Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/tech-lobbying-insights-q3
Retrieval over Classification: Integrating Relation Semantics for Multimodal Relation Extraction
Lei Hei, Tingjing Liao, Yingxin Pei, Yiyang Qi, Jiaqi Wang, Ruiting Li, Feiliang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21151
Is This News Still Interesting to You?: Lifetime-aware Interest Matching for News Recommendation
Seongeun Ryu, Yunyong Ko, Sang-Wook Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13064 https:/…
Post-leave burnout recovery, week 2:
Lots of mixed feelings in returning to work. I really missed my team and my job. Work and the work schedule are each somewhat helpful for recovery. 1:1s with reports and partnerships are a strong highlight of my week!
Motivation while recovering from the tail end of burnout is hard for some types of work as a manager. Burnout makes motivation hard as it is, and lack of context on what's going on makes that harder, and both of those exacerba…