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San Diego-based Clearspeed, which offers AI-driven voice-based risk assessment tech for 60 languages, raised a $60M Series D, taking its total funding to $110M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/cl

Clearspeed raises $60M to expand voice-based risk assessment platform - SiliconANGLE
Clearspeed raises $60M to expand voice-based risk assessment platform - SiliconANGLE

O PSD do Algarve é só nível. Gente da melhor estirpe.
(sim, é sarcasmo)
https://www.sapo.pt/noticias/regioes/pais-acusam-cristovao-norte-de-divulgar-foto-_68b35d8ec60bb12161e558d1

Pais acusam Cristóvão Norte de divulgar foto de jovem morto em acidente
Pais de Gonçalo Oliveira acusam Cristóvão Norte de divulgar foto do filho morto em acidente sem consentimento.

Eagles' Vic Fangio doesn't hold back when assessing this veteran CB during training camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-vic-…

Question Generation for Assessing Early Literacy Reading Comprehension
Xiaocheng Yang, Sumuk Shashidhar, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22410 https://

Question Generation for Assessing Early Literacy Reading Comprehension
Assessment of reading comprehension through content-based interactions plays an important role in the reading acquisition process. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for generating comprehension questions geared to K-2 English learners. Our method ensures complete coverage of the underlying material and adaptation to the learner's specific proficiencies, and can generate a large diversity of question types at various difficulty levels to ensure a thorough evaluation. We evaluate the per…

Practice-Based Optimization for the Strategic Locomotive Assignment Problem
Yunji Kim, Amira Hijazi, Kevin Dalmeijer, Pascal Van Hentenryck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22235 http…

Practice-Based Optimization for the Strategic Locomotive Assignment Problem
This study addresses the challenge of efficiently assigning locomotives in large freight rail networks, where operational complexity and power imbalances make cost-effective planning difficult. It presents a strategic optimization framework for the Locomotive Assignment Problem (LAP), developed in collaboration with a major North American Class I Freight Railroad. The problem is formulated as a network-based integer program over a cyclic space-time network, producing a repeatable weekly locomot…

Targeting Iran's Leaders, Israel Found a Weak Link: Their Bodyguards (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/politics/israel-iran-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iE8.lnsi.AZun61HVQD5l&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p8#a250831p8

The White House took down the USA's top climate report. You can still find it at #InternetArchive (which we should all support with £, €, $, if we can).
National Climate Assessment website goes dark : NPR

Listening to the Unspoken: Exploring 365 Aspects of Multimodal Interview Performance Assessment
Jia Li, Yang Wang, Wenhao Qian, Zhenzhen Hu, Richang Hong, Meng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22676

Listening to the Unspoken: Exploring 365 Aspects of Multimodal Interview Performance Assessment
Interview performance assessment is essential for determining candidates' suitability for professional positions. To ensure holistic and fair evaluations, we propose a novel and comprehensive framework that explores ``365'' aspects of interview performance by integrating \textit{three} modalities (video, audio, and text), \textit{six} responses per candidate, and \textit{five} key evaluation dimensions. The framework employs modality-specific feature extractors to encode heterogeneous data stre…

Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing. (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/political-violence-minnesota-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.U-s6.Jl_066s4tFJ_&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p97#a250628p97

MASCA: LLM based-Multi Agents System for Credit Assessment
Gautam Jajoo, Pranjal A Chitale, Saksham Agarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22758 https://arxiv.…

MASCA: LLM based-Multi Agents System for Credit Assessment
Recent advancements in financial problem-solving have leveraged LLMs and agent-based systems, with a primary focus on trading and financial modeling. However, credit assessment remains an underexplored challenge, traditionally dependent on rule-based methods and statistical models. In this paper, we introduce MASCA, an LLM-driven multi-agent system designed to enhance credit evaluation by mirroring real-world decision-making processes. The framework employs a layered architecture where speciali…