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Cincinnati-based Pantomath, which automates enterprise data operations using AI, raised a $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, after a $14M Series A in 2023 (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/autom…

Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE
Automated data operations platform Pantomath raises $30M led by General Catalyst - SiliconANGLE

Speaking of attention, can there be aesthetics of attention beyond the obvious? Can there be a playful or mysterious side to our investigations?
https://open.substack.com/pub/salrandolph/p/manifesto-for-a-theater-of-pure-attention

Manifesto for a Theater of Pure Attention
A Dada-style manifesto proposing a new kind of theater, a theater of pure attention.

AttZoom: Attention Zoom for Better Visual Features
Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Tolosana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03625 https://

AttZoom: Attention Zoom for Better Visual Features
We present Attention Zoom, a modular and model-agnostic spatial attention mechanism designed to improve feature extraction in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Unlike traditional attention approaches that require architecture-specific integration, our method introduces a standalone layer that spatially emphasizes high-importance regions in the input. We evaluated Attention Zoom on multiple CNN backbones using CIFAR-100 and TinyImageNet, showing consistent improvements in Top-1 and Top-5 cla…

Head of Israel lobby J Street admits Gaza assault meets genocide definition
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-lobby-chief-admits-gaza-assault-meets-genocide-definition

EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design
Fei Liu, Yilu Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03082 https:…

EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design
Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) using Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved notable success in recent years. Despite the effectiveness of existing approaches, they only design a single heuristic to serve all problem instances, often inducing poor generalization across different distributions or settings. To address this issue, we propose Automated Heuristic Set Design (AHSD), a new formulation for LLM-driven AHD. The aim of AHSD is to automatically generate a small-sized complementary heur…

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🎵 Mercury
#Automatic
https://miracle.bandcamp.com/track/automatic-and-visible-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0koaXm11b7sizUYJ67ebyn

Whoops, DOJ Employee Admitted Epstein Files Coverup To His Honeypot Date!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/whoops-doj-employee-admitted-epstein

Automated Validation of LLM-based Evaluators for Software Engineering Artifacts
Ora Nova Fandina, Eitan Farchi, Shmulik Froimovich, Rami Katan, Alice Podolsky, Orna Raz, Avi Ziv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02827

Automated Validation of LLM-based Evaluators for Software Engineering Artifacts
Automation in software engineering increasingly relies on large language models (LLMs) to generate, review, and assess code artifacts. However, establishing LLMs as reliable evaluators remains an open challenge: human evaluations are costly, subjective and non scalable, while existing automated methods fail to discern fine grained variations in artifact quality. We introduce REFINE (Ranking Evaluators for FIne grained Nuanced Evaluation), an automated framework for benchmarking LLM based eval…

…note that just as a settlement admits no wrongdoing, a settlement •also• does not admit that the fine is anywhere near sufficient.
This settles no law. It just says that suing AI vendors can pay, and people should do it more.

Daesh = ISIS
**Netanyahu admits Israel arming Daesh-tied terrorists in Gaza amid genocide, looting of aid convoys**
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/06/749341/netanyahu-admits-israel-arming-daesh-linked-groups-in-gaza