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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.

"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

You would be cuter if you smelled like strawberries.
- the message that sells tweens millions and millions of lip glosses

Love to see all the #NoKings posts!! Do we have any sources on total turnout?
Edit: this #TheGuardian article says "several millions" and also that they're still ongoing in some places:

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

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…

#nokings #usa #usapol
"Thousands of people have begun demonstrating across the US as part of the “No Kings” protests. Millions are expected to turn up for events against the Trump administration at ro…

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 ...

MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
Fan Zhang, Zebang Cheng, Chong Deng, Haoxuan Li, Zheng Lian, Qian Chen, Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, Yi-Fan Zhang, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Hao Wu, Haixin Wang, Yefeng Zheng, Xiaojiang Peng, Xian Wu, Kun Wang, Xiangang Li, Jieping Ye, Pheng-Ann Heng
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MME-Emotion: A Holistic Evaluation Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence in Multimodal Large Language Models
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have catalyzed transformative progress in affective computing, enabling models to exhibit emergent emotional intelligence. Despite substantial methodological progress, current emotional benchmarks remain limited, as it is still unknown: (a) the generalization abilities of MLLMs across distinct scenarios, and (b) their reasoning capabilities to identify the triggering factors behind emotional states. To bridge these gaps, we present \te…

Trump's financial disclosures reveal tens of millions in income from guitars, bibles and watches with his name on them (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trumps-financial-disclosures-reveal-millions-income-guitars-bibles-wat-rcna212981
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p155#a250613p155