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Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-using-ai-tran…

The Startup Using AI to Translate Documents Into Data
If you’ve ever uploaded a picture of a receipt to an expense report or read a PDF of a book online, you’ve likely used optical character recognition, a decades-old technique that converts images of typed, handwritten or printed text into text that’s editable on a computer.OCR might not sound ...

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Jiateng Liu, Zhenhailong Wang, Xiaojiang Huang, Yingjie Li, Xing Fan, Xiang Li, Chenlei Guo, Ruhi Sarikaya, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11588

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems rely on in-context policy documents encoding diverse business rules. As requirements grow, these documents expand rapidly, causing high computational overhead. This motivates developing internalization methods that embed policy documents into model priors while preserving performance. Prior prompt compression work targets generic prompts, but agentic policy documents span multiple complexity levels and require deeper reasoning, making internaliza…

»Doku lesen? Handbücher sind für Mädchen, hihi.« Unter anderem deswegen hat Dokumentation schreiben nur einen geringen Stellenwert in Unternehmen und die Welt ist voll mit schlechter (und häufig auch optisch hässlicher) Dokumentation. #justthinkin #documentarian

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy #walmart

Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.

Spain dismantles “GXC Team” cybercrime syndicate, arrests leader
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spain-dismantles-gxc-team-cybercrime-syndicate-arrests-leader/

Spain dismantles “GXC Team” cybercrime syndicate, arrests leader
Spanish Guardia Civil have dismantled the "GXC Team" cybercrime syndicate and arrested its alleged leader, a 25-year-old Brazilian known as "GoogleXcoder."

Princes Wharf/Wapping Railway Wharf, Bristol, April 2025
#documentingbritain #documentingplaces #blackandwhitephotography

Explosive new documentary probes '80-year global coverup' of UFO secrets (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/the-age-disclosure-new-documentary-explores-claims-80-year-cover-up-non-human-life
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p137#a251114p137

"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."
JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Only one day left in a very news-heavy work week, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial cybersecurity news you should know, including
--Operation Endgame dismantled Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium,
--DC US Attorney launches investigation into crypto scams,
--APT exploited Citrix Bleed2 flaws in Cisco ISE,
--CISA orders patching of Cisco ASA and Firepower devices,
--Extremist group 764 member faces charges related to online child exploitatio…

Operation Endgame dismantled Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium
DC US Attorney launches investigation into crypto scams, APT exploited Citrix Bleed2 flaws in Cisco ISE, CISA orders patching of Cisco ASA and Firepower devices, Extremist group 764 member faces charges related to online child exploitation, Musk fumbles X security key switchover, much more

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps (James T. Areddy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p27#a251213p27