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It's time to organize, no heroes are coming!
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Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.

I've got a 3am start with derpmaster Mike coming up in the next few days. He normally gets up at 5.30am so I've got a feeling there's going to be no settling him after I arrive and his regular humans all leave.
Still, hot weather will mean an early walk and breakfast and then we can both snooze!
My fourth year of looking after Michael.
#Greyhounds

Product idea announcement:
Securing your company's most important digital assets of the 21st century: [productA] transforms your most valued AI prompts into blockchain-secured NFTs.
(Yes, I feel dirty to have come up with such an idea. But I won't be the only one coming up with such 💩, and by posting it I can later tell people "See? ProductB is just plagiarism!". I don't have any plans to make such a product. If your moral code allows you to do it to exploit …

Holey sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films
Ayush K. Dixit, Chunheng Zhao, St\'ephane Zaleski, Detlef Lohse, Vatsal Sanjay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12789

Holey sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films
Classical rupture is attributed to molecular (van der Waals) forces acting at nanometric thicknesses. Nonetheless, micron-thick liquid sheets routinely perforate far above the scale where these molecular forces act, yet the mechanism that selects opening versus healing has remained unclear. Using direct numerical simulations of a draining sheet with an entrained air bubble (cavity), we show that irreversible rupture occurs only when a deterministic double-threshold is crossed: (i) the outward d…

Enhancing Situational Awareness in ISAC Networks via Drone Swarms: A Real-World Channel Sounding Data Set
Julia Beuster, Carsten Andrich, Sebastian Giehl, Marc Miranda, Lorenz Mohr, Dieter Novotny, Tom Kaufmann, Christian Schneider, Reiner Thom\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12010

Enhancing Situational Awareness in ISAC Networks via Drone Swarms: A Real-World Channel Sounding Data Set
With the upcoming capabilities of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and the incorporation of user equipment (UE) like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in 6G mobile networks, there is a significant opportunity to enhance situational awareness through multi-static radar sensing in meshed ISAC networks. This paper presents a real-world channel sounding data set acquired using a testbed with synchronized, distributed ground-based sensor nodes and flying sensor nodes within a swarm of up to…

JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System for Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks
Ioannis Panitsas, Yagmur Yigit, Leandros Tassiulas, Leandros Maglaras, Berk Canberk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11483

JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System for Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks
Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research, current jamming detection methods often rely on simulated data or proprietary over-the-air datasets with limited cross-layer features, failing to accurately represent the real state of a network and thus limiting their effectiveness in real-world scenarios. To address these challenges, we introduce JamShield, a dynam…

Paramount chief communications officer Justin Dini steps down following the Skydance merger; Dini started in 2017 and will be replaced by Melissa Zukerman (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Justin Dini to Exit Paramount
Dini, who had been chief communications officer, will exit in the wake of Skydance's acquisition of the company.

The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…

The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.