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Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Niels M. P. Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08718

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Interacting with a standard computer can enhance the capabilities of current quantum computers already today, particularly by offloading certain computations to the standard computer. Quantum computers that interact with standard computers to perform computations are called adaptive quantum computers. This work formalizes a model that describes these adaptive quantum computers. As quantum computers are still under development, this work focuses on computations that terminate after a fixed numbe…

Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/micro1-a-competitor-to-sc…

Micro1, a competitor to Scale AI, raises funds at $500M valuation | TechCrunch
A three-year-old startup providing data for AI labs is trying to fill the gap in the market left by Scale AI.

Computational Imaging for Enhanced Computer Vision
Humera Shaikh, Kaur Jashanpreet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08712 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08712…

Computational Imaging for Enhanced Computer Vision
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of computational imaging (CI) techniques and their transformative impact on computer vision (CV) applications. Conventional imaging methods often fail to deliver high-fidelity visual data in challenging conditions, such as low light, motion blur, or high dynamic range scenes, thereby limiting the performance of state-of-the-art CV systems. Computational imaging techniques, including light field imaging, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging, deblurring, hig…

Why Cooperation Beats Competition If You Design It Right
We praise competition because it slings us awake, but the quiet truth is that cooperation does the heavy lifting. It stitches days together, forges talent into reliability, and turns cleverness into outcomes you can touch. You see it most clearly where failure costs blood or bread. Think of the night shift in a busy hospital: rounds, handoffs, an attending who catches what a resident almost missed because the…

Why Cooperation Beats Competition If You Design It Right | David Boles, Blogs
We praise competition because it slings us awake, but the quiet truth is that cooperation does the heavy lifting. It stitches days together, forges talent into reliability, and turns cleverness int…

GrACE: A Generative Approach to Better Confidence Elicitation in Large Language Models
Zhaohan Zhang, Ziquan Liu, Ioannis Patras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09438 https://…

GrACE: A Generative Approach to Better Confidence Elicitation in Large Language Models
Assessing the reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) by confidence elicitation is a prominent approach to AI safety in high-stakes applications, such as healthcare and finance. Existing methods either require expensive computational overhead or suffer from poor calibration, making them impractical and unreliable for real-world deployment. In this work, we propose GrACE, a Generative Approach to Confidence Elicitation that enables scalable and reliable confidence elicitation for LLMs. GrACE…

This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice of the semiconductor pie and why the robots are coming to Japanese convenience stores.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/the-robots-are-coming-to-7-eleven

The robots are coming to 7-Eleven - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s advance in decarbonisation, India’s efforts to get a slice ...

Civility & common sense has truly gone to hell: Obnoxious audacity has become the norm worldwide.
And you can thank all the societal leeches that live by the philosophy of, "If you don't ask, you don't get".
☑️ Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices | Fortune

Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafés into remote offices
“You can just go and have a cup of coffee, work there—but people are taking it a little bit to the extreme nowadays,” one Korean studies professor said.

In 2030, OpenAI projects $200B in revenue, with R&D spending hitting ~45% of that, or ~$90B; R&D costs of Alphabet and others are currently 10%-20% of revenue (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-350-billion-computing-co…

OpenAI’s $350 Billion Computing Cost Problem
The most popular consumer internet services usually figure out how to make money even after a decade or more of losses. Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Snap all started generating cash by raising prices or leveraging their large audiences to sell ads or other services. OpenAI’s growing audience would ...

Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils the new Mali G1-Ultra GPU (Ben Funk/HotHardware)
https://hothardware.com/news/arm-lumex-compute-subsystem-on-device-ai

Arm Unveils Lumex Compute Subsystem For Powerful, Efficient On-Device AI
Arm's new Lumex compute subsystem brings a big boost to on-device AI, graphics, and general compute tasks to flagship smartphones

An Australian federal judge rules Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct by misusing app store market power, but rejects some of Epic's claims (ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-12/epic-games-fortnite-v-apple-goo…

Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct
The federal court has today ruled against tech giants Apple and Google in a major win for consumers, finding that the companies engaged in anti-competitive conduct.