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from my link log —
Pezy SC: Japan is still investing in custom floating point accelerators.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/04/why-is-japan-still-investing-in-custom-floating-point-accelerators/
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Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?
It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now,

Disney cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/disney-cancellation-page-crashes-as-customers-rush-to-quit-…

Montag: Erlaubnis für nächsten Starship-Testflug, Zugkupplung mit Ultrabreitband
Riesenrakete vor nächstem Start UWB für mehr Züge im Netz ÖPNV im weltweiten Vergleich Schweizer Überwachung vertreibt Firmen Microsofts Preiserhöhung

"So, I think in like five years, people are not going to be doing entry-level support tasks. They'll be doing other stuff, because why would you do that when the AI can just do it very well? "
So if I understand correctly, the AI will handle the easy stuff, and when there's a real problem they'll escalate to a human who learned how to work with customers (esp upset customers) how?

SF founder touts AI customer support
Decagon CEO says service will replace humans

"So, I think in like five years, people are not going to be doing entry-level support tasks. They'll be doing other stuff, because why would you do that when the AI can just do it very well? "
So if I understand correctly, the AI will handle the easy stuff, and when there's a real problem they'll escalate to a human who learned how to work with customers (esp upset customers) how?

SF founder touts AI customer support
Decagon CEO says service will replace humans

Tariffs expected to have terrifying impact on Halloween prices for costumes and candy | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-halloween-candy-costumes-b2830137.html

Multi-User Contextual Cascading Bandits for Personalized Recommendation
Jiho Park, Huiwen Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13981 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Multi-User Contextual Cascading Bandits for Personalized Recommendation
We introduce a Multi-User Contextual Cascading Bandit model, a new combinatorial bandit framework that captures realistic online advertising scenarios where multiple users interact with sequentially displayed items simultaneously. Unlike classical contextual bandits, MCCB integrates three key structural elements: (i) cascading feedback based on sequential arm exposure, (ii) parallel context sessions enabling selective exploration, and (iii) heterogeneous arm-level rewards. We first propose Uppe…

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
Jingquan Wang, Andrew Negrut, Harry Zhang, Khailanii Slaton, Shu Wang, Radu Serban, Jinlong Wu, Dan Negrut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13975

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
This contribution is concerned with the following issue: can pretrained large language models (LLMs) be refined and customized to the point where they become virtual assistants helping experts with the effective use of a simulation tool? In this case study, the ``simulation tool'' considered is PyChrono, an open source multi-physics dynamics engine for multibody systems. We present a framework for refining and customizing both open- and closed-source LLMs to harness the power of AI in generatin…

#Kubernetes API Aggregation Layer & Extension apiservers
https://blog.techiescamp.com/kubernetes-api-aggregation-layer/

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Why Andreessen and Bain Backed a Self-Described ‘Zendesk Killer’
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million ...