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Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/how-ai-startups-are-fueli…

How AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines, and continues to rack up new customers.

Lonely Mountains Downhill: feeling stylish
One of the things I really appreciate in a game is if it makes me look good, full of style, skilled in a way that I'm not in real life. Elaborate swordplay leading to combination hits; parkour across a cityscape; flying through buildings and structures with no effort and no fear. Many games make me feel stylish - or maybe the correct word is cool?

Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...

Componentwise linearity of powers of edge ideals of weighted oriented graphs
Manohar Kumar, Joydip Mondal, Ramakrishna Nanduri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14637 https://

Componentwise linearity of powers of edge ideals of weighted oriented graphs
In this paper, we study the componentwise linearity of powers of edge ideal of a weighted oriented graph $D$. We give a characterization for componentwise linearity of the edge ideal $I(D)$ in terms of forbidden subgraphs of $D$. If $D$ is house-free or complete $r$-partite, then the following statements are equivalent: (1) $I(D)$ is componentwise linear; (2) $I(D)$ is vertex splittable; (3) $I(D)$ has linear quotient property; (4) both $G$ and $H(I(D)_{(2)})$ are co-chordal and $D_1,D_2,D_3,D…

Sources: Netflix has told WBD management that it will honor WBD's contractual agreements to release movies in theaters if it's successful in buying the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

@… Your company's logo doesn't really have a modern, customer-appealing flair.
What do you think of my two suggestions?

I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.

Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (Aileen Chuang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/ban…

Alibaba to spin off Banma self-driving business via Hong Kong IPO
Alibaba’s stake in Banma will drop to 30 per cent from the current 44.72 per cent after the IPO, the tech behemoth says.

The UK's Channel 4 purchases a majority stake in a production company, Firecrest Films, for the first time; it will now be able to own British IP (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-buys-firecrest-films-first-majorit…

Channel 4 Makes History By Taking First Ever Majority Stake In A Production Company
Channel 4 has bought Firecrest Films, the producer of 'Murder Trial' and its first ever majority stake in a production company.

In a 30-minute test, Meta Ray-Ban Display was as spotty as Zuckerberg's failed demos, with the wristband occasionally failing to register finger swipes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/technology/personaltech/meta-smar…

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.