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An Indicator analysis of 85 AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors, may generate up to $36M annually, and rely on Big Tech services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-…

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

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

China: Kartellbehörde wirft Nvidia Verletzung von Fusionsauflagen vor
Eine chinesische Voruntersuchung soll Nvidia belasten. Jetzt folgt eine umfassende Untersuchung zur milliardenschweren Mellanox-Übernahme.

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p13#a250615p13

" 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

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

CFP ACLA 2026: Melancholic Cosmopolitanism: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/12/cfp-acla-2026-melancholic-cosmopolitanism

Visual Semantic Description Generation with MLLMs for Image-Text Matching
Junyu Chen, Yihua Gao, Mingyong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08590 https://

Visual Semantic Description Generation with MLLMs for Image-Text Matching
Image-text matching (ITM) aims to address the fundamental challenge of aligning visual and textual modalities, which inherently differ in their representations, continuous, high-dimensional image features vs. discrete, structured text. We propose a novel framework that bridges the modality gap by leveraging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) as visual semantic parsers. By generating rich Visual Semantic Descriptions (VSD), MLLMs provide semantic anchor that facilitate cross-modal alignmen…

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 ...