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🦾 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.

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…

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…

People should seriously think about a possible coming marketcrash. The popping of the financial AI bubble will hurt the "normal" economy. Financial markets could take a very big hit. But how do you protect yourself against this coming disaster, as an owner of limited stocks, savings etc.? Going for gold, government bonds, other things? 🤔
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Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Arthur C. R. Dutra, Ties-A. Ohst, Hai-Chau Nguyen, Otfried G\"uhne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09381

Structure of quantum measurements implementable with one round of classical communication
Measurements that can be implemented via local operations and classical communication (LOCC) constitute a class of operations that is available in future quantum networks in which parties share entangled resource states. We characterise the different classes of measurements implementable with LOCC, where communication is restricted to a single round with a fixed direction. In particular, using the framework of constrained separability problems, we provide a complete characterisation of the clas…

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Zihao Mao, Yunheng Wang, Yunting Ji, Yi Yang, Wenjie Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09188

Decentralized Multi-Robot Relative Navigation in Unknown, Structurally Constrained Environments under Limited Communication
Multi-robot navigation in unknown, structurally constrained, and GPS-denied environments presents a fundamental trade-off between global strategic foresight and local tactical agility, particularly under limited communication. Centralized methods achieve global optimality but suffer from high communication overhead, while distributed methods are efficient but lack the broader awareness to avoid deadlocks and topological traps. To address this, we propose a fully decentralized, hierarchical rela…

This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice of the semiconductor pie and why the robots are coming to Japanese convenience stores.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/the-robots-are-coming-to-7-eleven

The robots are coming to 7-Eleven - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice ...

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
Qiaoyan Peng, Qingqing Wu, Guangji Chen, Wen Chen, Shaodan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10045 https://

Active IRS Assisted Joint Uplink and Downlink Communications
In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL). We aim to maximize the weighted sum rate (WSR) of UL and DL communications through joint optimization of BS, AIRS beamforming, and AIRS element allocation. First, we study three deployment schemes, namely distributed AIRSs, BS-side AIRS, and user-s…