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Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-powered-hr-platform-ashby-raise/

Exclusive: With OpenAI and Shopify As Customers, Ashby Raises $50M Series D For AI-Powered Talent Platform
In a Crunchbase News exclusive, San Francisco-based Ashby, provider of an “all-in-one” AI-powered HR platform, says it has raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding, just over a year after raising its $30 million Series C.

Facing down a new week of too many deadlines like this chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

Structure-preserving long-time simulations of turbulence in magnetized ideal fluids
Klas Modin, Michael Roop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15425 https://arxiv…

Structure-preserving long-time simulations of turbulence in magnetized ideal fluids
We address three two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics models: reduced magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD), Hazeltine's model, and the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) equation. These models are derived to capture the basic features of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and plasma behaviour. They all possess non-canonical Hamiltonian formulations in terms of Lie-Poisson brackets, which imply an infinite number of conservation laws along with symplecticity of the phase flow. This geometric structure in phase spac…

🌽 To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
#corn

To get that perfect ear of corn, weather has to cooperate. But climate change is making it dicier
Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what's now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. Last year was a good year, and Rynd said he enjoyed walking the fields with his kids to see how the corn was doing.

Warm-Starting PCE for Traveling Salesman Problem
Rafael S. do Carmo, Renato Gomes dos Reis, Samuel Fernando F Silva, Luiz Gustavo E. Arruda, Felipe F. Fanchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14414

Warm-Starting PCE for Traveling Salesman Problem
Variational quantum algorithms are promising for combinatorial optimization, but their scalability is often limited by qubit-intensive encoding schemes. To overcome this bottleneck, Pauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) has emerged as one of the most promising algorithms in this scenario. The method offers not only a polynomial reduction in qubit count and a suppression of barren plateaus but also demonstrates competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods on Maxcut. In this work, we propose …

sci pol; NZ pol
ICYMI Another handbrake turn in research management, this time Aotearoa New Zealand under Christopher Luxon's National party coalition.
"New Zealand’s largest source of funding through competitive grants, the Endeavour Fund, remains stagnant at NZ$245 million but has *canceled all applications for the 2026 funding round to “reduce the operational burden of applying for funding”* during the mergers of Crown Research Institutes."
➡️ #NZ #researchfunding #SciPol

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

London-based Attio, which offers a CRM service where AI agents and humans work together, raised a $52M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $116M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/26/attio-raises-52m-series-b-to-scale-crm-platform/…

Attio raises $52M Series B to scale CRM platform
London-based CRM startup Attio has raised $52 million in Series B funding to expand its CRM platform. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, 01A, Point Nine, and Balderton Capital, bringing Attio’s total funding to $116 million.With the new funding, Attio plans to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and double down on go-to-market outreach. Investment will focus particularly on features that enhance agen…