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💸 Centrifuge Launches Tokenized S&P 500 Index Fund on Coinbase's Base Network
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/09/25/centrifuge-launches-tokenized-s-and-p-500-index-fund-on-coinbase-s-base-network

RWA News: Centrifuge Launches Tokenized S&P 500 Index Fund on Coinbase's Base with Wormhole
The SPXA offering is the first blockchain-based index fund licensed by the S&P Dow Jones Indices.

NFL Heat Index: J.J. McCarthy Has Looked the Part; What's Going on With Joe Burrow? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-heat-index-j-j-mccarthy-has-looked-part-whats-going-joe-burrow

Alternative Matrixhoster – #internet

#FotoDerWoche weiter im Herbstmodus.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/18/photo-of-the-week-autumn-in-the-garden/

Photo of the week: Autumn in the garden
Ich bleibe beim herbstlichen Thema. Hier ist der wilde Wein (der vermutlich kein wilder Wein, sondern ein anderes Rankgewächs ist) erst dabei, sich rot zu verfärben. Heute strahlt die ganze hintere Gartenecke in leuchtendem Rot. Sonnige Oktobertage sind mit das beste am Jahr.

The {purrr} package is a powerfull way to replace loops. The {furrr} package takes this approach one step further by parallel execution: #rstats

Apply Mapping Functions in Parallel using Futures
Implementations of the family of map() functions from purrr that can be resolved using any future-supported backend, e.g. parallel on the local machine or distributed on a compute cluster.

OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt

NFL QB rankings, Week 16: Aaron Rodgers hurdles Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-16-2025-nfl-season

Heute ein wenig experimentiert mit YunoHost und quasi mit einem Klick probeweise Pixelfed installiert.
#yunoHost

YunoHost: ziehen Sie ihr eigenes kleines Stück Internet heran!
YunoHost ist ein System welches sich selbst auf einem Server installiert und es erlaubt - mit sehr geringem technischen Wissen - digitale Dienste (Apps) zu installieren und zu warten welche Sie Kontrollieren.

#NowPlaying #Brainwashed Having returned to New Zealand after leaving Hollywood, Graham Revell has relaunched SPK, published a book titled, “The Ineffable Geometry of Light”, and is working on some new music.

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, which offers journalists AI training, open-source projects, and practical use cases (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-academy-for-news-organizations

Valve besätigt: Kein neues Half-Life: Alyx und Ende der VR-Brille Valve Index
Valve stellt die Produktion seines PC-VR-Headsets Index ein und bestätigt gleichzeitig, dass keine eigenen VR-Spiele in Arbeit sind – auch kein neues Alyx.

I was looking into vertical writing systems and found this nice resource:
#todayIlearned

from my link log —
Practical seed recovery for the PCG pseudo-random number generator.
https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8700
saved 2025-10-15

Welcome to the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR),
a database of master recordings made by American record companies during the 78rpm era.
It is part of the American Discography Project (ADP)
—an initiative of the University of California, Santa Barbara that is edited by a team of researchers based at the UCSB Library.
To begin your research, enter names, titles, places, matrix or catalog numbers below,
or click on the advanced browse or search…

Es gab auch gute Nachrichten diese Woche. Der Nationalpark Schwarzwald wird vergrößert.
Gemeinsame PM der Naturschutzverbände: https://baden-wuerttemberg.nabu.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/index.php?popup…

896: Marie Curie - explain xkcd - https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/896:_Marie_Curie

Wechsel auf Super Productivity – #opensourcesoftware

Mes transparents (slides pour les jeune) du #cdl2025 sont disponible Š https://files.hirlimann.net/talks/cdl2025/
Quand la video sera disponible Š

@… can’t wait until they add support for INDEX

OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/

Unsere #Solawi @… bietet den Ernteteilenden frisch gepressten Apfelsaft. Im Oktober hatten Mitglieder der #Genossenschaft bei der Apfelernte mit angepackt.…

the last numbered page of the new Carton and Malm book is 629, but the last page excluding the notes, index and acknowledgements is 425. I can't imagine it's good for sales to make your book seem like 50% more of an unapproachable doorstop than it is. wonder why they don't put the notes online at that point

Zooming-in on cluster #RadioRelics - how density fluctuations explain the Mach number discrepancy, microgauss magnetic fields, and spectral index variations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11947 -> Shocked galaxy clusters - Unravelling the mysteries of radio relics: https://www.aip.de/en/news/shocked-galaxy-clusters-unravelling-the-mysteries-of-radio-relics/

RE: https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/08/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-september-2025/
Katabasis - eine Empfehlung.

54. Buxtehuder Bulle ("einer der ältesten und wichtigsten deutschen Literaturpreise.")
#buchpreise

Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index

Price of a bot army revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.

Moin #Kiel, Briefwahl könnt ihr jetzt schon machen. Sonst sehen wir uns am 16. November an der Urne. #OBWahlKiel
Wahlen und Abstimmungen in der Landeshauptstadt Kiel

Vi har lyst ut to stipendiatstillinger knyttet til doktorgradsprogrammet FILMART ved INN (https://www.inn.no/forskning/doktorgradsutdanning/filmart/). Stipendiatene skal knyttes til det nasjonale KI-senteret MishMash (

Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid i film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer - Universitetet i Innlandet
Ph.d.-programmet ved Fakultet for film, TV og spill er forankret i kunstnerisk praksis. Fagfeltet er «film og beslektede audiovisuelle kunstformer», og det er åpent både for de som arbeider innenfor mer tradisjonelle filmfaglige disipliner og utøvere som utforsker nye teknologier og format.

Bing's web crawler is a true putz of the Internet.
By-the-way, various other search engines use Bing as the underlying web crawler, so this is far from being a Microsoft issue.
Bing's web crawler refuses to index content that does not meet its standards.
And what are those standards? It is that pages contain a bunch of meta tags and such.
Well, some of my archival content was written around 1995, long before those meta tags were conceived.
Thus, from Bi…

My colleagues just published a really nice analysis comparing the performance of (AI-enabled) Primo Research Assistant and traditional library search. TL;DR they pull up about the same proportion of relevant articles, without much overlap. Generated summary text still needs work. https://ital.corejournals.org/in…

U.S. falls from world's 10 most powerful passports list for 1st time ever (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/us-passport-most-powerful-world-list-henley-index-drop
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p7#a251016p7

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

NFL Heat Index: Bijan Robinson Revving Up, Travis Hunter Shivering Entering Week 7 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-heat-index-bijan-robinson-revving-up-travis-hunter-shivering-entering-week-7

Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory
Andrew Pendleton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11976

Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory
The Index Conjecture in zero-sum theory states that when $n$ is coprime to $6$ and $k$ equals $4$, every minimal zero-sum sequence of length $k$ modulo $n$ has index $1$. While other values of $(k,n)$ have been studied thoroughly in the last 30 years, it is only recently that the conjecture has been proven for $n>10^{20}$. In this paper, we prove that said upper bound can be reduced to $4.6\cdot10^{13}$, and lower under certain coprimality conditions. Further, we verify the conjecture for $n<1.…

Collette and I at the #NoKings Rally in Smyrna GA. There were about 400 people at this rally (just a guess, could have been a lot more). Lot's of thumbs up and honking from the cars driving by. A few people , apparently with damaged index fingers, seemed to indicate we were # 1. I would say about 50% of the cars were supportive, 45% ambivalent, and 5% , were demonstrably not fans. We were there …

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/mirelo-raises-41m…

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

NFL QB rankings, Week 7: Josh Allen ousted from top 3; Jaxson Dart makes biggest jump https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-7-2025-nfl-season

Linkdump 42/2025 – #fundstücke

Magnetic Decay Index Profile and Coronal Mass Ejection Speed
Bernhard Kliem, Georgios Chintzoglou, Tibor T\"or\"ok, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11889 https://…

Magnetic Decay Index Profile and Coronal Mass Ejection Speed
We study the relationship between the speed of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the height profile of the ambient magnetic field, quantified by its decay index, n(h). Our sample is composed of 15 very fast CMEs (Vcme > 1500 km/s; all halo CMEs) and 22 halo CMEs below this speed limit from Solar Cycle 23. The very fast CMEs yield a high correlation of 0.81 between Vcme and the slope of n(h) in a height range above the onset height of the torus instability if one extremely fast outlier, which cl…

Pentagon pizza spike
https://pizzint.watch/

«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles

Have we got a bug happening in mastodon.social? I can't access my Notifications, I get this error message:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'pending_requests_count')
Ae (https://mastodon.social/packs/notifications_v2-index-n643a…

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

The old Valve #Index has the best audio of any VR headset.
The goofy floating speakers sound great, and are incredibly immersive, because the sound literally comes from "outside" instead of touching my ears or conducting sound through my bones like in-ear headphones.

breadboard panel inspo
https://fearlessnight.com/breadboard-panels/index.html

Rank Two Sheaves With Low Discriminant on the Fano Threefold of Index 2 and Degree 5
Danil A. Vassiliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10608 https://arxiv.org/…

Rank Two Sheaves With Low Discriminant on the Fano Threefold of Index 2 and Degree 5
We describe rank 2 Gieseker semistable sheaves $E$ on the Fano threefold $X_5$ of index 2 and degree 5 with maximal third Chern class $c_3(E)$ for all possible low values of discriminant $\overlineΔ_H(E)\le 40$. The work uses the theory of tilt-stability and Bridgeland stability conditions on smooth projective threefolds. We also make a conjecture about the rank 2 sheaves on $X_5$ with maximal $c_3$ and discriminant big enough.

The generalized Zagreb index for non-plane and plane recursive trees
Qunqiang Feng, Michael Fuchs, Tsan-Cheng Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10569 https://a…

The generalized Zagreb index for non-plane and plane recursive trees
The Zagreb index, which is defined as the sum of squares of degrees of the nodes of a tree, was studied in previous works by martingale techniques for random non-plane recursive trees and classes of random trees which are close to random plane recursive trees. These techniques are not easily amended to the generalized Zagreb index, which is defined similar but with squares replaced by higher powers. In this paper, we use the moment transfer approach to (i) obtain the first-order asymptotics of …

Low key product launch to end the year: https://cct-development-management-bot.cct-datascience.xyz/index.html
It's a long story, but we've put out a very niche RAG bot relating to development management in

Valve says it has stopped production of its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, which it's "no longer manufacturing", after unveiling the Steam Frame (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/817967/valve-index-vr-hea…

Valve has stopped manufacturing its Index VR headset
Valve is no longer manufacturing the Valve Index VR headset, which it released in 2019. Instead, it’s putting its efforts behind the new Steam Frame.

The Betrayal Index: The Cowboys have let Dak Prescott down at rare levels — Video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6720664/2025/10/16/dak-prescott-cowboys-nfl-betrayed-quarterbacks/

Had a great time presenting our paper “Domain-specific tensor languages” today at #ICFP2025 in Singapore 🇸🇬
The images attached are screenshots from the paper as teasers — diagrams for derivative rules, the Riemann curvature 4-tensor in Einstein’s index notation, and the same in diagram form.
📄 Slides:

Performance Index Shaping for Closed-loop Optimal Control
Ayush Rai, Shaoshuai Mou, Brian D. O. Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10202 https://arxiv.org…

Performance Index Shaping for Closed-loop Optimal Control
The design of the performance index, also referred to as cost or reward shaping, is central to both optimal control and reinforcement learning, as it directly determines the behaviors, trade-offs, and objectives that the resulting control laws seek to achieve. A commonly used approach for this inference task in recent years is differentiable trajectory optimization, which allows gradients to be computed with respect to cost parameters by differentiating through an optimal control solver. Howeve…

Evaluating Investment Performance: The p-index and Empirical Efficient Frontier
Jing Li, Bowei Guo, Xinqi Xie, Kuo-Ping Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11074 https://

Evaluating Investment Performance: The p-index and Empirical Efficient Frontier
The empirical results have shown that firstly, with one-week holding period and reinvesting, for SSE Composite Index stocks, the highest p-ratio investment strategy produces the largest annualized rate of return; and for NYSE Composite Index stocks, all the three strategies with both one-week and one-month periods generate negative returns. Secondly, with non-reinvesting, for SSE Composite Index stocks, the highest p-ratio strategy with one-week holding period yields the largest annualized rate…

#CSS has 42 units
https://www.irrlicht3d.org/index.php?t=1627

The Hybrid Multimodal Graph Index (HMGI): A Comprehensive Framework for Integrated Relational and Vector Search
Joydeep Chandra, Satyam Kumar Navneet, Yong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10123

The Hybrid Multimodal Graph Index (HMGI): A Comprehensive Framework for Integrated Relational and Vector Search
The proliferation of complex, multimodal datasets has exposed a critical gap between the capabilities of specialized vector databases and traditional graph databases. While vector databases excel at semantic similarity search, they lack the capacity for deep relational querying. Conversely, graph databases master complex traversals but are not natively optimized for high-dimensional vector search. This paper introduces the Hybrid Multimodal Graph Index (HMGI), a novel framework designed to brid…

Yesterday at the @… conference, the Brücke-Museum Berlin presented its digitization project on Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s collection of objects from colonial contexts. All objects have been published on #wikiCommons, allowing everyone to contribute and r…

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]

"Bücher auf dem Index – Wie Book Bans und Verbote die Literatur bedrohen"
https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/buecher-auf-dem-index-wie-book-bans-und-verbote-die-literatur-bedrohen-100.html
"Ver…

Das aufwändigste Musikvideo, das ich je mitgemacht habe. Achtung, nichts für zarte Seelen. Dann guckt lieber den Clean Cut!. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z987LmR2i0&list=PL5UVwWJz8xp7fVkEtNuJAzOo3JEP_bjXB&index=2

0 days since it turned out that GNU #make does not respect the #jobserver protocol it designed itself in yet another way. Or to put it otherwise, I've wasted my whole morning implemented something that cannot work because it didn't occur to me that GNU make people only set rules without caring to actually follow them.
#Gentoo #Linux

The Betrayal Index: The Cowboys have let Dak Prescott down at rare levels — Video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6720664/2025/10/16/dak-prescott-cowboys-nfl-betrayed-quarterbacks/

nonserious techno is serious (Brava b2b Teki Latex) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCRS08D4uA&list=WL&index=34

Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, world models, and the AI bubble
Q&A with the Google DeepMind CEO on building AGI, compute bottlenecks, and the AI bubble.

Dark matter direct search result from InDEx run2 at JUSL
Susmita Das, Mala Das, Vimal Kumar, Suraj Ali, Nilanjan Biswas, Shantonu Sahoo, Niraj Chaddha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06921

Dark matter direct search result from InDEx run2 at JUSL
The Indian Dark matter search Experiment (InDEx) has been initiated at Jaduguda Underground Science Laboratory (JUSL) to explore the low mass region of dark matter. The detectors used by InDEx are superheated droplet detectors with active liquid C2H2F4. The run1 of InDEx was with 2.47 kg-days of exposure at a threshold of 5.87 keV. In the present work, the run2 of InDEx, the detectors were set at 1.95 keV thresholds with an active liquid mass of 70.4 g. For a runtime of 102.48 days, the experim…

Random Sunday browsing: from the directory of all websites in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) http://www.dprkportal.kp/guide to the North Korean Cook Association …

OPNsense 25.7.7 released
This update ships a number of third party security updates, firewall live
log improvements based on user feedback from 25.7.6, plus minor fixes and
improvements like usual.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49616.msg25204…

Abstracts for the long papers on now https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=16 and the short papers

LION: from 2022-2024, local independent online news organizations with dedicated staff for revenue generation had median revenue 700% higher than those without (Eric Rynston-Lobel/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Paths to sustainability
News organizations with staff focused on revenue generation had a median revenue 700% higher than news outlets without it, according to a report released by Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers on Wednesday.

OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700 questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/frontierscience/

Goodbye Super Productivity – #superproductivity

Projecting the 2026 draft order: Raiders, Giants move up; Dolphins move down https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/46146676/2026-nfl-draft-order-projections-32-first-round-picks

Reduced to the Max: Pebble-Ring für Sprachnotizen hat nur einen Knopf
Ein Mikrofon am Zeigefinger springt nur an, wenn der Daumen den Knopf drückt. Der Pebble Index 01 dient zunächst für Sprachnotizen und Musiksteuerung.

Barrierefreiheit im Blog – Wie inklusiv sind wir wirklich? – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4440-Barrierefreiheit-im-Blog-Wie-inklusiv-sind-wir-wirklich.html

Let's simulate the rest of the 2025 NFL season: The last three weeks, plus playoff and Super Bowl results https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47326035/2025-nfl-season-simulation-final-three-weeks-standings-pl…

from my link log —
Front-panel booting an ATmega88 microcontroller.
https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/frontpanel/index.php
saved 2025-12-06

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

12 lightning talks in 60 minutes?! Check out the richness at https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=6

Linkdump 46/2025 – #fundstücke

OPNsense 25.7.5 released
This updates provides for a new GeoIP database source by IPinfo, stability
fixes for several network drivers and the recent OpenSSL security update
amongst others.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49220.msg249339#msg2493…

from my link log —
An array index points between elements.
https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-elements/
saved 2025-12-13

Iceberg Index: KI kann bereits 11,7 Prozent der US-Arbeitskräfte ersetzen
Ein neues Simulationstool des MIT zeigt: Aktuelle KI-Systeme könnten bereits 11,7 Prozent des US-Arbeitsmarkts ersetzen – vor allem in Verwaltung und Finanzen.

Steam hit a new record with over 41.6M concurrent users on October 12, a surge largely sparked by the release of Battlefield 6 (Kosta Andreadis/TweakTown)
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108287/steam-just-broke-its-concurre…

Meine SF- und Fantasy-Lektüre: mit Magiesystemen, Arcane, dem akademischen Höllenritt von Katabasis und einem leider enttäuschenden Solarpunk-Zeitreise-Buch.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/08/science-fiction-und-fantasy…

Science Fiction und Fantasy im September 2025
Im September fand ich weniger Zeit zum Lesen als üblicherweise. Das hat verschiedene Gründe; neben einem Fokus auf Serien - und einem Buch, mit dem ich mich schwer getan habe - habe ich größere Teile meiner Freizeit mit einem Python-Projekt gefüllt. Aber genug der Vorrede: Auf dem Bildschirm gese

Linkdump 50/2025 – #fundstücke

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200 Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

Airline Index 2025: Luftfahrt verpasst erneut Klimaziele
Trotz neuer, effizienterer Flugzeuge haben die Fluggesellschaften im Jahr ihre Klimaziele verfehlt, wie eine Studie zeigt.
https://www.

NFL QB rankings, Week 15: Patrick Mahomes hits season low while Jordan Love cracks top 5 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-15-2025-nfl-season

Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform "economically valuable knowledge work"; GPT-5 leads the index (Mercor)
https://mercor.com/blog/introducing-apex-ai-productivity-index/

Introducing APEX: The AI Productivity Index | Mercor Blog
Find top-tier, remote, AI roles for your expertise. Available only on Mercor.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a "no-reasoning" mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-for-developers

OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt

Linkdump 41/2025 – #fundstücke

NFL QB rankings, Week 6: Baker Mayfield vaults Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen; Drake Maye in top 10 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-6-2025-nfl-season

Linkdump 45/2025 – #fundstücke

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on "a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-years/

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200 Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2

New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/crosby-ai-law-firm-raises-20-million

Crosby, 'AI Law Firm' Working With Startups Like Cursor, Raises $20 Million
The Series A from Index Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures will help lawyer turned founder Ryan Daniels expand how his year-old startup can use AI to speed up contract reviews.

Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200% in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…