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Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

🦾 The robots are (almost) coming: MLB players allowed to challenge balls and strikes in 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/23/the-robots-are-almost-coming-mlb-players-allowed-to-challenge-strik…

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/spotifys-video-podcasts-are-coming-t…

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal | TechCrunch
Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming platform starting in early 2026. The deal will feature curated shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer, expanding later to include more genres. The move reflects Spotify’s growing focus on video as a key driver for engagement and ad revenue, with video podcast consumption now growing 20 times faster than audio-only content.

A total of 90 additional EV charging hubs are set to be built across Ireland thanks to €9.9 million of public funding, which will improve public charging coverage.
https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-transport/press-relea…

Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey is coming for GOAT status -- and an NFL record may be weeks away

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-…

ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering
Francesco Maria Molfese, Luca Moroni, Ciro Porcaro, Simone Conia, Roberto Navigli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09351

ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering
While Small Language Models (SLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on an increasingly wide array of commonsense reasoning benchmarks, current evaluation practices rely almost exclusively on the accuracy of their final answers, neglecting the validity of the reasoning processes that lead to those answers. To address this issue, we introduce ReTraceQA, a novel benchmark that introduces process-level evaluation for commonsense reasoning tasks. Our expert-annotated dataset reveals that in a…

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Positivity properties of canonical bases
Jiepeng Fang, Xuhua He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12154 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12154

Positivity properties of canonical bases
We prove that the canonical basis of a modified quantum group $\dot{\mathbf{U}}$ exhibits strong positivity properties for the canonical basis elements arising from spherical parabolic subalgebras. Our main result establishes that the structure constants for both the multiplication with arbitrary canonical basis elements in $\dot{\mathbf{U}}$ and the action on the canonical basis elements of arbitrary tensor products of simple lowest and highest weight modules by these elements belong to $\math…

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/spotifys-video-podcasts-are-coming-t…

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal | TechCrunch
Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming platform starting in early 2026. The deal will feature curated shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer, expanding later to include more genres. The move reflects Spotify’s growing focus on video as a key driver for engagement and ad revenue, with video podcast consumption now growing 20 times faster than audio-only content.