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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.

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN - THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION
https://www.hindr…

Leeds former head teacher faces no charges following terrorism arrest for holding up a graphic from a satirical magazine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kdq84j3lo

Leeds former head teacher's terror arrest shock over protest cartoon
Jon Farley is held by police under the Terrorism Act for six hours over a placard he was carrying.

How Large Language Models are Designed to Hallucinate
Richard Ackermann, Simeon Emanuilov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16297…

How Large Language Models are Designed to Hallucinate
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable fluency across linguistic and reasoning tasks but remain systematically prone to hallucination. Prevailing accounts attribute hallucinations to data gaps, limited context, or optimization errors. We argue instead that hallucination is a structural outcome of the transformer architecture. As coherence engines, transformers are compelled to produce fluent continuations, with self-attention simulating the relational structure of meaning but lacking t…

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Wen-Fan Wang, Ting-Ying Lee, Chien-Ting Lu, Che-Wei Hsu, Nil Ponsa Campany, Yu Chen, Mike Y. Chen, Bing-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15227

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Environment designers in the entertainment industry create imaginative 2D and 3D scenes for games, films, and television, requiring both fine-grained control of specific details and consistent global coherence. Designers have increasingly integrated generative AI into their workflows, often relying on large language models (LLMs) to expand user prompts for text-to-image generation, then iteratively refining those prompts and applying inpainting. However, our formative study with 10 designers su…

Trump is set to remove Erik Siebert, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia,
for being faithful to facts, evidence, and guidelines governing good prosecutorial conduct, rather than fully corrupting his office to target Trump’s enemies.
That’s not a rhetorical cheap shot. It’s what Trump is actually doing, per ABC:
"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incrimin…

Trump Firing Top Prosecutor for Failing to Invent Fake Crimes by Foes
A U.S. attorney in Virginia is finding no evidence that Letitia James broke the law. In America, that’s justice. In Trumpworld, it’s a firing offense.

Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3 }$ in CeO$_2$ film
Sagar Kumar Seth, Jonah Nagura, Vrindaa Somjit, Aneesh Bapat, Xinhao Li, Gregory D. Grant, Ignas Masiulionis, Xu Han, F. Joseph Heremans, Giulia Galli, David D. Awschalom, Supratik Guha, Jiefei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12429

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er$^{3+}$ in CeO$_2$ film
Developing telecom-compatible spin-photon interfaces is essential towards scalable quantum networks. Erbium ions (Er$^{3+}$) exhibit a unique combination of a telecom (1.5 $μ$m) optical transition and an effective spin-$1/2$ ground state, but identifying a host that enables heterogeneous device integration while preserving long optical and spin coherence remains an open challenge. We explore a new platform of Er$^{3+}$:CeO$_2$ films on silicon, offering low nuclear spin density and the potenti…