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Internal email: xAI lays off hundreds of data annotation team staffers, following a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Musk's xAI just laid off hundreds of workers tasked with training Grok
XAI laid off at least 500 of the workers on its data annotation team on Friday night.

Mark Sanchez makes statement upon release from hospital following stabbing, arrest

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mark-sanchez-makes-statement-u…

Extended Parameter Shift Rules with Minimal Derivative Variance for Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Zhijian Lai, Jiang Hu, Dong An, Zaiwen Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08802 ht…

Extended Parameter Shift Rules with Minimal Derivative Variance for Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Parameter shift rules (PSRs) are useful methods for computing arbitrary-order derivatives of the cost function in parameterized quantum circuits. The basic idea of PSRs is to evaluate the cost function at different parameter shifts, then use specific coefficients to combine them linearly to obtain the exact derivatives. In this work, we propose an extended parameter shift rule (EPSR) which generalizes a broad range of existing PSRs and has the following two advantages. First, EPSR offers an inf…

Anyone know what the format of this "dotnet.config" file is?
It's mentioned in the #dotnet release notes, but it's the first time I see mention of it and my googling seems to be failing me.

FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing
Arthur Bizzi, Matias Grynberg, Vitor Matias, Daniel Perazzo, Jo\~ao Paulo Lima, Luiz Velho, Nuno Gon\c{c}alves, Jo\~ao Pereira, Guilherme Schardong, Tiago Novello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09537

FLOWING: Implicit Neural Flows for Structure-Preserving Morphing
Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as implicit neural representations (INRs) for modeling such deformations, due to their meshlessness and differentiability; however, extracting coherent and accurate morphings from standard MLPs typically relies on costly regularizations, which often lead to unstable traini…

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-…

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

Generating CodeMeta using declarative mapping rules: An open-ended approach using ShExML
Herminio Garc\'ia-Gonz\'alez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09172 https://

Generating CodeMeta using declarative mapping rules: An open-ended approach using ShExML
Nowadays, software is one of the cornerstones when conducting research in several scientific fields which employ computer-based methodologies to answer new research questions. However, for these experiments to be completely reproducible, research software should comply with the FAIR principles, yet its metadata can be represented following different data models and spread across different locations. In order to bring some cohesion to the field, CodeMeta was proposed as a vocabulary to represent…

Researchers say videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting fall into a policy gap on social media platforms, between allowable "graphic content" and "glorified violence" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-shot-videos-spread-…

Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content Moderation World
Videos of the shooting spread across TikTok, Instagram, and X. Researchers say that in some cases the platforms are falling short on enforcing their own content moderation rules.

After Big Tech implemented a blackout on political advertising in the EU following a new law, the European Commission says it is in talks with Big Tech (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-political-ad-rules-google-meta-microsoft-big-tec…

Backlash as new EU political ad rules kick in
Politicians and campaigners fear that an advertising law designed to improve transparency could stifle it.