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World breaks renewable records - adding 582 GW of capacity in 2024 - but must move faster to hit the agreed 2030 tripling goal.
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World Breaks Renewable Records but Must Move Faster to Hit 2030 Tripling Goal
The world is falling behind on its renewable energy and efficiency goals despite record progress last year, confirms a new report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the COP30 Brazilian Presidency, and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) during a pre-COP30 high-level event in Brasília.

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.

Following the "Geo-Erlebnis-Tag" during the weekend, preceding the Geo4Göttingen conference, the Geo4Change | Earth, Life, Climate, Resources, Materials | main program will start with plenary sessions for registered conference participants today.
https://geo4goettingen2025.de/
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Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20122261/three-year-program-logic-and-debate-art-reasoning-nalanda-tradition…

On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs
Jules Armand, Prateek Dwivedi, Magnus Rahbek Dalgaard Hansen, Nutan Limaye, Srikanth Srinivasan, S\'ebastien Tavenas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10725

On Closure Properties of Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs
We investigate the closure properties of read-once oblivious Algebraic Branching Programs (roABPs) under various natural algebraic operations and prove the following. - Non-closure under factoring: There is a sequence of explicit polynomials $(f_n(x_1,\ldots, x_n))_n$ that have $\mathsf{poly}(n)$-sized roABPs such that some irreducible factor of $f_n$ does not have roABPs of superpolynomial size in any order. - Non-closure under powering: There is a sequence of polynomials $(f_n(x_1,\ldots,…

Progress on the #tricycle project is mainly in thinking about and working on the subframe. One thing that I'm sure is the right decision is to give the subframe a flat mounting flange, which will bolt down onto a matching pedestal within the hull. This will make the subframe easier to fabricate, and easier to mount/dismount - which I think will be needed for any work on the wheel or tyre.

VStyle: A Benchmark for Voice Style Adaptation with Spoken Instructions
Jun Zhan, Mingyang Han, Yuxuan Xie, Chen Wang, Dong Zhang, Kexin Huang, Haoxiang Shi, DongXiao Wang, Tengtao Song, Qinyuan Cheng, Shimin Li, Jun Song, Xipeng Qiu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09716

VStyle: A Benchmark for Voice Style Adaptation with Spoken Instructions
Spoken language models (SLMs) have emerged as a unified paradigm for speech understanding and generation, enabling natural human machine interaction. However, while most progress has focused on semantic accuracy and instruction following, the ability of SLMs to adapt their speaking style based on spoken instructions has received limited attention. We introduce Voice Style Adaptation (VSA), a new task that examines whether SLMs can modify their speaking style, such as timbre, prosody, or persona…

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White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers
John Adams says "facts do not care about our feelings" in one of the AI-generated videos in PragerU's series partnership with White House.

Embodied Navigation Foundation Model
Jiazhao Zhang, Anqi Li, Yunpeng Qi, Minghan Li, Jiahang Liu, Shaoan Wang, Haoran Liu, Gengze Zhou, Yuze Wu, Xingxing Li, Yuxin Fan, Wenjun Li, Zhibo Chen, Fei Gao, Qi Wu, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12129

Embodied Navigation Foundation Model
Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions. Despite significant progress in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which exhibit remarkable zero-shot performance on general vision-language tasks, their generalization ability in embodied navigation remains largely confined to narrow task settings and embodiment-specific architectures. In this work, we introduce a…

Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition
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