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Ultralytics, which develops the YOLO series of open-source computer vision models and sells commercial licenses, raised a $30M Series A led by Elephant VC (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/17/computer-vision-startup-ul…

Computer vision startup Ultralytics raises $30M in funding - SiliconANGLE
Computer vision startup Ultralytics raises $30M in funding - SiliconANGLE

Depth, Confidence, Competition: Raiders’ Young Core Brings Fresh Hope https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/20/depth-confidence-competition-raiders-young-core-brings-fresh-hope/

I've a "old #astronomy software" side project and I'm looking for the early Mac software "StarMap" or "Star Map" from Bruce Webster.
So far my searches came up empty, but I'm not a specialist in old Mac software.
Does anyone have a copy of this app?
It's described in detail in a July 1985 BYTE article: #retrocomputing

This has got to be the most welcoming and beautiful public toilet facility I've ever seen. Look at the way it's lit - gorgeous!
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/08/toronto-to-the-loo-competition-public-restrooms/

Toronto’s To the Loo competition proves public restrooms can be beautiful too
the Toronto Public Space Committee, together with Cyan Station Architecture, have launched the To the Loo design competition to highlight the city’s shortage of public restrooms and to show that bathrooms can be an inspiring part of the public realm.

ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
Hanyu Lai, Xiao Liu, Yanxiao Zhao, Han Xu, Hanchen Zhang, Bohao Jing, Yanyu Ren, Shuntian Yao, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14040

ComputerRL: Scaling End-to-End Online Reinforcement Learning for Computer Use Agents
We introduce ComputerRL, a framework for autonomous desktop intelligence that enables agents to operate complex digital workspaces skillfully. ComputerRL features the API-GUI paradigm, which unifies programmatic API calls and direct GUI interaction to address the inherent mismatch between machine agents and human-centric desktop environments. Scaling end-to-end RL training is crucial for improvement and generalization across diverse desktop tasks, yet remains challenging due to environmental in…

@… I think in my head when I’m in the shower, or lying in bed. Then I go to my computer and put down the thoughts. If I get confused, I leave the computer again until there are more thoughts.
I used to be able to think in front of the computer like you do, but I don’t remember how to do that any more.

Lions' unsung defense steps up, surprises even Dan Campbell: 'I had confidence, but nine points?' https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-unsung-defense-steps-up-surprises-even-dan-campbell-i-had-confidence-but-nine-points

Sources: Oracle is in discussions with Meta to provide computing power for training and deploying AI models, in a deal worth about $20B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/oracle-in-talks-with-meta-…

Oracle in Talks With Meta on $20 Billion AI Cloud Computing Deal
Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. for a cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, providing further evidence that the company has become a significant infrastructure provider.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

Study: brain-computer interface company Science's PRIMA device, which includes a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/2

This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up.