AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a7cdb3bf-9c9d-40ef-951e-3c9f5bafe41d
the microclimates are strong tonight! biking south on the wiggle i abruptly went from feeling chilly to feeling comfortable in one moment while passing duboce park
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
been faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
(…
On Tent Spaces for the Gaussian Measure
Liliana Forzani, Roberto Scotto, Wilfredo Urbina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16148
NFL Films deletes video detailing Brian Branch's struggles ahead of Lions-Chiefs brawl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6726192/2025/10/17/brian-branch-detroit-lions-nfl-films-kansas-city-chiefs/
The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel,
following a request by local authorities,
according to a statement issued by the city’s municipality.
Ravenna’s mayor, Alessandro Barattoni, said in a statement:
“Thanks to courageous dockers,
we were informed last night of the scheduled arrival today of two containers to the Ravenna port”
Ravenna, along with provincial leaders and the re…
Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of CDW instabilities in fractionally-filled moir\'e flatbands
Ipsita Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15996 https://arxiv.o…
ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
Jingquan Wang, Andrew Negrut, Harry Zhang, Khailanii Slaton, Shu Wang, Radu Serban, Jinlong Wu, Dan Negrut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13975