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Filing your taxes without paying extra for the privilege is apparently too "woke."
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/irs-chief-says-direct-file-is-gone-other-audit-tech-is-coming

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

AgentCoMa: A Compositional Benchmark Mixing Commonsense and Mathematical Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios
Lisa Alazraki, Lihu Chen, Ana Brassard, Joe Stacey, Hossein A. Rahmani, Marek Rei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19988

AgentCoMa: A Compositional Benchmark Mixing Commonsense and Mathematical Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved high accuracy on complex commonsense and mathematical problems that involve the composition of multiple reasoning steps. However, current compositional benchmarks testing these skills tend to focus on either commonsense or math reasoning, whereas LLM agents solving real-world tasks would require a combination of both. In this work, we introduce an Agentic Commonsense and Math benchmark (AgentCoMa), where each compositional task requires a commonsense r…

I think a tram is coming from behind.

In non-defence sectors, domestic output has slumped: throughout the first half of 2025, production of televisions and washing machines fell by 30 per cent, footwear by 29 per cent and refrigerators by 12 per cent
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/russias-reckoning-is-coming/…

Russia's reckoning is coming
Beyond the bluster of his meeting with President Trump, Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Isolated, outmanoeuvred, and stalled on the battlefield, Russia is tottering financially and militarily, while Zelensky's Ukraine continues to hold the upper hand.

Kein Verbot vorgesehen: Creative Commons arbeitet an Lizenzen fürs KI-Training
Creative Commons will dafür sorgen, dass Verantwortliche für Datensätze signalisieren können, was sie dafür erwarten, wenn damit ein KI-Modell trainiert wird.

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is 'Gone,' Other Audit Tech Is Coming (Erin Slowey/Bloomberg Tax)
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/irs-chief-says-direct-file-is-gone-other-audit-tech-is-coming?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6888c5e198449400013024d1
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p136#a250729p136

CoCoL: A Communication Efficient Decentralized Collaborative Method for Multi-Robot Systems
Jiaxi Huang, Yan Huang, Yixian Zhao, Wenchao Meng, Jinming Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20898

CoCoL: A Communication Efficient Decentralized Collaborative Method for Multi-Robot Systems
Collaborative learning enhances the performance and adaptability of multi-robot systems in complex tasks but faces significant challenges due to high communication overhead and data heterogeneity inherent in multi-robot tasks. To this end, we propose CoCoL, a Communication efficient decentralized Collaborative Learning method tailored for multi-robot systems with heterogeneous local datasets. Leveraging a mirror descent framework, CoCoL achieves remarkable communication efficiency with approxim…

Chiming In - Steve Gillis, Player Manager
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Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions
Yue Luo, Xinyan Yu, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Marius Hoggenmueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18836

Uncertainty on Display: The Effects of Communicating Confidence Cues in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions
Uncertainty is an inherent aspect of autonomous vehicle (AV) decision-making, yet it is rarely communicated to pedestrians, which hinders transparency. This study investigates how AV uncertainty can be conveyed through two approaches: explicit communication (confidence percentage displays) and implicit communication (vehicle motion cues), across different confidence levels (high and low). Through a within-subject VR experiment (N=26), we evaluated these approaches in a crossing scenario, assess…

Hey, that's Valencia!
#Andor
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