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Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/construction-supply-chain-startup-parspec/

Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A 
Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain to help sales agents and wholesale distributors “efficiently bid and supply” construction products, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

Putin's negotiator calls for 'constructive dialogue' as Trump shifts stance on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/putins-negotiator-calls-for-constructive.html

Google DeepMind Just Changed Hurricane Forecasting Forever With New AI Model (VentureBeat, 11 June 2025)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-just-changed-hurricane-forecasting-forever-with-new-ai-model/

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model
Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Samory Kpotufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10293 https://

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
There has been much recent interest in understanding the continuum from adversarial to stochastic settings in online learning, with various frameworks including smoothed settings proposed to bridge this gap. We consider the more general and flexible framework of distributionally constrained adversaries in which instances are drawn from distributions chosen by an adversary within some constrained distribution class [RST11]. Compared to smoothed analysis, we consider general distributional classe…

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

On connected subsets of a convergence space
Bryan Castro Herrej\'on, Fr\'ed\'eric Mynard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10939 https://

On connected subsets of a convergence space
Though a convergence space is connected if and only if its topological modification is connected, connected subsets differ for the convergence and for its topological modification. We explore for what subsets connectedness for the convergence or for the topological modification turn out to be equivalent. In particular, we show that the largest set containing a given connected set for which all subsets in between are connected is the adherence of the connected set for the reciprocal modification…

Today’s #Connections is rife with misdirections. And I still don’t see eye-to-eye with yellow.
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Trump considering sending new funds to Ukraine for first time since taking office, CBS News reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/trump-considering-sending-new-funds.html

Were the NYT Games editors drinking when they sorted the color difficulties in today’s #Connections?
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