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French Car Brand Renault To Go Completely Leather-Free By The End Of 2025
Renault has said that all of its cars will be completely leather-free by the end of 2025, following discussions with PETA France

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Konstantinos Kaleris, Emmanouel Kaniolakis-Kaloudis, Evaggelos Kaselouris, Kyriaki Kosma, Emmanouil Gagaoudakis, Vassilis Binas, Stelios Petrakis, Vasilis Dimitriou, Makis Bakarezos, Michael Tatarakis, Nektarios A. Papadogiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1540…

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Nano-acoustic strain generation in thin metallic films via ultrafast laser excitation is widely used in material science, imaging and medical applications. Recently, it was shown that transition metals, such as Titanium, exhibit enhanced photoacoustic transduction properties compared to noble metals, such as Silver. This work presents experimental results and simulations that demonstrate that among transition metals Tantalum exhibits superior photoacoustic properties. Experiments of nano-acoust…

Optimization of Flying Ad Hoc Network Topology and Collaborative Path Planning for Multiple UAVs
Ming He, Peizhao Wang, Haihua Chen, Bin Sun, Hongpeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17945

Optimization of Flying Ad Hoc Network Topology and Collaborative Path Planning for Multiple UAVs
Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in monitoring and data collection in wide area environments with harsh conditions. In most scenarios, issues such as real-time data retrieval and real-time UAV positioning are often disregarded, essentially neglecting the communication constraints. In this paper, we comprehensively address both the coverage of the target area and the data transmission capabilities of the flying ad hoc network (FANET). The data throughput of the network …

Die #Bachstelze beeindruckt mit ihrem wippenden Schwanz und flinkem Verhalten. 🐦 Mit ihrem markanten schwarz-weißen Gefieder und dem charakteristischen „Tschilip“-Ruf ist sie leicht zu erkennen. Ich beobachte sie oft, wenn ich auf #Wanderungen Pause mache, zum Beispiel im

Bachstelze (Motacilla alba): Ein eleganter Vogel mit wippendem Schwanz
Bachstelze: Die elegante Vogelart mit wippendem Schwanz. Merkmale, Lebensraum, Gesang & mehr!

Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations
Laura Finarelli, Falko Dressler, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianluca Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15423

Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations
In the evolution towards 6G user-centric networking, the moving network (MN) paradigm can play an important role. In a MN, some small cell base stations (BS) are installed on top of vehicles, and enable a more dynamic, flexible and sustainable, network operation. By "following" the users movements and adapting dynamically to their requests, the MN paradigm enables a more efficient utilization of network resources, mitigating the need for dense small cell BS deployments at the cost of an increas…

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
David Leprich, Mario Rosenfelder, Mario Hermle, Jingshan Chen, Peter Eberhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15447

Model Predictive Path-Following Control for a Quadrotor
Automating drone-assisted processes is a complex task. Many solutions rely on trajectory generation and tracking, whereas in contrast, path-following control is a particularly promising approach, offering an intuitive and natural approach to automate tasks for drones and other vehicles. While different solutions to the path-following problem have been proposed, most of them lack the capability to explicitly handle state and input constraints, are formulated in a conservative two-stage approach,…

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Zihan Wang, Nina Mahmoudian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09971 https://

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Vision-driven autonomous river following by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is critical for applications such as rescue, surveillance, and environmental monitoring, particularly in dense riverine environments where GPS signals are unreliable. We formalize river following as a coverage control problem in which the reward function is submodular, yielding diminishing returns as more unique river segments are visited, thereby framing the task as a Submodular Markov Decision Process. First, we introduce Ma…

Challenges of Virtual Validation and Verification for Automotive Functions
Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Mazen Mohamad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14747 https://a…

Challenges of Virtual Validation and Verification for Automotive Functions
Verification and validation of vehicles is a complex yet critical process, particularly for ensuring safety and coverage through simulations. However, achieving realistic and useful simulations comes with significant challenges. To explore these challenges, we conducted a workshop with experts in the field, allowing them to brainstorm key obstacles. Following this, we distributed a survey to consolidate findings and gain further insights into potential solutions. The experts identified 17 key c…