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One area where I think I can do better is to have some sort of Asset browser in Xogot. I do not think that finding files by name is great - and I am lacking an icon view for the file browser.
I am unfamiliar with the space (other than Googling "Unity Asset Browser") and the Final Cut iPad browser - which seems insufficient.
Do you have a favorite tool or UI that you like that you recommend to me?

Antonio Pierce says Tom Brady's 'unprecedented' role was 'great asset' for Raiders in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/antonio

Ex-Raiders coach says Tom Brady ‘was a great asset for us’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-raiders-coach-says-tom-brady-was-a-great-asset-for-us-3462623/

Asset control and power in America is centered among old people with lots of assets.
And they associate protecting the stock market with protecting America.
The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics,
it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.
Take the pandemic.
Some of you might remember that right before Covid hit in force, I was freaking out. I pay attention to China, and it wasn’t hard to imagine that a contagious disease would…

The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.

The political neutral Red Cross about the situation in Gaza.
"Gaza worse than hell on Earth"
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg5vyp33j1t?post=asset:09e08599-9e3d-4878-a965-ff0fd0054fe1#post

Gaza worse than hell on Earth, Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day
The president of the ICRC tells the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity.

The Budapest Memorandum was a security guarantee…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cev28rvzlv1t?post=asset:afef6662-78a9-4f0e-a475-867d00ca16b9#post

Putin has agreed to 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine, US envoy says - latest updates
Steve Witkoff describes the proposal as "game-changing" as Zelensky joins a call with European leaders ahead of his White House visit.

Software-AG-Verkauf: „Jedes Asset wird zu Geld gemacht“ - Wie viel Software steckt noch in der Software AG? Laut #Handelsblatt bleibt am Ende des Silver-Lake-Schachzugs wenig mehr als ein paar Patente und Namensschild. Wer nur noch den Liquidationswert sieht, hat den Wert der Innovation längst abgeschrieben.

• Foundations for OT Cybersecurity: Asset Inventory Guidance for Owners and Operators
13 August 2025
site: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/foundations-ot-cybersecurity-asset-inventory-guidance-owners-a…

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/…

1 in 5 top Trump picks held crypto, some worth millions, Post finds
Over 1 in 5 top Trump appointees reported investments in crypto and other digital assets, far more than previous administrations, a Post analysis found.

Trading Quantum Ensembles
Junaid ur Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13010 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13010

Trading Quantum Ensembles
We consider an example scenario where we require several copies of a pure quantum state $|ψ\rangle$ for some quantum information processing task. Due to practical limitations, we only have access to $N = 10^3$ depolarized copies of $|ψ\rangle$ such that the fidelity $F$ of each copy with $|ψ\rangle$ is $0.75$. We denote this quantum asset with the ensemble $\mathcal{A}: (10^3, 0.75)_{|ψ\rangle}$. A genie appears and offers to trade $\mathcal{A}$ with either $\mathcal{B}:…

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
Yanming Xiu, Joshua Chilukuri, Shunav Sen, Maria Gorlatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12498

Say It, See It: A Systematic Evaluation on Speech-Based 3D Content Generation Methods in Augmented Reality
As augmented reality (AR) applications increasingly require 3D content, generative pipelines driven by natural input such as speech offer an alternative to manual asset creation. In this work, we design a modular, edge-assisted architecture that supports both direct text-to-3D and text-image-to-3D pathways, enabling interchangeable integration of state-of-the-art components and systematic comparison of their performance in AR settings. Using this architecture, we implement and evaluate four rep…

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Dmitry Belousov, Yury Yanovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12671…

DIT: Dimension Reduction View on Optimal NFT Rarity Meters
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a significant digital asset class, each uniquely representing virtual entities such as artworks. These tokens are stored in collections within smart contracts and are actively traded across platforms on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana blockchains. The value of NFTs is closely tied to their distinctive characteristics that define rarity, leading to a growing interest in quantifying rarity within both industry and academia. While there are existing rarity mete…

PhysX: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
Ziang Cao, Zhaoxi Chen, Linag Pan, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12465 https://ar…

PhysX: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
3D modeling is moving from virtual to physical. Existing 3D generation primarily emphasizes geometries and textures while neglecting physical-grounded modeling. Consequently, despite the rapid development of 3D generative models, the synthesized 3D assets often overlook rich and important physical properties, hampering their real-world application in physical domains like simulation and embodied AI. As an initial attempt to address this challenge, we propose \textbf{PhysX}, an end-to-end paradi…

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management
Raphael Chinchilla, Thomas D. Rueter, Timothy R. McDade, Peter R. Fisher, Emmanuel Candes, Trevor Hastie, Stephen Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13350

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management
This paper proposes a simulation-based framework for assessing and improving the performance of a pension fund management scheme. This framework is modular and allows the definition of customized performance metrics that are used to assess and iteratively improve asset and liability management policies. We illustrate our framework with a simple implementation that showcases the power of including adaptable features. We show that it is possible to dissipate longevity and volatility risks by perm…

Unified Modelling of Infrastructure Asset Performance Deterioration -- a bounded gamma process approach
Wang Chen, Arnold X. -X. Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13359 https://…

Unified Modelling of Infrastructure Asset Performance Deterioration -- a bounded gamma process approach
Infrastructure asset management systems require a flexible deterioration model that can handle various degradation patterns in a unified way. Owing to its appealing monotonic sample paths, independent increments and mathematical tractability, gamma process has been widely employed as an infrastructure performance deterioration model. This model was recently enhanced by introducing an upper bound to satisfy a practical modelling need that many infrastructure performance deterioration processes a…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Unified Modelling of Infrastructure Asset Performance Deterioration -- a bounded gamma process ap...
Wang Chen, Arnold X. -X. Yuan

NSA Joins CISA and Others to Share OT Asset Inventory Guidance
https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/4273440/nsa-joins-cisa-and-others-to-s…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Unified Modelling of Infrastructure Asset Performance Deterioration -- a bounded gamma process ap...
Wang Chen, Arnold X. -X. Yuan

Head of Ukraine's state asset management body submits resignation amid agency revamp: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/head-of-ukraines-state-asset.html

AI Asset Management for Manufacturing (AIM4M): Development of a Process Model for Operationalization
Lukas Rauh, Mel-Rick S\"uner, Daniel Schel, Thomas Bauernhansl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11691

AI Asset Management for Manufacturing (AIM4M): Development of a Process Model for Operationalization
The benefits of adopting artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing are undeniable. However, operationalizing AI beyond the prototype, especially when involved with cyber-physical production systems (CPPS), remains a significant challenge due to the technical system complexity, a lack of implementation standards and fragmented organizational processes. To this end, this paper proposes a new process model for the lifecycle management of AI assets designed to address challenges in manufacturin…

A hastily organised summit with unclear outcomes
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kzn1nw1d4t?post=asset:7766b68f-32c0-4212-8b1e-c214a098d74b#post

Live updates: Trump meets Putin in Alaska for Ukraine talks
The US and Russian leaders exchanged two handshakes before travelling together in Trump's limo to the summit.

Raiders training camp preview: Can offensive line be an asset? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-training-camp-preview-can-offensive-line-be-an-asset-3397013/

Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE, and reports a net loss of ~$349M on digital asset sales of $80M in Q1 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/bull…

Market Viability and Completeness for Multinomial Models
Nahuel I. Arca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13966 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13966

Market Viability and Completeness for Multinomial Models
We study a generalization of the classical binomial model that consists in allowing any finite number of branches in each node of the tree representation. In this model, we show that the two fundamental theorems of asset pricing have a geometric interpretation and, using this, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a market to be arbitrage-free and complete. We also present an algorithm for completing arbitrage-free markets in every possible way. We apply these results to the study of …

President Krasnov is a Russian asset.
Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-crosspost-donald-trump-was

BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
Byline Times has crashed due to a DDOS attack and the original story blocked: a former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

StyleSculptor: Zero-Shot Style-Controllable 3D Asset Generation with Texture-Geometry Dual Guidance
Zefan Qu, Zhenwei Wang, Haoyuan Wang, Ke Xu, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W. H. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13301

StyleSculptor: Zero-Shot Style-Controllable 3D Asset Generation with Texture-Geometry Dual Guidance
Creating 3D assets that follow the texture and geometry style of existing ones is often desirable or even inevitable in practical applications like video gaming and virtual reality. While impressive progress has been made in generating 3D objects from text or images, creating style-controllable 3D assets remains a complex and challenging problem. In this work, we propose StyleSculptor, a novel training-free approach for generating style-guided 3D assets from a content image and one or more styl…

Raiders training camp preview: Can offensive line be an asset? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-training-camp-preview-can-offensive-line-be-an-asset-3397013/

The asymmetrical Acquisition of information about the range of asset value in market
Jianhao Su, Yanliang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09615 https://ar…

The asymmetrical Acquisition of information about the range of asset value in market
The information investors acquire in asset markets has various forms. We refer to range information as information about the upper and lower bound which the payoff of an asset may reach in the future. This paper explores the market impacts of investors' asymmetrical acquisition of range information. Uninformed traders are inherently unable to directly obtain the private signal held by informed traders. This study shows that when range information is released to investors asymmetrically, uninfor…

Int. military base, Anchorage, Alaska - day
Former KGB agent winces as he imagines meeting with the 34 time felon. It’s the obsequiousness and the overuse of pancake makeup, tacky. But you don’t always get to choose who you’re handling, and this asset was well placed; insanely well placed.
#USpol

Rex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US after the SEC approved generic listing standards, paving the way for speedier ETF listings (Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/crypto/sec-paves-way…

SEC paves way for speedier crypto ETF listings as XRP and dogecoin ETFs launch
Rex Osprey launched the first spot XRP and doge ETFs today, while Grayscale will soon launch its just-approved multi-asset fund.

Mitigating Undesired Conditions in Flexible Production with Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graphs
Petr Novak, Stefan Biffl, Marek Obitko, Petr Kadera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06278

Mitigating Undesired Conditions in Flexible Production with Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graphs
Contemporary industrial cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) composed of robotic workcells face significant challenges in the analysis of undesired conditions due to the flexibility of Industry 4.0 that disrupts traditional quality assurance mechanisms. This paper presents a novel industry-oriented semantic model called Product-Process-Resource Asset Knowledge Graph (PPR-AKG), which is designed to analyze and mitigate undesired conditions in flexible CPPS. Built on top of the well-proven Pr…

AI Agent Architecture for Decentralized Trading of Alternative Assets
Ailiya Borjigin, Cong He, Charles CC Lee, Wei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11117 h…

AI Agent Architecture for Decentralized Trading of Alternative Assets
Decentralized trading of real-world alternative assets (e.g., gold) requires bridging physical asset custody with blockchain systems while meeting strict requirements for compliance, liquidity, and risk management. We present GoldMine OS, a research oriented architecture that employs multiple specialized AI agents to automate and secure the tokenization and exchange of physical gold into a blockchain based stablecoin ("OZ"). Our approach combines on chain smart contracts for critical risk contr…

Tensor train representations of Greeks for Fourier-based pricing of multi-asset options
Rihito Sakurai, Koichi Miyamoto, Tsuyoshi Okubo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08482

Tensor train representations of Greeks for Fourier-based pricing of multi-asset options
Efficient computation of Greeks for multi-asset options remains a key challenge in quantitative finance. While Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is widely used, it suffers from the large sample complexity for high accuracy. We propose a framework to compute Greeks in a single evaluation of a tensor train (TT), which is obtained by compressing the Fourier transform (FT)-based pricing function via TT learning using tensor cross interpolation. Based on this TT representation, we introduce two approaches…

Attribution Locus and the Timeliness of Long-lived Asset Write-downs
Yao-Lin Chang, Chun-Yang Lin, Chi-Chun Liu, Stephen G. Ryan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10810 https://…

Attribution Locus and the Timeliness of Long-lived Asset Write-downs
We examine the relative timeliness with which write-downs of long-lived assets incorporate adverse macroeconomic and industry outcomes versus adverse firm-specific outcomes. We posit that users of financial reports are more likely to attribute adverse firm-specific outcomes to suboptimal managerial actions, which provide managers with more incentive to delay write downs. We provide evidence that, controlling for other incentives to manage earnings, firms record write-downs in the current year t…

Evaluating Quantum Amplitude Estimation for Pricing Multi-Asset Basket Options
Muhammad Kashif, Shaf Khalid, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio, Muhammad Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09432

Evaluating Quantum Amplitude Estimation for Pricing Multi-Asset Basket Options
Accurate and efficient pricing of multi-asset basket options poses a significant challenge, especially when dealing with complex real-world data. In this work, we investigate the role of quantum-enhanced uncertainty modeling in financial pricing options on real-world data. Specifically, we use quantum amplitude estimation and analyze the impact of varying the number of uncertainty qubits while keeping the number of assets fixed, as well as the impact of varying the number of assets while keepin…

Trump is a 'Russian asset,' Portuguese president says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/trump-is-a-russian-asset.html

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[3/3]:
- PhysX: Physical-Grounded 3D Asset Generation
Ziang Cao, Zhaoxi Chen, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu

Dynamic Asset Pricing with {\alpha}-MEU Model
Jiacheng Fan, Xue Dong He, Ruocheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04093 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04093

Dynamic Asset Pricing with α-MEU Model
We study a dynamic asset pricing problem in which a representative agent is ambiguous about the aggregate endowment growth rate and trades a risky stock, human capital, and a risk-free asset to maximize her preference value of consumption represented by the α-maxmin expected utility model. This preference model is known to be dynamically inconsistent, so we consider intra-personal equilibrium strategies for the representative agent and define the market equilibrium as the one in which the stra…

A Time Series Model for Three Asset Classes used in Financial Simulator
Andrey Sarantsev, Angel Piotrowski, Ian Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06010 https://

A Time Series Model for Three Asset Classes used in Financial Simulator
We create a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for annual returns of three asset classes: the USA Standard & Poor (S&P) stock index, the international stock index, and the USA Bank of America investment-grade corporate bond index. Using this, we made an online financial app simulating wealth process. This includes options for regular withdrawals and contributions. Four factors are: S&P volatility and earnings, corporate BAA rate, and long-short Treasury bond spread. Our valuation meas…

Hedging Options on Asset Portfolios against Just One Underlying Asset in the Presence of Transaction Costs
Erina Nanyonga, Matt Davison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07718 https://…

Hedging Options on Asset Portfolios against Just One Underlying Asset in the Presence of Transaction Costs
Options are contingent claims regarding the value of underlying assets. The Black-Scholes formula provides a road map for pricing these options in a risk-neutral setting, justified by a delta hedging argument in which countervailing positions of appropriate size are taken in the underlying asset. However, what if an underlying asset is expensive to trade? It might be better to hedge with a different, but related asset that is cheaper to trade. This study considers this question in a setting in …

Mailbag: Is Luepke part of RB picture? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-luepke-part-of-rb-picture

Simulation of a generalized asset exchange model with investment and income mechanisms
Jan Tobochnik, Harvey Gould, William Klein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05810 https://

Simulation of a generalized asset exchange model with investment and income mechanisms
An agent-based model of the economy is generalized to incorporate investment and guaranteed income mechanisms in addition to the exchange and distribution mechanisms considered in earlier models. We find realistic wealth distributions and realistic values of the Gini coefficients and the Pareto index. We also show that although the system reaches a steady state, the system is not in thermal equilibrium. The nonequilibrium behavior is associated with the multiplicative noise generated by the inv…

Google begins rolling out Asset Studio in beta, letting advertisers generate and edit images, videos, and voiceovers directly in the Google Ads interface (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-asset-studio-beta-461165

A very strict, yet also a very good cop 👮: CoP11 🧮. What?
Here's another great blog by Axle Energy on device-level measurements, which are ideal for unlocking residential flexibility from sources such as home batteries, EV charging, hot water tanks and heat pumps.
https://cop11.axle.energy

Fascinating:
Asset managers make business judgements that, say, fossil fuels are a risky business investment.
And then "anti-woke," allegedly pro free-market, pro-smaller government people say, "no, your business and investment decisions will now be made by us, the 'freely elected' (in gerrymandered elections) representatives of the fossil business interests that own us."
Neat and tidy.

4-Swap: Achieving Grief-Free and Bribery-Safe Atomic Swaps Using Four Transactions
Kirti Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India), Vinay J. Ribeiro (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Susmita Mandal (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India)

4-Swap: Achieving Grief-Free and Bribery-Safe Atomic Swaps Using Four Transactions
Cross-chain asset exchange is crucial for blockchain interoperability. Existing solutions rely on trusted third parties and risk asset loss, or use decentralized alternatives like atomic swaps, which suffer from grief attacks. Griefing occurs when a party prematurely exits, locking the counterparty's assets until a timelock expires. Hedged Atomic Swaps mitigate griefing by introducing a penalty premium; however, they increase the number of transactions from four (as in Tier Nolan's swap) to six…

Spatio-Temporal Autoregressions for High Dimensional Matrix-Valued Time Series
Baojun Dou, Jing He, Sudhir Tiwari, Qiwei Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10291 https://

Spatio-Temporal Autoregressions for High Dimensional Matrix-Valued Time Series
Motivated by predicting intraday trading volume curves, we consider two spatio-temporal autoregressive models for matrix time series, in which each column may represent daily trading volume curve of one asset, and each row captures synchronized 5-minute volume intervals across multiple assets. While traditional matrix time series focus mainly on temporal evolution, our approach incorporates both spatial and temporal dynamics, enabling simultaneous analysis of interactions across multiple dimens…

New York-based Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, says it acquired blockchain data provider Coin Metrics, a source says for over $100M (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/16/talos-crypto…

Exclusive: Crypto infrastructure giant Talos acquires Coin Metrics for more than $100 million
The deal is the latest in a flurry of M&A activity in the crypto sector.

Rational Bubbles on Dividend-Paying Assets: A Comment on Tirole (1985)
Ngoc-Sang Pham, Alexis Akira Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12477 https://

Rational Bubbles on Dividend-Paying Assets: A Comment on Tirole (1985)
Tirole (1985) studied an overlapping generations model with capital accumulation and showed that the emergence of asset bubbles solves the capital over-accumulation problem. His Proposition 1(c) claims that if the dividend growth rate is above the bubbleless interest rate (the steady-state interest rate in the Diamond economy without bubbles) but below the population growth rate, then bubbles are necessary in the sense that there exists no bubbleless equilibrium but there exists a unique bubbly…

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Yundan Guo, Han Liang, Li Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09095 https://

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement and the deepening digital economy, this study examines the causal impact of digital transformation on corporate financial asset allocation in China. Using data from A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022, we construct a firm-level digitalization index based on text analysis of annual reports and differentiate financial asset allocation into long-term and short-term dimensions. Employing fixed-effects models and a staggered difference-i…

The Evolving Homefront: Millennials Stay Put as Older Buyers Dominate the Market
Penn Mutual Asset Management - July 24, 2025
“While housing demand may soften due to economic pressures, strong rental demand is expected to continue, particularly among younger adults navigating high costs and limited financial flexibility.”

The Evolving Homefront: Millennials Stay Put as Older Buyers Dominate the Market | Penn Mutual Asset Management, LLC
Penn Mutual Asset Management is committed to serving the institutional marketplace by offering fixed income investment solutions and client-focused services

Russian Gazprom wins asset release in Dutch court after claims by Ukrainian companies, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/russian-gazprom-wins-asset-release.html

IPv4 prices seem to have come down recently. But it is still much better than when I sold a /16 I sold a few years back.
I still can't believe that the Interop company - a for-profit corporation - simply gave away a /8. I don't think the officers/directors knew the value of the asset they gave away.
I've been prediction that the net will fragment into distinct IP address spaces - many full 32-bit IPv4 and many full 128-bit IPv6 spaces connected by application level …

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
Argimiro Arratia, Henryk Gzyl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07053

Portfolio optimization in incomplete markets and price constraints determined by maximum entropy in the mean
A solution to a portfolio optimization problem is always conditioned by constraints on the initial capital and the price of the available market assets. If a risk neutral measure is known, then the price of each asset is the discounted expected value of the asset's price under this measure. But if the market is incomplete, the risk neutral measure is not unique, and there is a range of possible prices for each asset, which can be identified with bid-ask ranges. We present in this paper an effec…

"it feels like the hope with generative AI is that no matter how much you may hate it, the goal is to bombard you with its horrors and its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it."
(Original title: I’m Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn’t Have AI Crap In It)
https://

I'm Getting Real Tired Of Not Being Able To Trust That A Video Game Doesn't Have AI Crap In It - Aftermath
It sucks that players are having to scour every asset and line of dialogue

SoK: Stablecoins for Digital Transformation -- Design, Metrics, and Application with Real World Asset Tokenization as a Case Study
Luyao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02403 h…

SoK: Stablecoins for Digital Transformation -- Design, Metrics, and Application with Real World Asset Tokenization as a Case Study
Stablecoins have become a foundational component of the digital asset ecosystem, with their market capitalization exceeding 230 billion USD as of May 2025. As fiat-referenced and programmable assets, stablecoins provide low-latency, globally interoperable infrastructure for payments, decentralized finance, DeFi, and tokenized commerce. Their accelerated adoption has prompted extensive regulatory engagement, exemplified by the European Union's Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation, MiCA, the US Gu…

Today I found out that ffmpeg can process an input image sequence not only using the printf-style pattern (i.e. frame.d.jpg) but also using a glob pattern. It needs the parameter "-pattern_type glob" before your -i argument.
The advantage of glob patterns is the fact that it will skip over missing numbers. You can use this to turn a bunch of numbered photos from your location scouting into a movie clip that you can show to the client or upload as a preview to an asset libr…

Heute vor 72 Jahren: Am 12. August 1953 testete die #Sowjetunion mit RDS-6s ihre erste thermonukleare Waffe. Die Explosion der #Wasserstoffbombe hatte eine Sprengkraft von 400 Kilotonnen TNT, wobei der Großteil der Energie aus der Spaltung von Uran-238 stammte.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Asset Allocation Using DDPG with TiDE
Rongwei Liu, Jin Zheng, John Cartlidge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20103 https://

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Asset Allocation Using DDPG with TiDE
The optimal asset allocation between risky and risk-free assets is a persistent challenge due to the inherent volatility in financial markets. Conventional methods rely on strict distributional assumptions or non-additive reward ratios, which limit their robustness and applicability to investment goals. To overcome these constraints, this study formulates the optimal two-asset allocation problem as a sequential decision-making task within a Markov Decision Process (MDP). This framework enables …

is listening to the "We bought a toxic asset" playlist from #PlanetMoney.

To Bubble or Not to Bubble: Asset Price Dynamics and Optimality in OLG Economies
Stefano Bosi (UEVE), Cuong Le Van (CNRS, PSE, CES), Ngoc-Sang Pham (EM Normandie)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03230

Mailbag: Is Luepke part of RB picture? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-is-luepke-part-of-rb-picture

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/goldman-sachs-citadel-digital-asset.html

Goldman Sachs and Citadel back crypto firm Digital Asset in $135 million funding round
The company said it will use the funding to advance adoption of the Canton Network, a blockchain for financial institutions.

An Information Bottleneck Asset Pricing Model
Che Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23218 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23218

An Information Bottleneck Asset Pricing Model
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have garnered significant attention in financial asset pricing, due to their strong capacity for modeling complex nonlinear relationships within financial data. However, sophisticated models are prone to over-fitting to the noise information in financial data, resulting in inferior performance. To address this issue, we propose an information bottleneck asset pricing model that compresses data with low signal-to-noise ratios to eliminate redundant information and ret…

Collateral and Reputation in a Model of Strategic Defaults
Georgy Lukyanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08849 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08849

Collateral and Reputation in a Model of Strategic Defaults
This paper builds a finite-horizon model to study the role of physical collateral in a model of strategic defaults, when the borrower can develop reputation for honesty. Asset ownership increases attractiveness of the reputational channel: the borrower who would prefer to remain in autarky in the absence of the asset prefers to apply for collateralized debt. Pledging the asset as collateral facilitates reputation building, which is especially successful at the times of asset price drops, becaus…

The Impact of Sequential versus Parallel Clearing Mechanisms in Agent-Based Simulations of Artificial Limit Order Book Exchanges
Matej Steinbacher, Mitja Steinbacher, Matjaz Steinbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01683

The Impact of Sequential versus Parallel Clearing Mechanisms in Agent-Based Simulations of Artificial Limit Order Book Exchanges
This study examines the impact of different computing implementations of clearing mechanisms on multi-asset price dynamics within an artificial stock market framework. We show that sequential processing of order books introduces a systematic and significant bias by affecting the allocation of traders' capital within a single time step. This occurs because applying budget constraints sequentially grants assets processed earlier preferential access to funds, distorting individual asset demand and…

Putin musste nichts tun als warten. Nachdem Trump mit seiner Schulhof Bully Taktik gegenüber Russland natürlich nichts bewegt hat, scheint sein Friedensplan nun darin zu bestehen die Ukraine verlieren zu lassen.
Russian asset.
#fckTrump #fckPutin

Temporal Conformal Prediction (TCP): A Distribution-Free Statistical and Machine Learning Framework for Adaptive Risk Forecasting
Agnideep Aich, Ashit Baran Aich, Dipak C. Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05470

Temporal Conformal Prediction (TCP): A Distribution-Free Statistical and Machine Learning Framework for Adaptive Risk Forecasting
We propose Temporal Conformal Prediction (TCP), a novel framework for constructing prediction intervals in financial time-series with guaranteed finite-sample validity. TCP integrates quantile regression with a conformal calibration layer that adapts online via a decaying learning rate. This hybrid design bridges statistical and machine learning paradigms, enabling TCP to accommodate non-stationarity, volatility clustering, and regime shifts which are hallmarks of real-world asset returns, with…

Design and Development of a Scalable and Energy-Efficient Localization Framework Leveraging LoRa Ranging-Capable Transceivers
Hasan Albinsaid, Bodhibrata Mukhopadhyay, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08488

Design and Development of a Scalable and Energy-Efficient Localization Framework Leveraging LoRa Ranging-Capable Transceivers
Precise and energy-efficient localization is a critical requirement in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications, particularly in large-scale deployments such as asset tagging, agriculture, and smart cities, where long battery life and cost-effectiveness are crucial. The Semtech SX1280 LoRa transceiver presents a promising solution for IoT localization. It combines low cost, low power, and precise ranging capability over distances of up to 1 km. However, the ranging process requires two device…

My friend Marty was like "Hey man, Fran needs help" and you know what, Fran is an awesome dude and a great asset to Milwaukee, and he gave me a chance to show & sell my work last year so I pitch a bit of money towards him.
And then more people did, and more, and it doubled the same day, and doubled again since last night! Smashed the original goal.
Community. We build it. Be there for each other. Help when you can.
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Donate to Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses, organized by Francisco Ramirez
Hello, I'm Francisco, most call me Fran. I'm a printmaker in Milwaukee, … Francisco Ramirez needs your support for Help Fran Heal and Cover Living Expenses

Survey for the management of undersea asset geodata.
https://ukhodigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/08/04/furthering-collaboration-on-uk-sub-surface-infrastructure-data/

Furthering collaboration on UK subsea infrastructure data – UK Hydrographic Office
News and updates from the UKHO

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
Alisa Vinogradova (Optic Inc), Vlad Vinogradov (Optic Inc), Dmitrii Radkevich (Optic Inc), Ilya Yasny (Optic Inc), Dmitry Kobyzev (Optic Inc), Ivan Izmailov (Optic Inc), Katsiaryna Yanchanka (Optic Inc), Andrey Doronichev (Optic Inc)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.1…

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
In this paper, we describe and benchmark a competitor-discovery component used within an agentic AI system for fast drug asset due diligence. A competitor-discovery AI agent, given an indication, retrieves all drugs comprising the competitive landscape of that indication and extracts canonical attributes for these drugs. The competitor definition is investor-specific, and data is paywalled/licensed, fragmented across registries, ontology-mismatched by indication, alias-heavy for drug names, mul…

Toward Quantum Utility in Finance: A Robust Data-Driven Algorithm for Asset Clustering
Shivam Sharma, Supreeth Mysore Venkatesh, Pushkin Kachroo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07766

Toward Quantum Utility in Finance: A Robust Data-Driven Algorithm for Asset Clustering
Clustering financial assets based on return correlations is a fundamental task in portfolio optimization and statistical arbitrage. However, classical clustering methods often fall short when dealing with signed correlation structures, typically requiring lossy transformations and heuristic assumptions such as a fixed number of clusters. In this work, we apply the Graph-based Coalition Structure Generation algorithm (GCS-Q) to directly cluster signed, weighted graphs without relying on such tra…

Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362457/grayscale-confidentially-files-d…

Dynamic Factor Models with Forward-Looking Views
Anas Abdelhakmi, Andrew E. B. Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11528…

Dynamic Factor Models with Forward-Looking Views
Prediction models calibrated using historical data may forecast poorly if the dynamics of the present and future differ from observations in the past. For this reason, predictions can be improved if information like forward looking views about the state of the system are used to refine the forecast. We develop an approach for combining a dynamic factor model for risky asset prices calibrated on historical data, and noisy expert views of future values of the factors/covariates in the model, and …

AgentWorld: An Interactive Simulation Platform for Scene Construction and Mobile Robotic Manipulation
Yizheng Zhang, Zhenjun Yu, Jiaxin Lai, Cewu Lu, Lei Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07770

AgentWorld: An Interactive Simulation Platform for Scene Construction and Mobile Robotic Manipulation
We introduce AgentWorld, an interactive simulation platform for developing household mobile manipulation capabilities. Our platform combines automated scene construction that encompasses layout generation, semantic asset placement, visual material configuration, and physics simulation, with a dual-mode teleoperation system supporting both wheeled bases and humanoid locomotion policies for data collection. The resulting AgentWorld Dataset captures diverse tasks ranging from primitive actions (pi…

Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SynthDrive: Scalable Real2Sim2Real Sensor Simulation Pipeline for High-Fidelity Asset Generation and Driving Data Synthesis
Zhengqing Chen, Ruohong Mei, Xiaoyang Guo, Qingjie Wang, Yubin Hu, Wei Yin, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06798

SynthDrive: Scalable Real2Sim2Real Sensor Simulation Pipeline for High-Fidelity Asset Generation and Driving Data Synthesis
In the field of autonomous driving, sensor simulation is essential for generating rare and diverse scenarios that are difficult to capture in real-world environments. Current solutions fall into two categories: 1) CG-based methods, such as CARLA, which lack diversity and struggle to scale to the vast array of rare cases required for robust perception training; and 2) learning-based approaches, such as NeuSim, which are limited to specific object categories (vehicles) and require extensive multi…

A Game-Theoretic Foundation for Bitcoin's Price: A Security-Utility Equilibrium
Liang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

A Game-Theoretic Foundation for Bitcoin's Price: A Security-Utility Equilibrium
This paper introduces a structural game-theoretic model to value decentralized digital assets like Bitcoin. Instead of relying on speculative beliefs, it frames the asset's price within a Rational-Expectations Security-Utility Nash Equilibrium (RESUNE). This equilibrium is a fixed point where the market-clearing price dictates the hash rate through a free-entry mining model, which in turn endogenously sets the network's security. The security, defined as one minus the probability of a 51% attac…

Crypto asset manager CoinShares agrees to go public via SPAC Vine Hill at a $1.2B pre-money valuation, set to close by the end of Q4; CoinShares has ~$10B AUM (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Private market investments, while not technically barred from 401(k) plans, are riskier than publicly traded stocks and bonds.
They have traditionally been seen as unfit for defined contribution plans.
Consumer groups, lawmakers and some investment advisers have raised alarm about the potential harm to everyday investors.
Those concerns have been front and center.
But observers say the private asset industry, which has lobbied hard for the opening, could also expose…

Private Equity in Your 401(k). What Could Go Wrong?
Critics say an executive order that clears the way for alternative assets to enter retirement accounts poses risks to everyday investors. It could also pose some for private fund managers.

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
Alisa Vinogradova (Optic Inc), Vlad Vinogradov (Optic Inc), Dmitrii Radkevich (Optic Inc), Ilya Yasny (Optic Inc), Dmitry Kobyzev (Optic Inc), Ivan Izmailov (Optic Inc), Katsiaryna Yanchanka (Optic Inc), Andrey Doronichev (Optic Inc)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.1…

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
In this paper, we describe and benchmark a competitor-discovery component used within an agentic AI system for fast drug asset due diligence. A competitor-discovery AI agent, given an indication, retrieves all drugs comprising the competitive landscape of that indication and extracts canonical attributes for these drugs. The competitor definition is investor-specific, and data is paywalled/licensed, fragmented across registries, ontology-mismatched by indication, alias-heavy for drug names, mul…

Sources: Trump's World Liberty Financial is seeking to raise $1.5B to launch a publicly traded crypto treasury company that would hold its WLFI token and cash (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/08/donald-trump-wo…

Trump crypto firm plans launch of public company that will hold family token
World Liberty Financial’s latest project would mimic other public firms that have amassed Bitcoin in hopes of boosting their share price.

Is attention truly all we need? An empirical study of asset pricing in pretrained RNN sparse and global attention models
Shanyan Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19006 https://

Is attention truly all we need? An empirical study of asset pricing in pretrained RNN sparse and global attention models
This study investigates the pretrained RNN attention models with the mainstream attention mechanisms such as additive attention, Luong's three attentions, global self-attention (Self-att) and sliding window sparse attention (Sparse-att) for the empirical asset pricing research on top 420 large-cap US stocks. This is the first paper on the large-scale state-of-the-art (SOTA) attention mechanisms applied in the asset pricing context. They overcome the limitations of the traditional machine learni…

Optimal Consumption-Investment for General Utility with a Drawdown Constraint over a Finite-Time Horizon
Chonghu Guan, Xinfeng Gu, Wenhao Zhang, Xun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05115

Optimal Consumption-Investment for General Utility with a Drawdown Constraint over a Finite-Time Horizon
We study an optimal investment and consumption problem over a finite-time horizon, in which an individual invests in a risk-free asset and a risky asset, and evaluate utility using a general utility function that exhibits loss aversion with respect to the historical maximum of consumption. Motivated by behavioral finance and habit formation theory, we model the agent's preference for maintaining a standard of living by imposing constraints on declines from the peak consumption level. To solve t…

Nvidia's CFO says Q2 "net other income" was $2.2B, "driven by gains in a publicly-held equity security", which refers to Nvidia's position in CoreWeave (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-t

Nvidia, the asset manager, had a massive Q2 thanks to CoreWeave’s rally
“Other net income” for Nvidia is way more than most S&P 500 companies’ total net income.

Chain-of-Alpha: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Alpha Mining in Quantitative Trading
Lang Cao, Zekun Xi, Long Liao, Ziwei Yang, Zheng Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06312

Chain-of-Alpha: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Alpha Mining in Quantitative Trading
Alpha factor mining is a fundamental task in quantitative trading, aimed at discovering interpretable signals that can predict asset returns beyond systematic market risk. While traditional methods rely on manual formula design or heuristic search with machine learning, recent advances have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated factor discovery. However, existing LLM-based alpha mining approaches remain limited in terms of automation, generality, and efficiency. In this paper, we…

FHFA Director William Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to explore crypto as an asset for single-family mortgage applications without converting it to USD (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/trump-crypto-mortgage.html

Trump administration moves to count crypto as a federal mortgage asset
The Trump administration is ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to formally consider cryptocurrency as an asset in single-family mortgage loan risk assessments.

Multi-period Asset-liability Management with Reinforcement Learning in a Regime-Switching Market
Zhongqin Gao, Ping Chen, Xun Li, Yan Lv, Wenhao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03251

Multi-period Asset-liability Management with Reinforcement Learning in a Regime-Switching Market
This paper explores the mean-variance portfolio selection problem in a multi-period financial market characterized by regime-switching dynamics and uncontrollable liabilities. To address the uncertainty in the decision-making process within the financial market, we incorporate reinforcement learning (RL) techniques. Specifically, the study examines an exploratory mean-variance (EMV) framework where investors aim to minimize risk while maximizing returns under incomplete market information, infl…

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/03/ondo-…

Exclusive: Ondo and Pantera Capital earmark $250 million for real-world asset tokenization
Tokenization lags only stablecoins in crypto activity.

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Federico Grasselli, Gaetano Russo, Massimiliano Proietti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05355 https://arxiv.org…

Secure and practical Quantum Digital Signatures
Digital signatures represent a crucial cryptographic asset that must be protected against quantum adversaries. Quantum Digital Signatures (QDS) can offer solutions that are information-theoretically (IT) secure and thus immune to quantum attacks. In this work, we analyze three existing practical QDS protocols based on preshared secure keys (e.g., established with quantum key distribution) and universal hashing families. For each protocol, we make amendments to close potential loopholes and prov…

Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer "callebtc" (Javier Bastardo/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-asset

A Chat App By Jack Dorsey Gains Traction During Nepal’s Unrest
Bitchat gained popularity in Nepal as protests erupted and the government blocked social media. The app works without an internet connection by using Bluetooth mesh.

In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Computational Methods and Verification Theorem for Portfolio-Consumption Optimization under Exponential O-U Dynamics
Zhaoxiang Zhong, Haiming Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06491

Computational Methods and Verification Theorem for Portfolio-Consumption Optimization under Exponential O-U Dynamics
In this paper, we focus on the problem of optimal portfolio-consumption policies in a multi-asset financial market, where the n risky assets follow Exponential Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, along with one risk-free bond. The investor's preferences are modeled using Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility with state-dependent stochastic discounting. The problem can be formulated as a high-dimensional stochastic optimal control problem, wherein the associated value function satisfies a Hamilton-J…

Agora, which offers a white-labeling service to let other companies launch their own, self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/10/exclu…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Agora raises $50 million Series A led by crypto VC giant Paradigm
Agora is run by Nick Van Eck, son of the asset management veteran Jan van Eck.

Forward Industries raised $1.65B via a private investment in a PIPE offering led by Galaxy, Jump, and Multicoin to start a Solana asset treasury strategy (Adam James/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/369776/galaxy-jump-multicoin-solana-treasury-2

Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to $4.2B valuation (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes
Robinhood is offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs across Europe, crypto staking in the U.S., perpetual futures for eligible EU traders, and a new blockchain.

New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkek009mdle

Cyber unicorn Axonius acquires Cynerio in $180M deal to expand into healthcare security
Move expands company’s offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices.

UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Music Group Increasing Efforts on Music AI Patents
UMG said it's filed for 15 patents through the partnership already, including one related to AI threat protection.