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Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office | TPR https://www.tpr.org/news/2025-10-10/ken-paxton-has-amassed-millions-of-dollars-while-in-public-office

Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office
Paxton is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.

Browns not mulling QB change despite struggles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46261767/coach-browns-not-mulling-qb-change-joe-flacco-struggles

Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
Yumin Choi, Dongki Kim, Jinheon Baek, Sung Ju Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09201 https://

Multimodal Prompt Optimization: Why Not Leverage Multiple Modalities for MLLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success, and their multimodal expansions (MLLMs) further unlock capabilities spanning images, videos, and other modalities beyond text. However, despite this shift, prompt optimization approaches, designed to reduce the burden of manual prompt crafting while maximizing performance, remain confined to text, ultimately limiting the full potential of MLLMs. Motivated by this gap, we introduce the new problem of multimodal prompt optimization, whic…

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cloud-startup-vercel-fields-o…

Cloud Startup Vercel Fields Offers for $9 Billion Valuation
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge ...

National Public Data, the site that leaked millions of social security numbers and was shut down in December, is back only this time it's a people finder that is presumably based on its massive trove of everyone's sensitive data.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/site-b…

" by 2050, 1.5 million coastal residents would be at risk, rising to more than 3 million by 2090."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/15/millions-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Crooked Rugs:
🎵 Melancholy Mind
#TheCrookedRugs
https://thecrookedrugs.bandcamp.com/track/melancholy-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OWxZ5rTJCBEAl9yOE8t97

PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen, Xingwang Lin, Lutao Jiang, Xu Zheng, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Litao Guo, Yinchuan Li, Ying-Cong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09507

PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
The ability to use, understand, and create tools is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling sophisticated interaction with the physical world. For any general-purpose intelligent agent to achieve true versatility, it must also master these fundamental skills. While modern Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) leverage their extensive common knowledge for high-level planning in embodied AI and in downstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, the extent of their true understanding of phys…

Millions of litres of oil seeping into UK soil from ageing electricity cables https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/13/uk-electricity-firms-cables-leaking-oil-underground

Cowboys' Jerry Jones open to trade before NFL deadline, mulling 'room' for a George Pickens contract extension

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…