks what an optimal decision is in a given scenario. Thus approximate game theory asks what is an approximately optimal decision in a given scenario. This is important in practice as -- just like in much of computing -- exact answers maybe too difficult to compute or even impossible …

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

Analysis of instruction-based LLMs' capabilities to score and judge text-input problems in an academic setting
Valeria Ramirez-Garcia, David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Eva Garcia-Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20982

Analysis of instruction-based LLMs' capabilities to score and judge text-input problems in an academic setting
Large language models (LLMs) can act as evaluators, a role studied by methods like LLM-as-a-Judge and fine-tuned judging LLMs. In the field of education, LLMs have been studied as assistant tools for students and teachers. Our research investigates LLM-driven automatic evaluation systems for academic Text-Input Problems using rubrics. We propose five evaluation systems that have been tested on a custom dataset of 110 answers about computer science from higher education students with three model…

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.

Stromnetz Berlin hat meinen Zähler vor ca einem Jahr gegen so einen Smartzähler ausgetauscht, der die Daten alle 15 Minuten per GSM übermittelt.
Das war denen aber wohl selber nicht geheuer, daher habe ich jetzt Post bekommen, ich möge bitte den Zähler ablesen.
Und zwar den alten, der abgebaut wurde.
Also Hotline angerufen. Mitten im Telefonat erklärt die Sachbearbeiterin: Oh, ich kann nicht weitermachen, unser Computersystem wurde soeben zur Wartung abgeschaltet.
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Angreifer steigen über Zero-Day-Lücke bei Logitech ein | heise online
https://heise.de/-11080333

Angreifer steigen über Zero-Day-Lücke bei Logitech ein
Beim Hersteller für Computerperipherie Logitech gab es einen IT-Sicherheitsvorfall. Dabei konnten Angreifer auf interne Daten zugreifen.

A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20