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How Does Cognitive Bias Affect Large Language Models? A Case Study on the Anchoring Effect in Price Negotiation Simulations
Yoshiki Takenami, Yin Jou Huang, Yugo Murawaki, Chenhui Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21137

How Does Cognitive Bias Affect Large Language Models? A Case Study on the Anchoring Effect in Price Negotiation Simulations
Cognitive biases, well-studied in humans, can also be observed in LLMs, affecting their reliability in real-world applications. This paper investigates the anchoring effect in LLM-driven price negotiations. To this end, we instructed seller LLM agents to apply the anchoring effect and evaluated negotiations using not only an objective metric but also a subjective metric. Experimental results show that LLMs are influenced by the anchoring effect like humans. Additionally, we investigated the rel…

Deep dependency on a technology lack of agency disagreement with leadership creates anger.
Great observation by @…
This explains so well why after being a macOS developer for 20 years, I can't stand Apple right now.

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.

"Technical communities provide software businesses with an audience, a test bed, and eventually, a customer pool for their products and services, but this only works if the products are good enough to begin with. This insight was clearly defined by Guy Kawasaki, arguably the person who invented the field of Developer Relations, during his tenure as Chief Evangelist at Apple from 1983 to 1987."

Guy Kawasaki
There is a website out there providing an answer to the question "What is Developer Relations?," a question that this author, whose job title is precisely that one, gets a lot. According to this resource, Developer Relations is an umbrella term encompassing three major areas of activity: "Community," "Content," and "Product;" a perfect description of a job role, at least as far as this author is concerned.

Updated my 2020 MacBookPro to 26.0.1. It never booted right again. After trying everything and talking to Apple Support the answer was “do you have a backup”? I had to wipe the drive and start from scratch. Now I’m trying to restore from a NAS Time Machine backup.
Ugh.

Towards Verified Code Reasoning by LLMs
Meghana Sistla, Gogul Balakrishnan, Pat Rondon, Jos\'e Cambronero, Michele Tufano, Satish Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26546 ht…

Towards Verified Code Reasoning by LLMs
While LLM-based agents are able to tackle a wide variety of code reasoning questions, the answers are not always correct. This prevents the agent from being useful in situations where high precision is desired: (1) helping a software engineer understand a new code base, (2) helping a software engineer during code review sessions, and (3) ensuring that the code generated by an automated code generation system meets certain requirements (e.g. fixes a bug, improves readability, implements a featur…

First-order theory of torsion-free Tarski monsters
R\'emi Coulon, Francesco Fournier-Facio, Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21244 https://

First-order theory of torsion-free Tarski monsters
We develop methods to control the first-order theory of groups arising as certain direct limits of torsion-free hyperbolic groups. We apply this to construct simple torsion-free Tarski monsters (non-abelian groups whose non-trivial, proper subgroups are infinite cyclic) with the same positive theory as the free group, answering several questions of Casals-Ruiz, Garreta, and de la Nuez González. Moreover, these groups may be chosen so that every non-trivial conjugacy-invariant norm is stably bo…

A little request for @… : it would be great, when we type an answer to a post, to be able to see that post while we write.. #Tusky
Important edit: Actually this is already possible!! Just click the t…

Nach Härtung: Apple spendet iPhone 17 an Organisationen der Zivilgesellschaft
Mit A19 und A19 Pro führt Apple das Memory Integrity Enforcement ein, das komplexe Angriffe besser verhindern soll. Entsprechende Geräte werden nun gespendet.

Almost disjoint families and some automorphic and injective properties of $\ell_\infty/c_0$
Piotr Koszmider, Ma{\l}gorzata Rojek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22376 https://…

Almost disjoint families and some automorphic and injective properties of $\ell_\infty/c_0$
Answering questions of A. Avilés, F. Cabello Sánchez, J. Castillo, M. González and Y. Moreno we show that the following statements are independent of the usual axioms ZFC with arbitrarily large continuum: for every (some) $ω<κ<2^ω$ (1) any linear bounded operator $T: c_0(κ)\rightarrow\ell_\infty/c_0$ extends to any superspace of $c_0(κ)$. (2) any isomorphism between any two copies of $c_0(κ)$ inside $\ell_\infty/c_0$ extends to an automorphism of $\ell_\infty/c_0$. This contrasts…