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Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13 , renames Friends to Connections, and says 13 users can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/708670/roblox-trusted-connections-age-est…

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

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ILCL: Inverse Logic-Constraint Learning from Temporally Constrained Demonstrations
Minwoo Cho, Jaehwi Jang, Daehyung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11000 …

ILCL: Inverse Logic-Constraint Learning from Temporally Constrained Demonstrations
We aim to solve the problem of temporal-constraint learning from demonstrations to reproduce demonstration-like logic-constrained behaviors. Learning logic constraints is challenging due to the combinatorially large space of possible specifications and the ill-posed nature of non-Markovian constraints. To figure it out, we introduce a novel temporal-constraint learning method, which we call inverse logic-constraint learning (ILCL). Our method frames ICL as a two-player zero-sum game between 1) …

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

"Construction of the world's tallest #wind turbine is beginning this week in the Brandenburg municipality of Schipkau. [...] The center of the #WindTurbine currently under construction will be 300 meters above ground, and the tips of the rotor blades will reach a height of 365 meters.&quot…

The EU shouldn't allow Apple to take-over Mistral..
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/apple-will-seriously-consider-buying-mistral-report/

Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report | AIM
Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?

Blocklet concatenation: Low-overhead fault-tolerant protocols for fusion-based quantum computation
Daniel Litinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13619 https:/…

Blocklet concatenation: Low-overhead fault-tolerant protocols for fusion-based quantum computation
We introduce a construction for protocols for fault-tolerant quantum computing based on code concatenation and transversal gates. These protocols can be interpreted as families of quantum circuits of low-weight stabilizer measurements without strict locality constraints, effectively implementing concatenated codes. However, we primarily study these protocols in the context of photonic fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC), where they yield families of fusion networks with constant-sized resourc…

Amazon Ads and Roku sign a new ad initiative to give media buyers access to 80% of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/amazon-ads-roku-set…

Amazon Ads & Roku Set Landmark Pact Giving Brands Access To 80% Of Connected-TV Households
Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a landmark initiative that will give advertisers access to more than 80% of connected-TV households in the U.S.

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona "by several quarters" to meet robust US chip demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/…

TSMC to speed up construction of US chip plants by 'several quarters'
Taiwanese company to eventually make 30% of its most advanced chips in Arizona

Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/ex-way…

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction | TechCrunch
Former Waymo engineers have launched an autonomous vehicle startup with $80 million in venture funds.