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Spencer Rattler leads QB competition in New Orleans, plus best rookie seasons at each position https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567611/2025/08/21/spencer-rattler-saints-tyler-shough-competition-nfl-scoop-city/

Will DJ Glaze Hold Off Raiders RT Competition? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/will-dj-glaze-hold-off-las-vegas--right-tackle-competition-training-camp

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.

Cowboys fiercest camp battle will be at position they only invested $8 million in https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/22/cowboys-running-backs-training-camp-competition-2…

Shoulder shrug? Will Levis' quiet exit from Titans QB competition sets up his next move

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/shoulder-shrug-wi…

Will DJ Glaze Hold Off Raiders RT Competition? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/will-dj-glaze-hold-off-las-vegas--right-tackle-competition-training-camp

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

TikTok launches Music On Stage 2025, a global contest for artists from 23 regions on TikTok Live; it will promote winners on its distribution platform SoundOn (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tik

TikTok expands live music competition strategy with Music On Stage ’25 contest
Contestants will advance through audience votes, small gifts, and judges’ bonus points.

Anthony Richardson 'still has time to prove it,' Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon says amid QB competition

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/anthony…

Competition Between Controllable Non-Radiative and Intrinsic Radiative Second-Order Recombination in Halide Perovskites
Dengyang Guo, Alan R. Bowman, Sebastian Gorgon, Changsoon Cho, Youngkwang Jung, Jiashang Zhao, Linjie Dai, Jaewang Park, Kyung Mun Yeom, Satyawan Nagane, Stuart Macpherson, Weidong Xu, Jun Hong Noh, Sang Il Seok, Tom Savenije, Samuel D. Stranks

Competition Between Controllable Non-Radiative and Intrinsic Radiative Second-Order Recombination in Halide Perovskites
Halide perovskite solar cells have demonstrated a rapid increase in power conversion efficiencies. Understanding and mitigating remaining carrier losses in halide perovskites is now crucial to enable further increases to approach their practical efficiency limits. Whilst the most widely known non-radiative recombination from solar cells relates to carrier trapping and is first order in carrier density, recent reports have revealed a non-radiative pathway that is second order. However, the origi…

„Predator“ by Jojo073
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 November 2017
Specification: 320x256px, 16 colors
Note: 4th in the Syntax 2017 Graphics - Pixel competition
#GFX_Jojo073 #YR_2017

LeanGeo: Formalizing Competitional Geometry problems in Lean
Chendong Song, Zihan Wang, Frederick Pu, Haiming Wang, Xiaohan Lin, Junqi Liu, Jia Li, Zhengying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14644

LeanGeo: Formalizing Competitional Geometry problems in Lean
Geometry problems are a crucial testbed for AI reasoning capabilities. Most existing geometry solving systems cannot express problems within a unified framework, thus are difficult to integrate with other mathematical fields. Besides, since most geometric proofs rely on intuitive diagrams, verifying geometry problems is particularly challenging. To address these gaps, we introduce LeanGeo, a unified formal system for formalizing and solving competition-level geometry problems within the Lean 4 …

Conditional Cube Attack on Round-Reduced ASCON
Zheng Li, Xiaoyang Dong, Xiaoyun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15172

Conditional Cube Attack on Round-Reduced ASCON
This paper evaluates the secure level of authenticated encryption \textsc{Ascon} against cube-like method. \textsc{Ascon} submitted by Dobraunig \emph{et~al.} is one of 16 survivors of the 3rd round CAESAR competition. The cube-like method is first used by Dinur \emph{et~al.} to analyze Keccak keyed modes. At CT-RSA 2015, Dobraunig \emph{et~al.} applied this method to 5/6-round reduced \textsc{Ascon}, whose structure is similar to Keccak keyed modes. However, for \textsc{Ascon} the non-linear l…

Humans learn to prefer trustworthy AI over human partners
Yaomin Jiang, Levin Brinkmann, Anne-Marie Nussberger, Ivan Soraperra, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13524

Humans learn to prefer trustworthy AI over human partners
Partner selection is crucial for cooperation and hinges on communication. As artificial agents, especially those powered by large language models (LLMs), become more autonomous, intelligent, and persuasive, they compete with humans for partnerships. Yet little is known about how humans select between human and AI partners and adapt under AI-induced competition pressure. We constructed a communication-based partner selection game and examined the dynamics in hybrid mini-societies of humans and b…

The EU opens a full-scale investigation into UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music over concerns the deal could negatively impact competition in the market (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Privacy-enhancing Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition: SSBC 2025
Matej Vitek, Darian Toma\v{s}evi\'c, Abhijit Das, Sabari Nathan, G\"okhan \"Ozbulak, G\"ozde Ay\c{s}e Tataro\u{g}lu \"Ozbulak, Jean-Paul Calbimonte, Andr\'e Anjos, Hariohm Hemant Bhatt, Dhruv Dhirendra Premani, Jay Chaudhari, Caiyong Wang, Jian Jiang, Chi Zhang, Qi Zhang, Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi, Syed Sadaf Ali, Divya Velayudan, Maregu Assefa, Naoufel Werghi, Zachary A. Daniels, Le…

Privacy-enhancing Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition: SSBC 2025
This paper presents a summary of the 2025 Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition (SSBC), which focused on the development of privacy-preserving sclera-segmentation models trained using synthetically generated ocular images. The goal of the competition was to evaluate how well models trained on synthetic data perform in comparison to those trained on real-world datasets. The competition featured two tracks: $(i)$ one relying solely on synthetic data for model development, and $(ii)$ one co…

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

All Tied Up: A First Look At Modern Yo-Yo and Knot Theory
Benjamin Hamblin, Victor M. Calo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1446…

All Tied Up: A First Look At Modern Yo-Yo and Knot Theory
Modern Yo-Yo play has developed into a sophisticated international subculture, featuring elite competition and intricate tricks. Despite this, no systematic knot-theoretic treatment has yet been applied to the numerous string configurations realised in contemporary Yo-Yo play. This paper takes initial steps in addressing this gap, recalling fundamental results from knot theory and embeddings to develop a methodology for classifying string arrangements, known as `mounts', in both beginner and ad…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
Kiho Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15063 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
With a multilateral vertical contracting model of media markets, we examine upstream competition and contractual arrangements in content provision. We analyze the trade of content by the Nash bargaining solution and the downstream competition by the Hotelling location model. We characterize the equilibrium outcomes and the contractual arrangements for various vertical structures. We show that the possibility of exclusive contracts rises when the value of the premium content increases, the degre…

So...
My photo taken on the opening day of Abotak abortion clinic has received an Honorable Mention in the Internaltional Photo 2025 competition among many others in the Editorial / Press - Contemporary Issues category.
My first industry recognition in my modest photojournalism career.
Holy shit.
#photography #pressPhotography #documentaryPhotography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Bad Breeding:
🎵 Competition for Existence
#BadBreeding
https://standard-process.bandcamp.com/track/competition-for-existence
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YVhBH6SoHsrqzruDxDwfb

On a reaction-diffusion system modeling strong competition between two mosquito populations
Nicolas Vauchelet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15202 https://

On a reaction-diffusion system modeling strong competition between two mosquito populations
This paper is devoted to the analysis of a reaction-diffusion system with strong competition and spatial heterogeneities modelling the interaction between two species of mosquitoes. In particular, we propose a mathematical model that accounts for the spatial segregation observed between two species of mosquito vectors of numerous viruses. Indeed, it has been observed that, in tropical regions, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are well established in urban areas whereas Aedes albopictus mosquitoes sprea…

Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/six-fabulous-winners-of-the-national-geographic-photography-competition-look/

Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK)
The winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition for amateurs and pros alike highlight the best in travel photography.

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

Investigation of competing magnetic orders and the associated spin-phonon coupling effect in quasi-2D Cr1 xTe2 (x = 0.22) single crystal
Gayathri V, Sathishkumar M, Sandip Kumar Kuila, Vikash Kumar, Abhidev B, Reshna Elsa Philip, Partha Pratim Jana, Soham Manni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13760

Investigation of competing magnetic orders and the associated spin-phonon coupling effect in quasi-2D Cr1+xTe2 (x = 0.22) single crystal
Single crystals of quasi-2D chromium telluride system represented by Cr1+xTe2 (x = 0.22), which crystallizes in the trigonal structure with the c-axis as the growth direction, are synthesized by the flux method. The magnetization measurements revealed the coexistence and competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions due to the presence of the intercalated Cr-layers. A series of diverse magnetic transitions is exhibited by the crystal. While cooling the crystal, i…

Investigations of the kinetic ion-acoustic soliton by the Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal integral method
Ran Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15207 https://…

Investigations of the kinetic ion-acoustic soliton by the Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal integral method
The solitary waves are investigated through the Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal integral method with the ion response. We consider two specific cases of ions, i.e., the single stream with the waterbag distribution and the two counter-propagating streams with the Maxwellian distribution. The trapped electron distributions are derived for both two cases. The results show that the trapped electron distribution can be either a hole or a hump in the phase space, depending on the competition between the con…

Enel X/Enel X Way, Italy’s dominant #EV charging point operator, has been fined €2.3 million for obstructing MSP competition. For example, it has impeded other EV charging apps from offering equal pricing compared to its own.

Colonnine di ricarica, botta e risposta Antitrust-Enel X. Multa da 2,3 mln, l'azienda: noi corretti
L’Autorità censura i comportamenti mirati a escludere gli operatori concorrenti. La società convinta della “piena legittimità della condotta tenuta” e pronta a…

Cowboys have 2 former Syracuse Orange football stars competing for key roster spots https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-2-former-syracuse-orange-football-stars-compet…

Saints QB competition to continue, Moore says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46024468/saints-not-yet-ready-name-starting-qb-continue-competition-next-week

Competition Erases Simplicity: Tight Regret Bounds for Uniform Pricing with Multiple Buyers
Houshuang Chen, Yaonan Jin, Pinyan Lu, Chihao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12733

Competition Erases Simplicity: Tight Regret Bounds for Uniform Pricing with Multiple Buyers
We study repeated \textsf{Uniform Pricing} mechanisms with multiple buyers. In each round, the platform sets a uniform price for all buyers; a transaction occurs if at least one buyer bids at or above this price. Prior work demonstrates that structural assumptions on bid distributions -- such as regularity or monotone hazard rate (MHR) property -- enable significant improvements in pricing query complexity (from $Θ\left(\varepsilon^{-3}\right)$ to $\widetildeΘ\left(\varepsilon^{-2}\right)$\fo…

RAGtifier: Evaluating RAG Generation Approaches of State-of-the-Art RAG Systems for the SIGIR LiveRAG Competition
Tim Cofala, Oleh Astappiev, William Xion, Hailay Teklehaymanot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14412

RAGtifier: Evaluating RAG Generation Approaches of State-of-the-Art RAG Systems for the SIGIR LiveRAG Competition
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enriches Large Language Models (LLMs) by combining their internal, parametric knowledge with external, non-parametric sources, with the goal of improving factual correctness and minimizing hallucinations. The LiveRAG 2025 challenge explores RAG solutions to maximize accuracy on DataMorgana's QA pairs, which are composed of single-hop and multi-hop questions. The challenge provides access to sparse OpenSearch and dense Pinecone indices of the Fineweb 10BT dat…

Edge-state competition in a 2D topological insulator-semiconductor heterostructure
Wei Li, Pier Philipsen, Thomas Brumme, Thomas Heine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12841 https://

Edge-state competition in a 2D topological insulator-semiconductor heterostructure
Quantum spin Hall edge transport in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides depends on whether their one-dimensional edge channels are preserved under realistic substrates and device boundaries. Here we implement spin-orbit coupling in DFTB and GFN-xTB within the Amsterdam Modeling Suite, and apply it to 1T$'$/2H WSe$_2$ heterostructures. Edge-projected spectra reveal robust edge states in 1T$'$ ribbons; and these states remain robust against a laterally infinite 2H substrate, which on…

Justice Department Files Statement of Interest on Suppression of Competition in the Marketplace of Ideas Through Deplatforming of Rival Viewpoints (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-statement-interest-suppression-competition-marketplace-ideas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p43#a250711p43

Humanity's Last Code Exam: Can Advanced LLMs Conquer Human's Hardest Code Competition?
Xiangyang Li, Xiaopeng Li, Kuicai Dong, Quanhu Zhang, Rongju Ruan, Xinyi Dai, Xiaoshuang Liu, Shengchun Xu, Yasheng Wang, Ruiming Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12713

Humanity's Last Code Exam: Can Advanced LLMs Conquer Human's Hardest Code Competition?
Code generation is a core capability of large language models (LLMs), yet mainstream benchmarks (e.g., APPs and LiveCodeBench) contain questions with medium-level difficulty and pose no challenge to advanced LLMs. To better reflected the advanced reasoning and code generation ability, We introduce Humanity's Last Code Exam (HLCE), comprising 235 most challenging problems from the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC World Finals) and the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)…

Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/google-push…

Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up | TechCrunch
Google has launched Flight Deals as its AI tool within Google Flights to help travelers find cheaper fares.

FMC: Formalization of Natural Language Mathematical Competition Problems
Jiaxuan Xie, Chengwu Liu, Ye Yuan, Siqi Li, Zhiping Xiao, Ming Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11275

FMC: Formalization of Natural Language Mathematical Competition Problems
Efficient and accurate autoformalization methods, which leverage large-scale datasets of extensive natural language mathematical problems to construct formal language datasets, are key to advancing formal mathematical reasoning. In this paper, we propose an autoformalization pipeline based on large language models with error feedback, achieving a fully automatic and training-free formalization approach. Using this pipeline, we curate an Olympiad-level dataset aligning natural language problems …

More Texas districts adopt four-day school weeks | The Texas Tribune #Texas

Four-day school weeks are on the rise as Texas districts look for teacher perks on a tight budget
More than 500 schools are using four-day school weeks, a dramatic increase from two years ago driven by tight budgets and fierce competition for educators amid a statewide teacher shortage.

Competing color superconductivity and color Kondo effect in quark matter
Pradip Kattel, Abay Zhakenov, Natan Andrei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11617 https:…

Competing color superconductivity and color Kondo effect in quark matter
The competition between bulk color superconductivity and the localized screening of a heavy quark impurity, analogous to the Kondo effect, leads to a rich spectrum of phenomena in dense quark matter. We investigate this competition at the edge of a superconducting quark bulk, where both the superconducting gap and the Kondo scale are dynamically generated in a tractable toy model. Utilizing the exact Bethe Ansatz method, we elucidate the resulting boundary physics. We identify distinct regimes …

From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League
Supun Dissanayaka, Alexander Ferrein, Till Hofmann, Kosuke Nakajima, Mario Sanz-Lopez, Jesus Savage, Daniel Swoboda, Matteo Tschesche, Wataru Uemura, Tarik Viehmann, Shohei Yasuda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11402

From Production Logistics to Smart Manufacturing: The Vision for a New RoboCup Industrial League
The RoboCup Logistics League is a RoboCup competition in a smart factory scenario that has focused on task planning, job scheduling, and multi-agent coordination. The focus on production logistics allowed teams to develop highly competitive strategies, but also meant that some recent developments in the context of smart manufacturing are not reflected in the competition, weakening its relevance over the years. In this paper, we describe the vision for the RoboCup Smart Manufacturing League, a n…

Saints QB competition: Tyler Shough starts but Spencer Rattler comes up clutch as battle remains tight

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-

Can the gate time of Rydberg two-qubit gate be shorten by increasing the strength of Rydberg interaction?
Yan-Xiong Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15487 htt…

Can the gate time of Rydberg two-qubit gate be shorten by increasing the strength of Rydberg interaction?
In this manuscript we discuss the relationship between the gate time of Rydberg two-qubit gate and the Rydberg interaction strength. Different from the two-qbuit gates that directly depend on the interactions between the spins (or pseudo spins), the ones in atomic arrays are realized by driving the atoms to the Rydberg states. As a consequence, competition happens between shortening the gate time and decreasing the excitation probability of Rydberg states. For the case of Rydberg blockade, it i…

„Fire“ by Nytrik
Platform: Atari ST/E
Released: 5 July 2025
Specification: 320x200px, 16 colors
Note: 1st in the Sommarhack 2025 Lowres Graphics competition
#GFX_Nytrik #YR_2025 #PF_Atari

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

Found a new place to play Backgammon online, after the old place went towards censorship and irrational behavior.
backgammonhub.com is a friendly community, with a nice and fast gameplay. Also easy to find competition, rather high level players for the most part.
Recommended!
#backgammon #onlinegaming

Damn.
Most of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy team that handles U.S. engagement with partner countries to prevent China from prevailing in AI and 5G wireless technologies, and in global data policy, were fired from the State Department.
https://www.washing…

State Department cuts China policy staff amid major overhaul
The State Department fired personnel and consolidated offices that help craft the U.S. diplomatic response to China’s aggression in Asia and global tech competition.

Saints' Spencer Rattler gets comeback moment but QB competition with Tyler Shough too close to call https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-spencer-rattler-gets-comeback-moment-but-qb-competition-with-tyler-shough-too-close-to…

The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU's €4.12B fine against Google over its dominance of Android should be upheld, a major blow to Google (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd63dd58-37a6-4af8-8050-40b7405da2bb

Google dealt blow at EU’s top court over record €4.12bn competition fine
Ruling supports Brussels regulators findings over dominance of tech giant’s Android mobile operating system

Aidan O'Connell: 'Every day is a competition with myself' https://www.raiders.com/video/aidan-o-connell-raiders-training-camp-preseason-week-3-presser-nfl-08192025

„Watchmaker of Light“ by Slayer
Platform: Amiga
Released: 20 September 2014
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Riverwash 2014 Oldschool GFX competition
#GFX_Slayer #YR_2014

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Marcelo S. Tedesco, Gonzalo Marquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11405 https://

Rethinking Competition as a Non-Beneficial Mechanism in Economic Systems
Persistent economic competition is often justified as a mechanism of innovation, efficiency, and welfare maximization. Yet empirical evidence across disciplines reveals that competition systematically generates fragility, inequality, and ecological degradation, emergent outcomes not of isolated failures but of underlying systemic dynamics. This work reconceptualizes economic ecosystems as real complex adaptive systems, structurally isomorphic with biological and social ecosystems. Integrating c…

Dynamic competition between phason and amplitudon observed by ultrafast multimodal scanning tunneling microscopy
Seokjin Bae, Arjun Raghavan, Kejian Qu, Chengxi Zhao, Daniel P. Shoemaker, Fahad Mahmood, Ziqiang Wang, Barry Bradlyn, Vidya Madhavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11627

Dynamic competition between phason and amplitudon observed by ultrafast multimodal scanning tunneling microscopy
The intertwining between two ordered states that arise from the same interactions is reflected in the dynamics of their coupled collective excitations. While the equilibrium phase diagram resulting from such intertwined orders has been extensively studied, the dynamic competition between non-equilibrium modes is a largely unexplored territory. Here, we introduce a novel multimodal STM-based pump-probe technique, which enables the measurement of time-resolved tunneling (trSTM), time-resolved poi…

Careem, Uber's ride-hailing MENA arm, will suspend its decade-old Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, competition, and capital constraints (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

FuSaR: A Fuzzification-Based Method for LRM Safety-Reasoning Balance
Jianhao Chen, Mayi Xu, Xiaohu Li, Yongqi Li, Xiangyu Zhang, Jianjie Huang, Tieyun Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12897

FuSaR: A Fuzzification-Based Method for LRM Safety-Reasoning Balance
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various tasks due to their powerful reasoning capabilities. However, their safety performance remains a significant concern. In this paper, we explore the reasons behind the vulnerability of LRMs. Based on this, we propose a novel method to improve the safety of LLMs without sacrificing their reasoning capability. Specifically, we exploit the competition between LRM's reasoning ability and safety ability, and achieve …

Terrell Edmunds has a real shot to not just make Raiders roster but earn a starting job https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/20/safety-terrell-edmunds-real-shot-make-raiders-ro…

Dallas Cowboys fans warned 'don't forget' about former second-round pick https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-fans-warned-dont-forget-about-former-second-round-pick

Top 10 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year candidates in 2025: Who is biggest challenger to Abdul Carter? https://www.nfl.com/news/top-10-nfl-defensive-rookie-of-the-year-candidates-in-2025

Competition Complexity in Multi-Item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity
Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Linda Cai, Yiding Feng, Yingkai Li, S. Matthew Weinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09291 …

Competition Complexity in Multi-Item Auctions: Beyond VCG and Regularity
We quantify the value of the monopoly's bargaining power in terms of competition complexity--that is, the number of additional bidders the monopoly must attract in simple auctions to match the expected revenue of the optimal mechanisms (c.f., Bulow and Klemperer, 1996, Eden et al., 2017)--within the setting of multi-item auctions. We show that for simple auctions that sell items separately, the competition complexity is $Θ(\frac{n}α)$ in an environment with $n$ original bidders under the slig…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new
[2/2]:
- Research Challenges and Progress in the End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Competition
Ruiyang Hao, et al.

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
Yuzheng Xu, Tosho Hirasawa, Seiya Kawano, Shota Kato, Tadashi Kozuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08335

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
The Patent-Based Idea Generation task asks systems to turn real patents into product ideas viable within three years. We propose MK2, a prompt-centric pipeline: Gemini 2.5 drafts and iteratively edits a prompt, grafting useful fragments from weaker outputs; GPT-4.1 then uses this prompt to create one idea per patent, and an Elo loop judged by Qwen3-8B selects the best prompt-all without extra training data. Across three domains, two evaluator types, and six criteria, MK2 topped the automatic le…

Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump
The United Kingdom is preparing to single out Apple and Google under its new Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act.

Browns QB competition: Coach Kevin Stefanski reveals plan for naming Cleveland's Week 1 starter

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-

Dan Campbell reveals who has edge in Lions' backup QB competition: 'He doesn't get frazzled'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dan-cam

Dallas Cowboys Running Back Competition Heats Up as Training Camp Opens https://insidethestar.com/dallas-cowboys-running-back-competition-heats-up-as-training-camp-opens

Andrew Mukuba played his way back into Eagles' safety competition: Can rookie snatch job after slow start?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/andrew-

Raiders pick up veteran WR to add competition in training camp https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-pick-up-veteran-wr-to-add-competition-in-training-camp-3415628/

TikTok and iHeartRadio launch a singing competition show on TikTok Live; contestants will advance through rounds based on viewer engagement and judges' scores (Tomšs Mier/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-n

TikTok Live and iHeartRadio Launch New Singing Competition Show
TikTok and iHeartRadio launch 'Next Up: LIVE Music,' a new TikTok Live competition giving unsigned artists a shot at stardom starting this month.

Cowboys RB misses practice as backfield competition heats up https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rb-misses-practice-backfield-competition-heats-up

Saints QB competition: Tyler Shough to start second New Orleans preseason game against Jaguars

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-

„Touch The Sky“ by Luisa
Platform: 3D Render
Released: 16 August 2025
Note: 1st in the Evoke 2025 3D Scene competition
#GFX_Luisa #YR_2025 #PF_3DRender

Raiders cornerbacks facing threat from new entrant into starting competition https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-cornerbacks-facing-threat-new-entrant-starting-comp…

Browns QB competition: How did Dillon Gabriel perform in joint practice? What's Shedeur Sanders' status?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-

The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction in the UK ad market (DhanushVignesh Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

Cowboys' Jaydon Blue gets injury update amid RB competition https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-jaydon-blue-injury-update-rb-competition/98327ce7d82597bf7f665e91

Browns QB competition: Where does Kenny Pickett stand in battle? Could former first-round pick still win job?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-…

The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction in the UK ad market (DhanushVignesh Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

Raheem Mostert getting stiff competition for Raiders' No. 2 running back role behind Ashton Jeanty https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raheem-mostert-s…

NFC North 2025 preview, plus the Colts QB competition https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6430697/2025/06/16/nfc-north-preview-nfl-2025-bears-vikings-packers-lions-scoop-city/

Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies
Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, an artificial intelligence-powered coding app, has hired two leaders of Anthropic’s competing coding product, Claude Code, according to one of the leaders. The move is notable because Cursor relies on AI from Anthropic to power its app and is one of Anthropic’s ...

Browns QB competition: Joe Flacco focused on winning starting job, not sympathizing with injured teammates

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-…

How the Most Talented Raiders Stack Up Against the Competition https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/maxx-crosby-pete-carroll-nfl-top-100-players

Michael Irvin blown away by competition created by Cowboys coaching staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/michael-irvin-blown-away-competition-created-dallas-cowboys-coaching-staff

Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Texans' DeMeco Ryans: 'John Metchie showed up' along 'tight' wide receiver competition https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-demeco-ryans-john-metchie-showed-up-along-tight-wide-receiver-competition

Competition at the IHSA boys track and field state meet https://www.dailyherald.com/20250531/article/competition-at-the-ihsa-boys-track-and-field-state-meet/

Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-developin…

ByteDance Developing Mixed Reality Goggles in Challenge to Meta
Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device that resembles a pair of goggles, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. It’s following in the footsteps of Meta Platforms, which has been ...

Jets' Breece Hall says he's 'second-to-none to a lot of backs' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45506847/new-york-jets-breece-hall-embracing-rb-competition

4 Dallas Cowboys who could be traded before the start of the 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/4-dallas-cowboys-who-could-be-traded-before-start-2025-nfl-season

Saints QB competition: Tyler Shough outplays Spencer Rattler, but New Orleans' QB situation is still bleak

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-

WhatsApp has become a kind of AI marketplace where chatbots like ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Perplexity jockey for users' attention (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-competition-whatsapp-chatbot-battlegro…

Meta faces AI competition as WhatsApp becomes chatbot battleground
WhatsApp has become a battleground for AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Perplexity, challenging Meta AI.

Raiders' running back competition behind Ashton Jeanty still wide open https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-running-back-competition-behind-ashton-jeanty-stil…

Ryan Day compares Ohio State's current QB battle to 2018 competition between Joe Burrow, Dwayne Haskins

https://www.cbssports.com/college-foot…

Singapore's three neobanks, GXS Bank, MariBank, and Trust Bank, together posted $278.1M in losses in 2024 as legacy rivals digitalized, intensifying competition (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean…

Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore's digital banks
Lenders backed by Grab, Sea, StanChart hang on as legacy rivals DBS, UOB, OCBC boom

Overreactions from Week 1 of preseason: Jaxson Dart Giants' passing leader? QB competition for Browns?

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

Colts reveal plan for Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson in second preseason game as QB competition continues

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-r

'Steal reps' and 'losing ground': How the Browns are navigating a four-way QB competition https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45908045/how-cleveland-browns-navigating-four-way-quarterback-competition

Can Kenny Pickett win Browns' starting QB job and become the NFL's next Sam Darnold? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45697092/cleveland-browns-quarterback-competition-kenny-pickett

Jakorian Bennett trade grades: Eagles bring in new contender to CB competition, Raiders add DT depth

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

Saints QB1 or not, Tyler Shough believes 'this is going to work out' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45891959/new-orleans-saints-nfl-tyler-shough-not-rookie-quarterback-future-competition

Cesar Ruiz invigorated by quarterback competition in New Orleans: 'It's truly fun to see' https://www.nfl.com/news/cesar-ruiz-saints-quarterback-competition-fun-shough-rattler-haener

Browns' Kevin Stefanski says Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel are 'doing great' amid heated QB competition

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…